We’re a little more than a month away from 2024 which means it’s time to make plans for the summer. Specifically summer music programs for young musicians. Equity Arc has partnered with at least 17 summer music programs to provide applications fees and scholarships for BIPOC musicians via their Common Application for Summer Study. Magee […]
Austin Soundwaves will be able to serve more students in several ways after receiving a grant from Carnegie Hall’s Play USA program. Their mission is to train student musicians across the greater Austin area and to provide diverse opportunities for learners of all ages and backgrounds. Last year they served more than 1,100 students through […]
Cliburn Competition Applications Are Open. Already you say? Didn’t the Cliburns just crown a winner, Yunchan Lim of South Korea? Well, yes but that was an entire year ago. Now they’re looking for the next winner for the Seventeenth Van Cliburn International Piano Competition in 2025. Jacques Marquis President and CEO of the Cliburn Competition […]
Rosalyn Aninyei is doing her best to create and maintain a world class orchestra in her home country of Nigeria. Florence Price is getting the festival treatment at Vanderbilt University in Nashville. Blake-Anthony Johnson talks about his path to become the first African American to be the CEO of a world-renowned orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta. […]
How much do you really know about your favorite composer? You love the music, but how did the composer come to write a particular piece? Judith Lynn Stillman – the Artist-in-Residence and professor of music at Rhode Island College in East Providence answers that question and many more with her plays-within-a-concert. Her latest is Dvořák: […]
Even the Artistic Director and Founder of Conspirare, Craig Hella Johnson, finds it hard to believe that the choral ensemble is 30 years old. He’s developed a fall season that’s kind of eclectic with a nod to the past and an eye on the future. One choral group is being invited back for the holiday […]
In this month of September, your ears will be filled with the sound of STILLPOINT. It’s Awadagin Pratt’s latest album. He’s performing music he commissioned from several composers of color. You can hear the life and times of Aaron P. Dworkin’s in his debut spoken word album The Poetjournalist. Malakai Bayoh didn’t win Britian’s Got […]
The Long Center is celebrating its 15th anniversary with something they’ve never done before. They’re throwing open the doors of the performing arts facility for the First Annual Teresa Lozano Long Community Day. Dr. Long broke racial barriers at the University of Texas back in the 1950’s. She and her husband Joe have funded many scholarships, […]
Remember the name Langston Lee. You most likely will be hearing about this 18 year old from Rouse High School in Leander, Texas. He is the first winner of “The Jimmys”, a national high school musical competition, to represent the local version, the Heller Awards For Young Artists in their first year of eligibility.
There’s good news about the progress of the once dilapidated National Opera House in Pittsburgh. And We Honor Andre Watts We honor the life and career of Pianist Andre Watts with good friend and colleague Norman Krieger. There’s a new debut album from Sphinx Virtuosi called Songs for Our Times. Bass player Joseph Conyers is […]