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The Exotica Album

The Exotica Album: Øyvind Torvund & BIT20 Ensemble Twist Pastiche into Nostalgia

Norwegian composer Øyvind Torvund’s recent release on Hubro Music, The Exotica Album, is a dreamlike…
Author
James May
Bushra El-Turk's Silk Moth--Photo by Lidia Crisafulli

Grimeborn Festival Stages Daring Triple Bill Featuring El-Turk’s “Silk Moth”

It’s summer opera festival season in the UK–so, are you a Glyndebourne or a Grimeborn person?…
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Caroline Potter
Thea Musgrave

This week: concerts in New York (August 19, 2019 – August 25, 2019)

Princess Maleine Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble presents the world premiere of Princess Maleine and opera…
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Sam Reising
ICE and IFCA at Mostly Mozart--Photo courtesy of DigitICE

ICE Showcases the Iranian Female Composers Association at Mostly Mozart

The Iranian Female Composers Association was founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Anahita Abbasi,…
Author
Lana Norris
American Rapture

American Rapture: RPO Showcases Three Generations of American Contemporary Music

American Rapture, the new release on the hitherto unknown to me Azica label, features Samuel Barber&…
Author
Don Clark
Nathalie Joachim--Photo by Josue Azor

Track Premiere: Nathalie Joachim & Spektral Quartet Perform “Alléluia”

Today’s track premiere features Spektral Quartet and flutist, composer, and vocalist Nathalie…
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Front Porch, Siegfried, & Boggs Transform National Sawdust With New Premieres

On the balmy evening of Sunday, July 28, the hard black and white geometry of National Sawdust seeme…
Author
Daniel Schreiner
Whitney George

This week: concerts in New York (August 12, 2019 – August 18, 2019)

Princess Maleine Dell’Arte Opera Ensemble presents the world premiere of Princess Maleine and opera…
Author
Sam Reising
p r i s m--Photo by Larry Ho

5 Questions to the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA)

Upon recognizing that the Music Critics Association of North America (MCANA) Award for Best New Oper…
Author
Megan Ihnen
Frances Pollock--Photo by Lindley Battle

Active Listening #9: Transference by Frances Pollock

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The…
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Lior Willinger
Errollyn Wallen--Photo by Azzura Primavera

5 Questions to Errollyn Wallen (composer, performer)

Equally recognized as a singer-songwriter and a contemporary classical composer, Errollyn Wallen is…
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Cassie Wieland

This week: concerts in New York (August 5, 2019 – August 11, 2019)

in a (once-)blossomed place Release Show People Places Records hosts a release show for the new Cass…
Author
Sam Reising
Cevanna Horrocks-Hopayian performs at Battersea Arts Centre during the 2019 Proms

Proms at Battersea Arts Centre Showcases UK Experimental Music Scene

For me, summer in London would be unimaginable without two things: complaining about the weather bei…
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Caroline Potter
Hollows out of time

Erik Griswold’s Hollows out of time Artistically Engages with the Lands of Australia

For nearly two decades, Australian-American composer Erik Griswold has been writing and performing m…
Author
Justin D. Wright
To the Moon at Manchester International Festival--Photo by Michael Pollard

To the Moon: Laurie Anderson and Hsin-Chien Huang’s Bring VR to Manchester International Festival

With my head tilted back, I gazed up at the stars. Against the black of space, the constellation rea…
Author
Myles Oakey
Anna Clyne - Photo by Todd Rosenberg

This week: concerts in New York (July 29, 2019 – August 4, 2019)

Orchestra of St. Luke’s The Orchestra of St. Luke’s performs music by Anna Clyne, Floren…
Author
Sam Reising
Bang on a Can--Photo by Peter Serling

5 Questions to Bang on a Can About LOUD Weekend

Bang On A Can needs no introduction, but here’s one anyway. Founded in 1987 by Julia Wolfe, Michael…
Author
Jay Derderian
Swept Up Whole Video

Video Premiere: Lindsay Kesselman and Wild Up Perform “Swept Up Whole” (Cerrone)

Today’s mind-bending Four/Ten Media video premiere features Lindsay Kesselman and Wild Up perf…
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Khyam Allami--Photo by Johanne Issa

5 Questions to Khyam Allami (composer, oud-player, sound artist)

Working at the intersection of electroacoustic composition and Arabic microtonality, London-based co…
Author
Myles Oakey
Ashley Fure

This week: concerts in New York (July 22, 2019 – July 28, 2019)

Fure & Thorvaldsdottir International Contemporary Ensemble performs music by Anna Thorvaldsdotti…
Author
Sam Reising
South of the Circle

Siggi String Quartet Digs Into Icelandic Roots on South of the Circle

Picturesque Northern Lights, innumerable mountains and volcanoes, otherworldly waterfalls. Musicians…
Author
Hannah Rosa Schiller
Tariq Al-Sabir--Photo by Kelly Marshall for The Shed

5 Questions to Tariq Al-Sabir (composer, vocalist, music director)

Tariq Al-Sabir is a composer, vocalist, and music director. His latest project, #UNWANTED, recently…
Author
Hillary Bonhomme
Nadia Shpachenko The Poetry of Places

Nadia Shpachenko’s The Poetry of Places Explores Architecture as Inspiration

Multi-GRAMMY nominated pianist Nadia Shpachenko reflects on the role of the concert hall in the line…
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
A Far Cry

This week: concerts in New York (July 15, 2019 – July 21, 2019)

A Far Cry A Far Cry performs music by Georg Muffat, Caroline Shaw, Lembit Beecher, and Pyotr Ilyich…
Author
Sam Reising
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