Did you see the news about our International Call for Scores winners? Kudos to Yi-Ting Lu and Nathaniel Heyder!

Treat yourself to new music on Friday, April 9. We're delighted to bring you interviews with the composers and new music performed by saxophonist Allison Adams, percussionist Eric Willie, bass flutist Lisa Cella, and cellist Ashley Walters. - mailchi.mp/niefnorf/1-1-s…

Come be part of “the ultimate environmental piece” (John Luther Adams’ “Inuksuit”) on April 18 at 2 & 5 PM! Plus, you are going to 💚love💚 Y’s “sequoia”!! We can’t wait to share this performance with you presented by Big Ears Festival and Knoxville Botanical!

🎧 TUNE IN TOMORROW! 🎧 April 9 - 7 PM ET - Music by Azariah Felton, Huijuan Ling, Alex Shanafelt, Jimmy Levi, & Lawton Hall performed by saxophonist Allison Adams, percussionist Eric Willie, flutist Lisa Cella, & cellist Ashley Walters. - mailchi.mp/niefnorf/1-1-r…

Nief-Norf 1:1 Virtual Concert niefnorf.org/2019-21/2021/4…

Big Ears presents John Luther Adams' 'Inuksuit' & Yaz Lancaster's 'sequoia', performed by Nief-Norf niefnorf.org/2019-21/bigear…

See you in an hour? Music by Azariah Felton, Huijuan Ling, Alex Shanafelt, Jimmy Levi, & Lawton Hall performed by saxophonist Allison Adams, percussionist Eric Willie, flutist Lisa Cella, & cellist Ashley Walters. - mailchi.mp/niefnorf/1-1-r…

April 18 at 2PM & 5PM: Big Ears Festival and Nief-Norf team up for John Luther Adams' "Inuksuit" & Yaz Lancaster's "sequoia" at the Knoxville Botanical Gardens & Arboretum. - mailchi.mp/niefnorf/big-e…

Announcing the C-P-I Summit: Composer-Performer-Improviser! mailchi.mp/niefnorf/cpi-s… Applications now open; due June 04! niefnorf.org/cpi

Michael Gordon's Timber turns 10 and we're celebrating with 12 hours of streaming performances of Timber by ensembles from around the World, interviews with performers/collaborators, archival videos, remixes, & more! Tune in Sun, 6/20 12pm EDT here: live.bangonacan.org/timber-maratho…

I spoke with Kyle Long on WFYI ’s Cultural Manifesto about my experience with composer/performer Ellen Fullman at the Nief-Norf Summer Festival, and how it shaped my new work “Make A Killing Year”. podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/jor…

Alvin Lucier, 1931-2021 nytimes.com/2021/05/11/art…

Hearing Music on a Long Thin Wire at Nief-Norf in 2016 changed so much about how I thought of sound and its possibilities, and ultimately my relationship to music. RIP to one of the greatest 💔

Apply now for Nief-Norf Summer Festival nnSF22! - *|niefnorf.org/apply|*

Announcing Mark Applebaum as a nnSF22 Guest Artist! mailchi.mp/niefnorf/nnsf2…

Video premiere! Awaken is admittedly intense. Each performance takes on the character of the musicians involved. This one from the talented fellows at Nief-Norf 2018 is one of my faves. Awaken can be found on my new EP "Union". Video by Four/Ten Media youtu.be/W3bQhhrwThE

A pleasure to put together this feature on Johanna Beyer's extraordinary music bachtrack.com/feature-agains…

John Diliberto of Echoes shares his experiences at Big Ears: “from a mélange of John Zorn works to the outer spaces of Sun Ra Arkestra to the driving minimalist electronics of Caterina Barbieri and the joy of Ibeyi.” echoes.org/2023/04/06/big…

"I really needed to be a composer. I was very unhappy before I dared to take this path, so maybe I would have been an unhappy organist in a small village in Finland. I don’t know." Kaija Saariaho (in a 2016 interview with @knitandlisten) van-magazine.com/mag/kaija-saar…