Category: festivals

  • Weekly Link Round-Up March 25,

    Weekly Link Round-Up March 25,

    Sorry to be so late with our weekly update!  We do want to make sure everyone knows that the Women Composers Festival of Hartford is completely available online (until April 7), and for no fee (donations are encouraged, of course!)  The 2022 Ensemble-in-residence Hartford Independent Chamber Orchestra (HICO) features the world premiere of Music Box…

  • Juilliard’s 2020 Focus festival – Trailblazers: Women Composers of the 20th Century

    Juilliard’s 2020 Focus festival – Trailblazers: Women Composers of the 20th Century

    We are welcoming  composer, pianist and soprano Tamara Cashour  to our blog as our New York City-based correspondent.  Tamara sends her first installment: In 2020, Juilliard continues to ride the crest of the Zeitgeist by presenting an all-women composer concert series for their annual FOCUS festival, a festival which has typically espoused a single thematic idea,…

  • Clara’s Schumannfest

    Clara’s Schumannfest

    The city of Bonn has hosted an annual Schumannfest since 1998 to celebrate the lives and music of two of the city’s most famous residents: Robert Schumann and Ludwig van Beethoven.  However, in 2007 the name of the festival changed from the Bonn Schumann Festival to Schumannfest, “to illustrate the core concerns of the festival:…

  • Concerts & Events March 16-31

    Concerts & Events March 16-31

    Future Concerts & Events March 16-31 (by U.S. State, alphabetically) California The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony will perform Florence Price’s Symphony No. 1 on March 16. On March 24 the Berkeley Symphony will feature Sofia Gubaidulina’s Concerto for Symphony Orchestra and Jazz Band. Jessie Montgomery and Louise Farrenc will be featured by the Oakland Symphony on March 22.…