Category: Interviews

AMERICAN CARNAGE is an album of chamber music by composer Ken Walicki. Well traveled and well versed in an array of different genres, Walicki shares numerous personal experiences and [...]

SPRUCE RITUAL from Bay Area violinist, vocalist, and composer Lucian Balmer is a heartfelt dance between western classical and North Indian classical music. While the album is centered around [...]

Laurence Sherr delves deep into the spirit of resilience with FUGITIVE FOOTSTEPS: REMEMBRANCE MUSIC. Not shying away from musically pointing to suffering and despair, Sherr paints a vivid picture [...]

LONDON CELLO CONNECTION unites eight exceptional composers with cellist Ovidiu Marinescu and the London Symphony for a captivating musical journey. Dive into this Artist Roundtable for an exclusive look into the creative minds behind this Navona Records release.

Performed by the Janáček Philharmonic Ostrava, LEGENDS AND LIGHT VOL. 3 is an ambitious collection of new works for large ensemble. Several modern composers assemble on this album to [...]

DIMENSIONS VOL. 4 from Navona Records delivers a diverse collection of works for large ensembles by six lauded contemporary composers. Dive into this story for Inside looks at their musical influences, compositional processes, and more.

Frank Felice, an eclectic composer celebrated for his postmodern mischievousness, explores his own brand of “consonant adiatonicism” in THE BEAUTY OF INNUENDOS. Throughout the album, Felice sets a variety [...]

Few instruments are as viscerally associated with the idea of grace and beauty as the harp, and few are as apt to express a sense of yearning as the [...]

While it isn’t entirely unusual for musicians to raise musical children, it is fairly rare for a composer to have not one, but two sons who also compose. This [...]

Deeply expressive and melodic, the English horn boasts a unique texture in the woodwind family. On Elizabeth Masoudnia’s aptly titled ENGLISH HORN EXPRESSIONS, the instrument has found itself in [...]