MIT professor Evan Ziporyn conducts a rehearsal of his arrangement of David Bowie's "Blackstar" featuring cellist Maya Beiser. (Jesse Costa/WBUR) Classical music and rock can make for awkward ...

Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Evan Ziporyn is leaving the new music ensemble Bang on a Can, according to The New York Times. A clarinetist and composer who has been involved with the group ...

Best-known for his association with genre-defying contemporary chamber group Bang on a Can, Evan Ziporyn as been gradually amassing a body of written work that is evidence of an equally ...

Evan Ziporyn’s concert next Tuesday at MIT celebrates his “20,000th day on earth.” At first glance you might think that Ziporyn, a musically omnivorous composer, clarinetist, and gamelanist, is trying ...

In its brief existence, Cantaloupe Music has become one of the most intrepid labels in new music, and clarinetist Evan Ziporyn, a member of the Bang on a Can All-Stars, has emerged as one of its most ...

Sometimes the best guidance is provided unwittingly, like the kind Sonny Rollins delivered through his playing to a 20-something musician in the tenor sax titan’s concert audience: “I got this ...

Unlock access to every one of the hundreds of articles published daily on BroadwayWorld by logging in with one click. The Boston Globe recently described internationally renowned cellist Maya Beiser ...

It’s rare enough for a person to come from one culture and excel in the music of another. But to master the music to the point of becoming part of the tradition is something else. Clarinetist and Bang ...

In fourth grade at Evanston Lab School, Evan Ziporyn “really wanted to play the trumpet. That was what all the boys wanted to do. But my lungs weren’t strong enough, so I settled for the clarinet.” In ...

Just a reminder that Laurie Anderson‘s Delusion is still at BAM through this week (minus Monday, Sept 27). The show is definitely worth a look. The same month of the opera, Evan will have a night at ...

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