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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
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...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Christina Petrowska Quilico

5 Questions to Christina Petrowska Quilico (pianist)

Christina Petrowska Quilico has a career that is unparalleled among Canadian pianists. She has long...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
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5 Questions to Eldbjørg Hemsing (violinist)

Eldbjørg Hemsing recently premiered Fire Ritual: A Musical Ritual in Memory for the Victims of War c...
Author
Lana Norris
Aiden Feltkamp--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Aiden Feltkamp (ACO Director of Emerging Composers & Diversity)

In late July 2018, the American Composer Orchestra recently announced Aiden Feltkamp as Director of...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
People Places Records logo

5 Questions to Aeryn Santillan and Andrew Noseworthy (People Places Records)

Aeryn Santillan and Andrew Noseworthy started independent record label People Places Records in 2017...
Author
Jason Charney
Mary Kouyoumdjian--Photo by Dominica Eriksen

5 Questions to Mary Kouyoumdjian about Words on the Street

In May 2018, the new music scene lost an outspoken advocate with the sudden passing of composer-perf...
Author
Amanda Cook
Kate Soper--Photo by Marco Giugliarelli

5 Questions to Kate Soper (composer) about IPSA DIXIT

Kate Soper is best known for her work with the Wet Ink Ensemble. The group recently released an albu...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Jillian Flexner

5 Questions to Jillian Flexner (Executive Director, Fresh Squeezed Opera)

Have you seen the #5X5Challenge floating around on social media? Fresh Squeezed Opera’s Executive Di...
Author
Megan Ihnen
David Ludwig and Katie Ford

5 Questions to David Ludwig and Katie Ford about The Anchoress

Katie Ford’s poetry probes the “spiritual cost of survival” (New York Times Book Review)—an equally...
Author
Jeremiah Cawley
Conrad Tao

5 Questions to Conrad Tao (composer) about Everything Must Go

Twenty-four-year-old pianist-composer Conrad Tao is no stranger to major orchestra audiences worldwi...
Author
Don Clark
Julia Adolphe

5 Questions to Julia Adolphe (composer)

Julia Adolphe’s work has been growing steadily and gaining many well-deserved accolades. Among her r...
Author
Jay Derderian
Melanie Zeck

5 Questions to Melanie Zeck (Research Fellow, Center for Black Music Research)

Melanie Zeck is an ethnomusicologist, editor, and research librarian who has served a fundamental ro...
Author
Rebecca Lentjes
Mia Hartley

5 Questions to Mia Hartley (Founder & Co-Artistic Director, MERGE Art Collective)

MERGE Art Collective exists to facilitate collaborations between D/deaf and hearing visual and perfo...
Author
Lana Norris
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...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Ashleigh Gordon and Anthony R. Green of Castle of Our Skins--Photo by Monika Bach Schroeder

5 Questions to Ashleigh Gordon and Anthony Green (Castle of our Skins)

“we are all imprisoned in the castle of our skins and some of us have said so be it if i am in...
Author
Zoë Madonna
Gabriella Smith

5 Questions to Gabriella Smith (composer)

Gabriella Smith grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and studied at the Curtis Institute before beg...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Kenneth Hesketh

5 Questions to Kenneth Hesketh (composer) on his 50th Birthday

Born in Liverpool in 1968, Kenneth Hesketh’s first orchestral work was premiered by the Royal Liverp...
Author
Caroline Potter
Jess Rowland -- Photo by Max Lee photography

Turning Up The Volume: Jess Rowland (Composer, Sound Artist)

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

5 Questions to Amanda DeBoer Bartlett (Director, Omaha Under the Radar)

Invariably as I travel around the country for different festivals and series, I hear fellow practiti...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Yoshiaki Onishi

5 Questions to Yoshiaki Onishi (composer, Guggenheim Fellow)

Recipient of the 2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, Yoshiaki Onishi is a Japanese-American composer and con...
Author
Alexander Rothe
Susanna Malkki

5 Questions to Susanna Mälkki (Principal Guest Conductor, LA Phil)

Susanna Mälkki is a Finnish conductor at the forefront of the international symphonic world, who is...
Author
Bruce A. Russell
Meerenai Shim

5 Questions to Meerenai Shim (flutist, Aerocade Music founder)

Meerenai Shim takes on many roles in new music. As a flutist, she has release three solo albums: Som...
Author
Jason Charney
Dr. Rob Deemer

5 Questions to Rob Deemer (Founder, Composer Diversity Database)

Structural prejudice is still plaguing the classical and new music worlds, even in 2018. It’s no sec...
Author
Jay Derderian
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