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Christian Kriegeskotte

Christian Kriegeskotte (he/him) is a composer, writer and budding audiophile who has worked professionally in feature film music production, artist management and the mainstream record industry. He received his BFA and Master of Music from Carnegie Mellon University and is currently based in Pittsburgh, PA.
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Afro Yaqui--Photo by David Roth

Afro Yaqui Music Collective Works to Resurrect Silenced Voices

On Thursday, October 24, 2019, the Afro Yaqui Music Collective took the stage on Pittsburgh’s North...
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Anna Webber Septet--Photo by Liz Kosack

Clockwise by Anna Webber Expounds Upon the Essence of Timbre

As her biography states, Canadian-born/Brooklyn-based composer and multi-instrumentalist Anna Webber...
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Qasim Naqvi Teenages

Qasim Naqvi’s Teenages (Erased Tapes) Calls Out from Distant Horizons

Qasim Naqvi describes his active life in a two-fold manner. As a member of Brooklyn-based acoustic t...
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Juan Pampin and Richard Karpin--Photos by Steve Korn

5 Questions to Juan Pampin and Richard Karpen (Creative Fellowships Initiative: JACK Quartet)

In March of 2016, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation made a generous grant of $750,000 to the Universit...
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Claire Chase, Peter Evans, and Joe McPhee--© Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Photo: Bryan Conley

Chase, Evans, & McPhee Evoke Deep Listening at Pittsburgh’s Warhol Museum

On Saturday, March 23, in collaboration with the Carnegie Museum of Art’s 57th triennial Carnegie In...
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Inbal Segev--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Inbal Segev Celebrates 21st Century Women (and One Man) at Roulette

On Thursday, February 28, 2019, an intimate group assembled within Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium t...
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Da Capo Chamber Players

Music on the Edge: Da Capo Chamber Players at the Warhol Museum

On Saturday, February 2, 2019, the Andy Warhol Museum welcomed New York’s storied Da Capo Cham...
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High Zero Festival

High Zero 20th Anniversary Tour Brings Improvised, Experimental Music to Roulette

On Wednesday, September 19, 2018, New York’s downtown music scene was invigorated by a fresh a...
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The Rose Elf

Descending into the Catacombs with David Hertzberg’s The Rose Elf

On Friday, June 8th, sometime around sunset, a small crowd began to gather just inside the imposing...
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Lawrence Brownlee Previews Cycles of My Being at The Greene Space

On Wednesday, March 28th at the Jerome L. Greene Performance Space, those who had gathered for the e...
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Argus Quartet

Argus Quartet Sets the Stage for Kettle Corn New Music’s Sixth Season

On Saturday, December 9, 2017, New York City’s tastiest contemporary music series, Kettle Corn...
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Scott Wollschleger’s Soft Aberration Conjures Forms from Darkness

New York based composer Scott Wollschleger describes his work, Soft Aberration, in the following man...
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WNYC and Apollo Theater Present Black Creativity at The Greene Space

On Thursday, September 28, 2017, eminent singer, actress, radio and podcast host Helga Davis mediate...
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Tigue, Innov Gnawa, and Underground System Shake Things Up at National Sawdust

On June 2, 2017, Brooklyn’s contemporary music sanctuary National Sawdust cleared away the chairs an...
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Dither Quartet

In Residence at Roulette: Brendon Randall-Myers Excels

On June 20, 2017, patrons of Brooklyn’s progressive-music proscenium, Roulette, were treated to a co...
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Bearthoven

Bearthoven Debut Album Release at (Le) Poisson Rouge

Whether you learned by watching Leonardo DiCaprio get clobbered in The Revenant or from your dutiful...
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Løkkegaard’s SOUND x SOUND Vinyl Box Set Transcends in Form and Concept

Imagine, if you will, the sound of a bell. What is it that you are hearing? If the sound is replicat...
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2017 PROTOTYPE Festival: Funeral Doom Spiritual Mystifies

On Saturday, January 14, National Sawdust opened its doors for the New York premiere of M. Lamar and...
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Bang on a Can All Stars

Ecstatic Music Festival Rings in Bang on a Can’s 30th Anniversary

On Monday, January 9, 2017 within the cozy setting of the Kaufman Music Center’s Merkin Concer...
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Timo Andres and Yevgeny Kutik Go Beyond Words

On Wednesday, October 19, 2016 National Sawdust served as the forum for a youthful combination of fo...
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Third Coast Percussion Champions Steve Reich

In February of 2016, Third Coast Percussion (Sean Connors, Robert Dillon, Peter Martin, and David Sk...
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Lukas Ligeti Gets Modern at National Sawdust

On Sunday, August 14, 2016, National Sawdust presented the music of Austrian/Hungarian/American comp...
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Cantata Profana

Kettle Corn New Music Closes 4th Season with Epitaphs and Fairytales

On Friday, May 27, 2016, the DiMenna Center opened its doors to a moderate but dedicated crowd of su...
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eighth blackbird’s Filament Attracts Grammy and MacArthur Awards

On February 12, 2016, preeminent contemporary music pioneers eighth blackbird donned their evening w...
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