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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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5 Questions to Stephen Miles and R.L. Silver (New Music New College)

Since 1998, series director Steve Miles and producer Ron Silver have been revving up the contemporar...
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JACK Quartet Maneuvers in the Dark 

Just as John Cage taught us important musical lessons about silence (in both his germinal book on th...
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Wet Ink Trio

Wet Ink Trio Blurs Boundaries in Oberlin

Wet Ink Trio blurred the lines between composition and performance and music and noise in a dynamic...
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Nkeiru Okoye’s Opera in Praise of Harriet Tubman

In her opera Harriet Tubman: When I Crossed that Line to Freedom, composer-librettist Nkeiru Okoye d...
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5 Questions to Lia Kohl and Nick Meryhew (Mocrep)

Mocrep, one of the newer ensembles on the burgeoning Chicago contemporary music scene, is making wav...
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New Music Gathering 2016: Massive Meetup in Baltimore

The venerable Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University on stately Mt. Vernon Square in Balt...
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5 Questions to Michael Harrison (composer)

Galapagos in C, a unique multimedia performance at the intersection of music, art, and architecture...
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Third Sound ensemble in Plaza de San Francisco, in Havana, Cuba

New York-based Third Sound ensemble debuts in Old Havana

When American Composers Forum was invited by festival director  Guido López-Gavilán to bring an arti...
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5 Questions to Guido López Gavilán (composer)

In mid-November 2015, The American Composers Forum will lead an artist delegation of 15 composers an...
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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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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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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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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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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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5 Questions to Nathalie Joachim (eighth blackbird, Flutronix)

Flutist and composer Nathalie Joachim, perhaps best known as half of the funky genre-blurring duo Fl...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
Gabriela Lena Frank (photo: Sabina Frank)

5 Questions to Gabriela Lena Frank (composer)

Composer and pianist Gabriela Lena Frank is as busy as she can imagine being. She has just completed...
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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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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
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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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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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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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
Wu Man

5 Questions to Wu Man (pipa virtuoso, cultural ambassador)

Pipa virtuoso and cultural ambassador of music from China Wu Man has an active career as a soloist,...
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Jennifer Higdon (photo: J.D. Scott)

5 Questions to Jennifer Higdon (composer)

2010 Pulitzer Prize winner Jennifer Higdon is one of the most prolific and acclaimed composers of ou...
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