Blogs

archive-post-image
Niu Niu: The Pianist’s Journey
An Interview on His New Album and Upcoming Performances
Niu Niu is a talented young pianist who has been performing on stage since the age of 6. This month, a new album featuring a live collaboration between Niu Niu and the Hong Kong Philharmonic Orchestra, conducted by maestro Jaap
Read more
archive-post-image
Conversation With Dr. Maria Alexandra Iñigo Chua, Founder of the Julio Nakpil Project
Meet Dr. Maria Alexandra Iñigo Chua, a musicologist and Professor at the University of Santo Thomas. She founded the Julio Nakpil Project, cataloging the vast manuscript of works written by pioneering 19th century Filipino composer Julio Nakpil (1867-1960). The two
Read more
archive-post-image
13 Pieces of Classical Vocal Music for Halloween
To celebrate Halloween, we’re taking a look at spooky classical music written especially for the human voice. From cackling witches to scheming sorceresses to doomed doppelgangers to unscrupulous psychics, we’re about to meet all kinds of sinister, spine-chilling characters, and
Read more
archive-post-image
Rewriting Mozart
In 1876, after returning from a trip to Bayreuth to see the first complete Ring cycles, Edvard Grieg and his friend John Paulson (1851–1924) travelled up and down Norway. As a treat for the poet Paulson, Grieg took 4 sonatas
Read more
archive-post-image
Maria Anna Mozart: The Bittersweet Story of Mozart’s Prodigy Sister
Maria Anna Mozart, known to her family as Nannerl, is one of the great what-ifs of music history. She was the sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, an inspiration and constant companion to him, one of her generation’s great piano prodigies,
Read more
archive-post-image
22 Nocturnes for Chopin
By Women Composers
This new anthology is a result of EVC Music’s #CallToWomenComposers worldwide search for talented but not yet published women composers and includes new piano works by twenty-two women composers inspired by Chopin’s Nocturnes. The project was initiated by Rose McLachlan,
Read more
archive-post-image
Secular Organs
Let’s talk about organs. Pipe, non-pipe, mechanical, and also electric organs. These huge, complicated, and often misunderstood instruments. But nevertheless, instruments which have accompanied the history of art, music, and religion and which endure to this day. The most common
Read more
archive-post-image
Maddalena Laura Sirmen: Thirteen Facts About This Inventive Violinist and Composer
Her music was admired by Leopold Mozart. She was one of the first composers to write string quartets. As a young woman, she wrote a set of six violin concertos and performed them to great acclaim. She toured Europe as
Read more