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As SydeBoob Duo, soprano Anna Elder and flutist Sarah Steranka perform bold and athletic repertoire with an inviting sense of familiarity that encourages deep listening. Their debut album Au Naturel (New Focus Recordings, 2026) showcases foundational works from their repertoire by Rebecca Saunders, Ramin Akhavijou, Anthony Braxton, Max Johnson, Eric Moe, and Beat Furrer. What...

Lauded for their “palpable chemistry and remarkable warmth” (San Francisco Classical Voice), the Poiesis Quartet is the First Prize and Commission Prize winners of the 2025 Banff International String Quartet Competition. In 2023, they were named the Grand Prize and Lift Every Voice Prize winners of the Fischoff National Chamber Music Competition, as well as …

What does it mean to bring a project to life with a collaborator you met by chance — say, at a celebrity yoga retreat during the pandemic? Keep Telling Yourself That, the debut album from Goal Weight, meditates on the spontaneous and serendipitous beginning of this creative relationship. Across eight collectively improvised songs, the experimental …

The tagline for the Southbank Centre’s Multitudes festival is ‘a multi-arts festival powered by orchestral music.’ This must be interpreted in the context of contemporary debates about how to broaden the audience for classical music, an issue that resonates with the Manchester Collective. Their show ‘Papillons’ arrived in London on 30 April, at the end …

“One might describe [my style] as a patchwork: you can really find the seams when you’re browsing through the embroidery,” Kavyesh Kaviraj told me over Zoom. “It’s pretty similar to what I feel like as a human being; I wear all my influences on my sleeve, and I sort of move between them as I …