Film soundtracks aren’t always supposed to stand out. In today’s Hollywood, an original score is there to compliment sound design, to create an atmosphere rather than send the audience home with a ...

Performances in N.Y.C. The Great Read Gabriela Ortiz, Carnegie Hall’s composer in residence this season, has spent her career channeling the sounds and sensibilities of Latin America. Gabriela Ortiz, ...

Now 90, the Estonian composer has spent a lifetime crafting music of profound beauty. By Ian Thomson Arvo Pärt, the pre-eminent religious composer of our time, was born in 1935 in Estonia, before its ...

Composer Gabriela Ortiz has paid some dues — and now she's collecting. Earlier in her career, she walked out on sexist professors, rebuffed condescending musicians and once waited hours to meet with a ...