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LA-based composer Derrick Skye sat down with EURweb.com's Sana Kibz for an exclusive interview, offering insights into his remarkable journey

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Within classical music there are many small ensemble configurations that have, when it comes to published music to select from, an embarrassment of riches. The string quartet literature, for example,

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Leela Dance Collective announces an exclusive preview performance of Encounters with Beauty, with the Salastina music ensemble, November 10 as part of The California Festival. Encounters with Beauty is a collaboration between Leela Dance Collective, an internationally-touring kathak dance company that combines classical dance from North India with contemporary influences, and Salastina, hailed as a visionary chamber ensemble. 

American composer Derrick Skye is quickly becoming one of my favourite composers. Skye was born in Los Angeles. Through both his studies and his music, he has embraced the many musical traditions which have made a home in contemporary California. He has studied Western classical music, Persian classical music, Balkan music theory, Hindustani tala, and Ghanaian percussion. Skye is, at heart, a percussionist, and rhythm plays a big part of Skyes music. This has given his music incredible momentum....

David Truslove enjoys two successive evenings with BBC NOW's Proms 2023 at the Royal Albert Hall which brought American and Russian offerings together.

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Derrick Skye’s ambitious Nova Plexus has power but felt earthbound ultimately; soloist Annelien Van Wauwe impressed with Copland’s Clarinet Concerto; and the 200-strong choir ensured a barnstorming second half

Our guide to the new works being performed The BBC Proms 2023. For hundreds more guides visit https://www.classical-music.com/