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Review: Nwando Ebizie “Ecsta­sy of the Virtues”

The desire to bring the music of Hildegard von Bingen into the modern day is not an uncommon one. As...
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Chisara Agor, Chisato Minamimura, Fliss Jackson, Grace Nyandoro, Hildegard von Bingen, Jadyn Arriola Bagayas, Laura Bowler, Mahogany Opera, Maria da Luz Ghoumrassi, Michelle Cornelius, Nwando Ebizie, Yu Chinen
Vox Urbane -- Photo by Ben Roberts

Review: Vox Urbane at The Ditch

The Ditch doesn’t exactly sound like the name of a classical music venue. Situated in a fashionable...
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Barbara Dudek, Dan Ludford-Thomas, Emily Hazrati, Helen Meyerhoff, Jago Thornton, Kerensa Briggs, Lillie Harris, Shoreditch Town Hall, Tara Mack, The Ditch, Vox Urbane
Violeta Garcia at Ultima Festival 2026 -- Photo by Nabeeh Samaan

Review: Ultima Festival 2026

Ever heard of a wolpertinger? The mythical creature is said to inhabit the forests of southern Germa...
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Alberto Bernal, Camille Norment, FRAMES Percussion, Gareth Mattey, Ícaro Zorbar, Jonas Lie Skaarud, Julian Sartorius, Kristine Tjøgersen, Lasse Marhaug, LEMUR, Miguel Ángel Garcia Martin, Norwegian Soloists' Choir, Oslo Philharmonic, Oslo String Quartet, Øyvind Torvund, Sarah Davachi, Tine Surel Lange, Ultima Oslo Contemporary Music Festival, Violeta Garcia, Yann Leguay, Yuri Umemoto
Leo Chang -- Courtesy of Venue

Review: Raven Chacon + Tashi Dorji + Alex Zhang Hungtai // Leo Chang at Roulette

Noise improvisation: the craft of experimenting with sound, sculpting a world for the listener to in...
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Alex Zhang Hungtai, Leo Chang, Raven Chacon, Roulette, Roulette Intermedium, Tashi Dorji
Ami Dang at Sound and Gravity 2026 -- Photo by Bella Peterson

Review: Sound and Gravity 2026

I hope I never forget the warm September night when I saw Kari Watson and Katinka Kleijn perform at...
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7 Poets Trio, Ami Dang, Ana Roxanne, Bitchin' Bajas, Booker Stardrum, Dos Santos Quintet, Gregory Uhlmann, Jason Adasiewicz, Jason Roebke, Kari Watson, Katinka Kleijn, Mary Halvorson, Natural Information Society, Sound and Gravity Festival, Tomas Fujiwara, Tomeka Reid, Tomeka Reid Quartet, Tyondai Braxton, Will Miller
Julius Eastman -- Photo by Ron Hammond

Review: AfriClassical Futures Presents “The Holy Presence of Joan d’Arc”

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
Liz Draper -- Photo by Eric Reich

Review: Liz Draper at Edna’s Park

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
International Contemporary Ensemble -- Photo by Fadi Kheir

Review: International Contemporary Ensemble at TIME:SPANS Festival

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
Piao Niu performs in Du Yun's

Review: Du Yun “The Ocean Etched in the Forest” (刻在森林的海)

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
Charlotte Kennedy and Archie Inns as Ramona and Ermon in

Review: Royal College of Music “Fantasy and Fairytales”

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
Ash Fure at Pioneer Works -- Photo by Ahad Subzwari

Review: Ash Fure and Laurel Halo at Pioneer Works

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
Vicki Ray in Wild Up,

Music, Mysticism, and Quiet Radicalism in Wild Up’s “The Interior Castle”

In a world of constant connectivity, what do we gain from looking within? Wild Up’s Jun. 6 program,...
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Christopher Rountree, Eliza Bagg, Emahoy Tsege Mariam Gebru, Hildegard von Bingen, Isabella Leonarda, M.A. Tiesenga, REDCAT, Wild Up
Char Jeré at Roulette Intermedium -- Photo by Aiden Li

Char Jeré and Guests Mold Time and Space in “Planet/Tear”

“A shifting environment of unstable systems … Signals emerge, overlap, and dissolve, forming a tempo...
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Braxton, C. Spencer Yeh, Char Jeré, Maggie Boyd, Michael Candy, pap souleye fall, Rena Anakwe, Roulette, Roulette Intermedium
Standard Issue at Dig That Treasure! Festival 2026 -- Photo by Carl Northcote

The Ecstatic Experience of Dig That Treasure! Festival 2026

I don’t think I have ever seen the audience at Cafe Oto so animated and so joyful as they were on th...
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Abul Mogard, Ailís Ní Ríain, Cafe OTO, Canab Marwo, Dig That Treasure! Festival, DNA? AND?, Eric Chenaux, Fievel Is Glauque, Harry Górski-Brown, IKLECTIK Art Lab, Jennifer Walshe, Lawrence Casserley, Michelle Hromin, Mohammad Syfkhan, Rafael Anton Irisarri, standard issue, Tilly Coulton
CHAINES and Laura van der Heijden perform at Manchester Collective's

