Today marks the 108th birthday of Canadian composer and educator Jean Coulthard. Coulthard’s formal music education began at the Royal Conservatory of Music with Ralph Vaughan Williams. Later, she studied with Béla Bartók, Aaron Copland, and Arnold Schoenberg....
News to start your week! The City of Birmingham Symphony has officially announced that Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla will in fact become the new music director. Read the official press release here. The reaction to her appointment has been fantastically positive – the...
Happy 107th birthday to Polish composer and violinist Grażyna Bacewicz, born February 5, 1909. A graduate of the Warsaw Conservatory, she continued her studies in Paris with Nadia Boulanger. Bacewicz served as principal violinist for the Polish Radio Orchestra from...
This weekend, in a concert supported by a WPA Performance Grant, the Greater Boulder Youth Orchestra will honor the life and work of an important but long-forgotten Baroque composer. Precious little is known about the life of Camila de Rossi. There is strong...
Happy birthday to composer, pianist, and educator Ursula Mamlok! Born in Berlin on February 1, 1923, Mamlok began her musical education with Gustav Ernest and Emily Weissgerber until they fled Nazi Germany and came to the United States. Mamlok continued her studies...
