Tag: Alondra de la Parra

  • Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2020

    Monday Link Round Up: August 31, 2020

    News and music to start the week! Sorry we didn’t post about this sooner!  The Dream Unfinished Activist Orchestra presents a live community reading of Fannie Lou Hamer’s 1964 speech, “Sick and Tired,” today, Monday, Aug. 31 at 11:30 AM EST!  Sign-up is required.  Some amazing members of the music community will be participating (some…

  • Monday Link Round Up: February 11, 2019

    Monday Link Round Up: February 11, 2019

    News and music to start your week! The Financial Times calls composer Anna Thorvaldsdottír “the most exciting force in Icelandic music since Björk”  but clearly she is a dynamic artistic figure outside of Icelandic music! The article looks at her life, music, current projects, and future aspirations (although it’s behind a paywall, so we are just…

  • Moving Forward: Opportunities for Women Conductors

    It’s been a banner year for opportunities for women conductors.  Since this time last year we’ve shared stories about: Elim Chan, the first woman to win the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition Rei Hotoda, the first woman Associate Conductor to the Utah Symphony Orchestra JoAnn Falletta renewed her contract with the Buffalo Philharmonic Agata Sorotokin, who…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 26, 2015

    Some links to start your week: Earlier this month Kaija Saariaho was interviewed by the San Francisco Classical Voice discussing her role not only as a composer, but as an educator.  Read the full interview here. Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra has been appointed the first music director of the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in…