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In DiEugenio/Solomon’s Into the Silence, a Touching Stucky Tribute

The legacy of the late American composer, conductor and longtime Cornell University professor Steven...
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Andrew Stock
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Third Coast Percussion’s Kaleidoscopic Album The Book of Keyboards

The CD case of Third Coast Percussion’s new album on New Focus Recordings of music by Philippe Manou...
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Stephanie Boyd
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New Morse Code Debut Album Simplicity Itself (New Focus Recordings)

Back in 2011 while they were still students at Yale, cellist Hannah Collins and percussionist Michae...
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Gemma Peacocke
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Scott Wollschleger’s Soft Aberration Conjures Forms from Darkness

New York based composer Scott Wollschleger describes his work, Soft Aberration, in the following man...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
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David Kirkland Garner’s Folk-Inspired Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings)

With a distinct aesthetic, David Kirkland Garner’s work Dark Holler (New Focus Recordings) weaves pu...
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Kevin Baldwin
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Video Premiere: New Morse Code Performs Shaw’s Boris Kerner

On Friday, September 22, 2017, New Focus Recordings releases Simplicity Itself, the debut album from...
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Mariel Roberts Expertly Navigates Four Premieres on Cartography

The monochromatic cover art of Mariel Roberts’ Cartography is cryptic and arresting: a figure strugg...
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Jason Charney
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Exclusive Video: “Gretchen am Spinnrade” (Wubbels) Performed by Mariel Roberts

Today, we have an exclusive video of cellist Mariel Roberts and composer/pianist Eric Wubbels perfor...
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Wild Cities: Francesca Anderegg on New Focus Recordings

The violinist Francesca Anderegg’s album Wild Cities (on New Focus Recordings) is incredibly earnest...
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Daniel Hautzinger
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loadbang’s Lungpowered: New, Confident, and Weird

Brassy, brazen, unexpected: for experimental-minded people, this is how new music should be. The qua...
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Daniel Hautzinger
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Third Coast Percussion’s Resounding Earth on New Focus Recordings

Resounding Earth was commissioned by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center...
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Aaron Holloway-Nahum
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Ryan Muncy Breaks New Sonic Ground for Saxophone in Chicago

Michael Lewanski, conductor of Chicago’s Ensemble Dal Niente, introduced saxophonist (and EDN Execut...
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Arlene & Larry Dunn
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5 questions to Ryan Muncy (Saxophonist)

Ryan Muncy is a saxophonist who has commissioned and premiered over 100 works for the instrument.  H...
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Andrew Tham
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Suzanne Farrin: Corpo di Terra on New Focus Recordings

The first release exclusively devoted to the music of Suzanne Farrin can be described as a quasi-aut...
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Xenia Pestova
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Richard Beaudoin’s Microtimings

Theory and aesthetics in new music are two very, very different things. There’s what goes in to a pi...
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Paul Kilbey
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Claire Chase releases Terrestre on New Focus Recordings

On her new album Terrestre, Claire Chase achieves every woodwind player’s fantasy: playing with a pe...
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David Pearson
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