Anastasia Tsioulcas
Anastasia Tsioulcas is a reporter on NPR's Arts desk. She is intensely interested in the arts at the intersection of culture, politics, economics and identity, and primarily reports on music. Recently, she has extensively covered gender issues and #MeToo in the music industry, including backstage tumult and in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations against megastar singer Pl谩cido Domingo; gender inequity issues at the and the of sexual misconduct against singer R. Kelly.
On happier days, Tsioulcas has celebrated the life of the late , traveled to Havana to profile musicians and , revealed the hidden artistry of an Indian virtuoso who spent 60 years and brought listeners into the creative process of composers and .
Tsioulcas was formerly a reporter and producer for NPR Music, where she covered breaking news in the music industry as well as a wide range of musical genres and artists. She has also produced episodes for NPR Music's much-lauded , and has hosted live concerts from venues like the and New York's . She also commissioned and produced several world premieres on behalf of NPR Music, including a live event that brought together to debut a new work together. As a video producer, she created high-profile video shorts for NPR Music, including performances by cellist Yo-Yo Ma in a Brooklyn theatrical props and pianist Yuja Wang in an Steinway & Sons piano factory.
Tsioulcas has also reported from north and west Africa, south Asia, and across Europe for NPR and other outlets. Prior to joining NPR in 2011, she was widely published as a writer and critic on both classical and world music, and was the North America editor for Gramophone Magazine and the classical music columnist for Billboard.
Born in Boston and based in New York, Tsioulcas is a lapsed classical violinist and violist (shoutout to all the overlooked violists!). She graduated from Barnard College, Columbia University with a B.A. in comparative religion.
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We're guessing some yoga and Pilates classes preceded a round of musical and physical one-upwomanship that's gone viral.
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He has all kinds of other things going for him, but star student Kwasi Enin wrote in his college essay that music is the core of his happiness. Maybe that's why all eight Ivy League schools want him. -
Four decades after its first performance, the San Francisco-based string quartet still nudges composers and audiences in new directions. -
A quartet of talented percussionists 鈥� Sandeep Das, Shane Shanahan, Mark Suter and Joseph Gramley 鈥� create deep grooves out of their Silk Road Ensemble collaboration.
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Watch the superstar cellist Yo-Yo Ma and many of his close friends from all over the world in action at a theatrical props warehouse in Brooklyn.
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To mark the venturesome string quartet's 40 years of commissioning and performing new music, composers Steve Reich, Terry Riley and others recall their favorite Kronos memories. -
A "pro-am" outreach experiment at the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra gives way to a burst of fun music-making: a one-performance, pop-up orchestra of professionals, students and amateurs of all ages.
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A slapstick 18 seconds for your day, when a trombonist fights back a sneeze mid-performance 鈥� and fails miserably.
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Whether you love or hate his ideas about commissioning new works and updating the classics, this Belgian impresario shifted public expectations of a night at the opera 鈥� permanently.
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For this year's Academy Awards, three documentaries 鈥� 20 Feet from Stardom, The Square and The Lady in Number 6 鈥� use musicians' lives and experiences to frame some very big ideas.
