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Patricia Caicedo--Photo by Carlos Muñoz

5 Questions to Patricia Caicedo (soprano, musicologist)

Patricia Caicedo is a soprano and musicologist whose scholarship and performances center Latin Ameri...
Author
David Pearson
Damon Davis--Photo courtesy TED

5 Questions to Damon Davis (post-disciplinary artist)

Social commentary, elements of mythology, and the creation of Black joy are themes that are present...
Author
Ciyadh Wells
William Robin--Photo by Emily Platt

5 Questions to William Robin (musicologist)

Musicologist William Robin is an assistant professor of music at University of Maryland and an advoc...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Joseph Bohigian--Photo by Raffi Paul

5 Questions to Joseph Bohigian (composer-performer)

Armenian-American composer and performer Joseph Bohigian often explores displacement, heritage, and...
Author
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Paola Prestini--Photo by Axel Dupeux

5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust)

Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile g...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Alexina Louie and Evie Mark

5 Questions to Alexina Louie (composer) and Evie Mark (throat singer)

Is it possible for Inuit-Western musical collaborations to be equitable and equal? The commission an...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Walken Schweigert--Photo by Connie Chang

Walken Schweigert‘s Ritual Healing for Queer/Trans Lives

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. An opera must have drama, and what could...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
John Holiday--Photo by Shervin Lainez

5 Questions to John Holiday (countertenor) about Save The Boys

John Holiday is countertenor whose advocacy for the Black presence in classical performing arts alig...
Author
Bill Doggett
Wendy Eisenberg--Photo by Magdalena Abrego

5 Questions to Wendy Eisenberg (improviser, composer, songwriter)

Wendy Eisenberg is a composer, performer, and guitarist whose music lives in the gray area between f...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Afa Dworkin--Photo by Kevin Kennedy

5 Questions to Afa Dworkin (President & Artistic Director, Sphinx Organization)

Afa Sadykhly Dworkin is the President and Artistic Director of Detroit’s Sphinx Organization. Born i...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Jonathan Bailey Holland

Jonathan Bailey Holland’s Philosophy of Stylistic Generosity

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. How should future composers be trained? F...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
Amanda Cook

Amanda Cook and the Art of Conversation

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Amanda Cook has been the Editor-in-Chief...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
Damien Geter--Photo by Rachel Hadiashar

5 Questions to Damien Geter (composer, baritone)

The works of acclaimed composer and baritone Damien Geter range from chamber ensembles to the operat...
Author
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Joseph C. Phillips Jr.--Photo by Jenny Wohrle

5 Questions to Joseph C. Phillips Jr. (Numinous founder & composer)

Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a composer who defines his own work as “mixed music,” a style...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
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...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Bára Gísladóttir--Photo by Gabrielle Motola

5 Questions to Bára Gísladóttir (composer, double bassist)

CW: this interview mentions suicide Icelandic composer and double-bassist Bára Gísladóttir recently...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Angélica Negrón--Photo by Catalina Kulczar

Angélica Negrón and the Poetics of Musical Automata

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Angélica Negrón was born in Carolina, Pue...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
Krishna Thiagarajan--Photo by Brandon Patoc

5 Questions to Krishna Thiagarajan (President & CEO, Seattle Symphony)

It’s a feel-good situation: Krishna Thiagarajan, President and CEO of the Seattle Symphony, has foun...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Kris Davis--Photo by Caroline Mardok

5 Questions to Kris Davis (pianist, composer)

Pianist and composer Kris Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the In...
Author
Lana Norris
Terri Winston--Photo courtesy of Women's Audio Mission

5 Questions to Terri Winston (Founder & Executive Director, Women’s Audio Mission)

Terri Winston is the Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), a San Francisco/...
Author
Tristan McKay
Tyshawn Sorey--Photo by John Rogers

5 Questions to Tyshawn Sorey (composer, multi-instrumentalist)

Tyshawn Sorey is an acclaimed composer and multi-instrumentalist from Newark, New Jersey. A virtuosi...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Nia Imani Franklin--Photo by Jessielyn Palumbo

5 Questions to Nia Imani Franklin (Founder, Compose Her)

American composer and soprano Nia Imani Franklin is the founder and operator of Compose Her, an init...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Eun Lee--Photo by Carmen Rubio

5 Questions to Eun Lee (Executive Director and Founder, The Dream Unfinished)

Eun Lee is the Executive Director and Founder of The Dream Unfinished, an activist orchestra based i...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Portia Dunkley--Photo by Gasen M. Pierre

Portia Dunkley in Miami and Beyond

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Accomplished music educator Portia Dunkle...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
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