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Judith Zaimont is an accomplished composer whose work has been performed internationally. Internationally renowned composer Judith Lang Zaimont will be honored by the Maricopa Friends of…

"A Starlight Symphony" is a concert experience featuring Brightman alongside an orchestra and choir, with a guest performance by YOSHIKI. With two of music's biggest names coming together in a rare live musical performance, fans of these…

Boosey & Hawkes is pleased to welcome acclaimed composer Gabriela Ortiz to its roster of artists. Winner of the Mexican National Prize for Arts and Literature and a Guggenheim Fellowship, Ortiz is one of Mexico's most important…

The following month, composer Natalie Holt - the first woman to score a project in the star wars universe – will once again take fans to a galaxy far, far away with his score for Obi-Wan Kenobi. But the trip to Tatooine and…

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame has unveiled its list of 2022 inductees and Dolly Parton is on it. Alongside Pat Benatar, Duran Duran, Eminem, Eurythmics, Lionel Richie and Carly Simon, Parton will go down in history as one of…

The University of NSW has announced Angus Davison as the winner of the 2022-2023 Layton Emerging Composer Fellowship. The Sydney-based composer will receive $10,000 and over the course of the year will compose two pieces for Australia…

Tim MosenfelderGetty Images Alan Jackson sang "there's no cure for the summer blues", but we disagree! This catchy playlist of the best summer country songs is sure to…

As innova Recordings celebrates its 40th anniversary, the American Composers Forum's in-house label will share its history and showcase artists like Gao Hong who have featured on the label over the years. Before she started composing,…

Jim Fagan The famous British composer Sir Karl Jenkins has sent his thanks to the singers of the Noosa Chorale who will perform one of his works, Stabat Mater, next month. Sir Karl is one of the most performed living…

Mark Vicness ASHEVILLE, North Carolina, USA, April 22, 2022 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Two years after the release of his highly acclaimed CD,…

A young British composer has secured the rights to stage an opera based on the film The boy in the striped pajamas. Miramax, which owns the rights to the story after making the 2008 film of the same name, originally asked composer Noah…

Harrison Birtwistle, the creator of bold experimental modern music, recognized as one of Britain's greatest contemporary composers, has died aged 87. The publisher of Birtwistle, Boosey & Hawkes, said he died on Monday at his home…

Placeholder while loading article actionsHarrison Birtwistle, the creator of bold, experimental modern music recognized as one of Britain's greatest contemporary composers, died on April 18 at his home in Mere, England. He was 87 years…

the Louisville Orchestra announced its 2022-23 performance season on Tuesday, which will include world premieres by the organization's inaugural cohort new Creators Corps residency programa concert series in southern Indiana and at…

Peter Simpson reads Around the Corners, Out to the Edges, a memoir published two months after the untimely death of his friend, Jonathan Besser. The title of Jonathan's memoir comes from the opening lines of a long poem by American poet…

For Batiste, it's about building on what came before. Oscar-winning composer, musician, conductor and cultural ambassador Jon Batiste defies all categories. From his community “love riot” performances to his compositions…

Sir Harrison Birtwistle, CH, who died aged 87, was one of the most uncompromising British composers of modern times and one of the hardest to classify; his abrasive, avant-garde music, often sounding like a dense jumble of notes and…

Christians across the UK enjoyed beautiful scenes from Lindisfarne this weekend as the island of Northumberland hosted Songs of Praise's Easter Sunday broadcast. BBC One's religious programme, which has been on our screens since 1961,!-->…

How did Jessica Williams die? In memory of the composer and jazz pianist: - On March 10, 2022, American jazz pianist and composer, Jessica Jennifer Williams, better known as Jessica Williams, died at the age of 73. The popular…

Dani Howard's path to composition was not the most conventional. “It was the influence of my piano teacher. I was working on my exam pieces and asked him if I could just rewrite a few bars. She said, 'I'm not sure, but why don't…

Ekstrand wanted parts of the score to sound like a swarm of bats. For composer Jon Ekstrand, the decision to sink into the music of Morbius was easy. Not only are there elements of horror!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->!-->…

