Great Works This Weekend

by sarah | Oct 3, 2017

There are great concerts to look forward to this weekend from several WPA Performance Grant winners!   The Denver Young Artists Orchestra will be hosting a Women in Music Symposium at the Lamont School of Music on October 7 & 8.  There will be concerts,...

Monday Link Round Up: August 21, 2017

by sarah | Aug 21, 2017

News to start your week! There are important conversations as a result of Charlottesville happening across disciplines.  One thought provoking discussion about the problems with a Eurocentric approach to music history and music theory is made by musicologist Ethen...

Community Women’s Orchestra to Perform Hillary Tann

by sarah | Mar 3, 2015

The Community Women’s Orchestra, based in Oakland, CA, was begun as an offshoot of The Women’s Philharmonic.  It was established in 1985 by Nan Washburn and continues to flourish.  From the start CWO has had a clear mission: The Community Women’s Orchestra...

Women in Music Festival: The Kaplan Duo

by Liane Curtis | Mar 26, 2014

The second concert (Mar. 25) of the Eastman Women In Music Festival (the Festival includes several venues that are near Eastman, but not part of Eastman): The Kaplan Duo delighted us with their noon hour recital at Nazareth College.  I’ve known the pianist Nanette...

Hilary Tann

by sarah | Mar 13, 2014

Welsh-born Hilary Tann is a contemporary  composer currently living and teaching in New York State.  She writes for large and small ensembles and her work is most often characterized as lyrical, with Tann drawing inspiration from the natural world, especially that of...