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Orlando Jacinto García--Photo courtesy Florida International University

5 Questions to Orlando Jacinto García (composer)

Orlando Jacinto García is a prolific composer whose works range from concert works with and without...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Colin Alexander--Photo by Emma Werner

5 Questions to Colin Alexander (founder, October House Records)

Recorded music has never been more accessible. Streaming services such as Spotify and YouTube are at...
Author
Nebal Maysaud
Verdant Vibes--Photo by James Lastowski

5 Questions to Verdant Vibes (new music collective and concert series)

Over the past few years, Verdant Vibes has been bringing eclectic, innovative concerts to the commun...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Ensemble Decipher--Photo by Sophia Sagaradze

5 Questions to Ensemble Decipher

Founded in 2017 by Niloufar Nourbakhsh, Ensemble Decipher (Nourbakhsh, Joseph Bohigian, Robert Cosgr...
Author
Kevin Baldwin
Alexa Dexa--Photo by Alexa Dexa

Alexa Dexa Dreams of Transformative and Accessible Spaces

An adventurous electroacoustic composer, facilitator of sound-based meditation, and radical queer dr...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Davu Seru--Photo courtesy of the artist

Davu Seru Creates Outside of the Confines of the Known World

This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. As children, we are curious about our rea...
Author
Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Laura Ortman--Photo by Marne Lucas

5 Questions to Laura Ortman (musician, composer)

Laura Ortman (White Mountain Apache) is a musician and composer whose work walks the line between li...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Brian Raphael Nabors--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Brian Raphael Nabors (composer)

Brian Raphael Nabors is a composer of enormous gifts and accomplishment. A 2020 Fulbright Scholarshi...
Author
Bill Doggett
Shruti Kumar-- Photo by Anna Azarov Photography

5 Questions to Shruti Kumar (composer, producer)

Shruti Kumar is a genre- and scene-crossing composer and producer based out of Los Angeles. Beginnin...
Author
Sofía Rocha
Jose Solís--Photo by Joseph Hernandez

5 Questions to Jose Solís (culture critic)

Jose Solís is a Honduran-born culture critic, writer, podcast creator, and mentor who has been satur...
Author
Yaz Lancaster
BUTI Director Hilary Respass--Photo by Stratton McCrady

5 Questions to Hilary Respass (Director, Boston University Tanglewood Institute)

The pandemic has forced many organizations into discovering innovative and entirely new ways to reac...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Rene Orth--Photo by Andrew Bogard

5 Questions to Rene Orth (composer) about TakTakShoo

TakTakShoo, by composer Rene Orth and librettist Kanika Ambrose, challenges the conventions of tradi...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Shawn Okpebholo--Photo by Greg Halvorsen Schreck

5 Questions to Shawn Okpebholo (composer)

Shawn Okpebholo is a widely sought after award-winning composer who has been described by composer A...
Author
Bill Doggett
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JJJJJerome Ellis Reframes Disability as a Means for Creation in “The Clearing”

For artist, writer and composer JJJJJerome Ellis, his name poses a challenge; not a challenge of ide...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Ting Luo, Founder of New Arts Collaboration

5 Questions to Ting Luo (Founder, New Arts Collaboration)

New Arts Collaboration (NAC), founded by pianist Ting Luo, is dedicated to bringing artists together...
Author
Tristan McKay
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Speaking Together: Rufus Isabel Elliot on the Trans, Non-Binary, and Gender-Diverse World of OVER / AT

Rufus uses it/its pronouns. Rufus Isabel Elliot is a composer, musician, and the creative force behi...
Author
Chrysanthe Tan
Tina Tallon--Photo by Rose Lincoln

5 Questions to Tina Tallon (creative technologist, sound artist)

Tina Tallon began her career as a researcher at MIT, where she developed computational tools to mode...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
The Soapbox Presents

The Soapbox Presents: Claiming Space for Black Joy

On July 3, 2021, all four corners of a busy Harlem intersection overflowed with funk. New York City...
Author
Lana Norris
Daniel Alexander Jones--Photo by Rafael Hernandez

On the Ground and in the Weeds with Daniel Alexander Jones 

To understand the blueprint of who Daniel Alexander Jones is as a multidisciplinary artist and thoug...
Author
Jasmine IVANNA Espy
Lina Gonzalez-Granados--Photo by Toby Oft

5 Questions to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (conductor)

Colombian conductor Lina Gonzalez-Granados is a beautiful example of the incredible level of musical...
Author
Natalie Calma
gabby fluke-mogul--Photo by Rachael Uhlir

5 Questions to gabby fluke-mogul (violinist, improviser, composer)

gabby fluke-mogul is a violinist, improviser, and composer whose music experiments with the boundari...
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Anna Clyne--Photo by Christina Kernohan

5 Questions to Anna Clyne (composer)

London-born Anna Clyne is a GRAMMY-nominated composer of acoustic and electro-acoustic music. Since...
Author
Jennifer Jolley
Huda Asfour

5 Questions to Huda Asfour (composer, improviser, singer-songwriter)

Creatives all over the Arab world are using their talents to define themselves as a people and raise...
Author
Nebal Maysaud
TYGAPAW--Photo courtesy of the artist

TYGAPAW: Unapologetically Queer, Black, and Limitless

Culture can breed freedom, but it can also be the catalyst for shame and isolation, especially when...
Author
Jasmine IVANNA Espy
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