Barrett Kalellis, who founded multiple Michigan music ensembles, receives grand prize for "The Hill of Vision" at age 81.

An Indiana Bible school is under scrutiny after a composer took to social media to claim it infringed on her copyrighted work and is selling music based on her composition. Choral music composer ...

Composer Simon Franglen says work on the third instalment, Avatar: Fire and Ash, took an epic seven years to complete. Along the way, he wrote 1,907 pages of orchestral score; and even invented new ...

Hailed by the New York Times and the BBC, Lexington composer got his start with the Salvation Army. He’s back in Lexington for a much-anticipated world premiere. Shawn Okpebholo is an internationally ...

STARKVILLE, Miss.—The Mississippi State Department of Music’s State Singers will perform a new work from Swedish composer Mårten Jansson next week. The State Singers, MSU’s premiere choral-vocal ...

"His limitless talent and boundless creativity was matched only by the generosity he bestowed upon other composers who sought his guidance," a friend and fellow composer said Mark Snow, the composer ...

Press releases are posted on Independent.com as a free community service. Composer Julia Marie Newmann (center) presents the orchestration for the music she created for the Choral Society to Artistic ...

There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...

Music plays a crucial role in all of our favorite movies and TV shows and most of that music has been written by incredible composers like John Williams, Hans Zimmer, Elmer Bernstein, and many, many ...

Yes, Theodore Shapiro — the American composer behind the popular music for Ben Stiller’s multiple award-winning series “Severance” — is well aware of the recent Saturday Night Live sketch where Amy ...