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Donna Weng Friedman--Photo by Michael Ian

5 Questions to Donna Weng Friedman (pianist)

Award-winning pianist and music producer Donna Weng Friedman enjoys a varied career as a soloist, ch...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Jessica Meyer--Photo by Dario Acosta

5 Questions to Jessica Meyer (composer, performer)

Seven years ago, violist Jessica Meyer heard someone else perform her music for the first time. In n...
Author
Amanda Cook
Laura Strickling--Photo by Patria Alexander

5 Questions to Laura Strickling (soprano) about The 40@40 Project

Soprano Laura Strickling is an exceptional performer, leaving her mark in virtually every genre of v...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Mendi + Keith Obadike--Photo courtesy of the artists

5 Questions to Mendi + Keith Obadike (lull: a sleep temple)

For the 2021 edition of the Look + Listen Festival, four multimedia artists created work to be exper...
Author
Tristan McKay
Raven Chacon--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Raven Chacon about Radio Coyote

Raven Chacon, born in Fort Defiance, Navajo Nation, lives today in Albuquerque, New Mexico where he...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Clarice Assad--Photo by Marcelo Macaue

5 Questions to Clarice Assad (composer, performer)

Clarice Assad is a GRAMMY-nominated Brazilian-American composer, performer, and educator. Her prolif...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Joseph Jones--Photo courtesy of the artist

The Power in the Absolute: Joseph Jones’ Renaissance in Isolation

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Composer/conductor Joseph Jones’ journey...
Author
Dameun Strange
Reylon Yount--Photo by Benjamin Ealovega

5 Questions to Reylon Yount (yangqin player, Tangram Co-Director)

Chinese-American yangqin player Reylon Yount, currently residing in London, combines performance wit...
Author
Caroline Potter
Asuka Kakitani--Photo by Jaime Kahn

Jazz Musician Asuka Kakitani Follows the Story and the Color

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. The first recording of jazz music was mad...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
Mansi Shah--Photo by Dan Hacker

5 Questions to Mansi Shah (Colors of Classical Music)

Data scientist and flutist Mansi Shah is the creator and curator of Colors of Classical Music. Found...
Author
Ciyadh Wells
Min Kwon America/Beautiful

5 Questions to Min Kwon (pianist, America/Beautiful)

The United States is a country with a complex history of oppression, and contemporary society calls...
Author
Nebal Maysaud
Damian Norfleet--Photo by Craig Hanson

5 Questions to Damian Norfleet (vocalist, writer, actor)

Damian Norfleet is a gifted improvisational singer, performance artist, actor, and social justice ac...
Author
Bill Doggett
Molly Pease--Photo by Sera Lindsey

5 Questions to Molly Pease (vocal artist, composer)

Molly Pease is an eclectic vocal artist and composer who sings rock, folk, jazz, neo-soul, classical...
Author
Thea Derks
Giancarlo Guerrero--Photo by Lukasz Rajchert

5 Questions to Giancarlo Guerrero (Music Director, Nashville Symphony)

When you think of the highest artistic post at the main classical music organization in Nashville—as...
Author
Esteban Meneses
Elizabeth A. Baker--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Elizabeth A. Baker about retrospectiveDisconnect

Over the past decade, The Honorable Elizabeth A. Baker’s practice as a New Renaissance Artist has cr...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Melisa Tien--Photo by Tom Matthew Wolfe

Melisa Tien’s “Swell” is Where Immigrant Journeys Meet

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Words have always come easy to playwright...
Author
Dameun Strange
Tony the Scribe--Photo by Trista McGovern

Tony the Scribe on the Serious Work of Play

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Tony Williams, professionally known as To...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
Patricia Caicedo--Photo by Carlos Muñoz

5 Questions to Patricia Caicedo (soprano, musicologist)

Patricia Caicedo is a soprano and musicologist whose scholarship and performances center Latin Ameri...
Author
David Pearson
Damon Davis--Photo courtesy TED

5 Questions to Damon Davis (post-disciplinary artist)

Social commentary, elements of mythology, and the creation of Black joy are themes that are present...
Author
Ciyadh Wells
William Robin--Photo by Emily Platt

5 Questions to William Robin (musicologist)

Musicologist William Robin is an assistant professor of music at University of Maryland and an advoc...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
Joseph Bohigian--Photo by Raffi Paul

5 Questions to Joseph Bohigian (composer-performer)

Armenian-American composer and performer Joseph Bohigian often explores displacement, heritage, and...
Author
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Paola Prestini--Photo by Axel Dupeux

5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust)

Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile g...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Alexina Louie and Evie Mark

5 Questions to Alexina Louie (composer) and Evie Mark (throat singer)

Is it possible for Inuit-Western musical collaborations to be equitable and equal? The commission an...
Author
A. Kori Hill
Walken Schweigert--Photo by Connie Chang

Walken Schweigert‘s Ritual Healing for Queer/Trans Lives

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. An opera must have drama, and what could...
Author
Sun Yung Shin
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