Tom Huizenga

Tom Huizenga appears in the following:

Víkingur Ólafsson Wants To Change Your Mind About Mozart

Friday, September 03, 2021

On his new album, Mozart & Contemporaries, the deep-thinking pianist from Iceland aims to debunk the image of Amadeus as the giggling savant by contrasting his music with that of his peers.

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Víkingur Ólafsson, 'Kleine Gigue in G Major, K. 574'

Friday, September 03, 2021

With bold harmonies, pointillist texture and winding rhythms, Ólafsson's composition offers — in less than two minutes — a distinctly modern sound that looks toward the future.

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Lucas Debargue, 'Nostalgie du pays' (Miłosz Magin)

Wednesday, September 01, 2021

A simple, wistful daydream of a piece that will make you wonder where this undervalued composer has been all your life.

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Tyshawn Sorey & Alarm Will Sound, 'For George Lewis'

Tuesday, August 31, 2021

Composer Tyshawn Sorey's symphonic salute to one of his mentors, For George Lewis, evolves gradually in tranquil, multi-textured waves of sound.

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Spektral Quartet, 'Enigma: III' (Anna Thorvaldsdottir)

Monday, August 30, 2021

Imagine you're suspended in some primordial gas cloud where matter is transforming, regenerating, building toward the birth of a planet. That's what Enigma sounds like.

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A Life Of Irresistible Creation: Marian Anderson In Songs And Pictures

Friday, August 27, 2021

The trailblazing singer, who broke the color barrier at the Metropolitan Opera in 1955, is remembered in a deluxe new release of albums and images.

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Max Richter, 'Flowers Of Herself'

Tuesday, August 10, 2021

This piece, from a new album of orchestral works by Richter, depicts the opening of Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway by pairing pulsating rhythms with the composer's signature wistful melodies.

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Barbra Streisand, 'Right As The Rain'

Friday, August 06, 2021

Rewind to 1962 where a 20-year-old Barbra Streisand, at the dawn of her spectacular career, takes a solid but unassuming love ballad and displays all the potential of the human voice in three minutes.

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Joni Mitchell, 'The Dawntreader'

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

On March 19, 1968, an amateur recording engineer set up his gear at a coffeehouse in Ottawa. He taped two sets by Joni Mitchell. That recording engineer was none other than Jimi Hendrix,

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Anna B Savage: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Wednesday, July 28, 2021

Alone amidst the mist and moss near her new home on Ireland's western coast, Savage performs three songs that cohere around the theme of emerging from the darkness of a toxic relationship.

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Isata Kanneh-Mason, 'Deep River'

Wednesday, July 14, 2021

The link between the award-winning British pianist and the history of this beloved African-American spiritual is deep indeed.

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Attacca Quartet, 'Real Life'

Thursday, July 08, 2021

The musicians of the versatile, Grammy-winning Attacca Quartet have transformed themselves into an electronica-dance-ambient string quartet for their new album, Real Life.

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Louis Andriessen, Influential, Iconoclastic Dutch Composer, Dies At Age 82

Thursday, July 01, 2021

Known for his idiosyncratic, wide-ranging style and the radical politics of his early years, Louis Andriessen had a profound impact on modern music as an uncompromising creator and prominent teacher.

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From The Top: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Wednesday, June 30, 2021

If young folks are our future, then classical music looks blazingly bright with these extraordinary performances by teenage musicians from across the country.

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Caroline Shaw & Sō Percussion, 'To The Sky'

Tuesday, June 29, 2021

The joint effort between the composer and Sō Percussion showcases Shaw's flexible voice.

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Randall Goosby, 'Adoration'

Friday, June 25, 2021

With his lush, warm tone and exceptional technique, concert violinist Randall Goosby is easily winning over music lovers.

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Mahani Teave: Tiny Desk (Home) Concert

Thursday, June 24, 2021

Tiny Desk heads to Easter Island in the South Pacific for sublime performances by pianist Mahani Teave and a heartwarming story.

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Pekka Kuusisto, 'Shrink'

Tuesday, June 22, 2021

Look out for hairpin turns and virtuosic cadenzas in this world premier recording.

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Julius Eastman, A Misunderstood Composer, Returns To The Light

Monday, June 21, 2021

A visionary who died young and alone in 1990, Eastman is making a slow but richly deserved comeback thanks to a curious younger generation. A new interpretation of his 1974 work Femenine is out now.

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Tania León Wins Music Pulitzer For 'Stride,' Celebrating Women's Resilience

Friday, June 11, 2021

The revered Cuban composer's winning piece was inspired by the life and struggles of Susan B. Anthony and her own poor mother and grandmother in Cuba.

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