International Contemporary Ensemble will present "Composing While Black: Volume One," featuring world premieres of new works by Courtney Bryan and Adegoke Steve Colson on Wednesday, November 1, 2023 ...

Listen Imagine Compose Primary is a three-year project that will see BCMG work with children, teachers and composers in six Birmingham and three Bristol primary schools to better understand how ...

Beat Furrer’s boundary-blurring music features alongside work by Jürg Frey, Caroline Shaw, Julius Eastman, Harry Partch and ...

Everyday, contemporary composers are making their mark on the sonic palette of classical music. Throughout history, there have been incredible examples of music, artforms, and creative cultures forged ...

Italian composer and pianist Olivia Belli shares insights on composing for other artists... and composing for herself ...

Sown from a thicket of inspiration throughout the pandemic's earliest days, multi-award-winning contemporary composer and singer/songwriter Carmen Braden unearths her immersive and exploratory new ...

Seth Boustead is a composer, pianist, and arts manager. Raised by a single mother in Missouri and Arizona, Boustead studied composition at the University of Missouri, then moved to Chicago in 1995. In ...

Likened to a “court composer” for Germany, he wrote more than 500 pieces and was considered one of the most original and independent musical voices in Europe. By Jeffrey Arlo Brown Jeffrey Arlo Brown ...

For University Prof. Augusta “Gusty” Read Thomas, each new work is an adventure. She describes her new orchestral work Bebop Kaleidoscope—Homage to Duke Ellington as akin to “Igor Stravinsky meets ...

The last thing you could hear was his breathing, and the squeaking of his stool, as drummer Jessie Cox ended the set. He had just played an hour-long improvisation with bassoonists Rebekah Heller and ...

When I meet up online with Beat Furrer, his first concern is the quality of the internet connection. The Swiss-born Austrian composer is up in the mountains, a three-hour drive from Vienna, in his old ...

Richard Whitehouse is our guide to the intriguing music of a prolific Canadian composer inspired by the natural world Canadian composers remain something of an unknown quantity in the UK, though the ...