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Limelight: Cutting Edge Beautiful Dystopia

Limelight: Cutting Edge Beautiful Dystopia

William Brittelle’s mini-album is a shock to the system – a relentless flood of synths, strings and saxophone, with warped vocals complemented by an artificial choir, and reprieves of lush pads and soft melodic fragments.

Cultural Attaché: Timo Andres is Having a Week

Cultural Attaché: Timo Andres is Having a Week

“Call it good timing or a lucky alignment of circumstances. But given that very little is just pure luck anymore, I’ll suggest that composer/pianist Timo Andres and his team knew exactly what they were doing.”

Adventures in Music: Interview with Timo Andres

Adventures in Music: Interview with Timo Andres

Composer and pianist Timo Andres discusses his current projects, including our new studio album release, The Blind Banister.

SF Classical Voice: Two Sides of Timo Andres

SF Classical Voice: Two Sides of Timo Andres

“It is not unusual for the Los Angeles Philharmonic to hire virtuoso pianists as guest artists. It is also quite common for the orchestra to commission new works from noted contemporary composers.'“

The Fabulous 413: Confluence with Caroline Rose

The Fabulous 413: Confluence with Caroline Rose

Monte Belmonte and Kaliis Smith, hosts of The Fabulous 413 podcast on NPR, chat with Caroline Rose ahead of their two-night residency with Metropolis Ensemble at BOMBYX.

Oregon Arts Watch: A guiding hand in the darkness

Oregon Arts Watch: A guiding hand in the darkness

Timo Andres discusses “The Blind Banister” and its performance with Oregon Symphony.

No Proscenium: A Visit to Cosm with Ricardo Romaneiro

No Proscenium: A Visit to Cosm with Ricardo Romaneiro

An exclusive interview with Ricardo Romaneiro at Cosm Studio at the University of Utah campus, and a preview of his immersive Liquidverse project.

WRUU: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

WRUU: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

“In A Grove” composer Christopher Cerrone and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann recently spoke with Dave Lake at WRUU in Savannah.

VAN Magazine: Trust the Truths on “In a Grove”

VAN Magazine: Trust the Truths on “In a Grove”

Chris Cerrone talks about the adaptation process, his favorite Billie Eilish song, the influence of his wife, and how he built an entire opera out of two chords.

Changed, Unchanged, a Puerto Rican on the Mainland

Changed, Unchanged, a Puerto Rican on the Mainland

Han Chen talks with Iván Enrique Rodriguez about his music focused on human experiences, social justice, and activism, and imbued with his Puerto Rican musical heritage.

Light

Light

Han Chen talks with Gity Razaz about the compositional process she’s developed throughout her career, including how she wrote a piece like Light and how her Middle Eastern roots subtly color her works.

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to Han Chen about Migration Music

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to Han Chen about Migration Music

I learned that there are no two identical immigration stories, and they are always intertwined with all other things going on in life, things I just wouldn’t know without doing this project.

Classical Composition, Folk Traditions, and Combining the Two

Classical Composition, Folk Traditions, and Combining the Two

Han Chen speaks with composer Hsu Chiayu, whose work blends Chinese and western techniques and bond over their shared experience as Taiwanese immigrants.

Flame Keepers: Magic Between the Layers

Flame Keepers: Magic Between the Layers

Jakub Ciupinski, creator of Flame Keepers talks about the exploration of time and the intersection of music and technology during a pandemic.

Cultural Attaché: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

Cultural Attaché: Interview with Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann

The new opera “In A Grove” may seem familiar, but in the hands of Christopher Cerrone and Stephanie Fleischmann the story that inspired "Rashomon" will definitely be different.

Transitioning Out from a Period of Grief and Healing

Transitioning Out from a Period of Grief and Healing

Han Chen speaks with composer, improviser, and pianist Jonah Haven about the process of writing a new solo piano work co-commissioned by Han Chen and Metropolis Ensemble.

Archetypes are the Universal Language

Archetypes are the Universal Language

Han Chen speaks with composer, pianist, and vocalist Clarice Assad about her Archetypes project, which illustrates types of characters that pop up in cultures all around the world.

Understanding of Eastern and Western Influences

Understanding of Eastern and Western Influences

Han Chen speaks with composer Huang Ruo about how he weaves his own personal understanding of Eastern and Western influences into his compositions.

Discovering Identity Through Music, Rejecting Categorization

Discovering Identity Through Music, Rejecting Categorization

Han Chen talks with composer Vivian Fung about how she discovered her own identity through listening to music outside the Western music canon, and why she rejects the idea of being categorized.

On Self-Reliance and the Power of Reading

On Self-Reliance and the Power of Reading

Han Chen talks with Chinese-American composer Lei Liang about his immigrant story and how he looks up to the artistic giants who have inspired his composition.