Nico Muhly composes music for stage, film, and television.
Listening Room: Nico Muhly
Author: Bryony Smith
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.
Origins: Teddy Abrams
Teddy Abrams is a conductor, composer, and multi-instrumentalist and is Music Director of the Louisville Orchestra.
Stories: Michael Shapiro’s Frankenstein
Michael Shapiro is a New York-based composer and conductor who, in 2002, created a new score for the 1931 classic horror film, Frankenstein
Favorites: Anna Clyne
Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring
Anna Clyne is a British composer based in Upstate New York.
Favorites: Isata Kanneh-Mason
Rachmaninoff Piano Concerto No. 3 in D Minor, Opus 30
Isata Kanneh-Mason is a British concert pianist.
Origins: Matilda Lloyd
Matilda Lloyd is a British trumpeter and music educator.
Origins: Anna Clyne
Anna Clyne is a British composer based in Upstate New York. Her latest piece, PALETTE, features her groundbreaking Augmented Orchestra.
Stories: Abigél Králik
Hungarian and Nicaraguan–American violinist Abigél Králik is modernizing the classical musical world with a new and inclusive festival.