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Mari Esabel Valverde -- Photo by Veronique Kherian

ListN Up Playlist: Mari Esabel Valverde (June 18, 2026)

Mari Esabel Valverde is an award-winning transgender Mexican-American composer in steady demand in t…
Ekmeles -- Photo by Bill Wadman

Microtonality and Virtuosity Collide on Ekmeles’ “Nonsongs”

It isn’t often that performers approach microtonal music armed only with a set of tuning forks and t…
Author
Julia Kuhlman
Danielle Jagelski and JL Marlor -- Courtesy of artists

Danielle Jagelski and JL Marlor Compose America

In the 250th anniversary of the United States, we might expect programming that focuses on the Found…
Author
A. Kori Hill
Nnux (Ana E. López) -- Photo by Martha Maya

On “Metamorfosis,” Nnux Mines Transformative Feminine Power

Metamorfosis opens with a yell. In “Tormentas,” a deity loosely based on the Aztec goddess of earth…
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Lana Norris
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,…
Author
Dalanie Harris
Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe -- Courtesy of artist

Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe Crafts Sonic Cinema on “Manifestations in the Shadow of an Uncertain Land”

Sound artist, composer, and visual creator Robert Aiki Aubrey Lowe has developed a singular artistic…
Author
Yaz Lancaster
Lia Kohl -- Photo by Leah Wendzinski

ListN Up Playlist: Lia Kohl (June 4, 2026)

Lia Kohl is a composer and sound artist based in Chicago. Her wide-ranging practice includes composi…
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Glenn Branca and Reg Bloor -- Photo by Richard McCaffrey

Reg Bloor Steps Up to the Podium for the NYC Return of Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13

When Glenn Branca’s Symphony No. 13 (“Hallucination City”) for 100 Guitars was first performed at th…
Author
Vanessa Ague
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…
Author
Lana Norris
Photo by Tosan Dudun, courtesy of Unsplash

Colgate Is Not Toothpaste: On Classical Music, Art Music, and the Theft of a Category

I grew up in Bogotá in the late ‘80s. Toothpaste was no longer called “toothpaste” — it was Colgate.
Author
Alejandro Zuleta
TellTale Opera Theatre Team (L-R: Ben Ross, Meg Huskin, Elisheva Pront, and Michael Mills -- Courtesy of TellTale Opera Theatre

5 Questions to TellTale Opera Theatre

In the landscape of modern opera performance, everyone seems to be fighting an uphill battle. Compos…
Author
Clover Nahabedian
Lazyhorse -- Courtesy of artist

For Lazyhorse, Fragments of Ideas are Opportunities for Transformation

There’s often a moment in a group improvisation where musicians let go of trying to make sense of ea…
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Sanaya Ardeshir -- Photo by Sumaiya Sayed

ListN Up Playlist: Sanaya Ardeshir (May 21, 2026)

Sanaya Ardeshir (she/her) is an Indian producer and composer, with a parallel practice in electronic…
Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir -- Photo by Camille Blake

5 Question to Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir (composer)

The music of experimental composer Bergrún Snæbjörnsdóttir is surprisingly organic and elemental; eq…
Author
Amanda Cook
TAK Ensemble -- Photo by Titilayo Ayangade

The Substance of Silence on TAK Ensemble’s “Between the Air”

Though air hangs all around us, it’s usually imperceptible. But when it moves, we hear it. A gale ru…
Author
Vanessa Ague
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…
Author
Robert Barry
Malachi Brown -- Courtesy of artist

Malachi Brown and the Sounds of U.S.

For more than a century, the New York City neighborhood of Harlem has been a synchedoche for Black a…
Author
A. Kori Hill
SydeBoob -- Courtesy of artist

SydeBoob Duo’s “Au Naturel” is a Bold and Athletic Debut

As SydeBoob Duo, soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka perform bold and athletic repertoire…
Author
Tristan McKay
Poiesis Quartet -- Photo by Lisa Marie Mazzucco

ListN Up: Poiesis Quartet (May 7, 2026)

Lauded for their “palpable chemistry and remarkable warmth” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Poi…
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Goal Weight (Marguerite Cox and Jennifer Gersten) -- Photo by Vivian Wang

Chance Meeting Leads to Fruitful Collaboration on Goal Weight’s “Keep Telling Yourself That”

What does it mean to bring a project to life with a collaborator you met by chance — say, at a celeb…
Author
Michelle Hromin
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…
Author
Caroline Potter
Kavyesh Kaviraj -- Photo by Benny Moreno

Kavyesh Kaviraj Wears His Influences on His Sleeve – And Reminds Us of Our Common Humanity

“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing th…
Author
A. Kori Hill
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…
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Dorian Wood -- Photo by Laura Pardo

Transgression is Freedom in the Artistry of Dorian Wood

A self-described anti-disciplinary artist, Dorian Wood seeks to “infect” spaces and ideologies in or…
Author
Christian Kriegeskotte
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