Featured Composers

• John Adams

  "Whenever serious art loses track of its roots in the vernacular, then it begins to atrophy." John Adams

• James MacMillan

  "...a composer so confident of his own musical language that he makes it instantly communicative to his listeners." The Guardian

• Elliott Carter

  "He is America's great musical poet." Musical America

• Paquito D'Rivera

  "He has become the consummate multinational ambassador, creating and promoting a cross-culture of music that moves effortlessly among jazz, Latin, and classical." National Endowment for the Arts

• Isang Yun

  "I was born in Korea and project that culture, but I developed musically in Europe. I don't need to organise or separate elements of the cultures. I am a unity, a simple person. It's a synthesis." Isang Yun

• Béla Bartók

  "...the Hungarian master, despite his intellectual control, remained the nearest to the instinctual, the irrational in music, and thus to the Dionysian spirit in art." Mosco Carner