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Kontakte Festival 2015: Akademie der Künste, Berlin

September 25-27 was the 2015 Kontakte Festival of new classical electronic, electro-acoustic, and so…
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Kelsey Walsh
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5 Questions to Shara Worden and Andrew Ondrejcak (YOU US WE ALL)

Singer/songwriter Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond, Sarah Kirkland Snider’s Penelope, David Lang’s…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Augusta Read Thomas - Photo by Jason Smith

5 Questions to Augusta Read Thomas (Composer, Curator)

According to their statistics, Augusta Read Thomas had more of her music performed in 2013-14 than a…
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Morton Feldman’s Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello on Bridge Records

As in much of Morton Feldman’s late music, Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (1987) repeats and varies a s…
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Jason Charney
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thingNY’s This Takes Place Close By at The Knockdown Center

Remember the noise of Hurricane Sandy, and you’ll probably remember not just the storm itself—with i…
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Jennifer Stock
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Matt Haimovitz Presents Orbit: Music for Solo Cello (1945-2014)

If there’s anyone who can pull off a 3-disc compilation of contemporary music for solo cello s…
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Joanne Lam
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ZOFO Plays Terry Riley on Sono Luminus

Four hands piano music is the rhinoceros of classical chamber music. Once widespread, it has almost…
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Daniel Hautzinger
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Chamber Music for Strings: Jane Antonia Cornish’s Continuum

In Jane Antonia Cornish’s second solo studio album Continuum we get a clearer aural picture of the y…
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Christian Gentry
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5 Questions to Idith Meshulam and Eleanor Cory (Ensemble Pi)

New York based Ensemble Pi presents “Music and Captivity” on Saturday, October 10, 2015, at the new…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Video Premiere: Etude No. 7, Systerslått from Nostalgic Synchronic

Almost a year ago, we posted a guest post by Adam Sliwinski (So Percussion) about his collaboration…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Revamping the String Quartet: Matthew Barnson’s Sibyl Tones

At some point, whether it be for reasons personal, professional, or purely psychological, most compo…
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Danny Clay
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“Dreams and Yearnings:” Martin Bresnick’s Prayers Remain Forever

Composer Martin Bresnick’s Prayers Remain Forever seems to rest at the apex of nihilistic thought an…
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Jarrett Goodchild
Composer and conductor Tania León

5 Questions to Tania León (composer, Composers Now)

Cuban-born composer, conductor, and educator Tania León founded Composers Now in 2010 to celebrate a…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Video Premiere: Chance the dog (the song)

Alright, I’ll just say it: I love percussion ensembles. From So Percussion, to Ensemble, et al…
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Thomas Deneuville
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RighteousGIRLS’ Gathering Blue Breaks Creative Ground

Riding along the highway at 70 mph, the air conditioning chilling you to the bone, RighteousGIRLS’ n…
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Jackson Cooper
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5 Questions to thingNY (composer/performer collective)

Three years of work will unfold when the artist collective thingNY premieres their new opera This Ta…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Video Premiere: Talking In Circles

We’re excited to premiere a new music video by Evan Monroe Chapman: Talking In Circles (2014),…
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Thomas Deneuville
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George Benjamin’s Written on Skin and Into the Little Hill at Mostly Mozart Festival

The lyric tale Into the Little Hill (2006) and the opera Written on Skin (2009-2012), both joint eff…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Ian Ding (New Music Detroit, percussionist)

There’s a resurgent arts scene in Detroit, and New Music Detroit is in the heart of it. NMD presents…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Ben Folds (composer)

Ben Folds is a singer-songwriter and record producer known mostly for his solo work and his early ro…
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Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Christopher Rountree

wild Up is described in most reviews as a contemporary classical ensemble, but Artistic Director Chr…
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Gavin Gamboa
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Magazine Hits Pause

After two years and 12 issues, I am very sad to announce that I CARE IF YOU LISTEN Magazine is going…
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Thomas Deneuville
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Taktus Dazzles with Glass Houses for Marimba

The late Ann Southam (1937-2010) is an iconic figure in Canadian composition, and the solo piano cyc…
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Bruce A. Russell
Ted Hearne--Photo by Nathan Lee Bush

5 Questions to Ted Hearne (composer)

Composer, singer, and bandleader Ted Hearne is one sixth of the composer collective Sleeping Giant a…
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Amanda Cook
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