Composers

Ned Rorem, who was honored as a composer of beguiling music and famous for publishing revealing diaries about his life and loves, died on Friday at his home on the […]

On 15 November, the International Classical Music Awards, one of the most prestigious international competitions, announced the nominations for the best recordings of 2023, including the January [...]

Other Minds has been selected as one of 10 Bay Area organizations to receive a $150,000 Hewlett 50 Arts Commission award in the media arts category. OM will partner with […]

Obituary of the Great Robert Hughes (1933-2022) by Joshua Kosman He co-founded the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, which is still going strong nearly 60 years later, and the Oakland […]

Since being awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music for 2022, composer and noise artist Raven Chacon has been getting a lot of attention, and rightly so. His prize was for […]

Lea Bertucci is an artist, composer and performer whose work describes relationships between acoustic phenomena and biological resonance. In addition to her longstanding practice with woodwind [...]

It’s quite telling that when Jim Nollman went and recorded himself singing the Scottish folk song ‘Froggy-Went-a-Courting’ surrounded by three-hundred tom turkeys, in an attempt to [...]

Fifty years ago, composer Morton Feldman wrote music to commemorate the opening of the Rothko Chapel in Houston. A half-century later, composer, conductor, multi-instrumentalist and MacArthur [...]

At Adobe Books in the Mission District, people crowd in for a free show, eagerly awaiting the headlining act. They watch as she arranges guitar pedals and a “turntable” made […]