by Liane Curtis | Dec 4, 2020
Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy has launched our year-end fund-drive! Over the years we have worked to support orchestras in their efforts to program more works by women, and to bring these composers — of all historic eras, and from a range of backgrounds...
by Liane Curtis | Jul 22, 2020
We apologise for taking so long to get back to Part II of our post about composer and violinist Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Part I, about her life, is found here. Our guest author is the London-based musician Martin Ash, whose website is...
by Liane Curtis | May 28, 2020
We are so excited to share this archived broadcast (from KPFK’s Pacifica Radio, 1991, 2 hours in length) that features an interview with Maestro JoAnn Falletta from 1991. The Women’s Philharmonic (still known as The Bay Area Women’s Philharmonic)...
by Liane Curtis | May 25, 2020
Taking up our #ThinkOutsideTheBachs challenge, London-based musician Martin Ash offers engaging insights on the groundbreaking and innovative violinist-composer (also singer and keyboard player) Maddalena Laura Lombardini Sirmen (1745-1818). Martin Ash is a viola...
by Liane Curtis | May 3, 2020
We are happy to report that the Met Opera’s ongoing daily streams (offered in response to their cancelling the remainder of their season because of COVID-19) will feature a work by a woman, Kaija Saariaho’s “L’amour de loin,” on Wed. May...