John Luther Adams made all of the wrong career decisions. He got kicked out of multiple high schools, went to the "wrong" college, never finished his master's degree, and ultimately moved as close as he could to the edge of society, to a cabin, in Alaska.
Los Angeles-based artist Julia Holter, singer-songwriter Laurel Halo and Brooklyn-based composer Daniel Wohl join new-music ensemble Transit as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall.
A one-hour primer into the music of celebrated Polish composer Witold Lutosławski with insights from noted Lutosławski conductor Esa-Pekka Salonen. Hosted by Nadia Sirota.
A 1-hour entry point into Philip Glass's seminal Einstein on the Beach, recorded live in the Greene Space at WQXR September 8, 2012.
No new-music ensemble has as aggressively and over such an extended period of time defined and re-defined contemporary music as the Kronos Quartet, and this year it celebrates its 40th anniversary season.
Mac Arthur-winning composer-pianist Iyer is joined by the Brentano String Quartet live from The Greene Space at WQXR on April 24, 2014.
Andrew Norman was a well-feted kid composer, a precocious pre-adolescent who wrote works with grand, filmic gestures for his middle school orchestra and had the local newspapers filling their style sections with profiles invoking Mozart. Then he went to college.
A kaleidoscopic survey of the most innovative and new-music inflected film scores, hosted by WQXR's David Garland.
Feb. 26, 2013, Q2 Music presented a live webcast of Consonant Abstraction: Claude Debussy and Steve Reich from the Museum of Modern Art.
Composer Nico Muhly celebrates the centennial of the late British composer Benjamin Britten.
The 2014 Bang on a Can People's Commissioning Fund Concert featuring music of Arcade Fire's Richard Reed Parry, electronic pioneer Alvin Lucier and Brooklyn-based electroacoustic composer Daniel Wohl. Presented as part of the Ecstatic Music Festival
Even as women have achieved growing parity in the ranks of symphony orchestras and chamber music groups, their numbers suddenly thin out upon scanning the names of composers in a Playbill.
Even as women have achieved growing parity in the ranks of symphony orchestras and chamber music groups, their numbers suddenly thin out upon scanning the names of composers in a Playbill.
Donnacha Dennehy is an Irish composer who thought he was going to study with spectral icon Gérard Grisey in Paris. When he showed up, however, it was apparent that Grisey had accepted him into his study under the mistaken notion that he was not, in fact, a gentleman but a ...
Q2 Music celebrates the 61st birthday year of composer-performer John Zorn with 24-hour marathon of joyful, awe-inspiring and radically dissimilar music, hosted by the composer himself.
World premieres by Kjartan Sveinsson and Jónsi Birgisson, members of the Icelandic art-rock band Sigur Rós, performed by a stellar roster of international ensembles, including the Hilliard Ensemble, the Latvian National Choir and the Wordless Music Orchestra led by Jeffrey Milarsky.
Electronic and electro-acoustic music curated and co-hosted by several of the genre’s most inventive and influential voices, including Morton Subotnick, Tyondai Braxton and Tristan Perich.
the opening night of the 2013 Ecstatic Music Festival with a live video and audio stream of a sold-out evening featuring the Detroit-based songstress Shara Worden (My Brightest Diamond) and the adventurous, award-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus.
Caroline Shaw spent practically all her life studying & playing the violin. But then, two years after enrolling in grad school for composition, she won the 2013 Pulitzer Prize in Music.
Even as women have achieved growing parity in the ranks of professional musicians, their numbers are noticeably small in one key area: the composers whose works are performed.
On Thursday, April 4 at 8 pm, Q2 Music presented a live audio webcast of the New York City performance debut of English composer Clint Mansell—best known for his scores to the Darren Aronofsky films Requiem for a Dream, The Fountain and The Wrestler.
A deep dive into the music of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, hosted by vocalist Helga Davis.
Indie pioneers Mountain Goats and the acclaimed early vocal music ensemble Anonymous 4 recorded live at the 2012 Ecstatic Music Festival.
