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Mary Elizabeth Bowden -- Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco

5 Questions to Mary Elizabeth Bowden (trumpeter)

The sound of the trumpet has long indicated we’re on the precipice of something – announcements of a...
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Connie Li
Reena Esmail -- Photo by Hannah Arista

With Her Syncretic Music, Reena Esmail Invites Listeners to Engage Through Their Own Cultural Lens

Reena Esmail’s sweeping, passionate compositions take elements of Hindustani music, elements o...
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Thulasi Seshan
Brandon Patrick George -- Photo by Lauren Desberg

5 Questions to Brandon Patrick George (flutist)

The online presence of Brandon Patrick George is one of bold colors, virtuosity, and powerful words.
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Stephanie Boyd
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Bravo! Vail Festival Blends New Music with the Classics at its Lavish Colorado Rockies Home

It wasn’t until I’d taken the gondola down from Eagle’s Nest, perched 10,350 feet up on Vail Mountai...
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Esteban Meneses
Reena Esmail--Photo by Rachel Garcia

ListN Up: Reena Esmail (October 14, 2022)

ListN Up is a series of artist-curated playlists that offer an intimate sonic portrait of contempora...
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Three Projects Play to See — What is America to Me?

“History doesn’t repeat itself; but it does often rhyme.” Imma need to disagree with whomever said t...
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A. Kori Hill
Yolanda Kondonassis performs Reena Esmail's Inconvenient Wounds

Video Premiere: Yolanda Kondonassis Performs Reena Esmail’s inconvenient wounds

Nature is seen as both a thing of beauty and reckoning in the music video for Reena Esmail’s i...
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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...
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Amanda Cook
Min Kwon America/Beautiful

5 Questions to Min Kwon (pianist, America/Beautiful)

The United States is a country with a complex history of oppression, and contemporary society calls...
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Nebal Maysaud
Imani Winds BRUITS

“We Cannot Continue This Way:” Imani Winds’ BRUITS Calls for Change

Amidst the social and political turmoil that has erupted in the United States over the past year, ma...
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Dalanie Harris
Seth Parker Woods--Photo by James Napoli

ListN Up: Seth Parker Woods (January 8, 2021)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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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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Nina Shekhar--Photo courtesy of the artist

ListN Up: Nina Shekhar (August 28, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Out of Context #8: Privilege and Creative Consequence

“Out of Context” is a 10-part series that addresses the topic of cultural appropriation as it inters...
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Nicolas Lell Benavides
Alexander Lloyd Blake--Photo by Matthew Ian Welch

ListN Up: Alexander Lloyd Blake (June 19, 2020)

ListN Up is a series of weekly artist-curated playlists. Born from a desire to keep artists sharing...
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Brooklyn Rider’s Healing Modes: New Works in Dialogue with the Past

It’s not just in writing or interpreting music that we consider time and place—listening is an act o...
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Julia Kuhlman
Luna Composition Lab Fellows 2019-20, Olivia Bennett, KiMani Bridges, Madeline Clara Cheng, Ebunoluwa Oguntola, and Sage Shurman

5 Questions to the 2019-20 Luna Composition Lab Fellows

The Kaufman Music Center’s Luna Composition Lab is a program that brings together a cohort of...
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Colin Holter
Lucy Dhegrae performs at Resonant Bodies 2018--Photo by Gretchen Robinette

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

The Brass Project | Music Mondays The Brass Project includes the New York premieres of pieces by Gab...
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Sam Reising
Reena Esmail--Photo by Rachel Garcia

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

Carol Wincenc 50th Anniversary Celebration The evening celebrates flutist Carol Wincenc in her fifti...
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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...
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Jarrett Goodchild
Laura Kaminsky

This week: concerts in New York (May 27, 2019 – June 2, 2019)

Ostrava: Influences and Initiatives The S.E.M. Ensemble performs music by Lucie Vítková, Christian W...
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Sam Reising
Inbal Segev--Photo by Jill Steinberg

Inbal Segev Celebrates 21st Century Women (and One Man) at Roulette

On Thursday, February 28, 2019, an intimate group assembled within Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium t...
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Christian Kriegeskotte
Inbal Segev

This week: concerts in New York (February 25, 2019 – March 3, 2019)

Cutting Edge Concerts The February 25 program will begin with pianist Nadia Shpachenko-Gottesman per...
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Sam Reising
ROCO Visions Take Flight

Visions Take Flight: ROCO Impresses with Debut Album of New Music

Visions Take Flight is the remarkably assured debut album by the Houston-based River Oaks Chamber Or...
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Jeffrey Young
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