Public Radio International (PRI) aired a story yesterday on Nazanin Aghakhani – the first woman to conduct an orchestra in Iran. Listen (or find the full text) here. Here is a clip from Aghakani’s YouTube page: A composer as well as a conductor, you...
Alex Ross has a great piece being published in the next New Yorker about Australian composer Liza Lim. Read the full piece here to learn more about Lim’s background as well as to get a sense of her musical style and how her song cycle “Mother Tongue”...
Just stumbled across this brilliant archival footage of the British Women’s Symphony Orchestra: THE BRITISH WOMEN’S SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA The ensemble was founded in 1922 (this clip is from 1934). Thanks to http://www.britishpathe.com/ for the video,...
Tania León (b. 1943) is a Cuban born composer and conductor. She began studying piano at the age of four and went on to complete a Bachelor’s Degree at the Alfredo Peyrellade Conservatory and a Master’s Degree from National Conservatory. She settled in...
Dana Suesse (1909-1987), born in Kansas City, Montana, was a child vaudeville star who eventually left the circuit and moved to New York with her mother when she was just seventeen. There she began to compose larger works and made a name for herself. Among her more...
