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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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20-teens New Music Love-In in San Francisco

So, what do we call the work that we’re making? What do we call our roles in it and what do we call...
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5 Questions to James Falzone (composer, clarinetist, educator)

Chicago-based James Falzone is a composer, clarinetist, and educator. He recently founded the Renga...
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5 Questions to Erica Mott and Ryan Ingebritsen (3 Singers)

Chicago-based choreographer Erica Mott and composer Ryan Ingebritsen have led an army of collaborato...
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5 Questions to Claire Chase (ICE founder and flutist)

Claire Chase is like a nuclear-powered perpetual motion machine. We managed to slow her down long en...
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5 Questions to Chartreuse-Plus (new music string trio plus guests)

Chartreuse ensemble is a tricoastal new music string trio formed by violinist Myra Hinrichs (Chicago...
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5 Questions to Daniel Felsenfeld (The New Music Gathering)

Composers Mary Kouyoumdjian, Daniel Felsenfeld, Matt Marks, and Lainie Fefferman are the organizing...
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5 Questions to Matthew Gallagher (visual and sonic artist)

Matthew Gallagher is a multifaceted artist working in a wide range of visual and sonic media. An Obe...
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5 questions to Nick Hallett (singer, composer, multi-arts producer)

Composer, vocalist, and curator-producer Nick Hallett presents a concert of his songs later this mon...
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5 questions to Jamie Leigh Sampson (bassoonist, composer, author)

 Jamie Leigh Sampson wears enough hats to open her own millinery shop. An active new music bassoonis...
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5 questions to Dana Jessen (Bassoonist, Improviser, Entrepreneur)

In true modern musical artist fashion, Dana Jessen has her fingers and her feet planted in multiple...
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Imani Winds and Gilbert Kalish Warm Up Winter in Oberlin

Imani Winds—Valerie Coleman (flute), Toyin Spellman-Diaz (oboe), Mariam Adama (clarinet), Jeff Scott...
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5 questions to Dwight Currie (Curator of Performances, The Ringling Museum in Sarasota, Florida)

For over 85 years The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota has been a important bastion...
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UnCaged Toy Piano Festival Extravaganza Full of Premieres

A blizzard that snarled traffic throughout New York City was not enough to keep the performers or th...
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5 questions to Luke Rinderknecht (Percussionist)

Percussionist Luke Rinderknecht has recently returned to the Cleveland area after working from a New...
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5 questions to Phyllis Chen (Director, UnCaged Toy Piano Festival)

Phyllis Chen is an accomplished pianist, both on the full-sized concert instrument and on the pint-s...
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Morton Subotnick Performs a Sorcerer’s Brew of Music at MOCA Cleveland

Morton Subotnick, a true pioneer of electronic music, celebrated his 80th birthday this year. Yet on...
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5 questions to Tim Weiss (Conductor, Educator at Oberlin Conservatory)

Conductor and educator Tim Weiss is at the epicenter of a contemporary music hurricane at Oberlin Co...
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5 questions to Ellen McSweeney (Chicago Q Ensemble Violinist)

The composition of Chicago Q Ensemble has recently morphed from a string quartet to a string trio. V...
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Outsourced Music From Germany at Bowling Green New Music Festival

Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente brought the controversial young German composer Johannes Kreidler...
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Filmmaker or Playwright? Composer Paul Lansky Premieres Textures

Around 2004, composer Paul Lansky famously made an about-face. After over 40 years of pioneering wor...
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eighth blackbird Soars with Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble

Three-time Grammy winners eighth blackbird returned to their nest for a concert with the Oberlin Con...
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Ryan Muncy Breaks New Sonic Ground for Saxophone in Chicago

Michael Lewanski, conductor of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, introduced saxophonist (and EDN Execut...
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JACK Quartet Spans 600 Years of Surprising Sounds in Cleveland

The Cleveland Contemporary Players series, founded by composer and Cleveland State University profes...
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No Exit: Entrée to the Cleveland New Music Scene

There is a burgeoning contemporary music scene in the Cleveland area, and its not restricted to the...
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