David Devan joined Opera Philadelphia in January 2006 and was appointed General Director of the comp...
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Amanda Cook
SPOR is on a mission to prove that “music has the same potential for exploratory curation as all oth...
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Amanda Cook
One of the many goals of Denmark’s annual SPOR festival is to feature contemporary art that is sound...
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Amanda Cook
In the festival’s 10th anniversary year, SPOR Festival and Artistic Directors Anna Berit Asp Christe...
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Amanda Cook
On April 29, 2017 at the Benedum Center, Pittsburgh Opera launched a world premiere performance for...
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Amanda Cook
On May 10-14, 2017, the 13th annual SPOR Festival will permeate the city of Aarhus, Denmark with fiv...
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Amanda Cook
On February 4, 2017 in the intimate Almi Hall of the Ooppera Baletti, Musica nova Helsinki staged th...
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Amanda Cook
Audience members poured back into Cincinnati’s Taft Theatre on Saturday, January 14th for the final...
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Amanda Cook
Perhaps one of the most important issues currently facing symphony orchestras and contemporary class...
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Amanda Cook
Musica nova Helsinki is Finland’s largest contemporary music festival, and this year’s twelve-day ev...
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Amanda Cook
“A symphony must be like the world. It must embrace everything.” Musical America’s 2017 Compos...
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Amanda Cook
German conductor André de Ridder (b. 1971) regularly collaborates with top contemporary music ensemb...
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Amanda Cook
On Saturday, September 24, 2016, the curtain of the Perelman Theater rose in silence for the world p...
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Amanda Cook
On September 22, 2016, Opera Philadelphia will give the world premiere performance of Breaking the W...
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Amanda Cook
On Friday, June 17, 2016—less than a week after 49 people were killed at a gay nightclub in Orlando,...
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Amanda Cook
Matt Marks is a versatile composer, vocalist, and instrumentalist. He is a founding member of Alarm...
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Amanda Cook
In the life of an artist, there is often a defining moment that serves as a crucial point on their c...
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Amanda Cook
Composer, singer, and bandleader Ted Hearne is one sixth of the composer collective Sleeping Giant a...
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Amanda Cook
Joseph Dangerfield has lived and worked professionally as a composer, conductor, and pianist in Germ...
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Amanda Cook
What distinguishes good from outstanding in a performing artist? It seems that the best performers h...
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Amanda Cook
In the introduction to her 2013 book Chasing Sound, author Susan Schmidt Horning states: “The evolut...
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Amanda Cook
It is an all too familiar scene: patrons travel to a grandiose hall to hear a major symphony orchest...
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Amanda Cook
