composer

“People are still writing [classical] music today, and people are performing music by living composers." This Sunday, you'll have the opportunity to hear some right before you in the home of composer Peter Petroff, in Fair Oaks Ranch.

The Oscar-winning actor known for his intense on-screen performances talks about his first love — music — and collaborating with conductor on Life is a Dream.

A WWII-era story with Viennese threads and the world of Japanese Noh performance will take the stage at the Tobin Center's Carlos Alvarez Theater on Friday and Saturday. Preview the unique music at the link, as heard on KPAC 88.3 FM's Classical Connections.

An orchestra performs the world premiere of a piece by the late Earth, Wind & Fire founder Maurice White, 23 years after he composed it.

The composer created her own symphonic fable that weaves Andean cosmology with the natural world.

A contest exclusively for community college students, the Jack Stone Awards present new music each spring on the campus of Northwest Vista College. Hear the Adelante Winds play the winning selections at the link.

The Pulitzer-winning composer, whose unconventional music reflects the rugged landscapes he lives in, talks about his relationship to nature and his new piece Horizon.

Composer Reena Esmail is in San Antonio this week for the annual Texas Music Educators Association Clinic and Convention, where she'll share a new band arrangement of one of her most popular pieces.

Argentine pianist and composer Lalo Schifrin, best known for his scores for Mission: Impossible and more than 200 other films and TV shows, including Bullitt, Mannix and Cool Hand Luke, has died.

As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.