Premiering a new work of music — let alone a work of “new music” — is a bit like striking a match: The release of its potential relies entirely on the moment of execution. That is, it needs to ignite ...

In 2018, Barbara Hannigan came to the Tiny Desk with a pianist and her simply gorgeous voice — silvery, buttery-smooth throughout the registers, with crystalline top notes emerging from thin air and ...

Last week, the versatile and innovative singer and conductor Barbara Hannigan was named as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The Canadian-born soprano forged her ...

The 2025 fall festival of the Juilliard School will conclude tonight with the performance of a new work, ”Departing.” ...

In these days of wireless earbuds, streams and podcasts, the notion of people gathering to hear a lone classical singer (with a pianist) perform densely structured art songs in a foreign tongue seems ...