Amanda Cook
Amanda Cook (she/her) is a music critic and digital editor based in the Twin Cities. She is the Editor of I CARE IF YOU LISTEN.
What happens when an iconoclast becomes an institution? That question continues to unfold with Juliu...
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AfriClassical Futures, Ahmed Al Abaca, Alex Moore, Elastic Arts, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Evé Sanchez, Florence Price, Julian Otis, King Sophia, Lindsey Sharpe, Luis González, Malik Johnson, Nick Reeves, olula negre, Ómkara Gil, Peter Maxwell Davies, Sajdah Muhammad
The sky can’t decide if it’s going to rain. Baby blue dots the gaps between hulking grey clouds over...
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Alissa Ona Jacobsen, Dameun Strange, Edna's Park, Liz Draper, Mikey Marget
The organ at the Church of St. Luke & St. Matthew looms over Sarah Davachi as she takes a seat t...
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EMPAC, Late Music, Sarah Davachi
In the last minutes of Márton Illés’ Forajzok (2021), every member of the International Contemporary...
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Farzia Fallah, Imsu Choi, International Contemporary Ensemble, Márton Illés, Njabulo Phungula, Rebekah Heller, The DiMenna Center for Classical Music, TIME:SPANS festival
The work of Mary Kouyoumdjian is equally rooted in composition and documentary through projects abou...
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Alarm Will Sound, Cantaloupe Music, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Nigel Maister
Imani Winds is an ensemble that has continually fulfilled its mission to inspire generations of musi...
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Billy Taylor, Dick Dallas, Donny Hathaway, Imani Winds, Imani Winds Media, Jeff Scott, Kevin Newton, Mariam Adam, Mark Dover, Mekhi Gladden, Monica Ellis, Nina Simone, Pavel Haas, Shawn Okpebholo, Stevie Wonder, Toyin Spellman-Diaz, Valerie Coleman
On The American Concerto, Volume One (Aug. 14, Cedille Records), the Grammy Award-winning violinist...
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Cedille Records, Courtney Bryan, Jennifer Koh, Oberlin Contemporary Music Ensemble, Timothy Weiss, Vijay Iyer
Composer and percussionist Christopher Thompson deftly demonstrates how overlooking the constraints...
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Christopher Thompson, Emerging Black Composers Project, Michael Morgan Prize, San Francisco Symphony
Rebekah Heller is on a mission to smash every tired stereotype or bad orchestra joke about the basso...
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Brittany J. Green, Cantaloupe Music, Fay Victor, Jessie Cox, Julius Eastman, Rebekah Heller, Steve Reich
A last-minute venue change brought Chinese Arts Week’s presentation of Du Yun’s The Ocean Etched in...
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Du Yun, He Guiying, Lincoln Center, OK MISS, Piao Niu
Electronic drummer, producer, educator, and clinician Ravish Momin is known for his groundbreaking r...
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'Kuza, 3Phaz, Abdullah Miniawy, Abu Ama, Deena Abdelwahed, Devi Mambouka, DJ Lag, Dolphins of Venice, El Kontessa, Kibrom Birhane, Kush Arora, Lila Tirando a Violeta, Mahorka, Masma Dream World, Moki McFly, New Music USA Creator Fund, Nihiloxica, Nkululeko Zungu, Nyege Nyege Tapes, Rani Jambak, Ravish Momin, Saba Alizadeh, Saskia, Sunken Cages, Tanya Tagaq, Trio Tarana, Turning Jewels into Water, Val Jeanty, Weldroid
The work of Amadeus Julian Regucera (b.1984, He/They) engages with the embodied and acoustical energ...
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[Ahmed], Amadeus Julian Regucera, Amadeus Regucera, Charles Curtis, Charmaine Lee, Elaine Mitchener, Éliane Radigue, EMPAC, Eva Furrer, Gaber Modus Operandi, Georges Aperghis, HULUBALANG, Johanne Saunier, Kasimyn, Miho Hatori, Mike Schmidt, Richard Dubelsky, Sarah Davachi
Over the past 20 years, Sarah Hennies has developed an iterative musical practice that finds sonic a...
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[Switch~Ensemble], Alex Matterson, Andrew Yee, Bent Duo, Cabrillo Festival, EMPAC, GLISS Residency, Greg Stuart, Hazel Foxræ, inti figgis-vizueta, Joe Houston, Judith Hamann, Lulu West, Nate Wooley, Sarah Hennies, Sarah Saviet, Stuart Saunders Smith, Tristan Kasten-Krause
Andrew Yee, a multi-hyphenate new music powerhouse, continues to build an oeuvre that spans composit...
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Andrew Yee, Attacca Quartet, Caroline Shaw, New Amsterdam Records, NOVUS NY, Trinity Choir
Dylan Fujioka is a Japanese-American composer, performer, actor, and model most known for his work o...
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Akira Ifukube, Bad Brains, Dylan Fujioka, Jeanette, Juan Gabriel, Ocrilim, Ornette Coleman, Selena, Siouxsie And The Banshees, The Peanuts
It’s end-of-term showtime at the London conservatoires, and recently I’ve seen some exciting new sho...
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Alex Hardy, Anastasia Koorn, Asher Joyce, Bella Marslen, Charlotte Jane Kennedy, Daniel Musashi, David Fraser, Deniz Dortok, Eden Shifroni, Lasha Kharkhelauri, Michael Rosewell, Royal College of Music, Ruvin Meda, Taining Zhao, Tète-à-Tète, Tom Law
Everything seemed perfectly engineered for presence on Jun. 25 at Pioneer Works. The sun twinkled go...
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Ash Fure, Laurel Halo, Pioneer Works
Kronos Quartet is an ensemble that needs little introduction — the San Francisco-based group recentl...
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CMC Centrediscs, Delia Derbyshire, Kronos Quartet, Nicole Lizée
José Martínez has charted numerous routes through tradition and storytelling by leaning into abstrac...
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Alejandro González Puche, HOCKET, Hocket Duo, Jordan Walsh, José Martínez, Laura Moreno, Leymis Bolaños, Ma Zhenghong, May Romero Quiñonez, New Focus Recordings, Sara Martínez
Composer, electroacoustic musician, and educator Ali Balighi seems most comfortable in the unstable...
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Ali Balighi, Post Orientalism Music
Mari Esabel Valverde is an award-winning transgender Mexican-American composer in steady demand in t...
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21V, Amir Rabiyah, Andrew Yee, California All-State Choir, Katherine FitzGibbon, Mari Esabel Valverde, Melissa Attebury, Melissa Dunphy, Resonance Ensemble, SACRA/PROFANA, Saunder Choi, Seattle Pro Musica, Tove Ditlevsen, Trinity Choir
It isn’t often that performers approach microtonal music armed only with a set of tuning forks and t...
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Charlotte Mundy, Ekmeles, Elisa Sutherland, George Lewis, Iwo Jedynecki, Jeffrey Gavett, Katherine Balch, New Focus Recordings, Plainsound, Steven Hrycelak, Timothy Parsons, Tomás Cruz, Wolfgang von Schweinitz
In the 250th anniversary of the United States, we might expect programming that focuses on the Found...
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Amy Beach, Danielle Jagelski, Erin Schwab, Florence Price, JL Marlor, Joan Tower, Michelle Rofrano, Nadia Boulanger, PROTESTRA, Recomposing America, Valerie Coleman
