News and music to start your week! The Seattle Times introduces readers to Lina Gonzalez-Granados (pictured above) – one of the first Latin American women to hold a conducting position with the Seattle Symphony. BTW, Gonzalez-Granados’ Boston-based Unitas...
News and music to start your week! Huge congratulations to Hildur Guðnadóttir, pictured above, the first woman to ever win an Oscar for a dramatic score. Now learn more about her, and listen in to more works! Pitchfork offers a great place to start! The Seattle...
News and music to start your week! The New York Philharmonic is commissioning 19 new works by women composers in honor of the 100th anniversary of Women’s Suffrage. Read more about the project, titled simply Project 19, on the New York Philharmonic’s...
News and music to start your week! Congratulations go to Jennifer Higdon, pictured, for winning the Grammy for Best contemporary classical compositions for her Harp Concerto. Caroline Shaw also won the Grammy for Best Chamber Music Performance for her piece,...
Music and news to start your week! For the first time ever, the orchestra of the Academy Awards Ceremony (the Oscars, Feb. 9) will be led by a woman. Congratulations go to Irish conductor Eímear Noone, pictured above, who will lead excerpts from the films nominated...
