Category: Interviews

DIMENSIONS VOL. 4 from Navona Records delivers a diverse collection of works for large ensembles by six lauded contemporary composers. Dive into this story for Inside looks at their musical influences, compositional processes, and more.

Frank Felice, an eclectic composer celebrated for his postmodern mischievousness, explores his own brand of “consonant adiatonicism” in THE BEAUTY OF INNUENDOS. Throughout the album, Felice sets a variety [...]

Few instruments are as viscerally associated with the idea of grace and beauty as the harp, and few are as apt to express a sense of yearning as the [...]

While it isn’t entirely unusual for musicians to raise musical children, it is fairly rare for a composer to have not one, but two sons who also compose. This [...]

Deeply expressive and melodic, the English horn boasts a unique texture in the woodwind family. On Elizabeth Masoudnia’s aptly titled ENGLISH HORN EXPRESSIONS, the instrument has found itself in [...]

Leveraging her passion and irreplicable touch on the piano, the black swan of piano Marta Brankovich conjures an unforgettable storm on MARTA, THE TEMPEST. This long-awaited deep-dive into the [...]

Life can sometimes seem like an infinity mirror of colors reflecting off of themselves, each tint deeply distinct in its own right, yet profoundly beautiful when viewed as a [...]

Having commissioned a diverse range of composers in terms of style, ethnicity and gender, DRAX ambitiously attempts to scrutinize and reflect upon current social issues on CHAOS + CONTEMPLATION. [...]

The piano is the powerhouse of musical instruments: with its vast tonal range and its ability to simultaneously supply chords and melodies, it generally takes the dominating place in [...]

In a modern age crowded with distractions, one quickly learns to appreciate the little oases of peace. Andrew Anderson’s 2022 Navona Records release, CHAMBER WORKS, might just be such [...]