Tesla Rhapsody cover page Marina Arsenijevic pianist and composer Marina Arsenijevic in New York Marina Arsenijevic pianist and composer Published…

On Friday night, the Boston Modern Orchestra Project performed its most normal concert of the season – as normal as the BMOP is, anyway. Compared to February's organ extravaganza at Symphony Hall and June's highly anticipated production of…

Dan Locklair, a composer at Winston-Salem, completed his third symphony last year but recently released his first requiem.“Composers rarely make more than one requiem in their lifetime,” Locklair said. “You do a requiem,…

Lyell Cresswell: composer; b October 13, 1944; from March 19, 2022 Born and educated in New Zealand, composer Lyell Cresswell has lived in Scotland for over half his life. But he does not consider himself a Scot: “I am a New Zealander…

Russian invaders under the orders of terrorist Putin have destroyed the 19th century house where composer Pyotr Illyich Tchaikovsky premiered his first work. The Tchaikovsky House in the city of Trostyanets, northeastern…

PD Adams - This Curious Marvel PD Adams A 12-song album of Americana/Folks songs painted with lyrics and poetry centered around that age-old question of "Who are we and what am I doing…

The following excerpt is from the February 2022 issue of The Strad "Théotime Langlois de Swarte: Dramatic flair". To read it in its entirety, click here to subscribe and log in. The month of February 2022 digital magazine and print…

With Reflection of a time goneChen masters the delicate balance of being true to his home country, his new home, and his own voice. Two years before Qigang Chen's Central Conservatory classmates Tan Dun, Chen Yi and Zhou…

Trish by Rose HendrySpokesman Julian Norridge said: “Clowes was a BBC Radio 3 New Generation Artist from 2012 to 2014, during which time she was commissioned to write for the BBC Concert Orchestra, a piece that won a British Composer Award…

Dr. Michael Morbius (Jared Leto) in Columbia Pictures' MORBIUS. © 2022 CTMG, Inc. All rights reserved. **ALL IMAGES ARE THE PROPERTY OF SONY PICTURES ENTERTAINMENT INC. FOR PROMOTIONAL PURPOSES ONLY. THE SALE,…

By Maura SirianiApril 2, 2022Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley said all the money raised from the benefit concerts will go to Ukraine.Sophia Pavlenko-Chandley is a gifted composer, traveling the country, giving duo piano recitals with her husband,…

Lyell Cresswell was a quiet man but a creative heavyweightIn the 1980s the BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra performed a new work by Lyell Cresswell. Older members of the orchestra still fondly remember the New Zealand-born composer sitting…

contemporary composer Alexei Shor was one of the composers featured in the 2021 InClassica International Music Festivalwith a series of his most beloved pieces performed by renowned soloists and orchestras.The 10th anniversary edition of…

You play very strong drums in this score, especially in "The Investigation Begins". How much did you want to play drums? Obviously it's a superhero movie and we really wanted a reader in it, and I think it was really a…

(Courtesy of Herald Scotland) Born in 1934 in Aberdeen, Scotland, John McLeod BCE has written music for several mediums, including film and television. In 1970 he moved to Edinburgh. He first studied the clarinet in London royal…

His “Prayer for Ukraine” was the centerpiece of a Metropolitan Opera benefit concert this month. His Fourth Symphony has been performed in recent weeks by the London Philharmonic Orchestra; his Eighth, by the Lithuanian National Opera;…

Musical storytelling is on my mind this month as the London Philharmonic Orchestra performs liquid interface, my first large-scale exploration of musical storytelling in the form of an "aquatic symphony". Premiered at the Kennedy Center…

Composer Hans Zimmer won his second career Oscar for Best Original Score at the 94th Academy Awards on March 27, 2022, for Dunes. That means he waited longer to win his second career Oscar than any other composer in history,…

Margaret Allison Bonds, March 3, 1913 – April 26, 1972, was a Harlem composer, pianist, arranger and teacher. Become a Harlem Insider - Sign up for our newsletter! One of the first black female composers and performers to achieve…

