Classical Music Radio Broadcast Request Promotes Women Composers - Composer Amy Beach The I nternational Alliance for Women in Music and other musical advocacy groups encourage classical music lovers to request the music of notable women in music. Each month different composers are chosen.  More information below:  To participate in promoting the broadcast of women's compositions, please telephone or e-mail local and/or Internet radio stations during Aug. 5-11, 2018, requesting that they play music composed by AMY BEACH. As usual, the selection, which is different every week, has been made by Ursula Rempel. The selections, she explains, "are based on a combination of factors: availability of CDs, geography/nationality, accessibility/appeal of the music for general audiences, and a concern to feature both historical and contemporary women composers."  Feel free to copy and modify this to suit yourselves:  Ladies and Gentlemen:  Would you please...

Women Composer YouTube Database Project Looking for Female Composers and Songwriters The Women Composer YouTube Database is a project designed to make the works of prominent women in music known to a broader base by creating long playlists of works by select female composers and songwritings in classical music, electronica, and film. This is a project begun by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young.   The hope is that as more and more of these Youtube Playlists of women composers are made available, the playlists will be shared and other musicians will take the time to create more female composer playlists. This project was begun in August 2017. The goal is to eventually have 100 + separate playlists highlighting the works of 100+ female composers.   If you are interested in having a playlist made of your work or a prominent female composer as part of this project, please contact Sabrina Pena Young directly through her facebook page: https://www.facebook.com...

Heartland Marimba Quartet Interview Sabrina Pena Young READ THE FULL MUSIC INTERVIEW HERE:  http://www.heartlandmarimbafestival.com/blog-newsletter/2017/3/5/blog-sabrina-pena-young Here at HMF we are committed to building a large community that surrounds and supports the classical marimba arts. To extend our appreciation, we are doing a question and answer with the artists in a blog series. First on the list is Sabrina Pena Young, a member of New York Women Composers, Inc. (NYWC). NYWC recently awarded HMF the 2016 NYWC Seed Money Grant.  We thought that Sabrina would be a great person to do our first blog with because of her unique personality and expansive background in music.  Read below to get a glimpse into her world. Short Bio: As a young girl Sabrina became interested in performing in all sorts of groups ranging from orchestras to rock bands. As she continued her education at the University of South Florida , she decided to take another path. “S...

" Ursula Mamlok , a German-born composer who fled the Nazis and went on to establish an esteemed career in New York, died on Wednesday in Berlin . She was 93." Read Full New York Times Article Here:   http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/07/arts/music/ursula-mamlok-avant-garde-composer-dies-at-93.html?_r=0

The Undeniable Truth About Women Composers That No One is Telling You As an undergraduate music major, I did not find it unusual that after four exhausting semesters of music history, I had only studied a handful of talented women involved in composition. The usual names popped up - Clara Schumann , Fanny Mendelssohn, and Amy Beach. Of these women, only one, Amy Beach, was not associated with a famous male composer. After graduate studies in music, I realized the importance of studying women in music, notably contemporary living composers. I had been fortunate to be mentored by Clare Shore , Kristine Burns, and Pauline Oliveros. For more in-depth studies on women in western music, I suggest Burns' Women and Music in the US Since 1900: An Encyclopedia (Greenwood Press, 2002), Dr. Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner's Crossing the Line: Women Composers and Music Technology in the United States , the Kaprova Society's Women Composer Database, and the International Alliance for Wome...

THE  AVIVA   PLAYERS   Mira J Spektor - Artistic Director & Friends   Celebrate our 40th Season with 3 Programs in 2015 At  OPERA   AMERICA  - 330, 7th Ave NYC   FRIDAY OCTOBER 16  -  7:30 pm Aviva   Players  & Downtown Music Productions present:  Songs, Piano Rags & Chamber Music Including Vocal Duets & the Piano Trio by Fanny Mendelssohn Mimi Stern-Wolfe - Music Director /Piano, Hillary Schranze - Soprano,  Darcy Dunn - Mezzo Soprano , Lynn Bechtold - Violin, Mary Wooten - Cello  WEDNESDAY NOVEMBER 4  -  7pm   Aviva   Players  & Bank Street Films present:  A Double Feature of Chamber  Opera  Films  Travel to the Romantic Past of 1816 in Mira J Spektor’s VILLA DIODATI   & to the Future with Sci-Fi Virtual Reality in Sabrina Pena Young’s LIBERTARIA TUESDAY DECEMBER 1  -  7:30pm Aviva ...

Women Composers, Performers, Conductors in Classical Music , Electroacoustic Music , World Music , and more. The International Alliane for Women in Music - Playing a Vital Role in the 21st CenturyThe IAWM is proud of its historical contributions towards the progress for women in music and continues to press for equality for performers, composers, researchers, and educators. http://iawm.org

60X60 Dance Nov 13 2009 Winter Garden (Photo credit: Larry L for school ) What do you call sixty one minute works presented in sixty minutes? Some may call it chaos, others may say its semi-schizophrenic, but until you have experienced the eclectic sonic experience known as 60x60 , you are missing out. The brainchild of composer Robert Voisey, Director of Vox Novus and an established composer himself, the 60x60 mixes give audiences the unique opportunity to explore new music in an eclectic fast-paced manner perfect for the 21st century audience.  Each 60x60 mix is unique, and many performance are accompanied by contemporary dance or video. Several video artists have contributed their skills to the 60x60 video mixes, including Patrick Liddell and Zlatco Cosic. Check out the 60x60 Video Mixes. Robert Voisey (Photo credit: Wikipedia ) 60x60 mixes are eclectic musical microcosms of the world, with many regional mixes, international mixes, and the Athena Mixes, which fe...