Announcing WPA Performance Grant Winners!

by sarah | Dec 6, 2017

Congratulations to our latest round of Performance Grant winners! Since establishing Performance Grants in 2012 each cycle has seen a larger number of applicants and a greater diversity of programming.  The strongest applications were for plans to perform works by...

Monday Link Round Up: November 20, 2017

by sarah | Nov 20, 2017

News to start your week! There have been some particularly excellent pieces to come out of WQXR in!  Their list of Eight Classical Era Composers who aren’t named Mozart or Haydn includes Maria Teresea Agnesi Pinottini, Princess Anna Amalia, and Marianne...

Old and New This Weekend

by sarah | Oct 11, 2017

More great concerts this weekend – in California by the Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, in Maryland by the Susquehanna Symphony, and in Colorado by the Chamber Orchestra of the Springs.   The Bay Area Rainbow Symphony, directed by Dawn Harms, will be including...

Conference Report: American Women Composer-Pianists

by Liane Curtis | Sep 21, 2017

The recent international conference “American Women Composer-Pianists” named Amy Beach (1867-1944) and Teresa Carreño (1853-1917) as focal points, in celebration of the notable anniversaries connected with them (the 150th anniversary of Beach’s...

Monday Link Round Up: September 18, 2017

by sarah | Sep 18, 2017

News to start your week! This past weekend academics, performers, and music enthusiasts gathered at the University of New Hampshire to remember the lives and work of Amy Beach and Teresa Carreño.  The Eagle Tribune wrote about the conference, and specifically wrote...