Percussionist Edward Harrison is the Principal Timpanist of the Lyric Opera of Chicago and an outstanding maraca player for whom the first concerto for solo maraca and orchestra has been written. In this exclusive interview, he talks about his current and future projects.
Jasmin Arakawa is Assistant Professor of Piano and Piano Area Coordinator at the University of Florida, as well as Director of the UF International Piano Festival.
Jasmin Arakawa: “Find Our Mission as Musicians and Contribute to Society” Open »
In this interview, the prolific composer Simón García tells us his process of composing for double bass. He shares some of his future projects as well as his varying styles and influences.
Simón García: “Music Is for Sharing, and It’s Not a Competition” Open »
Dr. Peter Ryan is an Assistant Professor of Music at The University of Virginia’s College at Wise, where he teaches and coordinates the Piano and Music Theory programs.
Peter Ryan: “Go Out and Get Some Life Experience That Doesn’t Involve Your Instrument” Open »
Nobuya Sugawa talks to Sax Magazine about his latest album, the award-winning Bach Sequence, on which he plays his own arrangements of Bach’s Partitas for solo violin. Listen to it here!
Nobuya Sugawa — “Bach Sequence” (Concert Imagine, 2020) Open »
Mariana Gurkova is a Bulgarian-Spanish pianist, Professor of Piano at the Royal Conservatory of Madrid, who in 2019 has released the album “From Russia With Love” featuring piano transcriptions of Russian orchestral music.
Joel Quarrington shares with us in this interview his view of tuning in fifths. Not only that, but Quarrington tells us how he tries to accomplish better intonation with fifths tuning and how to become a significant supporting musician in an ensemble. He also shares how tuning in fifths is changing the lives of musicians in third-world countries.
In this interview for Sax Magazine, Nobuya Sugawa talks about his career, the vision of the saxophone in Japanese culture, and much more.
En Trumpet Magazine te contamos la historia de este joven trompetista portugués (26 años) que un día descubrió el jazz y se convirtió en trompeta “lead” de la célebre Orquestra Jazz de Matosinhos, ganándose el respeto de grandes como Andrew Rathbun.
On this occasion, we are interviewing jazz pianist David Hazeltine, based in New York City for years on the advice of jazz legends such as Sonny Stitt and Chet Baker, from whom he gained respect when he was still young.
