New York-based band Innov Gnawa performs traditional healing music of Morocco, a trancey, rhythmic participatory music. They play on Dec 27 at The Owl Music Parlor.

Hear American composer John Adams' “Shaker Loops”; plus music by Soviet-Russian composer Sofia Gubaidulina, and electro-acoustic work by the late Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho.

Hear music by New York composers: Missy Mazzoli's double bass concerto, an accordion version of John Zorn's "Road Runner", and alternately-tuned chamber music by Dylan Mattingly.

Listen to unusual, colorful takes on seasonal music from English violinist Laura Cannell, the Miro Quartet, and the Norwegian duo of Iver Kleive & Knut Reiersrud.

Princeton-based Irish composer Donnacha Dennehy presents his dual Grammy-nominated work 'Land of Winter', as performed by the new music band Alarm Will Sound, led by Alan Pierson.  

Saxophonist and composer Donny McCaslin has been playing with jazz luminaries like Maria Schneider and Dave Douglas, and leading his own band, for a couple of decades. But he’s best k...

New York-based classically trained composer and musician Kelly Moran’s music draws on everything from classical to dance to metal, but ends up sounding like none of those. She has bec...