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Artist Name |
Artist Bio |
Instruments |
Genres |
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David Lang and Leonard Slatkin |
This month on Linked Music, Peter Cummings interviews composer David Lang and conductor Leonard Slatkin.
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang is both deeply versed in the classical tradition and committed to music that resists categorization, constantly creating new forms. He moves easily be… Read More_» |
composition |
classical, orchestra |
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Jenny Lin |
Jenny Lin is one of the most respected young pianists today, admired for her adventurous programming and charismatic stage presence.
Born in Taiwan and raised in Austria, Jenny studied with Noel Flores at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, with Julian Martin at the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimor… Read More_» |
piano |
classical, orchestra |
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John Mauceri |
John Mauceri is the Chancellor of the University of North Carolina School of the Arts (UNCSA), the Founding Director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and Music Director of Walt Disney’s Legacy Series Concerts. His distinguished and extraordinary career has taken him not only to the world’s greate… Read More_» |
composition, conductor |
classical, opera, orchestra |
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Leonard Slatkin |
Internationally acclaimed American conductor Leonard Slatkin was born in Los Angeles to a distinguished musical father, the conductor-violinist Felix Slatkin, and mother, cellist Eleanor Aller, who were founding members of the famed Hollywood String Quartet. Slatkin began his musical studies on the… Read More_» |
conductor |
classical, orchestra |
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Michael Daugherty |
In 2011, composer, pianist and teacher Michael Daugherty won three Grammy Awards for the piano concerto “Deus Ex Machina,” a sonic tribute to trains, and Metropolis Symphony, an album inspired by Superman. According to the League of American Orchestras, he is one of the ten most performed contem… Read More_» |
composition, piano |
classical, electronic, jazz, orchestra, pop, rock |
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Michael Tilson Thomas |
Michael Tilson Thomas is the Music Director of the San Francisco Symphony, Founder and Artistic Director of the New World Symphony, and Principal Guest Conductor of the London Symphony Orchestra. The Grammy and Peabody award-winning conductor, pianist and composer was born in Los Angeles into a fami… Read More_» |
composition, conductor, piano |
classical, orchestra |
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Paul O’Neill |
This month, Linked Music brings together classical music and heavy metal. Host Peter Cummings interviews Trans-Siberian Orchestra founder Paul O’Neill to talk all about the connections.
O’Neill formed the Trans-Siberian Orchestra (TSO) in 1996, and immediately approached long time friends… Read More_» |
composition, guitar, piano |
classical, electronic, jazz, metal, opera, orchestra |
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Tori Amos |
Eight-time Grammy Award-nominated pianist, singer-songwriter and composer Tori Amos joins Peter on Linked Music this month. Perhaps best known for her confessional, piano-driven ballads, Tori’s influences range wide–from conservatory, to her own pop band, to alternative rock, to electr… Read More_» |
composition, piano, voice |
alternative, classical, orchestra, singer-songwriter |
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Wynton Marsalis |
Wynton Marsalis is an internationally acclaimed musician, composer, bandleader, educator and a leading advocate of American culture. He is the world’s first jazz artist to perform and compose across the full jazz spectrum from its New Orleans roots to bebop to modern jazz. By creating and performi… Read More_» |
brass, composition |
big band, classical, jazz, orchestra |