RED CLIFF, Colo. (KDVR) — They were the stars of MTV 30 years ago: glam rockers whose careers rose higher than their heavily sprayed hair. And few of its kind weighed bigger than Kip Winger. Winger was born in Denver and…

Alex Carpani - Microcosm Alex Carpani With members from King Crimson, Soft Machine, Van de Graaf Generator and many more!…

Sun 27 March10:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. As part of a residency in Buffalo between Holy Trinity and the Erie County Music Educators' Assn., internationally acclaimed composer Jake Runestad will be in attendance…

On Thursday, April 21, 2022 at 8:00 p.m., experimental percussion and piano quartet Yarn/Wire will present two world premieres by Australian-born, Berlin-based composer Thomas Meadowcroft at Columbia University's Miller Theater. Part of…

But Friday's program also served as an evening prep session on composer William Levi Dawson (1899-1990). A skilled arranger of spirituals and longtime conductor of the Tuskegee Institute Choir, Dawson was also an exquisitely talented…

For its opening concert last September, when the Seattle Symphony returned for its first full season since the pandemic hit, it was the music of Reena Esmail that kicked off the program. She continues her role as composer-in-residence…

Baku, March 17, AZERTAC Vagif Mustafazade - the founder of the Azerbaijani mugham jazz movement, a talented pianist and composer, was born in 1940 in Baku, the capital of the country of fires - Azerbaijan. Mustafazade, who had made a…

Every week the wide open country The team brings together our new favorite country, folk, bluegrass and Americana songs. Here are six songs we currently have on loop. "Strange", Miranda Lambert https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sv9pYq3jzhs…

Breadcrumb Links Music local arts Entertainment Q&A: Mercury Prize-nominated Scottish composer to perform on exact same date in same venue, two years after COVID changed our world Scottish composer…

The Artist-in-Residence Concert takes place this Thursday, March 17 at the Haas Fine Arts Center with choral composer Jocelyn Hagen and all six choral groups: Concert Choir, Symphonic, Singing Statesmen, Novum Voce, the Treble choir and…

On Encantocomposer Germaine Franco was tasked with creating a score that didn't sound like "traditional Disney" – one that would capture "the rhythms" of Colombia and the qualities of magical realism. Franco says that when she was…

"La Candela de Lola" is the new single from the famous Argentinian flamenco singer. The song will appear in his next album dedicated to Cuban son, salsa and flamenco. With this recreation, Argentina celebrates the work of…

March 15, 2022 4:33 p.m. (UTC+04:00) 1,432 By Laman Ismayilova World-renowned violinist Gidon Kremer will celebrate his 75th birthday with a spectacular concert at the Heydar…

"When I started reading this story, the only way to describe it is that the story started singing to me," says Williams, 53, to whom the books were gifted by the late arts administrator and of the museum, Steven Newsome. "I'm not really a…

NEW YORK (CelebrityAccess) – The ASCAP Foundation has announced the young songwriters and composers winners of the 2022 Herb Alpert Young!-->!-->…

Justin Timberlake released his iconic solo debut "Justified" in November 2002, just over a year after the release of NSYNC's last album "Celebrity." At the time, Timberlake was taking a hiatus from the band to pursue solo music, but!-->!-->!-->…

Pasadena Chorale will announce that tickets are now available for its next performance, "Listening to the Future," Saturday, April 2 at 7 p.m. at Neighborhood Unitarian Universalist Church in Pasadena.Spectators will discover 17 new pieces…

//= do_shortcode('') ?> Piotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Photo by Emile Reutlinger The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra's decision to drop Russian composer Pyotr Tchaikovsky from its upcoming program due to!-->…

To complement Japanese director Ryūsuke Hamaguchi's distressed and sweet vision for "Drive My Car," which won four Oscars, including director and best picture, the choice of composer to create a melodramatic and delicate score was…

Bijan Mortazavian Iranian composer and singer-songwriter, has released a new music video titled Lalaieor Lullaby. First released by Radio Javan and then shared with IranWire, the track draws attention to the plight of refugees around the…

