New Music

A Celebration of the Composer with the American Composers Orchestra

by Robert Leeper George Manahan, Photo Credit: Hiroyuki Ito/Getty Images Organizations that further the careers of young composers are plentiful […]

For anyone who cares at all about the living art of music, there is no more vital institution than the

Somehow, I missed last week's announcement that Julia Wolfe, co-founder of Bang on a Can, won this year's Pulitzer Prize

Duke Ellington, who was born this day in 1899, was by any measure the greatest composer this country has ever

The chamber orchestra is a unique musical animal, combining the fleetness of a string quartet with the power of a

This contest is now ended. PUBLIQuartet, one of New York's most "independent minded ensembles" (New Yorker), bring an innovative program

This Sunday, the Australian Chamber Orchestra – reputed to be one of the finest chamber orchestras in the world –

If you were to ask me five years ago how many percussion ensembles I could name, the answer would be,

KNOXVILLE, TN – It didn't take long after my arrival at the Big Ears Festival in Knoxville last weekend for