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Beethoven Dialogues CD

Violin and viola duo andPlay (Maya Bennardo, violin, and Hannah Levinson, viola) release their debut recording featuring music by Ashkan Behzadi, Clara Iannotta, and David Bird. The duo's fluency...

Benadon / Prieto / Ilic / Taylor Delight / Delirium CD

Violinist/composer Sarah Bernstein presents the debut release from her new ensemble, Veer Quartet. Chamber jazz string quartets represent a fascinating sub-genre, a small cross section of string...

Directed by cellist Kivie Cahn-Lipman, Acronym is devoted to resurrecting music of the past, giving modern premieres of long-lost works by forgotten composers. Antoni Bertali (1605-1669) was a...

Bertali,A. / Acronym Wunderkammer CD

Sumna is the third solo album of Kivie Cahn-Lipman (founding cellist of the International Contemporary Ensemble, founder of baroque band ACRONYM and HiP Scottish ensemble Makaris, and co-founder of...

Composer, trumpeter, arranger and bandleader Ben Bierman releases a collection of his music, Beyond Romance, that is a deeply personal statement and an amalgam of his wide breadth of musical...

What comes through with clarion intensity in Iron Orchid, a collaboration between composer & producer David Bird and pianist Ning Yu, is material. The through line is metal, but a transmogrified...

Blundell / Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra American Romantics CD

In the mid-1990s a community of composers and performers came together at Montreal's McGill University, loosely centered around composer Michael Oesterle and pianist Marc Couroux (who together went...

Composer Douglas Boyce, composer in residence of acclaimed new music ensemble counter)induction, releases his debut portraig album, featuring three of his kinetic chamber works in riveting...