News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop is the new chief conductor of Vienna’s ORF Radio Symphony Orchestra – it’s the first time a woman has been named chief conductor in Austria. Read on at RTL Today. Tom Huizenga of NPR’s Deceptive...
News and music to start your week! Marin Alsop has started a fellowship for women conductors to help encourage the number of women entering the field. She was interviewed by the New York Times about this new project, her career until this point, and the hurdles that...
News and music to start your week! In honor of Mother’s Day, WQXR has a series of conversations with women composers about motherhood. Hear from Sarah Kirkland Snider, Valerie Coleman, and Marilyn Shrude here. Classical FM has a brief history of women gaining...
News to start your week! The Guardian has a conversation with conductor Marin Alsop, who, it was just announced, will again be conducting in the 2018 Proms season. A new initiative created by the Sphinx Organization, the New World Symphony, and the League of American...
News to start your week! Very exciting! Congratulations to Jennifer Higdon on winning two Grammy Awards last night! Her Viola Concerto won “Best Contemporary Classical Composition” and she also brought home “Best Classical Compendium” for the...
