by Emma Wine | May 6, 2019 | Blog, News
At Musiqa, we’re always on the lookout for composers who challenge the status quo. David T. Little’s raw power for saxophone quartet will be performed on our final concert of 2019 at CAMH, and when I first heard it, I was on the edge of my seat for the...
by Emma Wine | May 4, 2019 | Blog, News
LJ White’s “Big Fish” for two saxophones effortlessly evokes a story, but it is also abstract enough that each listener’s vision of the piece’s journey is completely unique. Its title may conjure a vision of a school of fish in a pond,...
by Emma Wine | Feb 11, 2019 | Blog, News
My expertise as Artistic Administrator at Musiqa lies in the field of… well, music. When it came time to interview an acclaimed director and filmmaker, I was stumped at how to approach an interview without even a modicum of film knowledge. I figured since I wouldn’t...
by Emma Wine | Jan 9, 2019 | Blog, News
We had a few nagging questions for Karim Al-Zand, a member of Musiqa’s Artistic Board whose piece “Six Bagatelles” will be premiered at Traces of Blue. How does one become a composer? What is his piece going to be like, especially since it’s...
by Emma Wine | Jan 2, 2019 | News
Although our Speed-Composing Challenges have resulted in two wild world premieres, for our latest episode of Inner Chamber, I sat down with not a composer, but an artist. It came to me in a flash of divine inspiration: ever since I met Geraldina for the first time to...
by Emma Wine | Nov 30, 2018 | News
When I met Geraldina Interiano Wise for the first time at her studio just a few blocks from Musiqa’s Silver Street office, the first thing I noticed was her hands. They were constantly in motion — graceful, sweeping gestures and small, twitching movements. Her fingers...
