Called “a shining light” among jazz guitarists by the New Yorker, and one of the top ten guitarists in the world according to Musicians Magazine, Muthspiel is known for his intuitive, probing style and penchant for improvisation that has made him one of the most influential jazz guitarists of our time.

A cross between a mischievous character from Mark Twain’s America and a young Dolly Parton, Music Traveler ambassador Hillary Klug earned her chops on the fiddle as a full-time busker on her path to becoming an internationally renowned recording artist, the all-American buck dancing champion, and a YouTube star.

At age 29, cellist Alisa Weilerstein was awarded a MacArthur Foundation “genius grant” to take cello music to new heights. Although the award came to her as a surprise, Weilerstein, was well deserving of the accolade. Her phenomenal talent for interpreting compositions from the sixteenth century to modern times...

It’s no secret that Berlin’s vibrant music scene is a huge part of what keeps the German capital at the top of the world’s “hippest city” lists.

For many of us Fukishima, like Chernobyl for a previous generation, sparked a call for action and a deep reflection on environmental issues. For German Chancellor Angela Merkel, it meant a moratorium on nuclear energy, for Cota Biggbang it meant composing HumanERROR, a career-defining album that spoke out against the Japanese government’s shortsigh

Edoardo Longo Calgari’s beautiful Lichtenberg-based Soundrays Studio is the meeting point between his achievements as a music producer and co-founder of Berlin-based Cashmere Radio and his reputation for exciting mixing and recordings