Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Migration, NOVA’s May 1 concert. Learn More →
Songs of Migration
Songs of the Americas
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of the Americas, NOVA’s April 10 concert. Learn More →
Songs of Play
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Play, NOVA’s January 16 concert. Learn More →
Songs of Perseverance
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Perseverance, NOVA’s January 16 concert. Learn More →
Songs of Life
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Life, NOVA’s November 14 concert. Learn More →
Songs of Gratitude
Jeff Counts discusses the music performed on Songs of Gratitude, the first concert in NOVA’s 2021/22 Season. Learn More →
Cahill Smith on Medtner
Pianist Cahill Smith tells us why he’s so in love with the music of Nikolai Medtner. Learn More →
Okpebholo, Loggins-Hull, Hailstork, and Bach
Jason Hardink and Caitlyn Valovick Moore perform works by three great American composers. Then six violists and cellists each take on a movement of Bach’s famous Third Suite for Solo Cello. Learn More →
psalms, hymns, and spiritual songs
How does a musician present works from diverse voices in a way that respects their origins? Jason Hardink wrestles with the question in a discussion with Jeff Counts. Learn More →
Xenakis, Puts, Tower, Brouwer, and Beethoven
Enjoy a full-length concert of chamber music performances by NOVA musicians. This concert features an early work by Iannis Xenakis, three works by living American composers, and one of Beethoven’s final piano sonatas. Learn More →
Joan Tower Grows “Wings”
Composer Joan Tower talks about her love for chamber music, her approach to mentoring young composers, and what new pieces she has in store. Learn More →
Urban Classical Funk (Ed Bland: For Bassoon)
Bassoonist Lori Wike explores the music of a composer who wasn’t afraid to defy genre boundaries and discover his own voice. Learn More →
A New Year’s Surprise (Green: Portraits; Beethoven: Piano Sonata No. 29 “Hammerklavier”, op. 106)
We have a New Year’s surprise for you—a full recital by pianist Jason Hardink! Learn More →
Beethoven Writes His Own Funeral Music (Drei Equale for Four Trombones, WoO 30)
Beethoven’s Drei Equale were composed in honor of All Souls’ Day, but they would find their real place in history after the composer’s death, when they were performed at his funeral and the dedication of his tombstone. Learn More →
Mozart Misses His Mom (Violin Sonata No. 21, K. 304)
Alone in a foreign land and grieving the loss of his mother, the 22-year-old Mozart put pen to paper and produced some of the most poignant music he would ever create. Learn More →
The Crossroads Series: VI. Stories
We speak with two artists who are using their work to explore humanity's interaction with the environment. Composer Gabriela Lena Frank and playwright Chantal Bilodeau discuss how the arts bring discussions of climate change and sustainability center stage. Learn More →
The Crossroads Series: V. People
Photographer Garth Lenz and systems scientist Dr. Elizabeth Sawin help us take the details of the past four episodes, process them together, and see the big picture—both through Lenz's aerial photography and Sawin's "multisolving" approach to systemic change. Learn More →
The Crossroads Series: IV. Food
We’ve talked about water. We’ve talked about life. Now it’s time to talk about dinner. The menu includes agro-ecology and sustainable food, prepared by farmer Chris Smaje. Learn More →
The Crossroads Series: III. Life
Ecologist John Shivik has spent his life studying predator-prey relationships. He and visual artist Rebecca Allan bond over their mutual love of gardening (and discuss how her art for Rising Tide explores humanity’s place in the intricate web of life on our planet). Learn More →
The Crossroads Series: II. Water
Robert Waters and Dr. Rob Davies discuss the creation of "H2O", the second movement in Laura Kaminsky's string quartet Rising Tide, which is featured in the new film from The Crossroads Project. They are joined by the composer and Dr. Ben Abbott, Assistant Professor of Ecosystem Biology at BYU. Learn More →