When many composers work, they start with a piano score – just getting the basic melody and harmonies down. If they’re going on to create an orchestral work, many composers start with the piano score and fill that out as

After what seemed like an eternity, the Hong Kong Philharmonic invites music lovers back into the concert hall for the 2021 season opening concert. Under the banner “Harbour A Love For Music,” Maestro Jaap van Zweden turns his interpretive focus

You’ve heard the music and the arrangements of Peter Breiner if you’ve ever listened to the Olympics – all those 1-minute national anthems? That’s his work. So many of the Naxos recordings with the Slovak Philharmonic Orchestra and the Slovak

“It’s a great time to be an opera composer!” That’s the word from Michael Ching, who’s certainly in a position to know. Composer of some 15 operas to date, and with more underway, Ching comes to opera from the administration

An engaging young woman strode onto the stage. Chen Yi took the microphone from its stand and spoke enthusiastically to the audience about Sound of The Five for Solo Cello and String Quartet which was about to be performed by

His music is everywhere – but you’ve never thought of the composer when you’ve heard it. He’s persuaded you to buy peas or beer or go to Legoland or Harvey Nicks. Highly successful commercial composer Stuart Hancock has written the

In Erica Jong’s 2003 novel Sappho’s Leap, Sappho stands on the edge of the cliff, but now, instead of taking the fatal leap because of her unrequited love for the boatman Phaon, she confronts the Goddess of Love, Aphrodite, and

There are few American composers with Jennifer Higdon’s credentials: Pulitzer Prize winning, Grammy Award winning (twice), and, most recently, winner of the Nemmers Prize for Composition, which brought in US$100,000 and a work to be performed by the Chicago Symphony