Paul Horsley, Performing Arts Editor
Email: Paul@kcindependent.com
Paul studied piano and musicology at WSU and Cornell University. He also earned a degree in journalism, because writing about the arts in order to inspire others to partake in them was always his first love. After earning a PhD from Cornell, he became Program Annotator for the Philadelphia Orchestra, where he learned firsthand the challenges that non profits face. He moved to KC to join the then-thriving Arts Desk at The Kansas City Star, but in 2008 he happily accepted a post at The Independent. Paul contributes to national publications, including Dance Magazine, Symphony, Musical America, and The New York Times, and has conducted scholarly research in Germany, Austria and the Czech Republic (the latter on a Fulbright Fellowship). He also taught musicology at Cornell, LSU and Park University.
Features
Owen/Cox and Gilda’s Club enlist dance, music, and poetry to address cancer’s impact Dance is in many ways an ideal art form for expressing big emotions, for putting forth ideas…
NewEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble has performed hundreds of works by national and international composers over the 32 years of its existence, while maintaining a focus on those with connections to…
Few dancers who have graced Kansas City stages possess the drive, the depth of curiosity, or the breadth of performance experience that Emara Vonae’ Neymour Jackson can claim. The 26-year-old…
Late playwright’s portrait of a Black family confronts truth with humor and compassion Broke-ology is at once a Kansas City story and a universal story. It recounts a tale of illness…
