Amy Beach at Toronto Summer Music

There will be a great treat tonight for classical music lovers attending the Toronto Summer Music Festival – a performance of Amy Beach’s Piano Quintet in F-Sharp Minor, op. 67. Tickets and more information about the concert this evening is available here....

Amy Beach at Bar Harbor Music Festival

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...

The “Female Beethoven” rediscovered in north Germany!

“The Norwegians have their Grieg, The Finns their Sibelius, the Poles have their Chopin.  And WE have Emilie Mayer – we just didn’t know it until now!”  So proclaimed the northern German Nordkurrier  in May 2012, when the Neubrandenburger Philharmonie...
Women Composers Festival of Hartford

Women Composers Festival of Hartford

For the past fourteen years the Women Composers Festival of Hartford has been a champion for women’s work in music.  The annual event, this year being held March 4-8, features fabulous concerts and conversations about the historic and contemporary women...
The Importance of Innovative Programming

The Importance of Innovative Programming

There should be no surprise that we at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy are enthusiastic about supporting innovative ideas for concerts.  But though we are among the relatively few voices that acknowledge the absence of works by women and advocate for their...