Not every young pianist is willing to build a programme around composers as different as Bach, Mozart, Liszt, and Rachmaninoff. Fewer still can make those transitions feel natural. Yet that was one of the most striking aspects of Anna Smerdova’s appearance at the Tiziano Rossetti International Music Academy concert in Lugano on June 11. From […]
Stephen Wicks is preparing to release one of his most urgent and ambitious songs yet with “The Doomsday Clock (85 Seconds To Midnight),” a rock single that confronts the fears shaping modern society. Built around the image of humanity standing dangerously close to midnight, the track takes inspiration from the symbolic Doomsday Clock maintained by […]