The teen's love for music has become the compass for his healing. Just three days before his first day of high school, Mustafa Aria made a harrowing escape from Afghanistan after he and his family ...

Composer Gabriela Ortiz has paid some dues — and now she's collecting. Earlier in her career, she walked out on sexist professors, rebuffed condescending musicians and once waited hours to meet with a ...

Jessie Montgomery is having a moment. Several moments at once, actually. In the past several years, the 40-year-old composer and violinist has rapidly become a poster child for the shifting classical ...

Carlos Simon, the Boston Symphony’s new composer chair, talks with WCRB’s Brian McCreath about his musical and personal roots in the churches of his family, his hopes and plans with the BSO — ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

For moviegoers of a certain age, there is one musical snippet even more famous than the four opening notes of Beethoven’s Fifth Symphony: the deep, bowed strings that announce the arrival of Bruce, ...

For all their shared experiences, each of these five artists has a unique story of struggles and triumphs. By Joshua Barone Asian composers who write in Western classical musical forms, like ...

Schoenberg helped shape modern music worldwide, but he also had a profound and still-present influence on the cultural life of Los Angeles. On the morning of Jan. 7, Larry Schoenberg was about to ...