Emerald City Music's March 25 and 26 concerts are devoted entirely to one composer, and a challenging one at that: American avant-gardist George Crumb.

Steven Plank’s excellent Oberlin choir, the Collegium Musicum Oberliniense, will take its spring program of English music to Trinity Cathedral’s Brownbag Concert Series on Wednesday, May 3 at ...

Why the public shuns the avant-garde and what to do about it. John Cage, an icon of the contemporary avant-garde, occupies an odd status in the music world. A seminal figure in the history of ...

Saul Williams is not someone you’d immediately expect to see sitting onstage with a string quartet playing music rooted in the abstract noise of contemporary classical music. More often ...

Rohan de Saram, the cellist who has died aged 85, was a leading light in avant-garde music, spending almost 30 years with the Arditti Quartet performing works by 20th-century composers including ...

Fred Frith is an English multi-instrumentalist, composer, and improvisor known for his work in experimental and avant-garde ...

UNUSUAL SOUNDS: Xpress explores WNC's avant-garde music scene, spotlighting some of the acts that are contributing to the area’s eclectic mix. Featured, starting left, Min Xiao-Fen, Tashi Dorji ...

For nearly a decade now, TURNmusic has been Vermont’s contemporary classical chamber music ensemble sharpening the state’s cutting edge. And while that important role will continue, TURNmusic is ...

Phill Niblock, the acclaimed avant-garde composer known for his pioneering work in minimalist drone music, has died, The Wire reports. No details of Niblock’s death are available at present. He ...

Rohan de Saram, the cellist who has died aged 85, was a leading light in avant-garde music, spending almost 30 years with the Arditti Quartet performing works by 20th-century composers including ...