The New York Times picked its monthly five albums you can listen to right now, and Decoda’s debut album “Bright, Shiny Things” made the list. Praising (among other things) Catherine Gregory’s skillful flute playing, the review concludes that “with performances of this quality, you can see why Carnegie – which just named Decoda its first

By Robert Baker By any measure, 2023 was good to Jake Heggie. He had several high-profile world premieres, including his new opera Intelligence with the Houston Grand Opera and his instrumental work “Fire” (part of violinist Joshua Bell’s five-composer commission collectively called The Elements) with the New York Philharmonic. And the New York Metropolitan Opera

Ashley Dao has a habit of making the news at UCLA. This year, she was the first undergraduate student ever selected as an honorable mention for the Ingolf Dahl Award, given by the Pacific Southwest Chapter of the American Musicology Society. (She is also the first honorable mention for an award for which the criteria