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Märt-Matis Lill--Photo by Kaupo Kikkas

5 Questions to Märt-Matis Lill (Artistic Director, World Music Days 2019 Tallinn)

Each year, the International Society of Contemporary Music (ISCM) selects a city from one of its mem...
Author
Amanda Cook
Adeliia Faizullina

Turning Up the Volume: Adeliia Faizullina (composer, multi-instrumentalist)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and...
Author
Jessica Griggs
Dale Trumbore

5 Questions to Dale Trumbore (composer)

Composer Dale Trumbore is making waves for her powerful works, particularly within the realm of chor...
Author
Lauren Ishida
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5 Questions to Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Shruthi Rajasekar (composers)

Composers Ninfea Cruttwell-Reade and Shruthi Rajasekar both recently completed their studies at Prin...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Thomas Buckner--Photo by Chris Bowen

5 Questions to Thomas Buckner (Founder and Artistic Director, Interpretations Series)

One of the most famous male voices in contemporary music in the United States, Thomas Buckner is a b...
Author
Colin Holter
Joe Bergen

5 Questions to Joe Bergen (Mantra Youth Percussion)

Mantra Percussion hasn’t stopped moving since they were founded in 2009. Now heading into thei...
Author
Jay Derderian
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5 Questions to Peri Mauer (composer, cellist, conductor)

We first met Peri Mauer as our standmate in the back-row chorus for the world premiere of Marcos Bal...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Kate Sheeran

5 Questions to Kate Sheeran (Executive Director, Kaufman Music Center)

Kate Sheeran, a hornist and brilliant educational administrator, succeeded the retiring Lydia Kontos...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Ayça Çetin--Photo by Jabez Co

5 Questions to Ayça Çetin (flutist) about Cosmos New Music

Cosmos New Music is an ensemble dedicated to contemporary music that incorporates multiple genres an...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Nicolas Benavides--Photo by Vivian Sachs

5 Questions to Nicolas Lell Benavides (composer)

Nicolas Lell Benavides is a Los Angeles and San Francisco-based composer from New Mexico. His comic...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
José Martínez

Turning Up the Volume: José Martínez (percussionist, composer)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and...
Author
Jessica Griggs
PUBLIQuartet

5 Questions to PUBLIQuartet about “Freedom and Faith”

PUBLIQuartet, Artists-in-Residence at National Sawdust, is a string quartet seeking to challenge the...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Allison Loggins-Hull (photo: Rafael Rios)

5 Questions to Allison Loggins-Hull (composer, flutist)

Allison Loggins-Hull is a composer and flutist based in Montclair, NJ. She is one of two musicians s...
Author
Andrew Stock
Ursula Oppens

5 Questions to Ursula Oppens (pianist) on her 75th Birthday

You can’t tread very far into the world contemporary classical music without coming across legendary...
Author
Tristan McKay
inti figgis-vizueta

5 Questions to inti figgis-vizueta (composer)

inti figgis-vizueta is a non-binary Quechua/Latinx composer from Washington, D.C. As head of the Bou...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Kamala Sankaram

5 Questions to Kamala Sankaram (Co-Artistic Director, Experiments in Opera)

Kamala Sankaram is not easily defined. It’s not so much that she defies labels but rather that she f...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Zoe and Jack Johnstone

5 Questions to Jack and Zoe Johnstone (Johnstone Fund for New Music)

Columbus, Ohio tends not to attract much hype, despite being among the Midwest’s few fast-grow...
Author
Nick Stevens
Bushra El-Turk--Photo courtesy www.bushraelturk.com

5 Questions to Bushra El-Turk (composer)

In her work, composer Bushra El-Turk blurs boundaries of several kinds: between cultures, discipline...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
New Amsterdam Co-Founders Judd Greenstein, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and William Brittelle

5 Questions to New Amsterdam Records on their 10th Anniversary

Navigating the ever-changing tides of album-based musical projects may seem like an immense risk, ev...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Jason Cady

5 Questions to Jason Cady (composer, Buick City, 1:00AM)

With true crime podcasts currently topping charts thanks to offerings like Gladiator, which tells th...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Gina Izzo and Eunbi Kim, cofounders of bespoken

5 Questions to Gina Izzo and Eunbi Kim (co-founders of bespoken)

Flutist Gina Izzo and pianist Eunbi Kim have garnered success both in their performance careers and...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Mahir Cetiz

5 Questions to Mahir Cetiz (composer, conductor, pianist)

Mahir Cetiz is a composer, conductor, pianist, and researcher on the music faculty at Columbia Unive...
Author
Alexander Rothe
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5 Questions to Brocker Way (composer, Wild Wild Country)

 Netflix’s award winning show Wild Wild Country is the best things I’ve watched in 2018.
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Reena Esmail

5 Questions to Reena Esmail (composer, singer, multi-instrumentalist)

Los Angeles-based composer, singer, and multi-instrumentalist Reena Esmail is known for large-scale...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
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