by Kathleen McGowan | Mar 31, 2025
This week is a banner week for composer Valerie Coleman! The Kennedy Center has announced the world premiere of Valerie Coleman’s piano concerto, co-commissioned by the National Symphony Orchestra, for concerts on June 5th and 6th, 2025. Pianist Michelle Cann...
by Kathleen McGowan | Jan 27, 2025
While our focus at Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy is on the work of women composers and musicians, we also recognize the importance of recognizing other marginalized groups including BIPOC composers. Thus we are highlighting today the world premiere of...
by Kathleen McGowan | Nov 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...
by Liane Curtis | Oct 21, 2022
We are thrilled by this excellent article in the Washington Post about tonights revival (premiere of the new orchestration) of Helen Hagan’s Piano Concerto. The concert will livestream here on the website of the Yale School of Music https://music.yale.edu/live...
by Liane Curtis | Dec 12, 2021
By Liane Curtis Our new edition of Amy Beach’s concert aria “Jephthah’s Daughter” was premiered last week. The edition is part of our project to make high-quality, engraved critical editions available for ALL of Beach’s music. We knew that “Jephthah’s Daughter” was...
by Liane Curtis | May 26, 2019
We were thrilled to hear the stream of Miriam Gideon’s 1958 chamber opera, Fortunato, last week. This was the world premiere of this work, which Gideon apparently wrote hoping that it would be performed by the NBC Opera Theatre. She composed it in three acts,...
