Category: PARMA News

Dwight Beckham grew up in the countryside of Lamont OK, and spent his 64-year career as a trumpeter, band director, and composer in Hesston KS, another small town barely more [...]

A contemporary quartet bridges gaps between genres and cultures with an innovative new album and a summer tour of China.

It’s that time again—late summer has arrived, and the next PARMA Call for Scores season is on its heels. It’s time to sharpen pencils, polish up the finishing touches on [...]

Philip Koplow lived a musical life defined by strong connections with others. Deeply involved in his Northern Kentucky community, Koplow composed works for an incredible range of local ensembles, from [...]

Dedicated to premiering and performing new choral music, Grammy Award-winning chamber choir The Crossing and Artistic Director Donald Nally are no strangers to artistic innovation. So when PARMA began a [...]

Meet the house ensemble for Navona Records’ MOTO series, which features an album release and a Carnegie Hall performance.

Winter is coming to a close, spring is in the air, and a powerful initiative in contemporary choral music is taking root. PARMA Recordings is proud to announce that we [...]

While one could argue that the New Year is simply an arbitrary date, for some it does offer an opportunity to lift one’s head out of the currents of [...]

After a 10-year hiatus from releasing new music, a Nashville-based composer’s first album with PARMA rises to #1 on Billboard.

Pianist, composer, and accordionist Hakan A. Toker is from Mersin Turkey. He studied classical music in Turkey and the United States, graduating from Indiana University School of Music (BM), where he double [...]