A church’s acoustics can make a concert feel grander or more sacred. And last night for the first event of German Music @ SXSW 2024 — a series put together by the German Music Export and Initiative ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Modern pianos are central to classical music. But some musicians are learning other keyboard instruments, and feel like better artists for it. Phyllis Chen, a trained pianist, ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by A Shostakovich quartet survey, contemporary choral works and piano music written and performed by Marie Awadis are among the highlights. Cuarteto ...

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by collaborating with rap, house and pop stars, and creating her own genre of music, ...

Voices of Change artistic director and violinist Maria Schleuning, violist Barbara Sudweeks, pianist Liudmila Georgievskaya, bassist Brian Perry and cellist Gayane Manasjan Fullfordand perform Ralph ...

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 ...

A critic unpacks the month-long program featuring 430 artists and presenting more than 70 pieces of music for the very first time, most by Illinois composers. Like a blue moon, a festival with a ...

Nancy Galbraith has been publishing her orchestral musical compositions since 1979. But even four-plus decades is a drop in the bucket, compared to the centuries’ worth of classical music written over ...

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 ...

I was going to suggest several composers that had come to my mind while listening to Claude Baker’s fantastic-fantastical Piano Concerto From Noon to Starry Night, claiming free association in my head ...