Originally published November 8, 2014, last revised February 7, 2025
This is a listing of various and sundry online resources for performers and composers that I have found useful.
It’s updated as I find new and interesting things.
- Bear McCreary’s Blog: Blog from the up-and-coming composer of Battlestar Galactica. Very informative insight behind his music.
- Capella Romana: Byzantine and chant performers out of Portland, OR.
- Ensemble Organum: Marcel Peres and his excellent early music ensemble
- Philip Glass: American Composer
- Soeur Marie Keyrouz: Lebanese-born nun and musicologist focused on Early and Eastern Liturgical music
- Ute Lemper: Singer, chanteuse, interpreter of Weill and Nyman
- Michael Nyman: British music critic turned composer, best known for collaboration with Peter Greenaway
- Pink Martini: Funky and punky lounge and swing band from Portland, OR.
- Jordi Savall, Montserrat Figueras, and Hesperion: The power couple of early music and their ensemble
- The Tallis Scholars: Excellent early music group
- Silk Road Project: Yo Yo Ma’s education and music project celebrating music of the cultures of the old Silk Road
- Smithsonian Folkways: The Smithsonian’s project to preserve music of peoples and cultures the world over