More good news! A Premiere by Marion Bauer!

by Liane Curtis | Nov 10, 2022

More good news! ….  And some silliness! Marion Bauer’s Symphony n. 1, one of the last works she composed,  will receive its long delayed  premiere on Nov. 15 by the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra. Bauer’s Symphony composed in 1951, was scheduled to...

Monday Link Round Up: April 20, 2020

by sarah | Apr 20, 2020

News and music to start your week! The Digital Festival of Women in Music ( German version, Feminale der Musik) continues TODAY (April 20) with live interviews about Ethel Smyth (with Marleen Hoffmann) and Rebecca Clarke (with WPA President Liane Curtis, in English 🙂 ...

Featured Guest Blogger: Anna Edwards

by sarah | Jan 27, 2017

We are thrilled to share our newest installment in our Featured Guest Blogger series.  Dr. Anna Edwards is a conductor and educator in the Seattle area.  Two of her ensembles, the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra and the Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, have been...

Coming Concerts

by sarah | Oct 26, 2016

Two more great events to look forward toward this weekend from WPA Performance Grant winners!! The Saratoga Orchestra of Whidbey Island, under the direction of Anna Edwards, will perform American composer Margaret Brouwer’s Sizzle.  The piece was originally...

Upcoming Premieres in Seattle

by sarah | Nov 4, 2015

I am late in congratulating the Saratoga Chamber Orchestra of Whidbey Island in their performance of Lili Boulanger’s D’un matin de printemps and D’un sir triste.  We at WPA were so thrilled to help fund this performance of works by such a talented...