Shrinking music budgets, increased competition, ego management -- welcome to the shadowy world of composer representation. By Stephen Galloway, Kevin Cassidy A producer had asked Kraft’s composer ...

There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

When thinking of classical music, thoughts often first turn to long dead composers. But new classical music is constantly being written — from Jacqueline Kennedy commissioning American composer ...

Joan Tower's first major orchestral work, Sequoia, from 1981, opens with the boom of a massive gong and a fusillade of deafening cowbells. Like the statuesque redwoods of the title, the music looms ...

Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...

Composer Sandeep Bhagwati is at the heart of the events that will punctuate the 8th edition of his Homage Series presented by the Société de musique contemporaine du Québec (SMCQ) during the 2023-2024 ...

BAFTA-winning game music composers don't see AI as a threat. Rather, it could be a catalyst for weird and wonderful ...

Tom Kitt has written 9 shows including High Fidelity (Composer), next to normal (Composer), Bring It On: The Musical (Composer), If/Then (Composer), Superhero (Composer & Lyricist), Almost Famous ...

Milton Babbitt, a famed composer and Princeton University music professor whose mathematical expertise guided his creation of complex, modernist soundscapes that influenced generations of artists and ...

At the end of October, close to 90 composers and songwriters from around the world traveled to Budapest to discuss a contentious issue: streaming services’ efforts to upend how composers are ...