This summer the Brooklyn-based composer will be releasing The Year of Silence, a new recording with the Louisville Orchestra and Teddy Abrams, narrated by Dashon Burton and based on a short story by Kevin Brockmeier that Christopher discovered in 2010.
Jon Batiste was bandleader and musical director on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert from 2015 to 2022. He has eight Grammy Awards and won an Oscar for Best Original Score for his work on the Pixar film Soul in 2021. As part of his Batiste Piano Series, he releases Black Mozart, Monk Meditations, and Monk Movements this summer.
Ahead of a series of six concerts entitled FRAGMENTS, which pairs each Bach cello suite with newly commissioned work, American cellist Alisa Weilerstein recounts how the Aspen Music Festival has shaped her career.
The conductor Harry Christophers has been a familiar presence on both sides of the Atlantic for many decades. For 14 years he was the Artistic Director of Boston’s Handel and Haydn Society while in the UK, he has remained at the helm of The Sixteen, a choral ensemble he founded in 1979.
Errollyn Wallen is a renowned British composer. Her music has framed royal occasions, ceremonies and iconic events like the Last Night of the Proms. In 2024 she was the first person of color to be appointed as Master of The King’s Music, an honorary title that dates back to the early 17th century.
James Roe is the president and executive director of New York’s Orchestra of St. Luke’s, where he has led an organizational transformation of programmatic scale. Previously, he was president and CEO of the New Jersey Symphony [Orchestra]. He was first a professional oboist and performed with both of the orchestras he would go on to lead. Here, he discusses Bach: invention and innovation.
Edward Gardner is principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet.
As a performer and composer, saxophonist Steven Banks is striving to bring his instrument to the heart of the classical music world. Here he discusses his newly released contemporary classical music composition, Come As You Are.
Norwegian piano virtuoso Leif Ove Andsnes began his international concert career in his 20s. He has since performed all over the world while notching up an impressive discography that encompasses solo, chamber, and concerto repertoire. This spring he will release a disc of piano works by fellow Norwegian, Geirr Tveitt.
In the second half of our conversation with British composer Sir George Benjamin and French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, the two friends discuss Stravinsky, Schoenberg, musical rivals, and influences.
In 2025, British composer Sir George Benjamin premiered Divisions, a 15-minute piano duet for four hands composed for and premiered by his long-time collaborator, French pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard. Here, the two friends sit down to discuss their decades-long friendship and extraordinary careers.
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Mary Bevan comes from a family with a long tradition of singing, beginning her musical journey in her dad’s church choir when she was only six years old. She has forged a career as a versatile soprano and is part of the Bevan Family Consort, a choir made up of her siblings and other close relatives.
The Estonian-American conductor Paavo Järvi discusses his approach to Mahler’s symphonies and why recording is an art form in its own right.
American composer Sean Shepherd has earned wide acclaim for his “fantastic gift for orchestral color” (The New York Times), and commissions from major ensembles and performers across the US and Europe.
Inbal Segev is an Israeli–American cellist committed to reinvigorating the cello repertoire. Her piano trio will receive its world premiere in New York and West Windsor in June.