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Congratulations to composer, pianist, and singer Gabriel Kahane, a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' Charles Ives Fellowship. Kahane is one of eighteen recipients of the Academy's 2021 music awards. Harmony Ives, the widow of Charles Ives, bequeathed to the Academy the royalties of Charles Ives’s music, which has enabled the Academy to give awards in composition since 1970, including two Charles Ives Fellowships of $15,000 each.

In this Meany On Screen Creative Process Conversation, Circa's Artistic Director, Yaron Lifschitz discusses the creative process, interdependence and art in a time of uncertainty.

In this Meany On Screen Creative Process Conversation, Jeremy Denk discusses his latest book and shares his experience of the creative process with Meany Center Artistic and Executive Director Michelle Witt.

In this Meany On Screen Creative Process Conversation, pianist Angela Hewitt and choreographer Mark Morris engage in a wide-ranging conversation about Mozart, Bach, research, rehearsal, movement and more.

In this Meany On Screen Creative Process Conversation, Amjad Ali Khan, Ayaan Ali Bangash and Sharon Isbin discuss the musical meeting of the sarod and the guitar in a collaboration that preserves the essence of both traditions while creating something new.

In this Meany On Screen Creative Process Conversation, Joyce Yang takes audiences inside some of the greatest music ever written for the piano with a set of “Deep Dives” curated especially for Meany Center.

In this Meany On Screen Creative Process Conversation, members of the two ensembles discuss their approach to collaboration, commissioning music and more, with Seattle Symphony cellist Joy Payton-Stevens.

In this installment of Movement — stories of music and migration hosted by singer Meklit Hadero — Seattle-based Haitian American artist Momma Nikki discusses her most recent album: a tribute to her late father and the complicated relationship they shared. 

Music can’t survive on its own. Composers not entrenched in the canon need support: from publishers, from foundations, from performers. Without these champions, it’s all too easy to slide into obscurity.

Their faces stony, their bodies tensed, they stood before the audience as if ready for a fight. Then the music of Sergey Prokofiev began to play and the dancers snapped into motion. Joined by female performers, they danced in pairs, in threes, in groups and on their own, flowing through moves that blended the aesthetics of hip-hop and modern ballet into a compelling new form.