Congratulations to the Community Women’s Orchestra in Oakland, CA for winning the 2017 Kris Sinclair Leadership Award from the Association of California Symphony Orchestras! The Community Women’s Orchestra is a volunteer all-woman ensemble that was founded...
News to start your week! The Oscars happened Sunday night – and Mica Levi was nominated for best film score for Jackie. In recognition of her nomination, The New Yorker has a profile of the musician and composer. Also in The New Yorker, Alex Ross explores Kate...
We are thrilled to hear that American composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. She is only the third women composer to be awarded in the history of the prize. (The first was Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, who...
The long awaited, and much debated, documentary that investigates the role of Anna Magdalena Bach as not only wife but collaborator and, most controversially, composer of the Cello Suites, is now available online. The evidence uncovered and explored by musicologist...
Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy will present the prestigious AMY award to the Community Women’s Orchestra of Oakland, CA, at their concert this Sunday (May 17). Celebrating their 30th anniversary, CWO has included works by one or more women on all their programs since...
Congratulations to Julia Wolfe on winning the 2015 Pulitzer Prize for Anthracite Fields. The piece is an oratorio inspired and based on the lives of Pennsylvania coal miners. It was commissioned by the Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia. Their website is full of...
