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New Focus Recordings

In her solo debut album Of Being (New Focus Recordings), pianist Ning Yu presents three new works re...
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Matthew Younglove

Richard Valitutto is a GRAMMY-nominated pianist based out of L.A. With a focus mostly on contemporar...
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Jarrett Goodchild

Nothing about the Hasco Duo’s new disc, The Same Old Wonder (New Focus Recordings), appears to fit t...
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Lauren Ishida

Here’s a one-word review of Jennifer Curtis and Tyshawn Sorey’s collaborative album Invisible Ritual...
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Nick Stevens

Zosha Di Castri is on top of the world. Born in 1985, she is a professor of composition at an Ivy Le...
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Colin Holter

With the year and the decade coming to a close, it’s time for everyone’s “Best of&...
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Amanda Cook

In his own musical pursuits, violinist David Bowlin continues to reflect the spirit of diversity cha...
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Daniel Schreiner

Violin and viola duo andPlay have been exerting their musical prowess on the world since meeting at...
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Jarrett Goodchild

The harp glissando: it’s a recognizable gesture, one that listeners might associate with cinematic d...
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Adam O'Dell

Out on New Focus Recordings is in manus tuas, the debut solo album from composer and violist Anne Le...
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Tracy Monaghan

The festival compilation is an album format especially particular to the New Music community; an ins...
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James May

Movses Pogossian is an Armenian-born violinist and champion of new music. He has premiered over 70 p...
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Natalie Calma

The saxophone is an instrument of the future. Invented much later than the violin, flute, and other...
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Daniel Schreiner

Transient Canvas is a bass clarinet (Amy Advocat) and marimba (Matt Sharrock) duo that actively comm...
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Matthew Younglove

In 2015, surreal images produced by AIs as they learned to parse objects launched an internet frenzy...
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Nick Stevens

In his new album on New Focus Recordings, Uncanny Affable Machines, composer-pianist Eric Moe unveil...
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Jillian DeGroot

I’m not the first to note the aeolian bias of loadbang’s unique lineup. Three years on from their pr...
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Andrew Stock

The American classical guitar Duo Noire released their latest album, Night Triptych, on June 22, 201...
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Brianna Matzke

Today’s track premiere features violinist Josh Modney and vocalist/composer Kate Soper perform...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

Against a clean white background, vibrantly-technicolored, jaggedly-arranged rectangles and triangle...
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Jacob Kopcienski

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN premieres Night Triptych, the latest album from American classical gu...
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I CARE IF YOU LISTEN

With their debut album Passage (New Focus Recordings, 2017), the members of the string trio Longleas...
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Kathleen McGowan