Organist Philip Hartmann to record an album of music by Carson Cooman recorded on the organ of Pauluskirche, Ulm, Germany. Divine Art Records has for some time championed the music of prolific American composer Carson Cooman, and as well as two orchestral and one chamber albums has reached Volume 13 in the Cooman Organ Music series, performed by […]

In January 2020 pianist Tom Hicks began recording with the composer Camden Reeves for their new record for Metier, Blue Sounds for Piano. Since 2013, Camden has been working on a series of blues-inspired works for Tom – Tangle-Beat Blues (2013), Nine Preludes (2016) and Blue Sounds (2019) – which Tom has performed across the USA and UK. Blue Sounds was premiered in October […]

R.I.P. Susanne Beer We at Divine Art were devastated to hear of the untimely passing of cellist Susanne Beer in December 2019 after a battle with melanoma cancer at the age of 52. Susi was a lovely person in every way – a superb cellist, a fine educator and a dedicated supporter of young musicians […]

May 2020 will see the release of the new album by early music specialist Terence Charlston which contains the complete Fantasias and Canzonas by Johann Jacob Froberger (1616-1667) – this is the first ever recording of these works on clavichord. This recording was made in October 2019 at the Royal College of Music studios in […]

In 2020 Divine Art’s Métier label will release two volumes of ‘Pieces for Pianists’ by Manchester composer Eric Craven, performed by Mary Dullea. Volume 1 is likely to be issued in the early summer with Volume 2 following in the autumn. Each volume contains 25 Pieces, which were composed between 2016 and 2019. If Craven is to be defined […]

MusicWeb International critic Richard Hanlon has named Turning Towards You: Music By Robin Walker one of his 2019 Recordings of the Year! “I have recently begun to discover the music of Robin Walker, a York-born composer in his early sixties whose music invariably projects the tang and the loam of the northern English landscape. Turning […]

The Royal Academy of Music has announced their 2019 Honours List, and three Divine Artists have been recognized! Composer Basil Athanasiadis has been named as an Associate Member of the Royal Academy, composer Philip Cashian has been named as an Honorary Member of the Royal Academy, and pianist Andrew West has been named as a […]

Critic Daniel Kepl interviews composer Dr. Liz Johnson about her Mètier release, Intricate Web: Intricate Web: Music By Liz Johnson Liz Johnson is a British composer with a very special gift and distinctive style, definitely in the avant-garde mold yet not totally alien to ‘traditional-music’ lovers. ‘Intricate Web’ is not only the title of one […]

We now have several playlists on Spotify devoted to composers/instruments/genres and our latest includes music by our women composers (over 60 of them) – most contemporary. Amazing creativity – click ‘read more’ to access the playlist link:

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While we are waiting for a number of exciting new projects to be confirmed, DO check out the reviews that our recordings receive from the music press – ‘out of this world’ says Music Notes on one recent release. Click ‘browse’ – ‘reviews’ in the top menu or visit via composer, artist or title to […]

The American Prize’s Ernst Bacon Memorial Award for the Performance of American Music was announced today, and TWO Divine Art artists tied for 2nd Place for their performances released on Métier! Congratulations to both Chris Gekker for his award for his performances on Ghost Dialogues, and Ian Mitchell for his performances on Isn’t This a […]

Divine Art’s leading new-music label, Métier, has announced the second album of works by British composer Kevin Raftery, which is being recorded over the next few months and is scheduled for release in Autumn of 2020. Raftery sees his albums as progeny, created after a long gestation process so has titled this new collection ‘Second […]

After Sarah Rodgers’s The Roaring Whirl launch event, everyone’s talking about this exciting cross-cultural release! Planet Hugill The work gives a number of ways in for people. It tells the Kim story, the relationship between Kim and the Lama which is essentially a journey, and about friendship. Sarah finds Kipling’s book interesting because there is so little […]

On 8 October, 2019, London Myriad will launch their new Métier release, “Four”, at 1901 Arts Club in London with performances of excerpts from the recording before its 11 October release! FOUR is a recording which champions music for wind quartet and includes the world premiere recording of French female composer Claude Arrieu’s Suite en Quatre written […]

Illinois-based choir Cor Cantiamo has been selected to perform at the American Choral Directors’ Central/North Central Division convention next March. Also, the choir has been invited to be the group that premieres the ACDA Raymond Brock Commission Award winner. That is a singular honor for the choir and its conductor, Eric A. Johnson. The convention […]

Found in Winter – Music by Helen Habershon The music has been wonderfully arranged for small orchestra (most tracks) by John Lenehan and is unashamedly tuneful, though never simplistic; impressionistic and almost visual in its impact. This album follows two previous CDs which were Album of the Month and Album of the Week respectively on […]

Metier Records, a division of the Divine Art Recordings Group, will be releasing a new album of music by Sussex (England) based composer Ed Hughes. This will be Hughes’s fourth album for Metier in a series which includes an opera (CD/DVD set), a DVD of silent films with new music by Hughes, and a highly […]

The American branch of Divine Art Recordings has announced the signing of American pianist Justin Badgerow, whose debut album ‘Reminiscences of Brazil’ is to be recorded this autumn for release in 2020. Justin Badgerow is a pianist based in Lancaster, PA and is an Associate Professor of Music at Elizabethtown College. Dr. Badgerow holds degrees from University […]

We were saddened to hear of the passing of engineer extraordinaire Richard Scott yesterday after a long and very difficult battle with illness. As ‘RAS Audio’ Richard produced many albums for Divine Art and Metier over more than a decade and he will be greatly missed by the musicians who came to rely on his […]