There are singers, and there are artists, and sometimes they are the same person, and one is not better than the other; but as a description, this is a useful point of departure. Barbara Hannigan is ...

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 ...

Barbara Hannigan is fearless in the face of new music. The Canadian soprano has sung the world premiere of over 100 new works, and last year released a recording of songs by the contemporary American ...

Today's Beautiful Music epitomizes what it is to be multi-talented! Barbara Hannigan is a conductor AND a singer, and she demonstrates her skills in both areas with this 2018 performance. She leads ...

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 ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio – However deeply you think about music, Barbara Hannigan has you beat. She’s on a whole other level. You might have ideas, for instance, about the American-themed Cleveland Orchestra ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

joins Shad to discuss her rare talent for conducting and singing — at the same time. She also reflects on how the male-dominated conventions of opera are changing. "When I was a kid, I didn't even ...

British rock band Queen, American jazz legend Herbie Hancock, and Canadian soprano and conductor Barbara Hannigan are the ...

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 ...

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 ...