Contemporary

The digitally manipulated vocals and piano have an effect both compelling and distancing; they suggest fire and blood, not machinery...

"This is one of the reasons I’m so drawn to early music – it provides the temporal distance necessary to transform what we inherit into something new."

Nicholas Tolle is the featured performer in new music for the cimbalom, an Eastern European instrument resembling a large hammered dulcimer.

In their 92NY debut on Nov. 21, 2025, the group will focus on music of the Americas with works by Brazilian composer Clarice Assad and American composers Carlos Simon and Valerie Coleman.

In 'Riddle' for chorus and orchestra the Georgian-Israeli composer transforms a medieval verse-riddle by poet Yehuda Halevi into a meditation on persecution and resilience.

The winners of Canada's top music composition competition hail from Israel, the U.S., Canada, and Europe.

With 1,024 parts, the individual lines blend into what we hear as one prolonged chord. Listening to it out of context you'd likely think it was a piece of avant-garde conceptual art.

A war-themed program at Lincoln Center featured volatile works by two Ukrainian composers, plus Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland.

When music is so baldly programmatic we should listen in two ways: with the context in mind, and purely musically.

Pianist Nathaniel LaNasa curated a thought-provoking and entertaining set of art songs on the theme of things that are out of reach.