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Jessie Montgomery--Photo by Jiyang Chen

This week: concerts in New York (January 20, 2020 – January 26, 2020)

The Music of Sir Karl Jenkins | DCINY DCINY presents the 20th Anniversary of The Armed Man, A Mass f…
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Sam Reising
Devonté Hynes and Third Coast Percussion Fields

Fields: Devonté Hynes’ Debut Classical Album with Third Coast Percussion

On October 11, 2019, pop music star Devonté Hynes (a.k.a. Blood Orange) released his debut classical…
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Sierra Wojtczack

New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Sierra Wojtczack

Last year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to hold the second annual “New Voices” essay con…
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Erin Busch--Photo by Matthew Genders

5 Questions to Erin Busch (Founder and Artistic Director, Young Women Composers Camp)

Leia Sofia Mendez, a 2018 alumna of the Young Women Composers Camp (YWCC), remarked that the camp, “…
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Megan Ihnen
Gleb Kanasevich performs inti-figgis-vizueta's no words

Video Premiere: Gleb Kanasevich performs inti figgis-vizueta’s no words

Today’s video premiere features clarinetist Gleb Kanasevich performing inti figgis-vizueta&#82…
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String Orchestra of Brooklyn

This week: concerts in New York (January 13, 2020 – January 19, 2020)

Magdalene | PROTOTYPE This meditation on transformation and desire is scored by the collective voice…
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Sam Reising
Anaïs Maviel in the garden

Anaïs Maviel’s “Visceral and Beautiful” in the garden (Gold Bolus)

Anaïs Maviel is an experimental composer working primarily in New York. From the composers website,…
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Clover Nahabedian
John Carroll

New Voices Essay Contest First Place Winner: John Carroll

Last year, CARE IF YOU LISTEN partnered with 21CM to hold the second annual “New Voices” essay conte…
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Ring Out

Jessica Meyer Asserts Her Composer-Performer Identity on Ring Out

Sometimes the narrative just melts away. In spaces devoted to classical and new music, murkily curta…
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Nick Stevens
thingNY--Photo by Brian McCorkle

Music and Language Converge at thingNY’s “Hello. My Name Is…”

On December 18, 2019, enthusiasts of the playful, theatrical, and uncannily poignant thingNY (Jeffre…
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Tristan McKay
Esa-Pekka Salonen

This week: concerts in New York (January 6, 2020 – January 12, 2020)

Parker Quartet & Anthony McGill | Music Mondays The Parker Quartet and clarinetist Anthony McGil…
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Sam Reising
Patricia Brennan

This week: concerts in New York (December 23, 2019 – December 29, 2019)

John Zorn Presents: The Stone Commissioning Series The John Zorn Commissioning Series celebrates The…
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Sam Reising
Vivian Fung--Photo by Charles Boudreau

5 Questions to Vivian Fung (composer)

Vivian Fung has attained the kind of success that is the result of a strong, not easily confined mus…
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Bruce A. Russell
HEART CHAMBER, Director: Claus Guth, World premiere on 15 November 2019, Deutsche Oper Berlin, copyright: Michael Trippel

Deutsche Oper Berlin Stages Czernowin’s Heart Chamber

At one point in Heart Chamber, Chaya Czernowin’s fourth and latest opera, a filament bulb casts rust…
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Nick Stevens
Yolanda Kondonassis--Photo by Laura Watilo Blake

5 Questions to Yolanda Kondonassis (harpist)

Yolanda Kondonassis is on a mission to help bring the harp front and center in new music. During her…
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Jay Derderian
Roomful of Teeth--Photo by Bonica Ayala

This week: concerts in New York (December 16, 2019 – December 22, 2019)

Rotunda Holiday Concert with Roomful of Teeth, Caroline Shaw, and Tigue Celebrate the season with th…
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Sam Reising
New Voices Essay Contest 2019

Announcing the Winners of the 2019 “New Voices” Essay Contest

This year, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN again collaborated with 21CM to launch the second iteration of the “…
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Sahba Aminikia--Photo by Matthew Washburn

5 Questions to Sahba Aminikia (Founder, Flying Carpet Festival)

Sahba Aminikia is an Iranian-American composer, pianist, and educator born in post-revolutionary war…
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Lana Norris
2019 albums

Editor’s Picks: 2019 Contemporary Classical Albums

With the year and the decade coming to a close, it’s time for everyone’s “Best of&…
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Amanda Cook
Kinds of Kings composer collective--Photo courtesy www.kindsofkings.com

This week: concerts in New York (December 9, 2019 – December 15, 2019)

The Anagram Ensemble: I Looked at the Eclipse by James Ilgenfritz & Sarah Krasnow Composer James…
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Sam Reising
GBSR Duo--Photo by Dejan Mrdja

GBSR Duo Play Feldman Tributes and New British Music in London

Like many of the London universities and conservatoires, City, University of London run a concert se…
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Caroline Potter
Gabriel Dharmoo's Anthropologies Imaginaires--Photo by Matthew Ricketts

Experimentation and Satire: Gabriel Dharmoo’s Anthropologies Imaginaires

Gabriel Dharmoo, an artistic polyglot whose work exists at the nexus of avant-garde vocal music, eth…
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Aaron Wolff
Kathleen Supové Eye to Ivory

Kathleen Supové Continues to Innovate on Eye to Ivory (Starkland)

Eye to Ivory (Starkland) is the newest in a line of full-length albums devoted to contemporary piano…
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Matthew Younglove
Alexa Dexa's Be a Doll

Video Premiere: Alexa Dexa’s Be A Doll (Four/Ten Media)

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN is premiering the Four/Ten Media music video adaptation of Be a Doll, a…
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