Women Being Heard (or not) This Season

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...
Joan Tower Performed (and Recorded) by Nashville Symphony

Joan Tower Performed (and Recorded) by Nashville Symphony

Tonight! (Nov. 23)  Not only will WPA Performance Grant recipient Nashville Symphony present two works by Joan Tower—Stroke (2010) and Violin Concerto (1991)—it will also record them for a 2014 release by Naxos, the same label that released Tower’s...
Kaija Saariaho on Sexism in Classical Music

Kaija Saariaho on Sexism in Classical Music

“In reading more studies about our recent history in this matter, I have understood that the situation is not slowly getting better, but that the improvements seem to have stopped a while ago. In politics, economy, research and culture in general, women still...
Washburn, Salvati Win American Prizes

Washburn, Salvati Win American Prizes

Women scored top honors in two of the coveted orchestral categories recently awarded by the American Prize. Leading the way, Michigan Philharmonic maestro Nan Harrison Washburn, formerly the co-founder and artistic director of the Women’s Philharmonic, was named...