Photo credit: Vera LytovchenkoThe Ukrainian "cellar violinist" has gone viral on social media to symbolize the hope of beleaguered Ukrainians.Vera Lytovchekno says she took refuge in the basement of her building in Kharkiv, a city…

If you're looking for a new country artist to love and a hit EP to add to your playlists, look no further! Award-winning country artist dan davidson just released their new EP Six songs until midnight and it's an absolute must-listen.…

The Cardiff Philharmonic Orchestra has removed a Russian composer from its upcoming concert program on the war in Ukraine. The orchestra says it would be "inappropriate at this time" to include Tchaikovsky and the decision was made "in!-->…

Baku, March 9, AZERTAC The world famous Azerbaijani composer, Gara Garayev left a deep imprint on the musical culture not only of Azerbaijan, but of the whole world. His compositional art received wide recognition, both in Azerbaijan and…

ROME, Italy (AP) - A soft tune from a violin played by a musician who has been dubbed Ukraine's "cellar violinist" is a lullaby for a child sheltering in the dark basement of an apartment building. apartments in the besieged…

Pulitzer Prize winner, who has worked with Renée Fleming and Kanye West, has a lot going for her, says Jonathan Shipley What were you doing when you were 30? Caroline Shaw is unlikely to forget it, as it…

Professors from three Louisiana universities will perform in a tribute concert to composer Mauricio Kagel on Tuesday, March 15 at 7:30 p.m. at Magale Recital Hall. Attendees include, from left, Northwestern State professor Dr.…

STORY: "The representation of Asian women is mostly as prostitutes or as innocent schoolgirls or as dragon ladies. And you know, we are much more complex than that."Star violinist Jennifer Koh has received many of classical music's highest…

Townes Van Zandt never released an album on a major label and sold very few during his lifetime. He totally escaped mainstream commercial success and was never very concerned about his career. Yet Townes Van Zandt's songs have influenced…

The violinist was playing a popular Ukrainian song. Ukrainians live underground due to continuous shelling by Russian forces, which have penetrated deep into the country. Now a powerful video has emerged from the war-affected country,…

KINGMAN, Ariz. – If US Route 66 was a symphony orchestra, what would it look like?It's a question that Dr.…

Music composer Hesham Abdul Wahab is on cloud nine as he received a lot of praise from the public for composing the songs for Vineeth Sreenivasan's recent directorial film 'Hridayam'. Now, his excitement level even skyrocketed when he…

The famous music composer D Imman plans to remarry? Do you at least have an idea of ​​who the lady of the hour is? D Imman is a famous music composer in the world of Tamil entertainment. The performer sealed the deal with computer…

March 5, 2022 3:12 p.m. (UTC+04:00) 3,111 By Laman Ismayilova The State Symphony Orchestra performed successfully under the direction of the Italian conductor Alvise Casellati.…

Adam Burnette is a pianist, bandleader and composer from Chatsworth, Georgia. He has worked across the United States, from the Kennedy Center to Indiana State University, and in Europe. His work was recently featured in NewMusicShelf…

March 4, Michigan Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra (KSO) will present a program that contains the North American premiere of the first symphony ever written by a Chilean composer. Enrique Soro composed sound "Sinfonia Romántica" in 1921 as…

Somnur Monir Konal never had to look back after "Channel i Shera Kontho", making her presence felt with her lively and melodious voice in films, singles and albums. The singer recently received the national award for her performance in…

ASCAP Experience launches its 2022 program next week with a special panel featuring three of the industry's leading composers and songwriters, as part of the PRO celebration women's history month. Confirmed for the March 8 "Worldly…

French pianist Richard Clayderman hailed Ed Sheeran as a "great composer" and offered a duet after seeing the singer-songwriter in concert.The 68-year-old classical musician watched Sheeran perform at the Stade de!-->!-->!-->…

Peter Oundjian has been guest conductor of the Colorado Symphony Orchestra several times. He now takes over as principal conductor. (Provided by peteroundjian.com) Serious orchestras usually import their conductors from out of town, but…