Mica Levi wins major Film Award

by Liane Curtis | Jan 2, 2015

Composer Mica Levi has been awarded the European Film Award for best composer, for her music to Under The Skin, a steamy Sci-Fi horror thriller, starring Scarlett Johansson.  Levi had no prior film experience, but the film’s music producer had heard a...

Handel and Haydn Society Celebrates 200 Years

by sarah | Dec 19, 2014

The Handel and Haydn Society – the oldest continually performing arts organization in the U.S. – is celebrating their bicentennial this year.  Founded in Boston in 1815, the chorus has made important U.S. premieres of works by the “great...

Smithsonian Sheet Music For Sale

by sarah | Dec 16, 2014

The Smithsonian Institution has partnered with Sheet Music Plus to offer digitized works from the archives.  They chose 400 titles from the Sam DeVincent Collection of illustrated sheet music.  The sale of these digital downloads, the collection of which is largely...

Grammy Nominations for Anna Clyne and Hilary Hahn

by sarah | Dec 10, 2014

The list of 2015 Grammy nominations has been published – and Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds is in the running for Contemporary Classical Composition.  Her work shares the ballot with John Luther Adams (Become Ocean), George Crumb (Voices From The...

Women Composers on WNPR

by sarah | Dec 4, 2014

Tuesday’s broadcast of The Colin McEnroe Show, which broadcasts out of WNPR in Connecticut, featured a conversation with contemporary women composers.  The show, inspired by the upcoming documentary, “Written by Mrs. Bach”, was (woefully) titled...

BBC’s Top 10

by sarah | Nov 20, 2014

In light of the Mrs. Bach controversy (which is still ruffling feathers…) the BBC has put together a list of 10 women who”changed music”.  Check it out here. The usual suspects are on the list – which raises the question, who would you add?...