music

A key component of the annual symposium of the Coccia Institute and the Italian program at Montclair State University is the hands-on workshops. This year, songs and lyrics and music videos were the linguistic and cultural tools used to model...

James P. Johnson was the king of New York pianists in the 1930s. Today jazz’s new phenomenon is a young pianist named Ehud Asherie. Born in Israel, he grew up in Italy but it's in New York that he found...

An environmental technician from Paraguay invited local kids to take music lessons. They began to create instruments out of whatever could be salvaged from the mounds of trash around them. Eventually the orchestra came to life, Landfill Harmonic. This award-winning...

La Notte della Taranta 2016, the festival's nineteenth edition, runs from August 8-27 in the Grecia Salentina of the Lecce. Although tarantismo has died out, its music not only has survived but thrives. Last year's edition drew the largest crowds...

Musical prodigy Francesco Cafiso took up the saxophone when he was nine years old. With his recent work, he has infused his jazz with sicilianità. In New York Cafiso and his trio (bassist Marco Panascia and McClenty Hunter on drums)...

Founded by an Italian in Silicon Valley through “bootstrapping”, ScoutMee is a platform that allows musicians to find gigs online and to interact with fans. We spoke with the founder, Maurizio Bandi

There is glowing anticipation around this new production directed by Italian conductor Maurizio Benini's whose positions could advance with the eventual retirement of musical director James Levine. Furthermore, a single soprano, Sondra Radvanovsky, is portraying all the “three queens” in...

Experimentation, improvisation and a reasoned anarchy of sounds: in these elements lies the strength of the band OU (‘egg’ in the Sardinian language) founded by the jazz trumpeter Ersilia Prosperi. After two long tours in the US, they now present...

The historic folk band of Puglia (Apulia) arrives to New York with a show that is the synthesis of a long research on ancient traditional songs. Work songs, tarantelle, love songs, religious songs, tammurriate, dances and rhythms are proposed in a mix...

The Ibla Grand Prize International Music Competition, celebrating this year its 24th anniversary, has become one of the world’s cultural treasures. And it has a connection to New York