Vivian Fung: Canadian Composer with a Non-Western Sound
Vivian Fung is a contemporary Canadian composer known for blending Western musical forms with non-Western instrumentation. Fung began her compositional training under the tutelage of another well-known and often performed Canadian composer: Violet Archer. Her...
Libby Larsen: Composer and Advocate
Libby Larsen is distinguished as one of the most prolific and performed living American composers, as well as one of the greatest advocates for rising musicians and composers. Her catalog of works—which includes over 500 pieces spanning genres from art songs to...
Launching 32 Composers You Need to Know, with Florence Price!
We are kicking off our Indiegogo campaign with a daily blog series: 32 Composers You Need to Know! This is in honor of Women’s History Month (which is a federally observed celebration; here is last year’s Presidential declaration). But of course it is...
Women Being Heard (or not) This Season
That the professional music world, and professional orchestras in particular, aren’t known for welcoming women musicians with open arms isn’t news. It is a truth and a challenge that women have always faced and, as was recently reported by the BBC, is an ongoing...