The SoundNOW Festival, the Georgia State University School of Music-affiliated contemporary classical festival, returns for ...

The word “iconic” is much over-used, but there’s a particular piece of contemporary music for which the term feels exactly ...

It is time once again to give thanks to and for the rich, vital community of musicians and composers in Atlanta who are making post-classical or new classical or whatever label one chooses to identify ...

The 42-year-old, modern classical composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a self-described “late-bloomer.” Now one of the brightest new lights on the modern classical scene, he studied music at the ...

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are brilliant, but there’s something to be said for more recent music by living composers. The Johnstone Fund for New Music offers just that – bold new works by ...

This summer, the University at Buffalo’s renowned June in Buffalo festival marks its 50th anniversary, celebrating half a century as a vital force in contemporary music. Curated by Artistic Director ...

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 ...

Who was the best pianist of all time? We asked 100 leading pianists to name the performers who have brought the most magic to ...

Stephen Limbaugh's "Pants" is on fire. His most recent album -- titled "Pants" -- hit No. 16 on Billboard's classical charts last month, a feat he says was thrilling. In 2004, the Cape Girardeau ...

One of the most unusual concerts of the year and perhaps the first of its kind in the nation takes place this weekend at Lincoln Recital Hall at Portland State University. That’s because the program ...

Classical music was popular—and productively evolving—for centuries. Why do we hate the modern stuff so much? And can that change? New Yorker music critic Alex Ross argues in The Guardian that it can; ...

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