Los Angeles-based Chinese composer Xiaoyi Ying has established himself as a formidable talent in the international ent ...

Abrasive, intense and about to erupt at any moment. So begins Flow, a new piece by Nokuthula Ngwenyama for the Takács Quartet. Coaxing peculiar sounds out of centuries-old string instruments, the ...

The Composer is Dead is an innovative show that explains the role of various music instruments in an orchestra [Review] ...

Orchestrators translate a composer’s demo into parts for the various instruments to play — Doherty did that for a few years while attending festivals, networking and “scoring anything I ...

With plenty of humor, the octogenarian talks about her far-reaching career — including why she fled the modernist school of composers — and some mysterious visitations from her dead heroes.

Nissan Zangilevitch is a composer with a diverse background, is making his mark in the competitive world of film, television, ...

Which instruments were used to record the Prehistoric Planet: Season 2 soundtrack? To give the score its otherworldly, prehistoric sound, the composers designed a completely new range of instruments.

Composer Atli Örvarsson said he thought of instruments for the music of the post-apocalyptic TV series Silo that could represent loneliness.

This Chicago composer puts instruments in the hands of her Chickasaw ancestors Brandi Berry Benson dug deep into her genealogy for a new work that draws from American Indian musical traditions.

Composer Justin Hurwitz, photographed by Jeff Vespa for TheWrap As Damien Chazelle was filming the party scene that opens “Babylon,” your soundtrack was being pumped into the room.

Composers Alex Somers and Scott Alario recorded traditional instruments, children’s choirs and even the sounds of toys, then processed them into something that Somers describes as “slow and ...