Vivian Fung: Canadian Composer with a Non-Western Sound

by | Mar 2, 2014

Vivian Fung is a contemporary Canadian composer known for blending Western musical forms with non-Western instrumentation. Fung began her compositional training under the tutelage of another well-known and often performed Canadian composer: Violet Archer.  Her...
Libby Larsen: Composer and Advocate

Libby Larsen: Composer and Advocate

by | Mar 1, 2014

Libby Larsen is distinguished as one of the most prolific and performed living American composers, as well as one of the greatest advocates for rising musicians and composers.  Her catalog of works—which includes over 500 pieces spanning genres from art songs to...

Must-Listen Radio: WQXR’s Price of Admission

by | Mar 13, 2013

Offering the perfect coda to our recent posts on Florence Price and Margaret Bonds, WQXR’s just-produced radio documentary The Price of Admission devotes a full hour to the life and music of Price. Hosted by former Morehouse professor of music Terrance McKnight,...
Honoring Margaret Bonds

Honoring Margaret Bonds

by | Mar 11, 2013

I was thrilled to hear NPR reporting on a woman composer on All Things Considered recently. Celeste Headlee spoke with Louise Toppin, opera singer and voice professor at the University of North Carolina, on the life and work of Margaret Bonds. Bonds, who died in 1972,...