New Orleans-born wunderkind and two-time Grammy award winner Sullivan Fortner has been making his mark since childhood, when he started playin…
For 68 weeks, Tim Bennett, a local musician, has played his piano, and sometimes his guitar, every Thursday morning from his home in Marina to…
Founded in 1971 as the California High School Jazz Competition and re-named the Next Generation Jazz Festival in 2004, this event has become o…
In opera’s pecking order, all prima donnas are divas, but not all divas are prima donnas. Only in recent times have the two terms taken on the…
It’s one thing to be the only living composer to ever be featured in a Peanuts cartoon strip. It’s quite another to be the first-ever female r…
When the Carmel Music Society presents the winner of their 2016 piano competition this weekend, the program offers an unusual twist: The first…
For the past week, Hidden Valley has been partnered with Rosemary Ritter’s long-standing Los Angeles summer music education program SongFest t…
Ned McGowan returns home with Keiko Shichijo for stirring renditions of avant-garde compositions.
Carnegie Hall-seasoned cabaret artist Mark Nadler has a theory about most performers.