Masaru was born in La Paz, Bolivia, the son of a Japanese father and Bolivian mother. He is currently a teaching artist and freelance pianist in Phoenix, Arizona.

On the musical rhetoric of Joseph Haydn in his sonatas and variations: Joseph Haydn’s sonatas and variations for keyboard instruments were long overshadowed by Mozart’s piano compositions. While they are now performed more frequently in concerts, the overwhelming richness of these compositions is still not nearly adequately appreciated by audiences. There are so many aspects to discover, such as cantabile qualities and a broad linguistic palette with rich articulation. Dynamic and agogic agility, wit and intellectual brilliance characterise Haydn’s music, thereby contributing to an extraordinarily incisive narrative style with oftentimes dizzying dialogues.

With its broad register and earthy timbre, the clarinet is a powerhouse of emotional expression. Fitting then, that composer Jenni Brandon chose the instrument to represent the raw beauty of the Pacific Coast. SONGS OF SEA AND STONE offers a collection of world premiere recordings for clarinet, capturing the awe-inspiring beauty of the west, from the Golden State to Baja California, where rugged mountains meet the sea, and everything in between.

Rising Alternative R&B star Jenevieve is back. Following her return with a pair of singles in “Head Over Heels” and “Haiku” this year, the genre-blurring artist has announced her upcoming new album, CRYSALIS, is arriving on August 8th.

The lifelong impact of a meaningful teacher can not be overstated, but it can be commemorated. On DEAR CAMILLA, violinist Patrick Galvin pays tribute to his former teacher, Camilia Wicks, with a program of repertoire for violin and piano. Galvin and pianist Jennifer Hou navigate works by Sibelius, Chopin, Sarasate, Chausson, Pärt, and Beach with aplomb in a meaningful tip of the hat to an educator whose influence changed a life.

Dollar A Day is the new album from GRAMMY Award-nominated artist Charley Crockett. The second installment in The Sagebrush Trilogy, the album sees Charley reunite with co-producer Shooter Jennings for 15 electrifying new recordings. Like its predecessor Lonesome Drifter, Dollar A Day was recorded at the fabled Sunset Sound Studio 3 in Hollywood. In Charley's words, "With Lonesome Drifter, it felt like we opened the portal. With Dollar A Day, we stepped through and came out the other side."

“She managed to unfold a wide array of colours from the historic instruments of the excellent Insula Orchestra and she demonstrates a true passion for music. The evening ends in a thundering applause.

The album marks a reset - a quiet revolution. After years of relentless international touring, Levy felt an urgent need for community and renewal. Gruelling road schedules with very little support left her wondering: who am I really doing all this for? The system was uncaring and broken, and so it was that she came to envision a new healthy and healing mode of musical genesis. 'For me, that looked like resting, extending my creative reach, going back to school, studying painting and poetry,' she explains. 'Taking a step away from music as guided by industry expectations. Simplifying things. Getting a job, starting to teach. Engaging with the process rather than the product.' This need for a more deliberate creative renewal was rejected by her existing systems of support, so she began the search for an alternative.

Monzanto Sound are a rising South East London-based music collective fusing together different styles from the African Diaspora with a hypnotic, psychedelic edge and a passion for the alchemical practice of sonic storytelling. Traversing through jazz-inflected funk, psychedelic trip-hop and cosmic neo-soul; they connect the dots using pulsating grooves, hypnotic polyrhythms and soaring vocals. The band consists of Mimi Koku on vocals, Mali Baden-Powell on keys, Wazoo Baden Powell on drums, Anthony Boatright on bass and Rachel Asafo-Agyei on guitar and supporting vocals.

Chris Staples’ ‘Don’t Worry’ is a beautiful portrait of stillness, born from a welcome life gear change. Leaning further into his introspective Americana style, the record is warm and minimalist. Intimate songs with soothing pedal steel and subtle piano explore triumphs and regrets with personal, poetic lyrics, offering an uplifting rumination on the maturity gained with age and the sense of it all…

The six sonatas for violin and obbligato harpsichord BWV 1014–1019 by Johann Sebastian Bach are works in trio sonata form, with the two upper parts in the harpsichord and violin over a bass line supplied by the harpsichord and an optional viola da gamba. Unlike baroque sonatas for solo instrument and continuo, where the realisation of the figured bass was left to the discretion of the performer, the keyboard part in the sonatas was almost entirely specified by Bach. They were probably mostly composed during Bach's final years in Cöthen between 1720 and 1723, before he moved to Leipzig. The extant sources for the collection span the whole of Bach's period in Leipzig, during which time he continued to make changes to the score.

DISSIDENTS OF THE GILDED AGE is Duo FAE’s tribute to three pioneering women composers whose work and lives defied the social confines of their time. Featuring Trois Morceaux op. 31 by Cécile Chaminade, Violin Sonata in A minor, op. 7 from suffragette Dame Ethel Smyth, and Amy Beach’s sweeping Violin Sonata in A minor, op. 34, these chamber works for violin and piano stand as acts of bold artistic and political expression. Anchored in the women’s suffrage movement of the 19th and early 20th centuries, this collection connects historical and musical dissidence with the present and enduring fight for Women’s Rights.

Jonathan Moritz is a saxophonist and composer whose trio Secret Tempo returns with Love You to Death, their second album marking over two decades of collaboration between Moritz (tenor saxophone), Shayna Dulberger (double bass), and Mike Pride (drums). Rooted deeply in jazz tradition yet boldly exploratory, the trio continues its profound investigation into spontaneous interplay, emotional expression, and the delicate balance between composition and improvisation.

A.C.T., a progressive rock/pop band from Sweden, was formed in 1995. A.C.T. attracted attention with their outstanding performance technique, meticulous compositional beauty, and sound with a theatrical worldview, and made their album debut in 1999 with "Today's Report". Since then, their one-of-a-kind style, which skillfully blends theatrical elements with a pop sensibility, has garnered support not only from the progressive rock community but also from a wide range of listeners. In recent years, they have started to release EPs in four parts, aiming to revitalize their activities by releasing works in a shorter span of time compared to the production of conventional albums. In 2023, A.C.T. released its third mini-album, "Falling," which was highly acclaimed by fans.

The Symphony No. 5 in C minor, Op. 67, also known as the Fate Symphony, is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven between 1804 and 1808. It is one of the best-known compositions in classical music and one of the most frequently played symphonies, and it is widely considered one of the cornerstones of western music. First performed in Vienna's Theater an der Wien in 1808, the work achieved its prodigious reputation soon afterward. E. T. A. Hoffmann described the symphony as "one of the most important works of the time". As is typical of symphonies during the Classical period, Beethoven's Fifth Symphony has four movements.