Feminist in the Concert Hall
WPA News Digest – August 18, 2025
As summer hurtles towards a close, we hope your week is off to a great start! On September 13, 2025 Karen Slack (soprano) will bring her concert celebration of historic African Queens to the Patricia Reser Center for the Arts, presented by Portland Opera (Oregon)....
WPA News Digest – August 11, 2025
On August 8th, the Community Women's Orchestra (Oakland, CA) announced that Samantha Burgess, the ensemble's 2024/25 season interim Music Director, will be their next Music Director beginning in Season 41 (2025/26). Samantha has joyfully led the ensemble in its recent...
The Elements World Premiere – BBC Proms #1, 2025
On Friday July 18, the BBC Symphony Orchestra opened the 131st season of the Proms festival. Amid the household names of classical repertoire—Mendelssohn’s Hebrides overture, Sibelius’s violin concerto, Vaughan Williams’s Sancta civitas—was a new addition: the world...
WPA News Digest – August 4, 2025
It's a great week for fans of music by women! The Schneider Concert Series in New York have announced a new series of six Sunday Matinee concerts for the 2025/26 season at The New School. The series will highlight music by American women composers on each...
WPA News Digest – July 28, 2025
News to start your week! The Tapestry Opera’s Women in Musical Leadership (WML) program has announced two graduations and three new members, each with a constellation of musical achievements and awards to her name. Conductors Maria Fuller and Naomi Woo, members of the...
WPA News Digest – July 21, 2025
This week four of our five stories feature women of African descent! The first performance of the African Women's Orchestra will take place during the Rewind, Remix, Reclaim Festival at the Goethe Institute, in Nairobi. The festival runs from 15–25 July 2025,...