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Gavin Gamboa

Gavin Gamboa is a composer, pianist, and video artist based in Los Angeles.
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Visions and Voices “Stages” The Industry’s Hopscotch

The University of Southern California’s Arts and Humanities Initiative—Visions and Voices—plan...
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Virtuosic Listening: Vicky Chow’s Aorta on New Amsterdam

Continuing down a path that she has been charting with aplomb these last several years (including in...
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5 Questions to Alex Shiozaki (Momenta Quartet)

Alex Shiozaki is the new violinist with the Momenta Quartet. On September 28-October 2, 2016 at the...
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wild Up Presents The Edge of Forever on The Industry Records

The Yucatán peninsula in southeast Mexico bristles with thorny jungle, and its porous, pock-marked l...
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Three

The third and final day of concerts at Dark Music Days began with Guðný Einarsdóttir presenting a su...
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day Two

The wind screams and howls in Reykjavík. It is strong enough to disturb your gait and to push you ar...
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Dark Music Days 2016 Recap: Day One

The Dark Music Days Festival takes place within Harpa, a 21st century space of giant proportions; a...
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5 Questions to Thórunn Gréta Sigurðardóttir (Artistic Director, Dark Music Days)

Dark Music Days is one of the oldest music festivals that takes place annually in Reykjavík, Iceland...
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5 Questions to Christopher Rountree

wild Up is described in most reviews as a contemporary classical ensemble, but Artistic Director Chr...
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Lankhoorn performs Moore’s Dances and Canons

Perceiving and thinking about the way things change, we can sometimes pierce through to the elementa...
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Additive Timbre: Niels Lyhne Løkkegaard Music for 8 Recorders

Like the swirling masses of clouds that momentarily amass over Sumatran rainforests (those cumulus b...
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Tristan Perich/Vicky Chow: Surface Image

Vicky Chow/Tristan Perich: Surface Image

The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center (EMPAC) is a $140 million construc...
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5 Questions to Leon Fleisher (Pianist and Conductor)

Bridge Records released All the Things You Are, Leon Fleisher’s first solo album in nearly a decade.
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Denk closes Ojai Music Festival with Ligeti, Ives, Beethoven

In California's quiet and secluded Ojai valley persists a rugged individualist sensibility which is...
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Mary Bauermeister: Stockhausen’s Muse at the Goethe-Institut

Chances are (for the uninitiated) that you may already know who Mary Bauermeister is without realizi...
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Invisible Cities in LA: An operatic tour de force

Los Angeles's Union Station, which will be celebrating its 75th anniversary next year, was the site...
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Shifting Treks by Sydney Hodkinson on navona

Shifting Treks, a recent navona release, catapults us into the sound world of a formidable champion...
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Gavin Gamboa

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