News to start your week! Congratulations are due to Jennifer Higdon who was awarded the Michael Ludwig Hemmers Prize in Music Composition. The prize is given to contemporary classical composers of exceptional achievement “who have significantly influenced the...
News to start your week! Don’t miss this great piece by Kendra Preston Leonard about the myths surrounding composer and pedagogue Nadia Boulanger! Read on at Dr. Leonard’s website here. Composer and clarinetist Derek Bermel writes about diversity in the...
News to start your week! The Women Composers Festival of Hartford is getting ready to kick off this weekend! Learn more about this exciting and engaging weekend on their website – including lectures, premieres, and many, many hours of music! Jessie Rosen,...
News to start your week! OPERA America has announced recipients for their Grants for Female Composers initiative for 2018. Eight women composers have received funds to support operas currently in development. Read more about the winners, and the forthcoming works,...
News to start your week! The March 8 concert performed by the BBC Orchestra –Music by five forgotten women — is available online until April 7! We’d like to invite critical engagement with the music revealed by this important event! We ask readers...
News to start your week! So much is happening! Last week we celebrated International Women’s Day, and it was exciting to see how much attention was paid to women’s achievements in classical music: Oxford University Press’s blog lists Seven Women you...
