Works by British-Bulgarian composer Dobrinka Tabakova have been performed worldwide, including by the Academy of Saint Martin in the Fields and in celebration of Queen Elizabeth II  at her Golden Jubilee. The grammy nominated artist, now 42, is an active voice in the redefinition of modern classical music and is featured in […]

       The thirtieth episode of WorldView features Nancy Dalberg, a 20th century Danish composer best known as the first Danish woman to write a symphony. She produced a considerable catalog of orchestral and chamber works, composing avidly for four decades.         Nancy Dalberg was born on the island of Funen in […]

     In addition to featuring the show’s first Klezmer-style piece, episode twenty-nine of WorldView includes two lesser-known composers: Elizabeth Pizer and Paul Chihara. Both American, the two artists come from very different backgrounds and reflect their life experiences in their music.        Elizabeth Pizer was born in New York in 1954. She […]

    With more than one hundred published works exploring a myriad of topics and genres, Lei Liang is a modern composer renowned for his versatility. A Pulitzer Prize finalist and Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Liang is frequently commissioned and remains active as a writer for the orchestra and stage.       Lei Liang was born in […]

      Despite international fame after the publication of his work “The Planets”, Gustav Holst remained relatively unknown during his life. He wrote hundreds of opus works, but his hermit-like lifestyle and dislike of the spotlight turned away most musical audiences. Now, almost one hundred years after his death, he has become one of the […]

      Nicknamed “the Prince of Accompanists”, Sir Hamilton Harty is not best remembered for his compositions. Instead, his careers as a pianist and conductor distinguished him from other 20th century composers in the United Kingdom. “Irish Symphony”, featured in episode twenty-six of WorldView, is one of his few works still performed today.      […]

       Episode twenty-five of WorldView is only the second ever show to feature only one artist: Danish composer Ludolf Nielsen. The work, Symphony No. 3 in C major—with a run-time of fifty-four minutes—is not as famous as his operas, but it is one of Nielsen’s most well-known symphonic compositions.          […]

      Episode twenty-four of WorldView features four artists from four different nations—Sweden, Japan, Great Britain, and the United States. The composer first heard in the hour is Kevin Puts, an American modernist and polystylist. He was born in St. Louis in 1972, though he was later raised in Michigan.  After studying composition at both […]

     An illustrious composer in his own right, Charles Villiers Stanford is mainly remembered as the instructor of some of the most famous classical composers of the last two hundred years. In his 200+ opus works, Villiers Stanford epitomized the traditional European classical style of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.      […]