By the end of their set, the three calmly seated gentlemen had, wizard-like, cast their Persian musical spell over the hall.
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Music Review: Sokratis Sinopoulos, Yann Keerim – ‘Topos’
The Greek lyra player and pianist offer six arrangements based on the "Romanian Folk Dances" of Béla Bartók, along with four dreamy original compositions.
Read More »Music Review: Steven Ricks – ‘Mythological Fragments’
The digitally manipulated vocals and piano have an effect both compelling and distancing; they suggest fire and blood, not machinery...
Read More »Interview: Composer Adrian Mocanu, Winner of the 2026 Azrieli Commission for International Music
"This is one of the reasons I’m so drawn to early music – it provides the temporal distance necessary to transform what we inherit into something new."
Read More »Music Review: Mischa Salkind-Pearl – ‘Lines and Traces of Desire’ (Music for Cimbalom)
Nicholas Tolle is the featured performer in new music for the cimbalom, an Eastern European instrument resembling a large hammered dulcimer.
Read More »Interview: Curtis New Music Ensemble Director Nick DiBerardino on Upcoming ‘We the Artists’ Concert at 92NY
In their 92NY debut on Nov. 21, 2025, the group will focus on music of the Americas with works by Brazilian composer Clarice Assad and American composers Carlos Simon and Valerie Coleman.
Read More »Concert Review: Pianist Beatrice Rana at Carnegie Hall
The Italian artist wields her pianistic prowess in service of the wide-ranging expressivity that signals a true and complete virtuoso.
Read More »Interview: Composer Hana Ajiashvili, Winner of 2026 Azrieli Prize for Jewish Music
In 'Riddle' for chorus and orchestra the Georgian-Israeli composer transforms a medieval verse-riddle by poet Yehuda Halevi into a meditation on persecution and resilience.
Read More »Music Review: Erik Carlson and Ensemble Combinatoria – ‘Canone nel Nodo de Salamone’ by Pier Francesco Valentini
With 1,024 parts, the individual lines blend into what we hear as one prolonged chord. Listening to it out of context you'd likely think it was a piece of avant-garde conceptual art.
Read More »Concert Review: Focused on Ukraine, Dalia Stasevska Conducts the New York Philharmonic, Joshua Bell
A war-themed program at Lincoln Center featured volatile works by two Ukrainian composers, plus Benjamin Britten and Aaron Copland.
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