Tag: Susanna Mälkki

  • WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024

    WPA News Digest — November 11, 2024

    Lots to celebrate for women in music! FIRST — our revised Women’s Philharmonic Advocacy Grant program is finally unveiled!  Read all about it!!  Learn more here!  The Grants are now being offered every other month, with the first deadline December 9, 2024. The International Alliance for Women in Music announced the winners of its annual…

  • Monday Link Roundup: January 3, 2022

    Monday Link Roundup: January 3, 2022

    News and music to start off your YEAR! We are so excited for the upcoming premiere of Gabriella Smith’s first symphony!.  Smith, pictured above, was commissioned by the Santa Rosa and Eugene Symphonies for the work, titled One, and which will receive its world premiere on January 8.  Learn more, and read the program notes,…

  • Monday Link Round Up: October 21, 2019

    Monday Link Round Up: October 21, 2019

    News and Music to start your week! Last week saw the New York Premiere of Unsuk Chin’s “Su,” concerto for sheng, which had its world premiere in 2009.  The New York Times spoke to Ms. Chin (pictured above) in advance of the Philharmonic’s performance, led by Susanna Mälkki. .Listen on Soundcloud to Melissa Dunphy’s conversation with…

  • Monday Link Round up: October 1, 2018

    News to start your week?  But this last week was not just any week. For those in the US, the past week was something unique and critical.  On Thursday we listened to a woman’s account of a violent sexual attack that she experienced. And we heard men — angry, hostile men — say we should…