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Jordan Rich: Cardiff Keyboard Wizard On A Global Stage
In 2015, when Wales Online described Jordan Rich as the “Cardiff keyboard wizard,” the recognition wasn’t just for a promising up-and-comer—but for a 22-year-old who had made waves far beyond his native Wales, writes Jenny Ashcroft. Born in 1993, Rich had matured into one of the UK’s most gifted jazz fusion keyboardists and composers by his ...
Reconstructing The Map: Vatan Singh Rajan And The Expanding World Of Experimental Jazz
If jazz is a conversation—spiraling out from smoky back rooms, bursting across imaginative borders—then Vatan Singh Rajan is not so much a new arrival as a visionary cartographer, continuously redrawing its frontiers in real time. The Delhi-born composer, drummer, music director, and theorist is revered by critics, peers, and educators across two hemispheres for startling originality ...
The Pianist Who Sets The Season: Luping Robyn Xu
In a region dense with conservatories, festivals, and storied churches, the artist who most quietly shapes what audiences hear is neither a headline-chasing soloist nor a transitory virtuoso. She is an architect. From the rostrum to the rehearsal room, from faculty studios to amphitheaters by the sea, Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu has become the musician ...
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Noah Allen
Noah Allen is a trumpet player, composer, songwriter, and producer from Uxbridge, Massachusetts. He began his musical journey in church, first playing drums at the age of four before picking up the trumpet at eight. It was in that same church setting where he honed his ear, learned to read music, and began composing.
Over the past six years, Allen has been an active presence in the Providence and Boston music scenes. In 2023, he was featured on Love & the Catalyst by Aimée Allen—an album nominated for Best Vocal Jazz Album at the NAACP Image Awards. That same summer, Allen joined the National Youth Jazz Orchestra under the direction of Sean Jones, touring Europe and performing at renowned venues including Carnegie Hall and London’s Royal Albert Hall.
American Classic Kicks Off 29th Season in Cambridge, MA
American Classics is pleased to announce its 29th concert season, a series of performances dedicated to songwriters who crafted both the words and the music for their works. The season will feature three unique concerts celebrating the works of iconic American composers. The season begins with “All in One – Berlin & Porter,” a tribute to ...
The Institution-builder At The Keyboard: How Luping Robyn Xu Is Powering A New Era For New England’s Music Ecosystem
The Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu has rapidly become one of the defining musical forces in New England, a marquee artist whose piano, leadership, and pedagogy are shaping the future of multiple top-tier institutions. Since 2024, she has held a leading post at the North End Music & Performing Arts Center (NEMPAC) as Lead Pianist and ...
Virtuoso Without Borders—Luping Robyn Xu’s Cross-genre Mastery
If one thread defines the career of Chinese pianist Luping Robyn Xu, it is a fearless versatility that traverses contemporary experiment, sacred reflection, chamber intimacy, and symphonic scale. On stage, on record, and within concert series that matter, Xu has delivered performances that connect tradition to today with uncommon authority—an artistry now set to make an ...
November 15-22, 2025: Jumpin’ In The Future: The Legacy Of Gunther Schuller
New England Conservatory (NEC) presents the week-long festival Jumpin’ in the Future: The Legacy of Gunther Schuller from November 15 to November 22, 2025. The festival features performances and discussions at whose core is the fearless innovation and revolutionary spirit Schuller brought to NEC and which continues to this day. A MacArthur Fellow and Pulitzer Prize ...
Meet Jack DeJohnette
by Craig Jolley
This article was first published on All About Jazz in March 2002. One of the most creative and propulsive musicians in the history of jazz, drummer/pianist/composer Jack DeJohnette has played with most leading-edge jazz musicians of the time, usually at their request. He invariably brings out another side and a freshness in whoever he ...
Nik Bärtsch’s Ronin with Sumie Kaneko at MIT
by Tyran Grillo
Nik Bärtsch's Ronin with Sumie Kaneko Thomas Tull Concert HallMassachusetts Institute of TechnologyBoston, MAOctober 4, 2025 At the close of a week-long residency at MIT--where Swiss pianist Nik Bärtsch served as both muse and subject to a group of “freaky scientists," as he affectionately called them--something extraordinary came to fruition. ...