Music Flies Free in “Papillons” from Manchester Collective

The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orch...
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Anssi Karttunen, Camberwell Incredibles, Cee Haines, CHAINES, Daniel Hay-Gordon, El Perry, Imogen Holst, Kaija Saariaho, Laura van der Heijden, Manchester Collective, Thick & Tight
International Contemporary Ensemble at Hannah Kendall Composer Portrait -- Photo by Stephanie Berger for Miller Theatre at Columbia University

Disorienting Dread in the Works of Hannah Kendall

Hannah Kendall expresses her fascination with a multi-dimensional rainbow of timbre through her rete...
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Carrie Frey, Columbia University, Damian Norfleet, Hannah Kendall, International Contemporary Ensemble, Isabel Lepanto Gleicher, Jonathan Finlayson, Josh Modney, Levy Lorenzo, Miller Theatre, Nuiko Wadden, Timothy James Robinson, Vimbayi Kaziboni, Yu-Ting Cheng
Kiki Hitomi of WaqWaq Kingdom at Rewire Festival 2026 -- Photo by Sabine van Nistelrooij

Rewire Festival Offers an International Space for Catharsis and Connection

The 2026 Rewire Festival opened not with a bang, but as a beautifully disjointed conversation. In th...
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Aaron Dilloway, Abdullah Miniawy Trio, Aernoudt Jacobs, Anaïs Lossouarn, Apparitions, Beverly Glenn-Copeland, Caterina Barbieri, Chuquimamani-Condori, dilesmavis, Einstürzende Neubauten, Elizabeth Glenn-Copeland, Felicia Chen, Johannes Kreidler, Joshua Chuquimia-Crampton, Kevin Martin, Kiki Hitomi, Kim Gordon, Leila Bordreuil, Los Thuthanaka, Moor Mother, Nihiloxica, Nyege Nyege Tapes, OK Williams, ONCEIM, Rewire Festival, Shigeru Ishihara, Smerz, The Bug & Dis Fig, Val Clipp, VJ Kalma, WaqWaq Kingdom
Lucy Liyou -- Photo by Park Seung Won

Lucy Liyou Breaks Free in Visceral “Mister Cobra” Performance

Before she took the stage as “Babygirl,” we were preparing for Lucy Liyou’s character to bleed. Ushe...
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Laura Cocks, Lucy Liyou, Mingjia Chen, Nick Zanca, Performance Space New York
Camille Norment at Borealis 2026 -- Photo by Thor Brødreskift

Experimentalism in Transition: a Mercurial Week at Borealis 2026

Seated in the round at Åsane Kulturhus, a string of spoken words transmogrified in spatialized audio...
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Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir, BIT20 Ensemble, Borealis, Camille Norment, Cecilia Fiona, Diana Soh, Elin Mar Øyen Vister, Hannah Kendall, Helena Tulve, Hilde Marie Holson, Jaleh Negari, Jiennagoahti, Johan Sara Jr., John McCowen, Mariam Gviniashvili, Øyvind Torvund, Peter Meanwell, Sara Marielle Gaup, Serene Din, Spreafico Eckly, Trine Hansen, Tze Yeung Ho
Eternal Series London 2026 -- Photo by Felix Charteris

London’s “Eternal Series” Honors the Generous Possibilities of Experimental Music

London’s Eternal Series is a relatively new addition to the city’s contemporary and experimental mus...
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Ecka Mordecai, Eternal Series, Mayah Kadish, Sasha Elina, Timothy Cape
Los Angeles Philharmonic

Through “The Great Wall of Los Angeles,” The LA Philharmonic Explores the Importance of Living History

An important part of preserving history is cementing it in our cultural memory, reintroducing and re...
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Alejandro G. Iñárritu, Estevan Olmos, Gustavo Dudamel, Judy Baca, Juhi Bansal, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Nicolas Lell Benavides, Nina Shekhar, Viet Cuong, Xavier Muzik
Luminescence 2026 -- Photo by Christopher Pellam

Luminescence Festival 2026 Explores the Electrifying and Meditative Potential of Listening

What defines a song? Is it verses, choruses, and bridges organized in a way that builds tension and...
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Carmen Quill, Celia Hill, Cleo Reed, Close Up, Dana Lyn, Devon Gates, isabel crespo pardo, Jason Burger, Jen Shyu, Kabir Adhiya-Kumar, Kalia Vandever, Kristina Teuschler, Laraaji, Luminescence, Rahul Carlberg, Ryan El-Solh, toso toso, Wendy Eisenberg, William Parker
Talk Show at Roulette Intermedium -- Screenshot courtesy of Roulette Intermedium

Talk Show Parses Daytime TV Absurdity and Horror at Roulette Intermedium

An audience of all ages flooded Brooklyn’s Roulette Intermedium with curious energy on Feb. 26 for t...
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Qasim Naqvi, Roulette, Roulette Intermedium, Steph Richards, Talk Show
Lisa Bielawa -- Photo by Rob Davidson for Miller Theatre

In Miller Theatre Composer Portrait, Lisa Bielawa Revels in Her Creative Identities

An omnipresent dialogue between Lisa Bielawa the composer and Lisa Bielawa the singer was on enticin...
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Chelsea Wimmer, Claire Solomon, Contemporaneous, Daniel Kochersberger, David Bloom, Gleb Kanasevich, Josh Henderson, Lisa Bielawa, Meaghan Burke, Paul Kerekes
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