Tag: Jennifer Higdon

  • WPA News Digest – August 12, 2024

    WPA News Digest – August 12, 2024

    Beginning in September of 2024, Anja Bihlmaier will be the Principal Guest Conductor of the BBC Philharmonic Orchestra. Bihlmaier has a longstanding relationship with the orchestra, and the players are keen to have her on the podium for her precision, musical intuition, and the relationships that she has build with ensemble members. She made her…

  • 2023 New Recording Wrap Up

    2023 New Recording Wrap Up

    Even as we look forward to the concerts, projects, and music that lie ahead in the new year, let’s reaffirm New Year’s resolutions to listen to more works by women composers and have a look back at some of the best classical albums to come out of 2023. It’s time to look and listen beyond…

  • Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021

    Monday Link Round Up: September 6, 2021

    Music and news to start your week! Violinist Jennifer Koh, pictured above, turned the pandemic – and the silencing of the performing arts industry – into an opportunity to collaborate and create in a new way.  She contacted composers and commissioned 40 new works for solo violin.  The composers included Tania León, Missy Mazzoli, Angélica…

  • Link Round-Up: August 16, 2021

    Link Round-Up: August 16, 2021

    Start your week with our look at the news! The Bard Music Festival transfixed us with its many amazing concerts, focusing on Nadia Boulanger and Her World.  And while the live concerts are over, the preconcert lectures remain available, as is this panel discussion (featuring Festival Scholar-in-Residence Dr. Jeanice Brooks.)  And we hope some of…