Composers

R. Murray Schafer, the eminent Canadian composer, writer, and acoustic ecologist who popularized the term “soundscape,” died on Aug. 14 following a struggle with Alzheimer’s [...]

Louis Andriessen, the most widely acclaimed Dutch composer of his generation, died on Thursday, July 1, in a care home in Weesp, North Holland. His death was confirmed by Boosey & Hawkes, his [...]

Jon Hassell, the influential American avant garde composer who invented the global-minded “fourth world” musical aesthetic, has died aged 84. In a statement, his family said the “iconic trumpet [...]

Frederic Rzewski, an American-born composer and pianist who worked in manifold musical genres throughout a career that spanned 60 years, died June 26 in Montiano, Italy. He was 83. For the [...]

Guitarist, improviser, composer, and Other Minds 25 artist Mary Halvorson was interviewed in the May 2021 edition of Stereophile Magazine. Click here to read a scanned PDF version of the interview.

From Steven Smoliar’s Rehearsal Studio Blog:   This past November Other Minds (OM) celebrated the 85th birthday of Bay Area composer Charles Shere with the digital download release of [...]

It’s been two years since we produced a concert here in Berkeley to celebrate Philip Glass’s birthday, featuring his frequent collaborators Dennis Russell Davies and Maki Namekawa. [...]

Kyle Gann (left) speaks with his longtime friend Robert Carl (right) about his work Hyperchromatica for Fanfare Magazines. In the interview, Kyle talks about his influences, his use of new tuning [...]

The September issue of the San Francisco AFM Local 6 Newsletter honors the music career of Robert Hughes. “Bob Hughes is a bassoonist, composer, conductor, and scholar. Over the years he [...]