News to start your week!

Our Generosity Campaign is underway!  Help us raise funding so that we can continue to make positive impact with our Performance Grants, helping more professional, community, and student ensembles expand their repertoire to include works by women composers!  (And grab some fun thank you gifts!)

Frank Oteri at NewMusicBox had a great, and extensive, conversation with Scottish composer Thea Musgrave!  Read the conversation online here, and watch below:


The 2018 Grammy Award Nominees have been announced – including two different nominations for Jennifer Higdon!  (Best Classical Compendium for the recording of All Things Majestic, Viola Concerto & Oboe Concerto; Best Contemporary Classical Composition for her Viola Concerto).  The Viola Concerto was commissioned by the Library of Congress – read more about their relationship to the work, and how to watch a performance online, at the LOC blog, In the Muse.

Don’t forget to support the Compass New Music concert series by buying a T-shirt from Listening to Ladies!  Show the world what a composer, conductor, music theorist, or musicologist looks like!