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Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp -- Photo by Emilie Pelissier

Concert

Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp Brings Joyful Grooves to Rhode Island’s Machines with Magnets

dakoudakou, Machines with Magnets, Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp, OTPMD

Switzerland’s Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp (OTPMD) and Providence, Rhode Island’s dakoudakou are two groups that could absolutely perform for a seated audience; these are bands that, by desi…

Clover Nahabedian

Jul 9, 2025

Interview

5 Questions to Cris Derksen (composer, cellist)

Banff Centre for the Arts, Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra, Cris Derksen, Galvin Cello Quartet, Indigenous Classical Gathering, Newport Classical, Newport Music Festival, Orchestras Canada, Tanya Tagaq

For Cris Derksen, music is a conversation – a tool that brings attention to issues of the present and reaches back to the past. Whether it’s an Indigenous drum circle or Mozart, performances are an op…

A. Kori Hill

Jul 8, 2025

Lembit Beecher and Karen Ouzounian -- Photo by Ebru Yildiz

Interview

5 Questions to Lembit Beecher (composer) and Karen Ouzounian (cellist, composer)

Aizuri Quartet, Charles Aznavour, Karen Ouzounian, Layale Chaker, Lembit Beecher, Marian Marais, Nathalie Joachim, Niloufar Nourbakhsh

Lembit Beecher and Karen Ouzounian are a husband-wife creative team who balance their collaborative work with individual interests. Ouzounian is a founding member of the Aizuri Quartet and a member of…

Christine S. Escobar

Jun 30, 2025

Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: Lia Ouyang Rusli (OHYUNG) (June 26, 2025)

Brian Ennals, dead prez, Dreamcrusher, FRANKI3, GHÖSH, Infinity Knives, Lia Ouyang Rusli, Material Support, Matt Evans, OHYUNG, Sunik Kim

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (including I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and innova Recordings). Lia Ouyang Rusli (She/they) is a film compos…

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Jun 25, 2025

Tom Chiu and Brian Mark at MATA Festival 2025 -- Photo by Cameron Kelly McLeod, courtesy of ISSUE Project Room

Concert

MATA Festival 2025 Transports Listeners with a Beautifully Curated Cosmic Program

Anna Meadors, Anuj Bhutani, Brian Mark, Conrad Harris, Diallo Banks, Elsie Bae Han, FLUX Quartet, George Lewis, Giordano Bruno do Nascimentoruno do, Inga Chinilina, Jee Seo, Jessie Cox, Katie Porter, Kevin Ramsay, Marshall Allen, MATA, Music At The Anthology, Negar Soleymanifar, Nina Fukuoka, Paul Novak, Pauline Kim Harris, Petra Strahovnik, RE:duo, Reza Vali, Rodrigo Espino, Roscoe Mitchell, Sun Ra Arkestra, Tom Chiu, Tyler J. Borden, Wilson Poffenberger

The annual Music at the Anthology (MATA) Festival connects courageous composers and listeners through daring works from the global compositional community. Since Lisa Bielawa, Eleonor Sandresky, and P…

Lana Norris

Jun 18, 2025

Album

The Crossing’s “At Which Point” is a Beautifully Executed Record of New Choral Works

Ayanna Woods, Donald Nally, New Focus Recordings, Tawnie Olson, The Crossing, Wang Lu

Released on April 4 2025, At Which Point (New Focus Recordings) from The Crossing continues the choir’s dedication to commissioning and furthering the genre of choral music. Having commissioned nearly…

Anne Goldberg-Baldwin

Jun 17, 2025

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