Kip Winger is a genre-bridging composer with a long and successful career in rock music affiliated with luminaries of the genre such as Alice Cooper, Alan Parsons, Roger Daltrey and Bob Dylan. Over the past two decades, however, Winger has been establishing himself as a composer of orchestral classical music. His celebrated ballet score, Conversations with Nijinsky, led conductor Giancarlo …

Conductor Giancarlo Guerrero is on a mission with the Nashville Symphony to expand the contemporary American concerto repertoire. Each of the three works on their new release spotlights a different facet of the relatively underexplored brass instrument family. Brad Warnaar’s Cornet Concerto is a witty and heartfelt homage to the rich heritage of 19th-century band music. Chick Corea’s Trombone Concerto, …