Tag: Dallas Opera Institute for Women Conductors
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Monday Link Round Up: December 26, 2016
News to start your week! The New York Times profiles Yip Wing-sie, who is conductor of the Hong Kong Sinfonietta. The conversation is about her experiences as a woman and a minority in finding her way to the podium, as well as the current statistics, and stigmas, surrounding women conductors today. Classical-music.com created a list…
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Monday Link Round Up: June 6, 2016
News to start your week! One of the famous stories of music history is the way in which Bach’s music fell into obscurity after his death to be rediscovered later by Felix Mendelssohn. I’ve just been made aware of the work of Bach scholar Christoph Wolff who asserts that it was Mendelssohn’s aunt, Sara Levy,…
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Monday Link Round Up: December 21, 2015
News to start your week! Sinfini Music shared the premiere of a new remix of work by Anna Meredith. Listen to Tanya Auclair’s reinterpretation of Meredith’s work here. TheaterJones, which covers North Texas Performing Arts News, followed up with the conductors who participated in the Dallas Opera Institute. Read the conversation here. And if you…
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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…