The Handel and Haydn Society – the oldest continually performing arts organization in the U.S. – is celebrating their bicentennial this year. Founded in Boston in 1815, the chorus has made important U.S. premieres of works by the “great...
The Smithsonian Institution has partnered with Sheet Music Plus to offer digitized works from the archives. They chose 400 titles from the Sam DeVincent Collection of illustrated sheet music. The sale of these digital downloads, the collection of which is largely...
Rei Hotoda was just named the first woman Associate Conductor to the Utah Symphony Orchestra. Read the press release here. In the past Hotoda has collaborated with Canadian composer Nicole Lizée, and Hotoda is one of the conductors featured on the recording...
The list of 2015 Grammy nominations has been published – and Anna Clyne’s Prince of Clouds is in the running for Contemporary Classical Composition. Her work shares the ballot with John Luther Adams (Become Ocean), George Crumb (Voices From The...
Congratulations to Elim Chan, the first woman to win the Donatella Flick Conducting Competition. The competition, which was founded in 1990, strives to support the careers of up and coming conductors. The award is not only generous, but potentially life-changing: In...
