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...
Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020

Monday Link Round Up: May 25, 2020

News and music to start your week! The New York Times introduced readers this week to the Iranian Female Composers Association, members of which are included above (from left: Anahita Abbasi, Aida Shirazi, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh).  Learn about this wonderful...
Chicago Symphony Orchestra Premieres Clyne

Chicago Symphony Orchestra Premieres Clyne

Anna Clyne, by all accounts, appears to be one of the hardest working young composers today.  Born in London, and a former student of Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe, her works have been commissioned across the country and have met high praise – including a...
Saariaho Premiere at Library of Congress

Saariaho Premiere at Library of Congress

Kaija Saariaho has another new work being premiered this week.  The Library of Congress has co-commissioned Light and Matter, a new work for piano trio, which will be premiered Friday, May 22.  The same concert will also hear Saariaho’s Aure for violin and...