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Karen Salicath Jamali didn’t set out to become a composer. The piano entered her life after a head injury in 2012, when she started hearing music in dreams and decided to follow it. She had never played before. By 2015, she was recording what she heard. Now there are eight albums and thousands of pieces….
Richard Green has a habit of making classical compositions feel immediate. Based between Milan and London, he’s spent the last few years building a neoclassical trilogy – composed at home, recorded in Italy, and performed by some of the country’s best players. “A Story,” featuring Irene Veneziano on piano and Archimia on strings, is the…
Katy Jarzebowski has spent the last decade scoring everything from documentaries to ballets, and her debut album FEATHERS pulls directly from that experience. Originally written for a pandemic-era ballet, the six tracks now stand alone as a kind of experimental suite—one that blends orchestral tools with sound design tricks and a willingness to let weird…
Karen Salicath Jamali didn’t set out to become a composer. Her music arrived unannounced – after a near-death experience in 2012 left her changed, she began to play piano despite having no formal training. Since then, she’s recorded thousands of pieces, performed at Carnegie Hall, and built a unique body of work that sits somewhere…
The Kiss is the fourth album by Izabela Kałduńska, known as The New Solarism. Written during the first lockdown of 2020 and recorded later in Leipzig, the music was originally composed for a remote theatre piece by Berlin author Tomas Blum. Although the production was never finished, the music survived as a standalone work –…
Globally celebrated violinist Bernadett Nyari introduces a new chapter in her career with Heart of Diamonds, a project that draws deeply from her own life while opening up new creative territory. Known for her classical mastery and international performances, Bernadett shifts her focus here to original compositions, expanding beyond tradition without letting go of it….
OHNomad’s new piece, “Universal Connection – Junko,” does something most compositions don’t even try to: it tells a personal story without saying a single word. The trio for flute, cello, and piano feels more like a letter to someone than a performance for an audience. That someone, in this case, is Junko—a Japanese elder and…
Batumi-born pianist and composer Nikita Kondrashev approaches his music with restraint and depth, and his new single Cloudwalker is a clear reflection of that. It’s quiet but not passive, emotional without being overdone. The piece holds your attention not through grand gestures, but through a deep sense of purpose and self-reflection. Inspired by minimalist composers…
Emer Kinsella, known professionally as EMER, is an Irish composer and violinist based in Los Angeles. With a background in film scoring and a penchant for blending classical instrumentation with electronic elements, EMER has carved a niche in creating evocative, cinematic compositions. Her latest album, Concurrence, released on April 25, 2025, exemplifies this fusion, offering…
James Shumway isn’t trying to reinvent the piano solo. He’s doing something harder: making it personal without turning it into a cliché. His latest piece, To the One I Love, is exactly what the title says—a love letter, but told through the keys. Shot in Aspen Grove, Utah, with Mount Timpanogos in the distance, the…