It is time once again to give thanks to and for the rich, vital community of musicians and composers in Atlanta who are making post-classical or new classical or whatever label one chooses to identify ...

The 42-year-old, modern classical composer Joseph C. Phillips Jr. is a self-described “late-bloomer.” Now one of the brightest new lights on the modern classical scene, he studied music at the ...

Bach, Beethoven and Brahms are brilliant, but there’s something to be said for more recent music by living composers. The Johnstone Fund for New Music offers just that – bold new works by ...

The Vitamin String Quartet will be returning to the Fox Theater to bring their unique blend of modern classical music to Spokane.

A tense scene unfolds in a blockbuster film, the mood heightened not by thundering sound effects, but by the precise, haunting notes of a solo violin. This marriage of classical artistry and modern ...

A critic unpacks the month-long program featuring 430 artists and presenting more than 70 pieces of music for the very first time, most by Illinois composers. Like a blue moon, a festival with a ...

The word “iconic” is much over-used, but there’s a particular piece of contemporary music for which the term feels exactly ...

Who was the best pianist of all time? We asked 100 leading pianists to name the performers who have brought the most magic to ...

Seth Boustead is a composer, pianist, and arts manager. Raised by a single mother in Missouri and Arizona, Boustead studied composition at the University of Missouri, then moved to Chicago in 1995. In ...

Concert halls and symphony orchestras try to lure younger listeners by mutilating the music. There’s a better way.

Our 12 metro Atlanta arts events to look forward to this week include SoundNOW, a contemporary classical music festival and ...