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In the 1910s alone, the composer, pianist and bandleader James Reese Europe seemed to do enough living for multiple lifetimes. He started that decade at the Clef Club in Harlem, […]

As part of his Capp Street artist-in-residency at the Wattis Institute in 2021, Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, performer, and artist Raven Chacon taught a graduate course at California College of the […]

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 release of Philip […]

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 […]

Draft up a list of today’s most inventive and respected players in the realm of what tends to be called improvised music (or creative music or free jazz) and you’ll […]

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 instruments, her work incorporates […]

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 harmonise with their incessant […]