Emerging Composer Honored for Evocative Work “In Air, On Stone,” Inspired by the Château’s Centuries of Stillness and Light ...

Weijun Chen, a composer who blends the worlds of classical music with contemporary cinematic soundscapes. Chen was born and raised in Shanghai during the transformative era of the 1990s.

Employing the theme and variation technique of classical music composition, “Irony” begins with a violin melody. Developing from there, a cello soon joins, bowing open fifths in the bass register.

Quotas should be introduced to broaden the range of classical music composers featured in concerts and on radio stations, says a BBC presenter. Kate Molleson, who presents a show on the BBC’s ...

Richard Powers' new novel tells the story of an avant-garde classical composer who finds himself dabbling in DNA. He "gets obsessed with finding music inside of living things," Powers explains ...

Tania León busted barriers in classical music. She wants the next generation to do the same. The esteemed 81-year-old has boldly brought herself to the classical genre.

EVANSTON, Ill. (AP) -- Grammy-winning composer John Adams has been named the first recipient of a new award in classical music composition established by Northwestern University, the school ...

Another Tanglewood highlight is the Festival of Contemporary Music, which this year will include a conversation between composer Michael Gandolfi, the head of the summer’s composition program ...

Inside Western conservatories and in musicology, classical music refers to a specific era of composition (as opposed to, say, Western music from the Early or Late Romantic period, Baroque, or ...