Category
Interview

John Holiday is countertenor whose advocacy for the Black presence in classical performing arts alig...
Author
Bill Doggett

Wendy Eisenberg is a composer, performer, and guitarist whose music lives in the gray area between f...
Author
Clover Nahabedian

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

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

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

The works of acclaimed composer and baritone Damien Geter range from chamber ensembles to the operat...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a composer who defines his own work as “mixed music,” a style...
Author
Clover Nahabedian

Lara Downes is a multifaceted pianist whose prolific output routinely explores American music’s many...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski

CW: this interview mentions suicide Icelandic composer and double-bassist Bára Gísladóttir recently...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Angélica Negrón was born in Carolina, Pue...
Author
Sun Yung Shin

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

Pianist and composer Kris Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the In...
Author
Lana Norris

Terri Winston is the Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), a San Francisco/...
Author
Tristan McKay

Tyshawn Sorey is an acclaimed composer and multi-instrumentalist from Newark, New Jersey. A virtuosi...
Author
Gemma Peacocke

American composer and soprano Nia Imani Franklin is the founder and operator of Compose Her, an init...
Author
Tracy Monaghan

Eun Lee is the Executive Director and Founder of The Dream Unfinished, an activist orchestra based i...
Author
Clover Nahabedian

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

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

A true sound alchemist, Queen Drea uses no recipe. A Twin Cities-based vocalist, electronic artist,...
Author
Jillian DeGroot

Elena Moon Park is a true Renaissance woman. A freelance violinist, a multi-instrumentalist, a music...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin

Mari Esabel Valverde is a composer and singer whose music is full and rich, with texts that delve in...
Author
Stephanie Boyd

In August 2019, Vanessa Reed was appointed President and CEO of New Music USA following a decade at...
Author
Lauren Ishida

When you visit Jennifer Jolley’s website, the tagline says, “Composer. Blogger. Professo...
Author
Brianna Matzke