Kimberly StarKey of Marion, known as The Rogue Pianist, will perform Saturday night, March 9, 2024, at CSPS Hall in Cedar Rapids. She is shown here performing her regular Saturday gig at NewBo City ...

Four students of Stanislav Ioudenitch, Park University International Center for Music founder and artistic director, and gold ...

Plus, get the best of BroadwayWorld delivered to your inbox, and unlimited access to our editorial content across the globe. Participating musicians include the four-time Grammy-winning, Chicago-based ...

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 ...

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 — ...

A critic unpacks the month-long program featuring 430 artists and presenting more than 70 pieces of music for the very first time, most by Illinois composers. Like a blue moon, a festival with a ...

AMBIENT music is the term Brian Eno conceived of in 1978 to describe a music of slow, calm, reflective, spiritual mood. French composers Maurice Ravel and Claude Debussy were ahead of the curve, early ...

Lang Lang, one of the world's most famous classical pianists, discovered his passion for piano while growing up alongside other musicians in China. Today, he stands as a globally acclaimed classical ...

In the vibrant tapestry of contemporary music, few artists weave threads as intricate and culturally resonant as Dr. Eunwha Kang. A South Korean-born composer, pianist, music educator, and dedicated ...

Harpists Emily Levin (left) and Michelle Gott sing while playing harp in a performance of German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen's "Freude" from "Klang" during the Voices of Change concert at Southern ...

Since the 1840s, when the saxophone was invented by Adolphe Sax, the wind instrument named after him has become a key component of jazz groups ranging from big bands to small combos. It was also a ...