Two Shows On the Edge of Now: Palaver Strings + American Composers Orchestra

Reviews: In two New York City performances last week, conductor-less Portland-based string ensemble Palaver Strings and NYC’s own American Composers Orchestra respectively offered two very different nights of music as adventurous and enthusiastically received as any weekend production in the city. Brooklyn new music institution National Sawdust played host to Wednesday’s March 15 show titled joy. The name was apt; from the moment Palaver Strings and double bass soloist Kebra Seyoun-Charles began filing on stage…



2023 Grammy Nominations Announced

This year BIPOC classical composers’ works have been Grammy nominated in several award categories and BIPOC classical musicians perform on a number of Grammy nominated recordings in the Classical Music…

Review: Sitarist Megha Rawoot at Shift

From the first enchanting scale that echoed through the space, the Wednesday audience at Williamsburg’s art-laden, intimate, behind-a-record-store venue Shift were in for a rare treat. Mumbai-based sitarist Megha Rawoot…

FilAm Summer Music Festival Returns To Chicago

FilAm Music Foundation and Evanston Chamber Music Society will present their Summer Music Festival August 19 to 21 at the Charles Gates Dawes House in Evanston, IL to showcase classical musicians of Filipino descent. This year’s festival will consist of…

Quinteto Latino’s Seminario Returns for 2022

Quinteto Latino will present Seminario 2022 on August 5-7 at San Jose State University. Seminario is a biennial conference of Latino musicians from around the U.S., exploring the intersections of identity, artistry, and racial equity in the classical music field.  Co-hosted…

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This Week on TRILLOQUY: Opus 158

Pulitzer Prize-winner Jennifer Higdon is one of America’s busiest composers, and her catalogue is even more vast than many people realize. She joins Garrett (49:00) to talk about the Pulitzer win, her late brother, and the influence of East Tennessee…

This week on TRILLOQUY: Opus 157

Inspired by the viscerally provocative poem, “Here, Bullet” by Brian Turner, the art song of the same name by composer Kurt Erickson is, among many things, a plea for western classical arts spaces to directly address gun violence. This composition…

Josh Tatsuo Cullen: “Scenes In Tin Can Alley”

Pianist Josh Tatsuo Cullen has recorded an entire album of Florence B. Price’s music for solo piano, specifically pieces that were discovered in 2009 at the composer’s summer home after her death. “Scenes in Tin Can Alley: Piano Music of Florence…