Interview with Caroline Shaw

by sarah | Mar 2, 2015

New Music Box just posted a fabulous conversation with Pulitzer Prize winning composer Caroline Shaw.  At the time she won the Pulitzer much was made about her age (she was only 30 – the youngest ever person to win) and her training, or lack thereof.  You can...

WPA News Digest – September 9, 2024

by Kathleen McGowan | Sep 9, 2024

Our big news this week is the Seattle Symphony’s announcement that Xian Zhang will be its next music director beginning in the 2025/26 season! This appointment distinguishes her as the first woman conductor to head a major orchestra on the US West Coast. Zhang...

WPA News Digest – July 29, 2024

by Liane Curtis | Jul 29, 2024

Hope your week is off to a great start! Continuing the shake-up at the NYPhil, “A Power Vacuum at the Philharmonic” offers further reporting from Sammy Sussman at New York magazine.  The April article “A Hidden Sexual-Assault Scandal at the New York Philharmonic”...

WPA News Digest – July 22, 2024

by Kathleen McGowan | Jul 22, 2024

We hope you are enjoying your summer!  Here are a few of the exciting things happening!! On July 23 from 4:00 to 5:30 PM composer Nathalie Joachim will offer a Master Class in the Visiting Masters – Composition series at the Grant Park Music Festival (Chicago). The...

WPA News Digest, June 24th 2024

by Kathleen McGowan | Jun 24, 2024

The summer of 2024 is shaping up to be a summer of women conductors—a welcome sight in a classical music landscape that has famously been hostile to women on the podium. On July 5 & 6, Dalia Stasevska will lead the Sydney Symphony Orchestra in a program of Finnish...