Chamber Music

Best 2007 - San Francisco: David Harrington's Foreign Policy

Strings Attached

Redefining chamber music on Turtle Island.

Backwash

Denver bids a bittersweet farewell to a local-music innovator.

Best Avant-Garde Composer

Michael Andrew Doherty

Four Christmases

The Turtle Island String Quartet plays an unusual blend of holiday music.

Supergrass

Road to Rouen (Capitol)

Strangers Die Everyday

They Have Already Defeated Us at What We Know Best (KnitDeer)

In the Key of Free

Pianist Brad Mehldau opens up on Largo.

Instrumental Asylum

Swingin' Sting? Bluegrass Bruce? Rhapsodic R.E.M.? CMH Records has given Eighties faves a musical makeover.

Go East, Young Man

Swingin' Sting? Bluegrass Bruce? Rhapsodic R.E.M.? CMH Records has given Eighties faves a musical makeover.

Have You Never Been Cello?

The anti-classical classical music of Rasputina.

Chamber Music, Latin Style

The anti-classical classical music of Rasputina.

Playlist

The anti-classical classical music of Rasputina.

EXPECT THE UNEXPECTED

FORMER VELVET UNDERGROUNDER JOHN CALE IS STILL DOING WHATEVER HE DAMN WELL PLEASES.

Magic in the Mountains

Open-minded music comes to small-town Colorado.

Eclectic Concerts: More exciting than normal chamber music

The Intermezzo Faculty, who will be performing at Kirk of Bonnie Brae tomorrow night as part of the Eclectic Concerts series.Of classical music's many charms, vitality is hardly one of them; most of the big names are long-dead white guys. So Eclectic Concerts, a chamber music series now in its third ... More >>

Q&A with Robert Glasper

​Robert Glasper's latest Blue Note effort, Double Booked, shows just how well the pianist straddles the jazz and hip-hop worlds. While he flexes his jazz chops within the confines of an acoustic trio setting during the first half of the disc, he delves into more forward thinking hip-hop territ ... More >>

Curious Theatre Company makes beautiful music in Opus

​Robert Glasper's latest Blue Note effort, Double Booked, shows just how well the pianist straddles the jazz and hip-hop worlds. While he flexes his jazz chops within the confines of an acoustic trio setting during the first half of the disc, he delves into more forward thinking hip-hop territ ... More >>

The Curious Theatre takes a Kate Light poem about Einstein and Mozart, adds Mozart

​The music of Wolfgang Amadaeus Mozart was both a haven and an inspiration for Albert Einstein. When the physicist would get stuck on a particularly puzzling problem regarding the nature of the universe, he would pick up a violin and turn on a different part of his brain. Along with work by Ei ... More >>

Tyler Gilmore offers composing and arranging classes

​Since forming the forward-thinking big band Ninth Lincoln Orchestra about five years ago, Tyler Gilmore has won the 2009 ASCAP/Columbia College Commission in Honor of Hank Jones, as well as the ASCAP Young Jazz Composer's Award for the past three years. In addition to composing for and conduc ... More >>

Tonight: Chamber music a go-go with CSO violinist Erik Peterson and friends

Erik Peterson​The beauty of chamber music is in its intimacy and immediacy; you can't help, as an audience member, being caught up in the interplay and, even better, the moment. And at tonight's Chamber Music Series Concert at the Denver School of the Arts, which raises funds for the DSA Orche ... More >>

Ahead of the Classics

Erik Peterson​The beauty of chamber music is in its intimacy and immediacy; you can't help, as an audience member, being caught up in the interplay and, even better, the moment. And at tonight's Chamber Music Series Concert at the Denver School of the Arts, which raises funds for the DSA Orche ... More >>

Q & A: Musical notes with contemporary composer Kenji Bunch

​Named a "Composer to Watch" by the New York Times, Juilliard graduate Kenji Bunch excels as both a talented violist and a composer. His highly accessible contemporary works have been heard worldwide, and as a performer, he's worked with everyone from the Flux string quartet to the bluegrass b ... More >>

Playground

Dreams Go Through Me
Self-released

A Colorado Symphony Orchestra violinist founds EarWarp, a chamber music group performing tonight

The three performers of EarWarp's show tonight. ​"I like the idea that music is somewhat ear-bending or mind-bending," says Erik Peterson, a Colorado Symphony Orchestra violinist who founded the chamber music group EarWarp. He'll be taking the stage at the Concert Hall at the Denver School of ... More >>