Oliver Laxe’s “Sirât” is both ambitious and radical, according to the film’s composer and musician Kangding Ray. “Sirât” is ...

Japanese musician and film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died during a battle with cancer on March 28, according to recording company Avex. Sakamoto was initially diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, and ...

Now in its eighth year, the Universal Composers Initiative seeks to find artists from both traditional and non-conventional ...

Michael Brook has collaborated with some of the most influential filmmakers and musicians of the last 40 years without ever threatening to become a household name. When I spoke to the inventor and ...

To make music for 'Hedda,' composer Hildur Gudnadottir got the cast and crew to breathe together and sing together ...

Randy Edelman‘s fame largely rests on his impressive roster of film scores—everything from his Golden Globe-nominated “Last of the Mohicans” to such big-grossing comedies as “Beethoven” and “The Mask, ...

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 ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning composer famous for his scores for The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, among others, died March 28 at the age of 71. Sakamoto's management company ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

Lebanese musician and composer Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic singer Fairuz and a pioneer of fusion jazz, has died at the age of 69 of a heart attack. “On Saturday at 9:00am, the heart of the great ...

Aman Pant discussed the organic trend of South composers in Bollywood and predicted a future exchange of talent between ...