Amy Beach at Bar Harbor Music Festival

by sarah | Jul 8, 2015

This year celebrates the 49th season of the Bar Harbor Music Festival.  The 2015 season, which runs from June 28 to July 26, includes a huge variety of music styles with something to inspire virtually any concertgoer.  Their innovative and inclusive programming of...

Summer with the Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra

by sarah | Jul 6, 2015

That Lake Superior Chamber Orchestra has an exciting summer season of concerts planned is no surprise – after all, their tagline is: “Performing diverse music for chamber orchestra.”  That diversity is represented in creative and innovative...

2015 Summer Festivals

by sarah | Jun 24, 2015

Summer is official upon us – and so, too, is the summer festival season.  Here are some highlights of works by women that can be heard this year. The Aspen Music Festival will include works by Nina C. Young (winner of the 2014 Jacob Druckman Prize), Judith...

Iceland Symphony Orchestra Celebrates Women Composers

by sarah | Jun 12, 2015

Iceland is celebrating the 100th anniversary of women’s right to vote – and in honor of the occasion the Iceland Symphony Orchestra presented a concert June 11 featuring the works of contemporary and historic women composers. The program, which was...

Premieres of Karpman and Saariaho

by sarah | Jun 10, 2015

We’re looking forward to two concerts happening this Thursday from 2014 Performance Grant winners, each of which features a premiere. The Pacific Symphony will be offering the World Premiere of Siren Songs by Laura Karpman.  Program notes for the concert are...

Portrait of the Composer as a Young Woman

by Liane Curtis | Jun 5, 2015

As noted earlier, I’m performing in the BARS Concert June 6. I’ve written the program notes for the concert, and here they are! The three pieces on our program today are linked, as our title suggests, by all being composed when their creators were young...