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Dancing lamps, a tortured piano: Illuminating objects and heavy concepts at the MATA Festival

MATA Festival artistic director Du Yun, telling the audience how she and the other directors had rec…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Steven Schick (2015 Ojai Music Director)

Keeping up with 2015 Ojai Festival Music Director Steven Schick is no easy task. Schick leads a mult…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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This week: concerts in New York (May 11 – May 17, 2015)

Hearing Voices: Music of Kate Soper Erin Lesser (L) and Kate Soper (R) – Still from “Onl…
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Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Mary Kouyoumdjian (composer)

Composer Mary Kouyoumdjian has just returned from Armenia where she joined in the observance of the…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Talea Ensemble--Photo by Beowulf Sheehan

Three Nights at MATA Keeps Your Ear on its Toes

As Executive Director Todd Tarantino impressively boasted during his remarks at MATA‘s opening…
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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Brooklyn Rider presents The Brooklyn Rider Almanac

Composition is such a solitary act. So much so that we can easily forget just how huge and diverse t…
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Jay Derderian
Patrick Castillo

5 Questions to Patrick Castillo (American Composers Forum)

Brooklyn-based composer Patrick Castillo is the vice-chair of the board of directors for the America…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Composer Sofia Gubaidulina (photo credit: www.remusik.org)

This week: concerts in New York (May 4 – May 10, 2015)

John King Curates The Stone John King John King’s residency at The Stone is an immersion into…
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Sam Reising
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Voices and Strings concludes Vancouver New Music season

Vancouver New Music wrapped its season on Saturday, April 18, 2015 with a sold-out concert at the Or…
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Joanne Lam
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Jenny Q Chai Presents Nils Vigeland’s Life Sketches

Pianist, composer and educator Nils Vigeland (b. 1950) was born in Buffalo, NY into a musical family…
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Don Clark
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5 Questions to Renée Baker (composer, conductor)

Composer and conductor Renée Baker is a dynamic force in the creative music scene in Chicago. She ha…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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This week: concerts in New York (April 27 – May 3, 2015)

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Sam Reising
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The Growth Mindset of Success

The 4-Step Process to Inspire Music Entrepreneurs to Optimal Achievement Whether I am teaching conse…
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Astrid Baumgardner
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Voices, voices in space, and spaces: Thoughts on 50 years of Meredith Monk

I thought I had had my fill of surprises that day, but about halfway through the Meredith Monk &…
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Rebecca Lentjes
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This week: concerts in New York (April 20 – April 26, 2015)

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Sam Reising
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The Britten Sinfonia presents Locatelli, Coult and Abrahamsen

There are many examples of ensembles struggling to successfully pair music by living composers with…
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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5 Questions to Maya Beiser (cellist)

Cellist Maya Beiser has captivated audiences all over the world by reimagining the sonic possibiliti…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Zofo’s ZOFORBIT: A Space Odyssey

Confronted with the title “A Space Odyssey,” memories of HAL 9000’s all-knowing red gaze and my own…
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Norman Cahn
Bearthoven

This week: concerts in New York (April 13 – April 19, 2015)

Ensemble Signal | Pop-Up Concerts Helm…
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Sam Reising
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Jóhann Jóhannsson’s Drone Mass at The Temple of Dendur

The Metropolitan Museum’s Temple of Dendur exhibition space is an unlikely, compelling and acoustica…
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Kurt Gottschalk
Robert Ashley

5 Questions to Tom Hamilton, Gelsey Bell, Dave Ruder (Crash)

Roulette will present Robert Ashley’s final opera Crash, in Brooklyn, New York, April 15-18, 2015. T…
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Richard Carrick Cycles of Evolution (New World Records)

Imagine a lava lamp. Shivering globules ooze around a tightly defined glass case in a state of amorp…
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Daniel Hautzinger
Washington Square Winds - Photo by Philip Varricchio

This week: concerts in New York (April 6 – April 12, 2015)

Berio, Cage, Mozart Five acclaimed musicians come together for a program featuring one of Mozart’s…
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Sam Reising
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5 Questions to Joseph Dangerfield (composer)

Joseph Dangerfield has lived and worked professionally as a composer, conductor, and pianist in Germ…
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Amanda Cook
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