Jennifer Higdon is one of the most recognized and sought-out composers today. She has won a Pulitzer Prize as well as a Grammy, is actively commissioned, and has already seen one premiere this year, will have another happening in just a few weeks, and her first opera...
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...
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...
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...
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...
