On October 12, superstar chef Lidia Bastianich and composer Daniel Brewbaker team up to celebrate Copland House for this year’s gala event “The Awakened Palate.” Brewbaker, a 2006 Copland House resident, joins Bastianich to create a remarkable culinary and musical…
SFGate journalist Andrea Abney recently asked San Francisco Chronicle music critic Joshua Kosman how he reacted the first time he heard Derek Bermel’s music. “I was serving on the jury panel for an arts award…When I started listening to the…
Always on the cutting edge of what’s new and significant in contemporary American music, the online magazine NewMusicBox featured Aaron Jay Kernis in an insightful interview. Senior Editor Frank J. Oteri chatted with Kernis about prose, 20’s jazz, Top 40,…
David Knowles of Strings Magazine (AllThingsStrings.com) chats with Tim Fain in “Sound & Vision / Hollywood Spotlight,” a profile of the violinist’s recent projects. They talk about: music-making for Hollywood films, performing the classics alongside music by living composers, and…
Thomas May of City Arts Magazine interviews composer Derek Bermel about the upcoming world premiere of Death with Interruptions — his new, commissioned trio at this year’s Seattle Chamber Music Society Summer Festival. Besides noting that Bermel is “one of today’s…
Summer’s heating up, so get ready for the 22nd season of the Moab Music Festival. Cherie Yurco of Making Music Magazine talks about the thoughtful planning that goes into Moab’s concerts which offer a variety of musical genres, as well…
More Moab Festival news: in his “Deceptive Cadence” blog, Tom Huizenga of NRPMusic.org calls the Moab Music Festival “a can’t-miss classical music festival.” Read more here: http://ow.ly/xIPN4.
Find out why Amanda Angel of WQXR.org includes the Moab Music Festival in its “Top 5” list of the “Most Scenic Music Festivals of North America.” More details here: http://ow.ly/xIRi4.
Spring 2014 has been a whirlwind for Aaron Jay Kernis, with three (!) premieres, A Delaware Symphony AI duPont Composers Award, and induction in the American Classical Music Hall of Fame. His new Viola Concerto premiered on April 24th and…
On April 24, 2014, acclaimed violist Paul Neubauer joined the St. Paul Orchestra to premiere Aaron Jay Kernis’ new Viola Concerto. Neubauer and Kernis subsequently travelled to California in May for Idyllwild Arts Academy music director Peter Askim’s final season…