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Let’s Ask Lisa Bielawa

March 1, 2010 Polly Moller

2009 Frederic A. Juilliard/Walter Damrosch Rome Prize winner Lisa Bielawa has returned to her hometown of San Francisco to take part in the 2010 Other Minds festival. Her piece, Kafka…

CDs Contemporary Classical Interviews Violin

Talking with Jennifer Koh

November 28, 2009 Steve Layton

Violinist Jennifer Koh has, since even before this past Spring showed its face, been pretty much living out of a suitcase or two. Crisscrossing this country and a couple other…

Chicago Flute Interviews Podcasts Violin

My Ears Are Open, ensemble dal niente

September 30, 2009 James Holt

I thought it might be nice to close out the month of interviews from Chicago by featuring a couple musicians from dal niente. The ensemble has some great concerts planned…

Interviews Podcasts Violin

My Ears Are Open, ETHEL. Part I.

July 11, 2009 James Holt

I am excited to say that this month on the podcast I am featuring all four members ETHEL. I was able to spend some time with the band before their…

Composers Contemporary Classical Hilary Hahn Interviews New Amsterdam Violin

Hilary Hahn’s enquiring mind wants to know

July 2, 2009 Steve Layton

Hilary Hahn doesn’t need much introduction; as one of the leading violinists today, many of you have any number of her recordings or have been lucky enough to catch her…

Bass Cello Concerts Experimental Music Improv jazz Percussion San Francisco Violin

Rova Saxophone Quartet and friends channel Buckminster Fuller

May 18, 2009 Polly Moller

San Francisco is famous for its innovations, its open minds, and its spirit of protest. In 2005, according to Rova Saxophone Quartet member Larry Ochs, “our government was committing all…

CDs Composers Contemporary Classical Music Instruments Violin

Mutter Modern (An Interview with Anne-Sophie)

October 1, 2008 John Clare

Violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter is continually creating something new – from concerti by Krzysztof Penderecki and Andre Previn to works by Sebastian Currier and Henri Dutilleux. Mutter’s latest project is a…

CDs Classical Music Composers Contemporary Classical Orchestral Piano Violin

Anders Koppel: Festivity back in the concert hall

September 10, 2008 Jens Cornelius

How does it sound – a double concerto written by a musician weaned on Beethoven, salsa, Stravinsky and Bulgarian folk music? In short – like nothing else! The Danish composer…

CDs Classical Music Contemporary Classical Orchestral Violin

Marvin Does Hovhaness

July 15, 2007 Jerry Bowles

Marvin Rosen’s Classical Discoveries program is a special one this week involving, as it does, several members of the S21 community. Marvin’s doing the first radio broadcast of OgreOgress’s world…

Classical Music Contemporary Classical Festivals Violin

Social Media and the Contemporary Composer

July 5, 2007 Jerry Bowles

For your dining and dancing pleasure–through the miracle of YouTube–Club Sequenza21 is delighted to present the talented violinist/composer Piotr Szewczyk performing short solo violin pieces by regulars Lawrence Dillon and…