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Paola Prestini

Primero Sueño at The Cloisters -- Photo by Jill Steinberg

Paola Prestini & Magos Herrera Center Sor Juana’s Radical Mysticism in “Primero Sueño”

In their stunning processional opera, co-creators Paola Prestini and Magos Herrera and director Loui...
Author
Lana Norris
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...
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A. Kori Hill
Juliana Huxtable at National Sawdust's

Juliana Huxtable’s Layered Vocals, Spurred by Electronics, Come to Light at Dimmed National Sawdust

Juliana Huxtable is an artist who transcends labels, defined only by her ability to breach and resha...
Author
Donna Lee Davidson
2022 Hildegard Commission Winners--Photo courtesy of National Sawdust

5 Questions to the 2022 Hildegard Commission Winners

As composition competitions have come under closer scrutiny for their age biases and even exploitati...
Author
Julia Kuhlman
Paola Prestini--Photo by Axel Dupeux

5 Questions to Paola Prestini (Co-Founder and Artistic Director, National Sawdust)

Though Google Maps currently marks Brooklyn’s National Sawdust venue as closed, this fertile g...
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Stephanie Boyd
Top row, left to right: Wang Jie, Paola Prestini, Nebal Maysaud, JoAnn Falletta, Angélica Negrón Bottom row, left to right: Alex Temple, Alysia Lee, Natalie Calma, Libby Larsen, Aeryn Santillan

What Does the 19th Amendment Mean to You? (Part 1)

This day, August 18, 2020, marks 100 years since the ratification of the 19th Amendment–a mome...
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UNEVEN MEASURES

Announcing UNEVEN MEASURES: Artists Reflect on the 19th Amendment

The centennial anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, giving white women the right t...
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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
Nathalie Joachim--Photo by Josue Azor

This week: live streamed concerts (June 22, 2020 – June 28, 2020)

ChamberQUEERantine: A Digital Pride Month Festival! Every night at 7:00 PM Eastern Time from June 8-...
Author
Sam Reising
Birdsong from Sensorium Ex performed by Lucy Dhegrae and Jeffrey Zeigler

Video Premiere: “Birdsong” from Paola Prestini’s Sensorium Ex

Today’s video premiere features Lucy Dhegrae and Jeffrey Zeigler performing an excerpt from th...
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String Orchestra of Brooklyn

This week: concerts in New York (January 13, 2020 – January 19, 2020)

Magdalene | PROTOTYPE This meditation on transformation and desire is scored by the collective voice...
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
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
Amanda Gookin's Forward Music Project 2.0--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Amanda Gookin Brings Forward Music Project 2.0 to National Sawdust

New York-based cellist Amanda Gookin is injecting the often-abstract world of new music with human e...
Author
Aaron Wolff
Amanda Gookin

This week: concerts in New York (March 18, 2019 – March 24, 2019)

Cecilia Lopez: Dos (tres) / Bifurcations with Aki Onda For the first concert of her 2019 Roulette re...
Author
Sam Reising
Allison Loggins-Hull (photo: Rafael Rios)

5 Questions to Allison Loggins-Hull (composer, flutist)

Allison Loggins-Hull is a composer and flutist based in Montclair, NJ. She is one of two musicians s...
Author
Andrew Stock
Yevgeny Kutik and Gity Razaz

Track Premiere: Yevgeny Kutik Performs Gity Razaz’s Cadenza for the Once Young

Today’s track premiere comes to us from “Meditations on Family,” violinist Yevgeny...
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2018 albums

2018 Contemporary Classical Music Albums: Editor’s Picks

It’s the time of the year for “Best of…” lists, and while this is indeed a r...
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Amanda Cook
Golden Hornet

Album Premiere: Golden Hornet’s The Sound of Science Featuring Jeffrey Zeigler

Today, I CARE IF YOU LISTEN premieres The Sound of Science, a new project from Austin’s compos...
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Jonah Sirota

This week: concerts in New York (June 25, 2018 – July 1, 2018)

Jonah Sirota: Strong Sad Album Release Concert Violist Jonah Sirota celebrates his newest National S...
Author
Sam Reising
Jonah Sirota

Track Premiere: Jonah and Nadia Sirota Perform Nico Muhly’s Lean

Today’s track premiere features Jonah and Nadia Sirota performing Nico Muhly‘s Lean, one...
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Angélica Negrón--Photo by Quique Cabanillas

This week: concerts in New York (June 18, 2018 – June 24, 2018)

Mary Prescott’s LITMUS RESIDENCY Multidisciplinary artist Mary Prescott curates and performs n...
Author
Sam Reising
Evan Ziporyn - Photo by Standa Merhout

This week: concerts in New York (April 23, 2018 – April 29, 2018)

Cutting Edge Concerts: Hub New Music Boston-based Hub New Music performs Laura Kaminsky’s The...
Author
Sam Reising
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