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Fain: “First Loves” Out Now

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New from VisionIntoArts Records: Tim Fain’s disc “First Loves” — a collection of standard violin repertoire that Fain believes “remain profoundly relevant today,” along with his own arrangements of well-know classic works. Pianist Robert Keonig joins Fain on the recording.…

MMF: 23rd Moab Music Festival

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Once again, The Salt Lake Tribune featured the Moab Music Festival, now in its 23rd season as it highlighted the Grotto concerts, music hikes, a virtuosi program, a Harlem Renaissance concert, and jazz  evenings with Chick Correa and Clarice Assad.…

Karpman: A Compelling New Work

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Brenda Nelson-Strauss from Black Grooves (the music review site hosted by the Archives of African American Music & Culture (AAAMC) at Indiana University) listened to Laura Karpman’s new recording of Ask Your Mama. Nelson-Strauss noted that the composer’s original music…

Fain: A Real Amazing Journey

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On the eve of his guest appearance with the Albany Symphony (GA), Tim Fain talks to The Albany Herald about the music he’ll be performing in concert as well as the “real amazing journey” of his career. Read more here.…

Fain: A Revelation (The Whole Note)

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When Terry Robbins reviewed Tim Fain’s new CD “Partita” for The Whole Note, Robbins wrote, “I didn’t   know exactly what to expect from ‘Partita for Solo Violin: Tim Fain Plays Philip Glass’ (Orange Mountain Music OMM 0050), but what…

Karpman: Famous Five (Classical MPR)

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Classical MPR calls award-winning composer Laura Karpman one of the “Famous Five” Women Composers in Media. Read Emily Reese’s complete story here.

Bermel: A Bowdoin Success Story (Portland Press Herald)

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The 2015 Bowdoin International Music Festival featured alumnus Derek Bermel, who critic Allan Kozinn (Portland Press Herald) called, “…one of Bowdoin’s success stories. Now a faculty member, he attended the festival as a student 22 years ago…” Kozinn continued by…

Karpman: The Composer has got Real Chops (The Orange County Register)

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Recently, music director Carl St. Clair led the Pacific Symphony’s world premiere of Laura Karpman’s new multimedia work Siren Songs. Timothy Mangan of The Orange County Register attended and wrote afterward: “Laura Karpman’s Siren Songs turned out to be a…

Boriskin: The Maestro Behind Copland House (Bedford Daily Voice)

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In case you haven’t already heard about the world-class concert programs, “coveted” composer residencies and invaluable educational outreach programs that Copland House presents, Jeanne Muchnick of the Bedford Daily Voice wants to make sure you know about everything that’s happening…