Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Rohan de Saram in 1955, the year he won the first Guilhermina Suggia Award - ANL/Shutterstock Elsewhere he championed the ...

“TURNmusic for me is a mindset,” she said. “It certainly is a celebration of new music, not old classical music. But TURNmusic has always been a mindset for me and my programming.” TURNmusic has now ...

Traditional instruments like flutes and cello combine with computer software designed to be played on iPhones this Friday in a performance by the Third Angle Ensemble. The Portland-based group will ...

UNUSUAL SOUNDS: Xpress explores WNC's avant-garde music scene, spotlighting some of the acts that are contributing to the area’s eclectic mix. Featured, starting left, Min Xiao-Fen, Tashi Dorji and ...

The Montpelier Chamber Orchestra, one of Vermont s half dozen or so community orchestras, just named Anne Decker as its new music director. It was an obvious choice Decker is a veteran and respected ...

John Cale didn’t come to popular music from the usual places. His muse was born in the classical avant-garde, and when the young Welsh musician first arrived in New York in the early 1960s, he was ...

Richard Powers' new novel, Orfeo, tells the story of an avant-garde classical music composer who finds himself dabbling in DNA. Like the Orpheus myth that inspired the book's name, this story takes ...

Phill Niblock, the acclaimed avant-garde composer known for his pioneering work in minimalist drone music, has died, The Wire reports. No details of Niblock's death are available at present. He was 90 ...