COMPOSER PORTRAITS

Soprano Hera Hyesang Park released new album, 'Breathe,' featuring operatic classics and contemporary works. Joined by mezzo-soprano Emily D'Angelo and the Orchestra Del Teatro Carlo Felice. Watch the new music video featuring Park freediving. Out now on Deutsche Grammophon....

Featuring Curtis Institute of Music alumni, Curtis Studio releases its fourth recording, 'Trio Zimbalist: Piano Trios of Weinberg, Auerbach, & Dvořák.' This heartfelt album is a response to human struggle worldwide. Available on major streaming platforms starting Jan. 12....

New York-based vibraphonist Yuhan Su, a Taiwanese native, has built a reputation as “among the most prominent contemporary voices” (Jazziz) on her instrument. Liberated Gesture, her second release for Sunnyside (and fourth album overall), follows up City Animals from 2018 with a new set of original compositions, a new band of heavyweights and a renewed outlook on art and possibility....

Third Coast Percussion unveils their highly anticipated 2023-2024 season, featuring a new album 'Between Breaths' and international touring programs. Don't miss out on the exciting concerts and collaborations by this renowned percussion ensemble....

On Friday, November 11, 2022, Platoon releases composer John Metcalfe's new holiday album, Carols Without Words....

The Orchestra Now (TŌN) welcomes the holiday season in Manhattan with two December concerts. Music Director Leon Botstein conducts the launch of The Orchestra Now’s popular Sight & Sound series at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on Sunday, December 4 at 2 PM. ...

Clarinetist Anthony McGill and the Pacifica Quartet will perform works by four living American composers that depict distinctive and deeply felt narratives on their new album American Stories, available November 11, 2022, on Cedille Records....

Pulitzer Prize-nominated composer, performer, and writer Kate Soper releases The Understanding of All Things, a portrait album featuring frequent Wet Ink Ensemble collaborator Sam Pluta, on Friday, March 4, 2022 on New Focus Recordings. ...

The Virgil Thomson Foundation today announced the digital release of Virgil Thomson: Complete Chamber Works, the first complete recording of chamber works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer/author Virgil Thomson (1896-1989). ...

Clarinetist Anthony McGill, the 2020 Avery Fisher Prize recipient and the first African-American principal player of the New York Philharmonic, and pianist Gloria Chien, a noted soloist and chamber musician who frequently performs with the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, offer a program comprised mostly of German Romantic masterworks central to the clarinet repertoire alongside the world-premiere recording of the clarinet and piano version of a new work by contemporary American composer...