Hannah Edgar

If the walls of Spektral Quartet's Rogers Park rehearsal space could talk, they'd tell you about all the remarkable music they've heard there in the past 12 years, selections from...

It's a fool's errand to sum up the profundity of "Beautiful Small Things" — a new album mostly recorded in downtown Chicago's Guarneri Hall — but its title track comes...

Finally, it was Missy Mazzoli's moment. The Brooklyn-based composer's residency at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra ended last year without its promised performance of "Orpheus Undone," her 13-minute orchestral commission set...

In 1973, Riccardo Muti first stood before the orchestra he would lead decades later as its music director, conducting the Chicago Symphony in Modest Mussorgsky's "Pictures at an Exhibition." The...

As a teenager, after the rest of his family had gone to bed and the house had gone quiet, Charles Blow found God. "I'd take my bath early each night,...

Back when she got her start on the podium as an undergrad studying composition, Eun Sun Kim says becoming an opera conductor "was not at all in my agenda." If...