The British composer William Busch (1901–1945) studied music internationally. His first music lessons were in the US, followed by piano and music lessons in Berlin. In May 1924, he returned to London, where he had piano lessons with Benno Moiseiwitsch

Antonín Dvořák’s time in America (1892–1895) was brief but important, not only helping him break into a more modern style but also helping American composers look inward for inspiration and not towards Europe. His String Quartet No. 12, nicknamed the

British composer Gavin Higgins (b. 1983) credits his youth in the Forest of Dean for his unique sound of music, combining nature and music. The Forest of Dean occupies the borderland between Wales and England, so as much as the

Icelandic violinist Sif Margrét Tulinius commissioned three works in 2020 and presents them on this new recording from Ulysses Arts. The three composers, Hjálmar H. Ragnarsson, Hugi Guðmundsson, and Viktor Orri Árnason, had their works presented in the concert series

Following the commissioning of his first string quartet in 2014, English composer Joseph Phibbs (b. 1974) continued to explore the genre, resulting in his String Quartet No. 2 in 2015, No. 3 in 2018, and now No. 4 in 2024,

Robert Blocker, Dean of the Yale School of Music from 1995 to 2023, is an internationally acclaimed concert pianist. He asked his faculty friends and colleagues for contemporary character pieces and was rewarded with an outstanding collection of works by

Australian composer Graham Hair (b 1943) tried to summarise his piano works with a sentence that carries us from the 14th century to modern world music ideas. A compositional period that started in 2008 has resulted in a wealth of

Antonio Vivaldi isn’t the only composer who looked at the whole year to put it into music. He used the vehicle of a violin concerto. Pyotr Tchaikovsky, on the other hand, put it all in the hands of a pianist