Jessie Montgomery is having a moment. Several moments at once, actually. In the past several years, the 40-year-old composer and violinist has rapidly become a poster child for the shifting classical ...

Follow host Scott Yoo’s journey to compose a piece of music for the first time. Seeking counsel from other composers, Yoo revisits his heritage in search of ideas, performs landmark pieces for ...

The Lithuanian composer Žibuoklė Martinaitytė thinks much more deeply about music than most of us. She respects it, even fears it. It possesses a mysterious gravitational force, she says, pulling you ...

With “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay,” Mason Bates, a.k.a. DJ Masonic, expands the sound world of the Metropolitan ...

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov almost didn't make it out of his hometown of Kyiv at the beginning of the 2022 Russian invasion. First, his daughter had to convince him to escape to safety; ...

Few musicians know the world of Pixar and the Oscar-winning movie “Inside Out,” better than breakthrough composer Andrea Datzman. She worked with “Inside Out” composer Michael Giacchino for years ...

For jazz musicians, playing at the Village Vanguard in New York is a big deal. It does not just require brilliance, but worthiness of a stage that has showcased legends. Pianist-composer Kris Davis ...