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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
Martin Boykan Photo by BMOP Website

5 Questions to Martin Boykan

As a composer, scholar, and teacher, Martin Boykan’s influence pervades the spectrum of recent compo...
Author
Christian Gentry
Chaya Czernowin - Photo Schott Promotion/Astrid Ackermann

5 Questions to Chaya Czernowin (composer)

Israeli-born Chaya Czernowin is one of the most sought-after composers in the world, receiving commi...
Author
Andrew Tham
Olga Neuwirth - Photo by Marion Kalter

5 questions to Olga Neuwirth (composer)

Stylistically, your writing covers a wide range of sounds, and you often use juxtaposition a composi...
Author
Caitlin Smith
Jenny Q Chai

5 Questions to Jenny Q Chai (pianist)

Jenny Q Chai is a pianist currently based in New York, where she is receiving her Doctor of Musical...
Author
Andrew Tham
Chihiro Shibayama

5 questions to Chihiro Shibayama about the MuSE Festival

Multicultural Sonic Evolution (MuSE) is holding its 2012 Sounds of Arts Festival, a 5-day multi-medi...
Author
David Pearson
Sarah Ritch

5 Questions to Sarah J. Ritch (composer, cellist)

Sarah Ritch Sarah J. Ritch is...
Author
Andrew Tham
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5 Questions to Kyle Vegter (composer/sound designer for Manual Cinema)

Kyle Vegter is a composer, sound designer, and producer based in Chicago. He co-founded Manual Cinem...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
Nicola Benedetti

5 questions to Nicola Benedetti on Korngold’s Violin Concerto

The Scottish-Italian violinist Nicola Benedetti has an unorthodox choice of repertoire. She was elec...
Author
Thea Derks
Pamela Z--Photo by rubra (courtesy of Ars Electronica)

5 questions to Sabrina Lastman and Sasha Bogdanowitsch about Vital Vox 2012

Note that the 2012 Vital Vox Vocal Festival, which was scheduled to take place October 29 and 30 at...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Monica Harte

5 questions to Monica Harte (soprano, co-founder and general director of Remarkable Theater Brigade)

On Friday, October 19, the Remarkable Theater Brigade is back at Carnegie Hall (Zankel) for another...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Guy Barash - Photo by Shimpei Takeda

5 questions to Guy Barash (composer, curator) about Eavesdropping

Eavesdropping, a bold concert series hosted by The Tank and curated by Guy Barash is about to kick o...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Randall West

5 questions to Randall West (composer)

Randall West is a composer and co-founder of the Chicago Composers Orchestra.  The CCO is making gia...
Author
Andrew Tham
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5 questions about Sonic Circuits DC

The Sonic Circuits Festival of Experimental Music in Washington, D.C. is this weekend, September 28-...
Author
Paul Moon
Chinary Ung - Photo Larry Dunn

5 questions to Chinary Ung (composer)

Composer Chinary Ung, Professor of Music at UC San Diego and the first American recipient of the int...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 questions about RUCKUS NYC

RUCKUS NYC is a one-day conference and concert on art and the web happening September 29 at Cooper U...
Author
Thomas Deneuville
Marcos Balter

5 Questions to Marcos Balter (composer)

Marcos Balter is a composer based in Chicago, where he frequently collaborates with local ensembles.
Author
Andrew Tham
Composer Annie Gosfield

5 questions to Annie Gosfield (composer), jury member for the Gaudeamus Competition

Update Monday, September 10: the Gaudeamus Prize 2012 was won by Christian Heuer (1989, Germany).The...
Author
Thea Derks
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