Contemporary Classical: Past

A mostly through composed chamber piece in eight parts, for eight musicians and conductor titled ”Lensing”. Krauss was commissioned by […]

Distress and delight. The partnership of Canadian musicians Lori Freedman, clarinets and Marilyn Lerner, piano exposes a process wrought by […]

The premiere of balloon virtuoso and composer Dunaway’s For Balloon and String Quartet, featuring the Flux Quartet. Using balloons as […]

An extraordinary American soprano recently returned after twenty years in Germany, Beth Griffith sings, acts and mimes the New York premiere of […]

A specialist of new music for the clarinet family and a champion of new music by Australian composers, Dunlop is a faculty member at the […]

James Fulkerson (trombone/electronics) and John Anderson (clarinet/bass clarinet) of The Barton Workshop team with Taimur Sullivan (baritone […]

Jenkins2 is a dramatic cantata for live performance drawing on the artists’ personal and familial biographies: African American and Welsh. […]

The Music of Christian Wolff performed by pianist Richards and the composer. The two will premiere Wolff’s 1960 work, Duet I (piano four […]

Composer Dickman presents Unimagined Space, his setting of a haunting short story by H. P. Lovecraft for baritone solo; a passionate setting of […]

Composer/percussionist Kevin Norton performs two sets of duos. The first, with the pianist Haewon Min, focuses on the music of Anthony Braxton, […]