Interview
Juri Seo thrives in the balance of complex compositional processes and aesthetic bliss. In an essay...
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Christian Euman, Friction Quartet, JACK Quartet, Juri Seo, Linda Oh, Michael Minor, Other Minds Festival, Shawn Myers
It would be futile to impose a narrative on isabel crespo pardo’s art and artmaking — the Brooklyn-b...
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Carmen Quill, Celia Hill, Henry Fraser, iiisa, isabel crespo pardo, Kabir Adhiya-Kumar, Kalia Vandever, Leaving Records, Lester St. Louis, Rahul Carlberg, sinonó, tilt, toso toso
Weston Olencki is a U.S.-born, Berlin-based musician and composer whose work is fundamentally concer...
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Charlotte Mundy, Sweet Wreath, TAK Editions, TAK Ensemble, Weston Olencki
Andrea Clearfield is a composer whose music reaches across histories and artistic boundaries, transf...
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Andrea Clearfield, ANIMUS, Bill Koutsouros, Cookie Diorio, Hun Hazy, Margaret Garwood, Naizel Hargana, Primavera Fund Alumni Chamber Ensemble, Szalon, Tamir Hargana
For musicians seeking to collaborate outside of the neatly delineated roles of “composer” and “perfo...
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Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Annea Lockwood, Claire Chase, Cory Smythe, Dai Fujikura, Edgard Varèse, Felipe Lara, George Lewis, JACK Quartet, Katinka Kleijn, Levy Lorenzo, Liza Lim, Marcos Balter, Matana Roberts, Nate Wooley, Seth Parker Woods, Susie Ibarra, Terry Riley, Tyshawn Sorey
Katherine Young’s immersive practice is rooted in the art of collection: her work searches for sound...
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Ben LaMar Gay, Chaikin Records, Katherine Young, Linda Jankowska, Mattie Barbier, Olivia Block, RAGE THORMBONES, wasteLand, Weston Olencki, Yarn/Wire
Christian Li is a pianist, composer, and arranger based in New York City whose work spans a wide ran...
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Asher Kurtz, Christian Li, Endectomorph Music, JP Bouvet
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
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
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
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
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
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
When Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (“Hallucination City”) for 100 Guitars was first performed at th...
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Glenn Branca, Glenn Branca Ensemble, Lincoln Center, Reg Bloor
In the landscape of modern opera performance, everyone seems to be fighting an uphill battle. Compos...
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Ben Ross, Elisheva Pront, Magdelena Ensemble, Meg Huskin, Michael Mills, Mira Fu-en Huang, TellTale Opera Theatre
There’s often a moment in a group improvisation where musicians let go of trying to make sense of ea...
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Andy Meyerson, Mali Obomsawin, Miriam Elhajli, Raven Chacon, Steve Hammond, The Living Earth Show, Travis Andrews
For more than a century, the New York City neighborhood of Harlem has been a synchedoche for Black a...
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Alexander Davis, Malachi Brown, Recomposing America, Sugar Hill Salon
“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing th...
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American Composers Forum, Ernest Bisong, Grant West, Kavyesh Kaviraj, Khamara Pettus, Recomposing America, Reverend Carl Walker, Walker|West Music Academy
A self-described anti-disciplinary artist, Dorian Wood seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in or...
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Adrián Cortés, April Guthrie, Carmina Escobar, Christopher Votek, Dorian Wood, Emily Elkin, Michael Corwin, New Amsterdam Records, Violetta Parra
Hamed Erfani and Yasaman Seif are a formidable couple: as a composer and a cellist, respectively, th...
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Hamed Erfani, Oklahoma Chamber Symphony, Yasaman Seif
With Project Poetic Justice, artist and activist Ryan Alexander combines his passion for social just...
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John Hopkins University, Nuburooj Khattak, Peabody Institute, Project Poetic Justice, Ryan Alexander
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