Opinions expressed by Digital Journal contributors are their own. Bound by long-standing customs, classical music sees a fresh perspective through Ruoyang Xiang’s exceptional piano skills and ...

It is time once again to give thanks to and for the rich, vital community of musicians and composers in Atlanta who are making post-classical or new classical or whatever label one chooses to identify ...

A world premiere by the legendary John Williams, popular contemporary artists including Jon Baptiste and John Legend, a special celebration honoring Boston Pops conductor Keith Lockhart, and the ...

The ongoing growth of modern classical music, a cause long championed by Columbus community leaders Jack and Zoe Johnstone, led to the creation of the Johnstone Fund for New Music. Since 2008, the ...

This fall’s classical music calendar teems with 21st century music inspired by today’s political and spiritual concerts, written by composers from far beyond the usual Central European haunts — ...

Composers and musicians in the world of contemporary classical music have compared it to abstract art. In contrast to the flowing, musically descriptive melodies of the classical composers of past ...

American pianist and composer Chloe Flower is on a mission to get young people into classical music. She’s doing it by ...

The first thought that comes to mind when one thinks of a string quartet is probably more Beethoven and less Billie Eilish, but Vitamin String Quartet has been changing the paradigm when it comes to ...

Seth Boustead is a composer, pianist, and arts manager. Raised by a single mother in Missouri and Arizona, Boustead studied composition at the University of Missouri, then moved to Chicago in 1995. In ...