Happy Birthday, Josephine Lang!
Today is the 199th birthday of German composer Josephine Lang—born March 14, 1815 and died December 2, 1880. Born in to a musical family (with a violinist for a father and an opera singer for a mother), she was encouraged from the beginning and received great...Hilary Tann
Welsh-born Hilary Tann is a contemporary composer currently living and teaching in New York State. She writes for large and small ensembles and her work is most often characterized as lyrical, with Tann drawing inspiration from the natural world, especially that of...Vivian Fine
American-born Vivian Fine (1913-2000) was a child prodigy on piano and began composing at age thirteen. She worked consistently as composer for almost seventy years and was a student of Ruth Crawford Seeger, who saw her as a protegée. She was only sixteen when she...
Nkeiru Okoye
Nkeiru Okoye was born in New York (1972), and growing up, frequently visited her father’s native Nigeria. She won a song-writing competition at age 13, and decided to study composition seriously. She received degrees from the Oberlin Conservatory (BA) and Rutgers...