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Jessie Montgomery

Jessie Montgomery -- Photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Jessie Montgomery Composer Portrait is a Prismatic Snapshot of Her Many Stylistic Influences

It’s not easy to write something new about composer, violinist, and educator Jessie Montgomery – to...
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Donna Lee Davidson
Julia Bullock, Christian Reif, and the New Haven Symphony Orchestra -- Photo by Lawrence Sumulong, courtesy of Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts

Julia Bullock’s “History’s Persistent Voice” Collapses the Past and the Present at Lincoln Center

The idea for soprano Julia Bullock’s project “History’s Persistent Voice” came eight years ago when...
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Donna Lee Davidson
Karen Slack -- Photo by Kia Caldwell

Karen Slack’s “African Queens” Project is a Marriage of New Music, History, and Timeless Artistry from Black Composers

Many musicians have a recording that changed their fervor — an album that they studied, trapped in i...
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Donna Lee Davidson
ChamberQUEER 2024 Festival -- Photo by Sean Salamon

ChamberQUEER 2024: Constellation Takes the Music Festival to Transplendent Heights

“Would you like a kiss?” Hershey’s, that is. A bowl of candy and cheerful decorations at check in we...
Author
Lana Norris
OLEA -- Photos by John Neack

OLEA Centers Women and Black Composers in a Concert of American Folk-Inspired Music

I missed the “Yeehaw Agenda” era that dominated the socials a few years ago, so when the OLEA chambe...
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A. Kori Hill
Jasmine Barnes -- Photo by Paul Green Photography

ListN Up Playlist: Jasmine Arielle Barnes (May 2, 2024)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Pamela Z and D-Composed -- Photo by Point of Origin Productions

Pamela Z and D-Composed Foreground the Breadth of Black Artistry at Merkin Hall

Pamela Z is generous as both an artist and a teacher. The first time I saw her perform live was in 2...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
Awadagin Pratt -- Photo courtesy of the artist

Awadagin Pratt Challenges Resistance Between New Music and the Canon

Awadagin Pratt does not stay still, but he doesn’t rush. Whether as a pianist, as an educator at the...
Author
A. Kori Hill
The Sphinx Virtuosi -- Photo by Scott Jackson

Sphinx Virtuosi Release Powerful, Celebratory Debut with ‘Songs of Our Times’

Released July 28 on Deutsche Grammophon, the Sphinx Virtuosi’s Songs for Our Times is sprawling, con...
Author
Sofía Rocha
Jennifer Grim--Photo by Tracey Hagen Photography

Classical Music’s Racial Awakening – Was It All a Mirage?

Until very recently, the long-established tradition of classical music organizations has been to bas...
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Jennifer Grim
Gillian Friedman Fox--Photo by Meghan Sepe

5 Questions to Gillian Friedman Fox (Executive Director, Newport Music Festival)

Since its founding in 1969, the Newport Music Festival has presented over 2,000 concerts at Rhode Is...
Author
Amanda Cook
PUBLIQuartet--Photo by Lelanie Foster

ListN Up: PUBLIQuartet (January 29, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Katherine Balch--Photo by Lanz Photography

ListN Up: Katherine Balch (December 4, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Krishna Thiagarajan--Photo by Brandon Patoc

5 Questions to Krishna Thiagarajan (President & CEO, Seattle Symphony)

It’s a feel-good situation: Krishna Thiagarajan, President and CEO of the Seattle Symphony, has foun...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Sarah Kirkland Snider--Photo by Anja Schütz

ListN Up: Sarah Kirkland Snider (September 4, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Gelsey Bell

This week: live streamed concerts (August 3, 2020 – August 9, 2020)

Cairns (in person event) Cairns is a soundwalk for Green-Wood Cemetery that leads the listener on a...
Author
Sam Reising
Jessie Montgomery--Photo by Jiyang Chen

ListN Up: Jessie Montgomery (July 17, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Jessie Montgomery--Photo by Jiyang Chen

This week: concerts in New York (January 20, 2020 – January 26, 2020)

The Music of Sir Karl Jenkins | DCINY DCINY presents the 20th Anniversary of The Armed Man, A Mass f...
Author
Sam Reising
Ellen Reid--Photo by Arnaud Pyvka

This week: concerts in New York (September 23, 2019 – September 29, 2019)

John Zorn’s Stone Commissioning Series Presents: Wendy Eisenberg The John Zorn Commissioning S...
Author
Sam Reising
Chicago Sinfonietta Project W

Chicago Sinfonietta’s Project W Highlights Women Composers

Project W is an initiative by the Chicago Sinfonietta to help highlight and promote “contempor...
Author
Jarrett Goodchild
Eleonore Oppenheim

This week: concerts in New York (May 6, 2019 – May 12, 2019)

PREformances with Allison Charney Soprano Allison Charney, flutist Marya Martin, and pianist Donna W...
Author
Sam Reising
Jessie Montgomery

This week: concerts in New York (April 29, 2019 – May 5, 2019)

The Abandoned Castle and Other Stories The New World Symphony, America’s Orchestral Academy (NWS), p...
Author
Sam Reising
Kate Soper

This week: concerts in New York (April 1, 2019 – April 7, 2019)

Wet Ink: 20th Anniversary Bash Wet Ink Ensemble celebrates 20 years of music making in NYC and aroun...
Author
Sam Reising
PUBLIQuartet

5 Questions to PUBLIQuartet about “Freedom and Faith”

PUBLIQuartet, Artists-in-Residence at National Sawdust, is a string quartet seeking to challenge the...
Author
Tracy Monaghan
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