Japanese musician and film composer Ryuichi Sakamoto died during a battle with cancer on March 28, according to recording company Avex. Sakamoto was initially diagnosed with throat cancer in 2014, and ...

Michael Brook has collaborated with some of the most influential filmmakers and musicians of the last 40 years without ever threatening to become a household name. When I spoke to the inventor and ...

A. R. Rahman remains one of India’s most globally recognised composers, reinventing music and sound with each album he puts ...

There was a time not long ago in the classical music world when melody was considered passé. Young composers making their way through academia were encouraged to leave hummable tunes behind in favor ...

Composer and musician Randy Edelman chatted about his upcoming show on September 22 at Chelsea Table + Stage in New York. Edelman has written over 100 soundtracks for such films as “Last of the ...

Ryuichi Sakamoto, the Oscar-winning composer famous for his scores for The Last Emperor and Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence, among others, died March 28 at the age of 71. Sakamoto's management company ...

Lebanese musician and composer Ziad Rahbani, son of the iconic singer Fairuz and a pioneer of fusion jazz, has died at the age of 69 of a heart attack. “On Saturday at 9:00am, the heart of the great ...

Quincy Jones, who expanded the American songbook as a musician, composer and producer and shaped some of the biggest stars and most memorable songs in the second half of the 20th century, has died. He ...

The composer for TV shows including 'M*A*S*H' and 'Mission: Impossible' died on Saturday, Sept. 21 Charna Flam is a writer-reporter at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2023. Her work has ...

Catherine Christer Hennix was an expansive musician, composer and artist, though even that description does not quite sum up what she did with her music, which combined drones and minimalism with ...

Perhaps best known for his Tony Award and Pulitzer Prize-winning work on the musical Next to Normal, and later Bring It On and If/Then, Kitt's career has continued to flourish even more in recent ...

Jean Barraqué is a 33-year-old French composer who detests daylight, the concertgoing public (“Asses! Imbeciles!”) and his own music. His ambition in life, he explains, is “to live 60 years, more or ...