Trigos combines contemporary and Indigenous influences in works like his new 'Simetrías Prehispánicas' (Pre-Hispanic Symmetries), winner of the 2024 Azrieli Commission for International Music.

Hoping for redemption through forgiveness, a white convict tries to convince his victim's sister he's no longer the man who beat her brother to death in a racist rage.

Klartag's new work for choir and four double basses, the winner of the Azrieli Foundation's Commission for Jewish Music for 2024, investigates the limits of logic and reason in explaining reality and the metaphysical.

Like the best Shakespearean casts this one conveys the story clearly through action and attitude even where bits of the Bard's English no longer signify to modern ears.

With a sound that mixed plangency and purity, and an almost palpable fearlessness, the Fourth Wall Ensemble did this wonderful music justice.

In this mesmerizing matchup of wits and passions, an ACLU fundraiser tries to convince a longtime supporter to pitch in again despite a deep philosophical divide.

Shabaka Hutchings focuses on the flute and related instruments such as the shakuhachi on these meditative, jazz-inflected tracks, while Timo Andres offers impactful concertos for piano and cello.

The guest conductor delivered focused and insightful readings of the Brahms Violin Concerto in D Major, Stravinsky's 'Pulcinella,' and Ballard's 'Incident at Wounded Knee.'

Their latest Shakespeare production has the company's wonted urban energy and good-natured elasticity. Plus lots of laughs.

Heyward led the Festival Orchestra in classical and contemporary music inspired by the outdoors.