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Ensemble Connect

This week: concerts in New York (December 4, 2017 – December 10, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect gives a performance of Daniel Schnyder’s Bass Trio, Janáček’s Mlád…
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Sam Reising
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Track Feature/Exclusive Download: ACME Performs Silent Night

It’s after Thanksgiving, and it’s officially December, which makes it an acceptable time…
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5 Question to Phyllis Chen (UnCaged Toy Piano Festival)

Phyllis Chen is a pianist, toy pianist, composer, educator, curator, and founder/director of the UnC…
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Justin Rito
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Video Premiere: Tenth Intervention We Are Anonymous

Today’s video premiere of “We Are Anonymous” comes to us from Tenth Intervention,…
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GVSUNME Director Bill Ryan

5 Questions to Bill Ryan (Director, GVSU New Music Ensemble)

Over the past 11 years the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, under the directorship…
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Jacob Kopcienski
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This week: concerts in New York (November 27, 2017 – December 3, 2017)

Astronomy Live: Voyagers In celebration of the 40th anniversary of the Voyager spacecraft, composer…
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Sam Reising
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Christine Ott and the Ondes Martenot at London’s IKLECTIK Art Lab

“As long as I gaze on Waterloo sunset, I am in paradise.” Ray Davies of the Kinks’ lyric…
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Caroline Potter
A Far Cry

A Far Cry and Luciana Souza Present The Blue Hour in Boston

The Boston-based orchestra A Far Cry and Grammy award winning singer Luciana Souza brought their lat…
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Amanda Cook
Face the Music, a contemporary music ensemble for young musicians (photo credit: kaufmanmusiccenter.org)

This week: concerts in New York (November 20, 2017 – November 26, 2017)

MATA Jr. Festival: Music by Pre-College Composers with performances by Face the Music MATA Jr. retur…
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Sam Reising
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Mario Diaz de Leon and TAK Ensemble Team Up on Sanctuary

For better or worse, Sanctuary is the perfect title for Mario Diaz de Leon’s most recent record. Thi…
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Colin Holter
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Festival Recap: 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage

Critical composition was the order of the day at the 2017 Donaueschinger Musiktage. This year’s week…
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Andrew Chung
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5 Questions to Melissa Smey (Executive Director, Miller Theatre)

As executive director at Miller Theatre, Melissa Smey has concerned herself with commissioning works…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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Track Premiere: Valentine’s by R WE WHO R WE

Today, we are premiering “Valentine’s” from R WE WHO R WE’s upcoming album &…
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Stephen Hartke - Photo by Philip Channing/USC

This week: concerts in New York (November 13, 2017 – November 19, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect performs a free concert of Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Violi…
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Sam Reising
Andy Akiho

Emerald City Music Presents Andy Akiho Artist Spotlight in Seattle

The prototypical classical concert experience in a former warehouse converted to event space in the…
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Kevin Baldwin
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5 Questions to Conrad Winslow (composer, The Perfect Nothing Catalog)

The Perfect Nothing Catalog is the debut CD by Brooklyn based composer Conrad Winslow. Scheduled for…
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Don Clark
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A Retrospective Prequel: Yarn/Wire’s Currents Vol. 0

Currents Vol. 0 is everything a retrospective of an early collaborative project should be, and anyon…
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Kathleen McGowan
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5 Questions to R.B. Schlather (opera director)

R.B. Schlather is an opera director known for questioning production methods and form. November 11-1…
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Lana Norris
American Brass Quintet

This week: concerts in New York (November 6, 2017 – November 12, 2017)

American Brass Quintet The American Brass Quintet makes their annual Juilliard appearance, featuring…
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Sam Reising
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New Morse Code Debut Album Simplicity Itself (New Focus Recordings)

Back in 2011 while they were still students at Yale, cellist Hannah Collins and percussionist Michae…
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Gemma Peacocke
Paul Pinto -- Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Paul Pinto (composer, Thomas Paine in Violence)

Thomas Paine in Violence is one of those experiences that I tell other people about when they ask, “…
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Megan Ihnen
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Video Premiere: LAPQ Performs Matt McBane For Triangles

Another day, another awesome Four/Ten Media video premiere. Today’s video features the Los Ang…
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5 Questions to the Composers of The Blue Hour

On November 4, 2017 in Washington, D.C., the Boston-based string orchestra A Far Cry and Grammy-winn…
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Amanda Cook
Conrad Tao - Photo by Elizabeth Farmer

This week: concerts in New York (October 30, 2017 – November 5, 2017)

Ceremony Vocalist Charmaine Lee premieres Ceremony, a collaborative work developed with pianist and…
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Sam Reising
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