In 2018, Barbara Hannigan came to the Tiny Desk with a pianist and her simply gorgeous voice — silvery, buttery-smooth throughout the registers, with crystalline top notes emerging from thin air and ...

Premiering a new work of music — let alone a work of “new music” — is a bit like striking a match: The release of its potential relies entirely on the moment of execution. That is, it needs to ignite ...

How does internationally acclaimed, Grammy Award-winning soprano Barbara Hannigan describe her performance of the notoriously thorny work of composer John Zorn? She compares it to Olympian Simone ...

British rock band Queen, American jazz legend Herbie Hancock, and Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan are the 2025 recipients of the Polar Music Prize. The three acts will be presented ...

Last week, the versatile and innovative singer and conductor Barbara Hannigan was named as Chief Conductor and Artistic Director of the Iceland Symphony Orchestra. The Canadian-born soprano forged her ...

Soprano Barbara Hannigan takes the spotlight on Electric Fields, a new collaborative album inspired by the 12th-century abbess and composer Hildegard von Bingen. (Marco Borggreve) Barbara Hannigan is ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by John Adams’s opera “Girls of the Golden West,” a recital program by Barbara Hannigan and a collection of Elgar symphonies are among the highlights.

Our critics choose highlights from a lineup that includes Joshua Bell, Nathalie Joachim, Barbara Hannigan and more. Hannigan, the rare artist to have a career as a soprano and a conductor, will assume ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit: Polar Music Prize/Marco Borggreve Odds are you’ve heard of Queen and Herbie Hancock and – ...

British rock royalty Queen, American jazz great Herbie Hancock and Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan are the 2025 recipients of the Polar Music Prize. The ceremony will be held on ...