Nico Muhly

Composer Christopher Rouse, photographed in New York City in 2005. Jeffrey Herman/Boosey & Hawkes hide caption

Nico Muhly, Sufjan Stevens and Bryce Dessner talking with NPR Music's Bob Boilen Annabel Edwards/NPR hide caption

Clockwise from upper left: Frankie Cosmos, Feist, Rostam, Beth Ditto Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Sleater-Kinney (from left, Janet Weiss, Carrie Brownstein and Corin Tucker) will release new music as part of a series to benefit Planned Parenthood. Neilson Barnard/Getty Images for The New Yorker hide caption

Sufjan Stevens in the "Saturn" video. YouTube hide caption

As a teenager, composer Nico Muhly listened to Philip Glass' Music in 12 Parts as his New York soundtrack. Ana Cuba/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Nico Muhly. Samantha West/Courtesy of the artist hide caption

Nico Muhly's new album, Seeing Is Believing, comes out June 21. Samantha West/Bedroom Community Records hide caption

Edwin Outwater leads the Kitchener Waterloo Symphony in fresh music from the 40 and under crowd. Kitchener Waterloo Symphony hide caption

Some of the folks we follow on Twitter. Anastasia Tsioulcas hide caption

Composer Nico Muhly: "I'm positive I understand how augmented chords change an emotional texture because of Nintendo music." Samantha West/courtesy of the artist hide caption