New Recording of Clara Schumann

by sarah | Feb 23, 2015

Internationally acclaimed pianist Imogen Cooper just released a new CD pairing the works of Robert and Clara Schumann. Geoffrey Norris, of The Telegraph, reviewed the CD highly, while also acknowledging the too-often-forgotten history: The situation today, however, is...

The “Female Beethoven” rediscovered in north Germany!

by Liane Curtis | Feb 21, 2015

“The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin.  And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!”  So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier  in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie...

Women Composers Festival of Hartford

by sarah | Feb 19, 2015

For the past fourteen years the Women Composers Festival of Hartford has been a champion for women’s work in music.  The annual event, this year being held March 4-8, features fabulous concerts and conversations about the historic and contemporary women...

U.S. Premiere for Sylvie Bodorova

by sarah | Feb 18, 2015

I was thrilled to read that the Fairfax Symphony Orchestra presented the U.S. Premiere of Czech composer Sylvie Bodorova’s Symphony No. 1.  Read the review in the Washington Post. The work was first premiered in March of 2011 – what a shame that it has...

Lancaster Symphony is Honoring Tina Davidson

by sarah | Feb 17, 2015

This weekend one of our Performance Grant winners, the Lancaster Symphony in Pennsylvania, will honor the life and work of Tina Davidson, recipient of this year’s Composer Award, given annually by the Lancaster Symphony to a contemporary classical composer for...