WPA News Digest – January 6, 2025

WPA News Digest – January 6, 2025

We hope your new year is off to a great start! On January 25th, 2025, the MusicaNova Orchestra will present its program “Resistance & Unity: Women Rise” at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. Among the works performed will be Reena...
WPA News Digest – December 23, 2024

WPA News Digest – December 23, 2024

Happy Holidays, dear WPA readers! There’s plenty of holiday cheer for women in music as 2024 comes to a close! Conductor Stephanie Childress will ring in the New Year on December 31 with the St Louis Symphony Orchestra. This concert will be her second return...
WPA News Digest – December 16, 2024

WPA News Digest – December 16, 2024

It’s an exciting time for women in classical music!  Here’s this week’s update! Jessica Joy Harned has recently released her theatrical orchestra experience Classical Queens: Our Time, deriving from Harned’s original research...
WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

WPA News Digest – December 2, 2024

  There’s lots to be excited about for women in music as we kick off December! (Including a few gift ideas.) On Wednesday November 27, the Raices Negras Trio performed at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington D.C. The group featured three...
WPA News Digest – November 25, 2024

WPA News Digest – November 25, 2024

2024 is wrapping up with plenty of chances to hear music by women composers! On November 24th, Imogen Holst’s Concerto for Violin and Strings (1935) received its first public performance at St Andrew’s Holborn in London by the Elgar Sinfonia of London...
WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024

WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024

Lots to celebrate for women in music! FIRST — our revised Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant program is finally unveiled!  Read all about it!!  Learn more here!  The Grants are now being offered every other month, with the first deadline December 9, 2024....