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Rebecca Lazier - Photo by Bentley Drezner

5 questions to Rebecca Lazier (dancer, choreographer, teacher)

On June 13-15, 2013, Rebecca Lazier and her performers will team up with Newspeak to present the NY...
Author
David Pearson
Sean Hickey

5 questions to Sean Hickey (composer)

On May 28, 2013, Delos released Sean Hickey's first album on the "Great American Label," Concertos,...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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5 questions to Alan Pierson (conductor, artistic director)

Alan Pierson is the conductor and artistic director of both the Brooklyn Philharmonic and Alarm Will...
Author
Matt Mendez
Dan Trueman

5 questions to Dan Trueman (composer)

Composer and innovator Dan Trueman tinkers with gadgets new and old in search of novel musical sound...
Author
Dana Wen
Donnacha Dennehy - Photo by Sophie Dennehy

5 questions to Donnacha Dennehy (composer, artistic director of Crash Ensemble)

Until I heard Alarm Will Sound perform scenes from The Hunger, your work-in-progress about the Great...
Author
Rob Wendt
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5 Questions to Parlour Tapes+ (contemporary music recording label)

Chicago, the wellspring of collaborative artistic ventures like the Association for the Advancement...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 questions to Jennifer Kloetzel (cellist of the Cypress String Quartet)

On April 19, 2013, the Cypress Quartet will perform its 2013 Call & Response program, featuring...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Jonathan Berger

5 questions to Jonathan Berger (composer, founder of the Music & Brain Symposium)

Now in its seventh year, the 2013 Music & Brain Symposium begins on April 12 at Stanford Univers...
Author
Dana Wen
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5 questions to Chris Paul Harman (composer)

The works of Canadian composer Chris Paul Harman have been performed by ensembles and orchestras inc...
Author
Xenia Pestova
Dan Visconti at Copland House

5 questions to Dan Visconti (composer)

On April 5, 2013 at Zankel Hall at Carnegie Hall, the ACO will present its next Orchestra Undergroun...
Author
Matt Mendez
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5 Questions to Scott J. Hunter (contemporary music and art advocate)

Scott J. Hunter is a modern renaissance man. Raised in a musical family, he majored in science in co...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Alec Hall

5 questions to Alec Hall (composer, co-director of Qubit)

On March 29 and 30, 2013, Qubit—a new contemporary music and performance art initiative founded in 2...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Laura Kaminsky

5 questions to Laura Kaminsky (composer, Artistic Director of Symphony Space) about “How To Get Started”

On April 2, Symphony Space will celebrate John Cage's centenary with this rare performance of Cage's...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Hsin-Yun Huang

5 questions to Hsin-Yun Huang (violist)

On Monday, March 25, the American Modern Ensemble will present American Stories, a program of contem...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Clint Mansell - Photo by Chris Owyoung

5 questions to Clint Mansell (composer, singer, guitarist)

You might know Clint Mansell from the band Pop Will Eat Itself (former lead singer and guitarist), o...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Patricia Alessandrini

5 questions to Patricia Alessandrini (composer and installation artist)

Patricia Alessandrini's compositions and sound installations often involve live electronics, usually...
Author
Xenia Pestova
Frances White

5 Questions to Frances White (composer)

Frances White The work of com...
Author
Xenia Pestova
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5 Questions to Mabel Kwan (pianist)

Mabel Kwan is a Chicago-based pianist who specializes in contemporary music.  She is a frequent musi...
Author
Andrew Tham
Keeril Makan - Photo by Scott Irvine

5 Questions to Keeril Makan (composer)

Described by The New Yorker as “an arrestingly gifted young American composer,” and by the New York...
Author
Christian Gentry
Bill Band - Photo credits Tim Darwish, Bill Ryan

5 questions to Bill Ryan (composer)

This Sunday, February 10, Bill Ryan's Billband is having a release concert at Le Poisson Rouge. “Tow...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Randy Gibson

5 Questions to Randy Gibson (composer, co-founder of Avant Media)

Randy Gibson is a composer and performer living and working in New York City. He is the co-founder o...
Author
Andrew Lee
Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian

5 questions to Leaha Maria Villarreal and Mary Kouyoumdjian (composers, artistic/executive directors of Hotel Elefant)

Experiments in Opera has commissioned 10 composers to present new operas that last no more than 10 m...
Author
Daniel Kushner
Steven Mackey

5 questions to Steven Mackey (composer) about One Red Rose

On February 12, the Brentano String Quartet will perform  the world premiere of a composition by Ste...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
The Firehouse Space, 246 Frost St. Brooklyn, NY 11211

5 questions to Chris Graham (percussionist, curator)

Tomorrow, Friday, February 1, Iktus Percussion kicks off The Firehouse New Music Series with Cadilla...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
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