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Arlene & Larry Dunn

Arlene and Larry Dunn are pure amateurs of contemporary music based in Oberlin, Ohio.
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Gavin Chuck

5 Questions to Gavin Chuck (Executive Director, Alarm Will Sound)

Gavin Chuck is Executive Director and a composer for Alarm Will Sound, a 22-member ensemble known fo...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Re:Sound Festival 2019 Perks Up Cleveland’s Ears

The second annual Re:Sound New & Experimental Music Festival presented by Cleveland Uncommon Sou...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Pamela Z and Courtney Bryan

5 Questions to Pamela Z and Courtney Bryan (2019-20 Rome Prize Winners)

On April 9, 2019, the American Academy in Rome announced that composer Pamela Z was awarded the 2019...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Peri Mauer (composer, cellist, conductor)

We first met Peri Mauer as our standmate in the back-row chorus for the world premiere of Marcos Bal...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Gina Izzo and Eunbi Kim, cofounders of bespoken

5 Questions to Gina Izzo and Eunbi Kim (co-founders of bespoken)

Flutist Gina Izzo and pianist Eunbi Kim have garnered success both in their performance careers and...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Slideshow: New Music Gathering 2018 at Boston Conservatory at Berklee

The fourth New Music Gathering convened at Boston Conservatory at Berklee, May 17-19, 2018, less tha...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Noa Even (photo credit: Michiko Saiki)

5 Questions to Noa Even (Re:Sound New Music Festival)

The inaugural Re:Sound New Music Festival, organized by the recently formed Cleveland Uncommon Sound...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Jonathan Bailey Holland--Photo by Robert Torres

5 Questions to Jonathan Bailey Holland (composer, educator)

Composer and educator Jonathan Bailey Holland, a mainstay of the contemporary music scene in Boston,...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Lawrence Brownlee

5 Questions to Lawrence Brownlee (Cycles of My Being)

Operatic tenor Lawrence Brownlee is one of today’s most in-demand singers in the bel canto operas of...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Hajnal Pivnick and Dorian Wallace (Tenth Intervention)

New York City based Tenth Intervention, founded in 2012 by violinist Hajnal Pivnick and composer/pia...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Slideshow: 2017 New Music Gathering at Bowling Green

After holding its first two events on opposite coasts — at San Francisco Conservatory of Music in Ja...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Vijay Iyer

5 Questions to Vijay Iyer (2017 Ojai Festival Music Director)

Composer, pianist, and educator Vijay Iyer is Music Director of the 71st Ojai Music Festival, June 8...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Nicole Mitchell--Photo by Lauren Deutsch

5 Questions to Nicole Mitchell (composer, flutist)

Composer, flutist, bandleader, and educator Nicole Mitchell is a Professor of Music in the Integrate...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Amanda Gookin

5 Questions to Amanda Gookin (cellist)

Cellist Amanda Gookin has traveled a long and winding road in developing her career as a musician an...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Nathanael May (Artistic Director, soundSCAPE)

The soundSCAPE Festival is heading into its 13th season and going strong. From June 25 through July...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to David Smooke (composer, toy pianist)

Peabody Conservatory professor David Smooke is also a composer and performer. He has a new album out...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Elizabeth A. Baker (Florida International Toy Piano Festival)

Self-described New Renaissance Artist Elizabeth A. Baker is, among many other things, co-founder and...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Seth Parker Woods (cellist)

Cellist Seth Parker Woods has recently completed his doctoral degree at University of Huddersfield i...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Francisco Núñez (Young People’s Chorus of NYC)

MacArthur Fellow Francisco Núñez founded the Young People’s Chorus of New York City in 1988 with a t...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Lara Downes

5 Questions to Lara Downes (pianist)

Pianist Lara Downes’ latest solo recording project, America Again, assays the meaning of “America” i...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Jeffrey Mumford (composer)

Composer Jeffrey Mumford is a Distinguished Professor of Music at Lorain County Community College, n...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Rasa Daukas and Will Larsen (Tess Said So)

The Australian contemporary music duo Tess Said So is the artistic collaboration of pianist Rasa Dau...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Peter Sellars (Ojai Festival Music Director)

Opera and theater director Peter Sellars is the Music Director for the 70th annual Ojai Music Festiv...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Sarah Kirkland Snider (composer)

Composer Sarah Kirkland Snider is in the midst of a whirlwind season with a new orchestral commissio...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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