Living Classical with Tyler Kline for May 10 - 16, 2026

On this edition of Living Classical with Tyler Kline: Love, in Travis LaPlante's String Quartet II, is not a simple feeling: it's a force that keeps expanding throughout the compositional process, from a father's sacrifice to a wedding day promise to starlight and angels and golden ladders. It's music that pushes consonant harmony to its limits before the melodic payoff arrives.

Then: In Inuit mythology, the inua is the soul that lives within all things–human beings, animals, icebergs, the sun and the moon. But the soul can fracture. Arnannguaq Gerstrøm's Broken Inua moves through an Arctic soundscape held between collapse and renewal.

Music by Kaitlyn Raitz, Kenji Bunch, Daniel Gilliam, Alejandro Viñao, María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir, Ruby Colley, Michaela Catranis, Tim Doyle, and Tom Kelly.

Featuring performances by Heather Thomas, violin; Cecilia Huerta-Lauf, cello; Sebastian Chang, piano; Ruby Colley, violin with Exaudi; Niklas Walentin, violin with Danish Chamber Players; Ben Roidl-Ward, bassoon; Zachary Good, clarinets; Isidora Nojkovic, cello; Resonance Ensemble; JACK Quartet; Portland Percussion Group; Iceland Symphony Orchestra; Exaudi; Mivos Quartet; Danish Chamber Players; and Crash Ensemble.

Join Tyler Kline for this edition of Living Classical – exploring the full spectrum of classical music being made today.

Hour 1

• For the Best by Kaitlyn Raitz

• Kenji Bunch’s Shout Out

• String Quartet II by Travis Laplante

• Spring from Daniel Gilliam’s Piano Trio No.2, “Payne Hollow”

• Bells Keep Tolling from Patterns & Form by Alejandro Viñao

• María Huld Markan Sigfúsdóttir’s Clockworking

Hour 2

• Duet 1 - Then by Ruby Colley

• Michaela Catranis’ luminous animal

• Broken Inua by Arnannguaq Gerstrøm

• Tim Doyle’s Fánaíocht – Topophilia – An Ode to Slow Living

• be still, mobius, be still by Tom Kelly