by Liane Curtis | Mar 11, 2014
Nkeiru Okoye was born in New York (1972), and growing up, frequently visited her father’s native Nigeria. She won a song-writing competition at age 13, and decided to study composition seriously. She received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (BA) and Rutgers...
by Liane Curtis | Mar 7, 2014
Today (Mar. 7) composer Ellen Taaffe Zwilich (b. 1939) is being inducted by the Society for American Music as its newest Honorary Member, in a ceremony taking place at the Society’s annual conference. The New Grove Dictionary of Music describes Zwilich “one of...
by Liane Curtis | Feb 27, 2014
We are kicking off our Indiegogo campaign with a daily blog series: 32 Composers You Need to Know! This is in honor of Women’s History Month (which is a federally observed celebration; here is last year’s Presidential declaration). But of course it is...
by Liane Curtis | Nov 23, 2013
Tonight! (Nov. 23) Not only will WPA Performance Grant recipient Nashville Symphony present two works by Joan Tower—Stroke (2010) and Violin Concerto (1991)—it will also record them for a 2014 release by Naxos, the same label that released Tower’s...
by Liane Curtis | Nov 7, 2013
“In reading more studies about our recent history in this matter, I have understood that the situation is not slowly getting better, but that the improvements seem to have stopped a while ago. In politics, economy, research and culture in general, women still...
