The versatile quartet Sō Percussion has redefined the scope and role of the modern percussion ensemble in 21st-century music. They play at Zankel Hall on Jan. 23.

Guitarist, pianist, & composer Ralph Towner was a co-founder of the chamber-folk group Oregon and an original member of the Paul Winter Consort. We offer this tribute to his work. 

Composer and performer Molly Joyce takes us on a journey through her 2025 record 'State Change', for voice and adaptive technology, which uses her own surgical records as musical lyrics.

Iraqi-born, American-based composer and NEA Heritage Fellow Rahim AlHaj plays the oud, the Arab lute. Derek Gripper is a classical guitarist from South Africa who has somehow found a ...

Hear music drawn from the Epic of Sunjata of the Mandé people in West Africa; the epic of Manas of the Kyrgyz people; and music based on ancient Norse Edda and Icelandic Rimur.

Hear some of the most ancient of stories: The Epic of Gilgamesh; The Tale of the Heike (Japan); Anglo-Saxon Beowulf; and the Sanskrit epic the Mahabharata -all set to contemporary music.

The British band Public Service Broadcasting describes their work as "Teaching the lessons of the past through the music of the future", (Bandcamp). Their songs are often built on sam...

Qawwali music, the Sufi devotional style from Pakistan, goes back to the 13th century and the Saami family has kept that tradition going for almost 800 years. They perform in-studio.