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Sophia Subbaya Vastek

5 Questions to Sophia Subbayya Vastek (pianist, multidisciplinary artist)

Sophia Subbayya Vastek is a pianist and multidisciplinary artist who has performed in South Africa,...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
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5 Questions to Dianne Berkun Menaker (Founder and Artistic Director, Brooklyn Youth Chorus)

Dianne Berkun Menaker is the Founder and Artistic Director of the Brooklyn Youth Chorus. Under her d...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Nick Dunston--Photo by Zosha Warpeha

Turning Up the Volume: Nick Dunston (Bassist, Composer)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and...
Author
Jessica Griggs
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5 Questions to Mariana Green Hill (Artistic Advisor, Project STEP)

Violinist Mariana Green Hill is concertmaster of the Soulful Symphony in Baltimore and a former memb...
Author
Amanda Cook
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5 Questions to James Darrah (Artistic Director, ONE Festival)

When it comes to the words “trailblazing” and “influential” in terms of dire...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Rebekah Heller

5 Questions to Rebekah Heller (Co-Artistic Director, ICE)

Since its founding in 2001, the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) has garnered acclaim not o...
Author
Lana Norris
Ashley Windle

5 Questions to Ashley Windle (Artistic Director, Fair Trade Trio)

The Fair Trade Trio—Ashley Windle (violin), Hannah Levinson (viola), and Jeanette Stenson (cel...
Author
Lana Norris
Layale Chaker

5 Questions to Layale Chaker (composer, violinist)

Layale Chaker has appeared as a soloist, performer, improviser and composer in Europe, the Middle Ea...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
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5 Questions to Peter Meanwell (Artistic Director, Borealis 2018)

Borealis is a festival for experimental music and adventurous listening held annually in Bergen, Nor...
Author
Amanda Cook
Nina Shekhar

Turning Up the Volume: Nina Shekhar (composer, flutist)

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

5 Questions to Lawrence Brownlee (Cycles of My Being)

Operatic tenor Lawrence Brownlee is one of today’s most in-demand singers in the bel canto operas of...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 Questions to Eunbi Kim (pianist, entrepreneur)

New York City-based Eunbi Kim is a virtuoso pianist and genre-defying creator and performer. Her 201...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Scott Wollschleger

5 Questions to Scott Wollschleger (composer)

Brooklyn composer Scott Wollschleger describes the piano as his “personal diary,” and hi...
Author
Jason Charney
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5 Questions to Hajnal Pivnick and Dorian Wallace (Tenth Intervention)

New York City based Tenth Intervention, founded in 2012 by violinist Hajnal Pivnick and composer/pia...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Sarah Cahill--Photo by Christine Alicino

5 Questions to Sarah Cahill (pianist) About Music by and for Terry Riley

Sarah Cahill is not only a skilled and accomplished pianist, but also an incredible champion of new...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
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Turning Up the Volume: Kellen Gray (assistant conductor, Chicago Sinfonietta)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and...
Author
Jessica Griggs
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5 Question to Phyllis Chen (UnCaged Toy Piano Festival)

Phyllis Chen is a pianist, toy pianist, composer, educator, curator, and founder/director of the UnC...
Author
Justin Rito
GVSUNME Director Bill Ryan

5 Questions to Bill Ryan (Director, GVSU New Music Ensemble)

Over the past 11 years the Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble, under the directorship...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
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5 Questions to Melissa Smey (Executive Director, Miller Theatre)

As executive director at Miller Theatre, Melissa Smey has concerned herself with commissioning works...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
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5 Questions to Conrad Winslow (composer, The Perfect Nothing Catalog)

The Perfect Nothing Catalog is the debut CD by Brooklyn based composer Conrad Winslow. Scheduled for...
Author
Don Clark
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5 Questions to R.B. Schlather (opera director)

R.B. Schlather is an opera director known for questioning production methods and form. November 11-1...
Author
Lana Norris
Paul Pinto -- Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Paul Pinto (composer, Thomas Paine in Violence)

Thomas Paine in Violence is one of those experiences that I tell other people about when they ask, “...
Author
Megan Ihnen
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5 Questions to the Composers of The Blue Hour

On November 4, 2017 in Washington, D.C., the Boston-based string orchestra A Far Cry and Grammy-winn...
Author
Amanda Cook
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5 Questions to Ed Yim (President, American Composers Orchestra)

The 2017-2018 season marks the 40th year of the American Composers Orchestra, the only orchestra in...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
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