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Radiohead guitarist Jonny Greenwood talks about his classical music featured on NPR Music's Tiny Desk, his love for the recorder and his composer heroes such as Steve Reich and Krzysztof Penderecki.

From sexist professors and low self-esteem to worldwide acclaim, the Finnish composer talks about her path to success and her relentless pursuit of sound.

Hear one of the intrepid violinist's 22 commissioned works, focusing on the harrowing year that was 2020.

A campaign is underway to posthumously award the great Duke Ellington with the Pulitzer Prize in Music—an honor that he was denied back in 1965.

Join us on Monday, Oct. 21 at 7 p.m. on WRTI HD-2 when our Philadelphia Orchestra in Concert series brings you an encore presentation from 2022 of works by Prokofiev and Tchaikovsky. Nathalie Stutzmann conducts.

Opera lovers, rejoice! Here's the summer lineup for operas on WRTI, every Saturday at 1 PM. Warm up for the weekly broadcast with Classical Host Mark Pinto and his show, Overture, Saturdays at noon.

The Mivos Quartet offers a new, colorful piece by Henry Threadgill and music by Robert Honstein inspired by the shimmering light at the Arctic Circle.

As Native American Heritage Month gets underway, we're listening closely to Chickasaw composer Jerod Impichchaachaaha ̍ Tate's earliest work, 'Winter Moons.'

Hard to define, for one thing. But in our disorienting digital age, these image-savvy, genre-fluid, proficient yet irreverent artists can seem like the only ones who've gleefully cracked the code.

Ukrainian composer Valentin Silvestrov, now living as a refugee, composed 'Maidan' in response to the Euromaidan, a wave of demonstrations in 2014. His new album features its performance by the Kyiv Chamber Choir.