Anonymous 4 visited John Schaefer in the Soundcheck studio to perform and discuss songs from their new album, Secret Voices.

Anonymous 4's Secret Voices debuts at #22 on Billboard's TOP 50 Classical Chart.

ICO enthusiasts have the opportunity to preview the orchestra's U.S. touring program when the Irish Chamber Orchestra performs live from Limerick University Concert Hall on Thursday, October 20. The live-stream on www.platformireland.ie has been made possible through the Arts Council of Ireland Touring and Dissemination of Work Scheme 2011/12.

The U.S. premiere of Termon, a new work by Irish composer Mícheál Ó Suilleabháin commemorating the 10th anniversary of 9/11 will be among the many works played by Ireland's Irish Chamber Orchestra (ICO) on its 8-venue tour which starts October 24th as part of Imagine Ireland, Culture Ireland's year of Irish arts in America.

Anonymous 4 celebrates 25 years of music-making this year. In honor of their anniversary, and contributions to the choral and early music worlds, Kent Tritle highlights the quartet on this week's show. In addition to hearing their music, founding member Ruth Cunningham talks with Kent about the ensembles history and work together. Listen here.

Cantus will be featured on the Saturday, October 1 live broadcast of A Prairie Home Companion. The show airs live nationally at 6pm EST, and will be rebroadcast.

Cantus' performance of Timothy C. Takach's Luceat Eis aired as part of Performance Today's 9/11 tenth anniversary show.

From the New Sounds Live concerts at Merkin Hall, Anonymous 4 teams up with violinist Darol Anger and guitarist Scott Nygaard to revisit early American folk spirituals, shape-note hymns, and Gospel blues in their "Long Time Traveling" program. This is part two (of two) of this program. The first aired in January of 2007.

The June 24 edition of Sirius-XM's Symphony Hall with host Robert Aubry Davis features an interview and performance by Imani Winds. Tune in at 9PM Eastern.

Classic FM host Anne-Marie Minhall speaks with VBO founder Andrea Marcon about his passion for Baroque music, how the Orchestra came about, informed historical performance, and what makes them different from other orchestras as part of the Great Orchestras of the World series.

It's never to early for best-of lists and So Percussion's Threads is on this one from NPR Classical.

Imani Winds can be heard on the June 15th edition of Performance Today. Mendelssohn's Scherzo from A Midsummer Night's Dream, recorded at a fall 2010 San Antonio Chamber Music Society performance, is featured.

Next season, the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, under Marin Alsop, will lead the BSO in performances of Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light as a live soundtrack to the showing of Carl Theodor Dreyer's acclaimed 1928 silent film, The Passion of Joan of Arc. 2012 marks the 600th anniversary of Joan of Arc's birth.

Cantus can be heard on the May 30 edition of Performance Today. The program is not all traditional Memorial Day fare, but it does include music that is written in memorial of specific events or music that has become associated with memorializing loved ones.

Recipients of Chorus America's Margaret Hillis Award, Cantus has now been awarded the 2011 Chorus America Education Outreach Award, presented by Chorus America to ensembles that exemplify the true spirit of good education outreach efforts.

The New Sounds Live Concert Series features Bobby Previte's "Terminals," a set of five pocket concertos for five different soloists and orchestra, which had its premiere at Merkin Hall as part of the closing concert of the 2011 Ecstatic Music Festival. So Percussion has the role of "orchestra" for these works.

Minneapolis City Pages' annual "Best Of" issue names Cantus "Best Classical Musican" for 2011.

On Saturday, April 23rd at 9am, Linked, hosted by Peter Cummings, will feature an interview with Imani Winds. Linked is broadcast on Sirius XM Pops (channel 77 XM, channel 79 Sirius.) This show will be repeated on Sunday, the 24th, at 1 and 8pm, and on Monday, the 25th, at 11pm.

Boston Brass can be heard on the April 14 edition of Performance Today. Piazzolla's Oblivion, recorded at the 2010 Virginia Arts Festival, is featured.

New York Times' film critic A. O. Scott discusses Carl Theodor Dreyer's Film "The Passion of Joan of Arc," and what makes it an enduring classic. Hear the review, see clips of the film along with Richard Einhorn's "Voices of Light" performed by Anonymous 4 here.

The Enso String Quartet performs movements of world premiere pieces by Houston composers, Rob Smith and Kurt Stallman, as they preview The Art of Conversation, a program of new music and theater.

The Imani Winds joined Performance Today host Fred Child in the studio for three brand new pieces, each with a rich story behind them. You can hear the in-studio online, here.

On behalf of President and Mrs. Obama, the White House has extended an invitation to the National Chamber Choir of Ireland, to perform at the St. Patrick's Day reception at the White House in Washington DC this year.

So Percussion will be awarded the 2011 Trailblazer Award by the American Music Center. The 2011 AMC Awards will be presented on Monday, May 2, 2011, in a ceremony at the Chelsea Art Museum in New York City.

Trio Mediaeval's new album, A Worcester Ladymass, will stream here in its entirety until its release on March 15.

The NBC affiliate in Dallas-Fort Worth profiled So Percussion and their work with students at the University of North Texas. Video is available online.

St. Paul Chamber Orchestra opens their 2011-12 season on September 9th with a new work by Nico Muhly entitled Luminous Body, written for the SPCO and Cantus.

Anonymous 4 is prominently featured on Christopher Tin's Grammy winning album, Calling All Dawns. The recording received the award for "Best Classical Crossover Album."

Cantus will tour Greater Minnesota as part of Classical MPR's Artists-In-Residence program during the first months of 2011. The group will perform concerts in Ely, St. Peter, Grand Rapids and Crookston, MN.