News to start your week! Dallas Opera Conducting Institute has announced the 2016 participants! The winners this year are: Elizabeth Askren (USA), a graduate of Bard’s Conducting Institute who has been an assistant music director at the Concertgebouw; Mihaela...
The 41st annual National Women’s Music Festival is taking place June 30-July 3 in Middleton, WI. Each year the Festival celebrates women’s work across musical genres with exciting performances and workshops. We are especially excited this year to support...
News to start your week! Eleanor Sokoloff, piano teacher at the Curtis Institute, is celebrating her 102nd birthday. She has taught at the institution since 1936. The Philadelphia Inquirer has a profile. There’s a new festival celebrating the work of...
It can be hard to look past the stories of those composers who faced obstacles in their art at the hands of their own parents. There are some famous stories – from Germaine Tailleferre, who changed her name to break ties with her father, and Ethel Smyth, who...
Thinking about, and grieving for, Orlando. ArtsHub published an article by Sally Macarthur, Cat Hope, and Dawn Bennett highlights the gender disparities for women composers in Australia. (The original version of the article was published on The...
