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Marcos Balter

Ojai Music Festival -- Photo by Timothy Norris

The 2025 Ojai Music Festival Manifests a Better World through Sonic Discovery

In a tranquil southern Californian park, shaded by oak trees, the Libbey Bowl transforms each June i...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Adam Tendler -- Photo by Lila Barth

5 Questions to Adam Tendler (pianist)

After his father’s unexpected passing, pianist Adam Tendler received an envelope of cash from his st...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Marcos Balter Concert -- Courtesy of Kaufman Music Center

Remixed and Reimagined: Inspired Collaboration Drives an Exciting Performance of Marcos Balter’s Three Enigmas at Merkin Hall

On Oct. 9 at Merkin Hall, the Kaufman Music Center presented the second installment in this season’s...
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Lauren Ishida
Ensemble Dal Niente -- Photo by Dan Nichols, Aphorism Studios

Ensemble Dal Niente Celebrates Latin America in Season-Closing Concert

Founded by a group of student composers at Northwestern University, Ensemble Dal Niente is now in it...
Author
Christine S. Escobar
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
Changing Tides 1 (2016). Mark Dresser, Nicole Mitchell, Michael Dessen, Stephanie Richards, Min Xiao-Fen, Marty Ehrlich, Satoshi Takeishi, Denman Maroney, Ray Anderson and Sarah Weaver.

Reimagining Accessibility and Inclusivity in Virtual Events (Casting Light #3)

“Casting Light” is a 10-part series that explores the often invisible inequities in contemporary art...
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Michele Cheng
Myra Melford--Photo by Marco Giugliarelli for Civitella Ranieri Foundation

ListN Up: Myra Melford (June 4, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
Marcos Balter--Photo by Heidi Solander

ListN Up: Marcos Balter (May 14, 2021)

ListN Up is a weekly series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of con...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN
NextNotes 2020

Spotlight On: 2020 American Composers Forum NextNotes Creators

American Composers Forum’s NextNotes program honors talented young artists from across the cou...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Is this ~Nois

A Saxophone Quartet’s Debut Album Asks, “Is This ~Nois?”

Is it ~Nois? The saxophone quartet ~Nois (pronounced “noise”) asks this question anew each day, and...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Courtney Bryan

This week: concerts in New York (February 11, 2019 – February 17, 2019)

Hidden Figures Vocalist and WQXR host Helga Davis and composers Courtney Bryan and Shelley Washingto...
Author
Sam Reising
Marcos Balter--Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theatre

Active Listening #1: Dreamcatcher by Marcos Balter

Active Listening is a series that unites composers with audiences who care about social justice. The...
Author
Lior Willinger
Stephen Hartke - Photo by Philip Channing/USC

This week: concerts in New York (November 13, 2017 – November 19, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect performs a free concert of Brahms’s Trio in E-flat Major for Violi...
Author
Sam Reising
Missy Mazzoli-- Photo by Stephen Taylor

This week: concerts in New York (October 23, 2017 – October 29, 2017)

Ensemble Connect Ensemble Connect kicks off its second season with a performance at Carnegie Hall, f...
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Sam Reising
Kelly Moran

This week: concerts in New York (October 16, 2017 – October 22, 2017)

Hallucinations | Kelly Moran Experimental pianist Kelly Moran presents Hallucinations, influenced by...
Author
Sam Reising
JACK Quartet--Photo by Matt Zugale for Miller Theatre

5 Questions to JACK Quartet About Soundscape America

“Explosive virtuosity” “Mind-blowingly good” “Among the most stimulati...
Author
Justin Rito
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Chase & Sorey Forge Extra-Terrestrial Paths at Ojai Music Festival

The flute unfolded itself into kaleidoscope of characters and sounds in the hands of Claire Chase on...
Author
Aaron Wolff
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Dal Niente and Deerhoof Present Balter/Saunier

Rarely do such distinct musical voices come together to make a perfect hybrid as Ensemble Dal Niente...
Author
Jason Charney
Composer and conductor Tania León

5 Questions to Tania León (composer, Composers Now)

Cuban-born composer, conductor, and educator Tania León founded Composers Now in 2010 to celebrate a...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
yMusic Balance Problems

yMusic’s Balance Problems: Unveiling the Intimacy of Chamber Music

In the introduction to her 2013 book Chasing Sound, author Susan Schmidt Horning states: “The evolut...
Author
Amanda Cook
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Marcos Balter premiere at ACO’s Border Vanguards in Zankel Hall

Friday, April 4, 2014, was another rainy day. While many of the folks scurrying down Seventh Avenue...
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
Meredith Monk

This week: concerts in New York (March 31 – April 6, 2014)

Musica Sacra and Kent Tritle present Meredith Monk and the NY Premiere of Jocelyn Hagen’s amass [cap...
Author
Sam Reising
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5 questions to Ellen McSweeney (Chicago Q Ensemble Violinist)

The composition of Chicago Q Ensemble has recently morphed from a string quartet to a string trio. V...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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Outsourced Music From Germany at Bowling Green New Music Festival

Chicago-based Ensemble Dal Niente brought the controversial young German composer Johannes Kreidler...
Author
Arlene & Larry Dunn
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