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It is rare to encounter someone as memorable as violinist Jennifer Koh. I met her briefly one summer…
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Forrest Howell

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“We Have Gone As Far As We Can Together” Combines Opera and Ritual for a Cathartic Experience
Nov 6, 2024
The morning before I saw We Have Gone As Far As We Can Together, a ritual opera inspired by “the son…
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Donna Lee Davidson

Titilayo Ayangade started playing cello at age five, but her passion didn’t ignite until she discove…
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Chrysanthe Tan

Piano Spheres’ “30 for 30” Project Honors the Magic of New Music and Sarah Gibson’s Creative Spirit
Oct 31, 2024
In our recent interview, Piano Spheres core artist Thomas Kotcheff explained that the foundation of…
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Lana Norris

“Polyglot” Recontextualizes and De-Centers the Canon through an Exploration of Musical Pluralism
Oct 30, 2024
Described as a concept album, Polyglot seeks to address questions of language and identity through p…
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Sofía Rocha

These days, Žibuoklė Martinaitytė is based in New York City, but she was born and raised in Lithuani…
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A. Kori Hill

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Nathalie Joachim’s Cello Concerto Premiere Reminds That Programming Black Artists Should Be Year Long
Oct 23, 2024
In the Oct. 18 pre-concert talk on Afromodernism and music of the African diaspora at David Geffen H…
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Donna Lee Davidson

concertnova’s “Echo Play” Gleefully Blurs the Lines Between Performance and Art Installation
Oct 22, 2024
I don’t need many reasons to enter a room filled with colored lights. It’s one of my favorite things…
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A. Kori Hill

Kebra-Seyoun Charles is a dynamic and innovative artist who breathes fresh air into the classical ge…
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Katie Brown

Ensemble Dal Niente Brings a Daring, Satirical, and Provocative Program to Constellation
Oct 17, 2024
The Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente bills itself as “the industry leader in commissioning and perf…
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Thulasi Seshan

On Oct. 9 at Merkin Hall, the Kaufman Music Center presented the second installment in this season’s…
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Lauren Ishida

George Lewis Has Spent His Career Creating Space for Black Musicians — His New Opera is No Exception
Oct 15, 2024
This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. George Lewi…
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Yaz Lancaster

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5 Questions to Samantha Bennett and George Nickson (co-founders/artistic directors, enSRQ)
Oct 9, 2024
Although Sarasota is home to several performing arts organizations, programming in the Southwest Flo…
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Esteban Meneses

It wasn’t long into ganavya’s Oct. 3rd concert at National Sawdust before she had the whole audience…
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Stephanie Boyd

Running from Sep. 24-29, 2024, Cincinnati’s inaugural Talk Low Festival featured local, regional, an…
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A. Kori Hill

Having reached its milestone 100th recording in July, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project has seemin…
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Esteban Meneses

As one of the earliest genres of music to emerge from the United States, spirituals were once tools…
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Dalanie Harris

At London’s Wigmore Hall, Manchester Collective Celebrates the Multifaceted Work of Vijay Iyer
Sep 27, 2024
The return to live music after a long period of pandemic recovery has been marked by a myriad of new…
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Michelle Hromin

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Baltimore’s High Zero Festival is “institution-adjacent, but willfully not the Institution”
Sep 25, 2024
High Zero saw its 26th iteration nestled between the mid-autumn harvest moon and the autumnal equino…
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Connie Li

This sponsored article is part of a paid partnership with the Curtis Institute of Music. Composer Ga…
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Vanessa Ague