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Paula Sanchez -- Photo by Luis Matias Kerman

Interview

5 Questions to Paula Sanchez (cellist, vocalist, composer)

Paula Sanchez, Relative Pitch Records

Paula Sanchez uses performance to traverse the connections between sound, material, and improvisation. The cellist and vocalist refined her interdisciplinary approach through music studies at Argentin…

Jacob Kopcienski

Jun 11, 2025

Album

BAKUDI SCREAM Reaches for Liberation On His Audacious Second Album, “Prey”

Alarm Will Sound, BAKUDI SCREAM, Fugazi, Rohan Chander

BAKUDI SCREAM, the pseudonym used by performer and composer Rohan Chander, released his second studio album Prey last month in collaboration with Alarm Will Sound. Chander uses a large host of sampled…

Clover Nahabedian

Jun 9, 2025

Jessie Cox -- Photo by Adrien H. Tillmann

Playlist

ListN Up Playlist: Jessie Cox (June 5, 2025)

Arthur Kampela, Charles Uzor, Dreamtime Ensemble, Ensemble Contemporary Insights, Ensemble Mothertongue, Isabel Pfefferkorn, Jessie Cox, Marshall Allen, Matük, Peyton Pleninger, Rupert Huber, Susie Ibarra, Viola Yip

ListN Up playlists are commissioned by American Composers Forum. Artists are selected by ACF staff (including I CARE IF YOU LISTEN and innova Recordings). Jessie Cox is Assistant Professor of Music at…

I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Jun 4, 2025

Nadia Sirota -- Photo by Zoe Prinds-Flash

Concert

Risk & Access: Nadia Sirota Curates “Living Music Underground” Summer Series

American Modern Opera Company, CARM, CJ Camerieri, Clarice Jensen, Jeremiah Chiu, Julius Eastman, Keir GoGwilt, Kelly Moran, Lincoln Center, Marta Sofia Honer, Miranda Cuckson, Nadia Sirota, Nathalie Joachim, PUBLIQuartet, Riley Mulherkar, Ruckus, The Underground at Jaffe Drive, yMusic

For the second consecutive summer, Living Music Underground returns to Lincoln Center’s Summer for the City programming. Experimental and post-genre music has always thrived in New York – but recently…

Yaz Lancaster

Jun 3, 2025

Interview

5 Questions to Theresa May (trumpeter, composer, educator)

Chromatic Brass Collective, Di·zy·got·ic Energy, Mourning [A] BLKstar, Shanyse Strickland, Theresa May

Theresa May’s multifaceted work as an artist, performer, educator, and advocate illustrates the abundant possibility of a career centered on fully embracing your interests. A classically-trained trump…

Katie Brown

Jun 2, 2025

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American Composers Forum supports and advocates for living music creators through direct support to artists, artist-centered thought leadership, and storytelling. We aspire to cultivate anti-racist practices in all of our work, believing a fairer world for artists benefits all of us.

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Innova® Recordings

As the label of American Composers Forum, innova Recordings serves the needs of visionary, creative musicians by redefining the typical relationship between artist and label.

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