by Kathleen McGowan | May 4, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan Exciting things going on! And even if you can’t get to the concerts we give some links to music so you can have a listen! On May 5th, the Bamberg Symphony Orchestra and Bamberg University Choir will perform a concert of video game...
by Kathleen McGowan | Apr 6, 2026
By Kathleen McGowan Happy Monday! We offer a range of interesting news to get your week started! YourClassical’s Performance Today has selected Gabriela Ortiz as its 2026 Classical Woman of the Year. Ortiz is a Mexican composer and music educator whose work has been...
by Kathleen McGowan | Feb 16, 2026
More exciting news this week! On February 22, composer Stefania Turkevych will have the US premiere of two movements from her Symphony n. 1 (1937) by the Binghamton (NY) Community Orchestra. Turkevych (1898-1977) is Ukraine’s earliest known female classical...
by Kathleen McGowan | Feb 9, 2026
There’s lots to listen to in February! Olga Neuwirth’s new opera Monster’s Paradise had its world premiere in Hamburg on February 1. Neuwirth, as described in The New York Times, “has spent her career composing music seeped in the fractious...
by Kathleen McGowan | Dec 19, 2025
By Kathleen McGowen Our year-end review of albums continues with our second installment, featuring some offerings by contemporary composers. (Platoon, July 2025) Gabriela Ortiz: Yanga is the third album in the Los Angeles Philharmonic’s series celebrating...
