Levi Hammer
Spotlight 35
2025 Artist Picks
2025 Top 20s

Vin Downes & Tom Eaton
Jeff Lederer
Movses Pogossian
Paul Silbergleit
Bjarke Falgren
Yolanda Kondonassis
Sarah Rothenberg
Clara Yang
Barbara Hannigan
Rayo & Grünberg
Fie Schouten
Sevilla & Colom
Laurie Altman
Jennifer Bellor
Seán Clancy
New York Festival of Song
Cathal Breslin
Cam Butler
Lucía Caihuela
The Westerlies
Chicago Soul Jazz Coll.
Holliger & Schüpbach
Bruce Levingston
Monteiro & Santos
Atlantic Road Trip
Levi Hammer
Larionova, Biondi, Pastine
Phil Sargent
Galán / Spieth / Guentner
Ho & Quilico
Raymond J. Lustig
Veronika Wu
Richard Carrick
Freysteinn
Orli Shaham
Sean Shibe
Paulo Almeida
María Grand
Jakob Bloch Jespersen
Joyful Company of Singers

























































photo: Bjarke Falgren

Five Questions with Levi Hammer
Spotlight 35: Joshua Achiron, Hilary Geddes, Matt Greenwood
2025 Artist Picks
2025 Top 20s

Vin Downes & Tom Eaton: Until The Light Was Gone (Vin Downes & Tom Eaton)
Jeff Lederer: There's a Yearnin' - Music For Winds and Voice (little (i) music)
Movses Pogossian: Stanzas in August (New Focus Recordings)
Paul Silbergleit: The Stillness of July (Calligram Records)

Bjarke Falgren: Turkis (Zacks Talent)
Yolanda Kondonassis: Terra Infirma (Azica Records)
Sarah Rothenberg: In Darkness and Light (DACAMERA Editions)
Clara Yang: xmachina (Bright Shiny Things)

Barbara Hannigan & the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra: An American Dream? (Alpha Classics)
Esther Rayo & Peter Grünberg: Estrellita (Divine Art)
Fie Schouten, Vincent Courtois, Sofia Borges, Pierre Baux: Open Space (Relative Pitch Records)
Claudia Dafne Sevilla & Josep Colom: Santiago de Masarnau: Piano Works (Eudora Records)

Laurie Altman: Briefly: Songs & Poems (Navona Records)
Jennifer Bellor: Catching Clouds (Lexicon Classics)
Seán Clancy: Where the Paths End (NMC Recordings)
New York Festival of Song: My Brother's Keeper (NYFOS Records)

Cathal Breslin: Stories & Soundscapes (Blue Griffin Recording)
Cam Butler: World Forever (Heavy Machinery Records)
Lucía Caihuela, José Antonio Montaño, & La Madrileña: E-Motion (Eudora Records)

The Westerlies: Have You Heard: The Music of Bill Frisell, Vol. 1 (Westerlies Records)

Chicago Soul Jazz Collective: No Wind & No Rain (Calligram Records)
Heinz Holliger & Marie-Lise Schüpbach: Con Slancio (ECM New Series)
Bruce Levingston: The Elastic Heart of Youth (Sono Luminus)
Bruno Monteiro & João Paulo Santos: Late Romantic Music for Violin and Piano (Etcetera Records)

Atlantic Road Trip: Watch As the Echo Falls (Calligram Records)
Levi Hammer: Gershwin in Vienna (decurio)
Tatiana Larionova, Martina Biondi, & Sara Pastine: Cécile Chaminade (Da Vinci Classics)
Phil Sargent: Solo Motions (Phil Sargent)

Galán / Spieth / Guentner: Obreel (Affin)
Alice Ping Yee Ho & Christina Petrowska Quilico: The Imagined (Navona Records)
Raymond J. Lustig: Semmelweis (Sono Luminus)
Veronika Wu: Under the Ocean: Mermaid (Navona Records)

Richard Carrick: l'Algérie (New Focus Recordings)
Freysteinn: Thoughts (Protomaterial Records)
Orli Shaham and members of Pacific Symphony: American Tapestry (Pacific Symphony)
Sean Shibe: Vesper (Pentatone)

Paulo Almeida: Love in Motion (Dox Records)
María Grand: Both Sides (Lilaila Records)
Jakob Bloch Jespersen & Peter Navarro-Alonso: And I gave my heart (OUR Recordings)
Joyful Company of Singers: Uncertain Sea: Choral Music by John Casken (Métier)