contemporary

The 2025 Pulitzer Prize for Music winning piece, ‘Sky Islands,’ will make a grand return to the Hudson Valley when it’s performed at SUNY Paltz on Tuesday, March 10 at 7:30 p.m. in the Studley Theatre. Sarah LaDuke speaks with Susie Ibarra and Alex Peh.

Olana and the Thomas Cole National Historic Site are collaborating on a major national exhibition, titled "Cross Pollination: Heade, Cole, Church, and Our…

But What If We’re Wrong? visualizes the contemporary world as it will appear to those who'll perceive it as the distant past. Chuck Klosterman asks…

Oh, Canada opens with a big party at MASS MoCA on Saturday at 6pm. The exhibition features more than 100 pieces from 62 contemporary Canadian artists from…

The Albany Symphony's first CEO and Executive Director, Brian Ritter, joins us to talk about the integration of artistic and financial planning to ensure…

A festival highlight is the American Music Festival Orchestra Concert on Saturday night at 7:30, featuring violinist Cho-Liang Lin will perform Joan…

Victoire fuses new age, rock and classical idioms. The members of Victiore are Missy Mazzoli, founder, composer and keyboard player; violinist Olivia De…

One of the highlights of the 4-day American Music Festival is the orchestra’s genre-crossing new music ensemble, Dogs of Desire. We welcome vocalist,…

We welcome Pulitzer Prize winning composer, Aaron Jay Kernis. He'll be part of the ASO’s Composer to Center Stage initiative, which continues a commitment…

We speak with composer, Jeremy Spindler. He was selected by the Albany Symphony as one of three finalists in the Composer to Center Stage Reading Session…