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Jacob Kopcienski

Jacob Kopcienski (he/him) is a multifaceted artist and scholar who explores sound, listening practices, identity, and technology through writing, performance, creative collaboration, and community-building projects. He is currently a Ph.D. student in Musicology at the Ohio State University.
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ETHEL and Allison Loggins-Hull -- Photo by ETHEL

Persistence is Action, Remembrance, and Existence on New Album from ETHEL and Allison Loggins-Hull

Since their founding in 1998, the string quartet ETHEL has been deeply rooted in commissioning, inno...
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Jacob Kopcienski
The Merian Ensemble -- Photo by CatMax Photography

The Merian Ensemble Share Compelling Artistry and Programming on “The Book of Spells”

Since 2018, The Merian Ensemble has garnered accolades in Atlanta for evocative thematic programming...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Zosha Warpeha -- Photo by artist

5 Question to Zosha Warpeha (composer-performer)

Over the past decade, Zosha Warpeha’s work as a composer, performer, and improviser has traversed th...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Jessie Marino and Antonia Barnett McIntosh -- Photo by Ryan Jenkins and Michael Valiquette

5 Questions to Jessie Marino and Antonia Barnett McIntosh

Hidden in a small port on our smartphone. Nestled on lapels. Disappearing on booms just out of frame...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Michael Hersch and Ah Young Hong -- Photo courtesy of the artists

5 Questions to Michael Hersch (composer) and Ah Young Hong (soprano)

Throughout his career, composer and pianist Michael Hersch has created a body of work that explores...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Angel Bat Dawid performs

In Retrospective New Album, Angel Bat Dawid Cries Out for a Jazz to Come

In 1959, Ed Bland proclaimed the “death of jazz” in his groundbreaking film, The Cry of Jazz. Set in...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Brian Harnetty--Photo by Kevin Davison

5 Questions to Brian Harnetty (sound artist)

Over the past 20 years, Brian Harnetty has worked extensively with sound archives to produce a wide...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Weston Olencki's Old Time Music

Old Time Music Explores Traditions, Technologies, and Archives of “American Music”

In the past decade, Weston Olencki’s work as a multifaceted artist has explored the limits of...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Adam Buffington

5 Questions to Adam Buffington about Mumbling Eye

Iceland is well known for its iconic experimental music scene. Most music enthusiasts likely know ma...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate Lowak Shoppala'

Lowak Shoppala’: ReSounding Chickasaw Culture

Lowak Shoppala’, a work for orchestra, children’s chorus, and narrator, stands out in the catalogue...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Elizabeth A. Baker--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Elizabeth A. Baker about retrospectiveDisconnect

Over the past decade, The Honorable Elizabeth A. Baker’s practice as a New Renaissance Artist has cr...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Lara Downes--Photo by Jiyang Chen

5 Questions to Lara Downes (Host, AMPLIFY with Lara Downes)

Lara Downes is a multifaceted pianist whose prolific output routinely explores American music’s many...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Michael Begay--Photo courtesy Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project (NACAP)

5 Questions to Michael Begay (Host, Original Score podcast)

In 2000, the Grand Canyon Music Festival (GCMF) began the Native American Composers Apprentice Proje...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Civitas Ensemble Jin Yin

Civitas Ensemble Delivers Nuanced Interpretations on Jin Yin

Since 2011, Civitas Ensemble has become a fixture of Chicago’s chamber music scene by pushing the bo...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Afro Yaqui Music Collective's Mirror Butterfly album, recently released on ACF's innova label

Mirror Butterfly: Afro Yaqui’s Call to Action for Migrant and Climate Justice

Human migration from gentrification, conflict and economic hardship, and increasingly climate change...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Steven Schick and ICE perform George Lewis' Soundlines: A Dreaming Track--Photo by Ian Douglas

Soundlines: Engaging Performances from ICE, Lewis, & Schick

Over the past decade, numerous projects have drawn composer George Lewis, percussionist Steven Schic...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Sam Newsome Chaos Theory

Sam Newsome Breaks New Ground with Chaos Theory

For twenty-five years, Sam Newsome has pursued an unrelenting artistic journey to refine a uniquely...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Eleanor Alberga String Quartets

Ensemble Arcadiana Gives Spirited Performances of Eleanor Alberga’s String Quartets

British Jamaican composer Eleanor Alberga’s musical career has traversed a variety of occupations, c...
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Jacob Kopcienski
David Sanford Black Noise

David Sanford and BMOP’s Black Noise Resonates with History

In relation to music, noise occupies a particularly complex position in the history of African Ameri...
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Jacob Kopcienski
AEQUA ICE and Anna Thorvaldsdottir

AEQUA: Anna Thorvaldsdottir and ICE Invite Ecological Listening

In recent years, the environment and humankind’s ecological impact have been a frequent subject in c...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Alecia Lawyer

5 Questions to Alecia Lawyer (Founder & Principal Oboist, ROCO)

Working to “shape the future of classical music by energizing, modernizing, and personalizing the co...
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Jacob Kopcienski
International Contemporary Ensemble

Jubilant Performances by ICE and Friends at Mostly Mozart’s Grand Pianola Music

Each summer, the Lincoln Center hosts the Mostly Mozart Festival, “a celebration of Mozart’s c...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Yuga Cohler

5 Questions to Yuga Cohler (Conductor, Asia/America New Music Institute)

Yuga Cohler has garnered attention as a conductor for brilliant performances and an organizer of hig...
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Jacob Kopcienski
Olivia de Prato Streya

Eclectic and Multifaceted: Olivia De Prato’s Streya has something for everyone

Against a clean white background, vibrantly-technicolored, jaggedly-arranged rectangles and triangle...
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Jacob Kopcienski
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