News and music to start your week! Congratulations to composer Julia Wolfe for being named the Musical America 2019 Composer of the Year! NewMusicBox has more winners. And those not familiar with Wolfe can learn more about the composer, and her Pulitzer Prize...
News to start your week! Amazing new call for new music from Donne in Musica. Women composers of all music backgrounds, ages, and nationalities are invited to submit compositions inspired by the struggle for human rights. The call was inspired by the 70th...
News to start your week! NewMusicBox has a fantastic piece by composer Emily Doolittle about composing fits into motherhood. A hugely important – and not often discussed – topic. Doolittle’s article brings great insight and context into this issue....
News to start your week! Bang on a Can is preparing a marathon in honor of their 30th anniversary! The ensemble, which boasts Pulitzer Prize winner Julia Wolfe as a co-founder, will host the concert on May 6 at the Brooklyn Museum. Featured composers will include...
We are thrilled to hear that American composer Julia Wolfe is a 2016 recipient of a MacArthur Genius Grant. She is only the third women composer to be awarded in the history of the prize. (The first was Bernice Johnson Reagon, founder of Sweet Honey in the Rock, who...
