Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs a Tiny Desk Concert featuring a set of contemplative music, including a piece by Philip Glass, sing sweetly on her $16 million instrument.


Violinist Anne Akiko Meyers performs a contemplative Tiny Desk Concert

Absent from the recording studio for more than a decade, the restless musician has commissioned six composers for his new album. 


After 12 years, pianist Awadagin Pratt rediscovers his sweet spot

The intrepid champion of new music turns her attention to female composers, offering a sampler of works by women across four centuries, including a favorite of Louis XIV and an Ethiopian nun. 


Sarah Cahill features women composers in her Tiny Desk Concert

With plenty of humor, composer Joan Tower talks about her far-reaching career — including why she fled the modernist school of composers — and some mysterious visitations from her dead heroes. Find out more.


Composer Joan Tower is finally going easy on herself

Widely acclaimed pianist Alice Sara Ott serves up nearly 200-year-old music by Chopin mixed with a contemporary work that looks back in time in her Tiny Desk Concert. Listen now!


Pianist Alice Sara Ott performs preludes in her Tiny Desk Concert

Antonin Dvorak's ‘New World Symphony’ is an anthem to American roots. It was written by a foreigner and required white classical musicians to respect Black spirituals and Native American music. Sometimes it takes an outsider to point out what's great about a culture.


Dvorak's beloved 'New World Symphony' was an anthem to what American music could be

The band's sophomore album, Earthdrawn Skies, connects the dots in wildly diverse music spanning eight centuries.


From soil to stars, the new Aizuri Quartet album offers a space to think

The 14-piece Los Angeles-based ensemble's performance of music by Julius Eastman is nothing less than an exuberant house party unto itself.


New music ensemble Wild Up performs Julius Eastman in its Tiny Desk Concert 

ÁTTA, the band's first album in 10 years, sports an orchestra of strings, high-flying vocalism and its signature bittersweet melodies.


On a new Sigur Rós album, warmth and light push through the darkness 

Saariaho, who battled a male-dominated educational system in her native Finland, forged a strong and singular voice in contemporary music. 


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