Niles Luther is a cellist and composer, and recently became composer in residence at the Brooklyn Museum.
Stories: Niles Luther
Author: Bryony Smith
Origins: Edward Gardner
Edward Gardner is principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra and music director of the Norwegian Opera and Ballet.
Stories: Jacquelyn Stucker
American soprano Jacquelyn Stucker recently made a highly acclaimed debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York.
Origins: Sarah Willis
Sarah Willis is an American-born, British-American French horn player, a member of the Berlin Philharmonic, and presenter of TV and online programs about classical music.
Stories: Ian Bostridge
Tenor Ian Bostridge is renowned globally for his interpretations of German Lieder.
Listening Room: Jacquelyn Stucker
Jacquelyn Stucker is a young American soprano. She has performed a wide range of operatic repertoire all over the world. She recently made her New York Met debut playing the role of the Countess in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro.
Stories: Nicholas Phan
Nicholas Phan is a Grammy Award-winning lyric tenor, curator, and educator.
Listening Room: Nico Muhly
Nico Muhly composes music for stage, film, and television.
Favorites: Alan Gilbert
Franz Liszt’s Faust Symphony
Alan Gilbert is principal conductor of Hamburg’s NDR Elbphilharmonie Orchestra and music director of the Royal Swedish Opera. He was music director of the New York Philharmonic from 2009 to 2017.
Origins: Inmo Yang
Violinist Inmo Yang is one of many young classical musicians to have emerged from South Korea in the past decade. His big break came in 2022 after winning the coveted International Jean Sibelius Violin Competition.
Listening Room: Timothy Ridout
Timothy Ridout is a relative rarity – a viola soloist. Born in London in 1995, he chose the viola after hearing a teacher play the Harry Potter theme on it. After studying at London’s Royal Academy of Music and the Kronberg Academy in Germany, his solo career soon gathered pace. In 2021, he joined the Bowers Program of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.
Stories: Inmo Yang
The South Korean violinist Inmo Yang has been notching up international awards and air miles since winning the Premio Paganini Competition in Genoa in 2015. This summer, 2025, he caused a flurry in the violin world when he was loaned a $20 million violin thought to have belonged to the great virtuoso, Niccolò Paganini.
Origins: Angélica Negrón
Angélica Negrón is a composer and multi-instrumentalist. She writes music for voices, orchestras, ensembles, and film as well as robots, toys, and plants.
Favorites: Jacquelyn Stucker
Handel’s Ariodante
Jacquelyn Stucker is an American soprano who recently made her debut at the Met in New York. Prior to that, she has dazzled audiences around the world in a wide repertoire ranging from the baroque to the present day.
Favorites: Anna Lapwood
Hans Zimmer: I Don’t Think Now is the Best Time, from the film soundtrack, Pirates of the Caribbean 3
Anna Lapwood is a British organist, choir director, social media phenomenon and an exclusive Sony Classical recording artist.