Chicago opera is, inexplicably, hibernating this winter — the city hosts no staged productions until mid-March, with Lyric Opera’s “La bohème.” Thankfully, other groups aren’t following suit. In fact, ...

The names of Johann Sebastian Bach, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Sergei Rachmaninoff do not necessarily conjure images and sounds of jazz in one's mind, that is until one has listened to recordings by ...

The Winchendon Music Festival will host a series of concerts this spring and fall. According to a community announcement, the festival has showcased local, national and international artists since ...

Acclaimed percussionist, conductor and composer Tyshawn Sorey loves to move and flow with the music, but he is also precise and logical in his approach to composition. Spontaneity and technical ...

Laufey Lin, a 24-year-old Icelandic musician and songwriter (known by the mononym Laufey to her fans), never dreamed that her music, which she started writing while she was a college student in Boston ...

Larry Mantle speaks with musicians involved in “Clazzical Notes,” The Pasadena Symphony’s newest adult educational outreach program created to bridge the gap between the jazz and classical music ...

“Musicians like Mozart and Beethoven could make up an extended riff at the drop of a hat,” said Darrell Grant in a phone call from his office at Portland State University, where he is the professor of ...

Classical music has its own version of the tritone sub, which, of course, predated the jazz version. It results from the outer voices (usually soprano and bass) moving in contrary motion into the ...

Having landed at the prestigious New England Conservatory of Music, deVon Russell Gray found himself chafing at its unyielding requirements for a composition major. He couldn't study with a jazz ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Critic’s Notebook Interest has been building in the works of Nikolai Kapustin, who wrote in classical styles, with a jazzy spin. By Seth Colter Walls ...