Women in Music AGM 20 November 2015

The AGM will be on 20 November at Regent Hall, Salvation Army, 275 Oxford Street, London W1C 2 DJ (near Oxford Circus tube station) at 5 pm followed by a Composers' Forum led by David Sutton-Anderson and a concert of new music performed as part of London New Wind Festival at 7.30 pm. Tickets for the forum and concert £10 and £6 concession, just for the wind concert they are £8 and £5 concession.

http://www.londonnewwindfestival.co.uk/ConcertDetails.html


Jessica Duchen & Roxanna Panufnik to create People's Opera for Garsington 2017

A People's Opera for Garsington

Good news on the women in the right place music front - Roxanna Panufnik has been commissioned to write a new opera with libretto by Jessica Duchen working with Garsington Opera's learning and participation Creative Director Karen Gallagher who also directs their Opera for All programme.  It truly is a people's opera with great community and schools participation. It looks at the impact of war on families, specifically the 14-18 war with Siegfried Sassoon's poetry central. 

There's plenty of time to book your tickets as this is for the 2017 season.

Women in Music UK found out about this from  journalist/author Jessica Duchen's Music Blog which is well worth signing up for. JD is very passionate about women in music making which is refreshing in someone with such a high profile in her field 

Follow this link for more details: http://www.jessicamusic.blogspot.co.uk/2015/11/lets-make-opera-for-garsington.html. and here is a piece on the Opera company's website with more detail and biogs of all concerned       look here   

40 years of Women in Electronic music and opportunities for women music makers!

Just for your interest and listening pleasure here is a link to a fascinating and very welcome review of 40 years of women in electronic music - with a brilliant list of contributors you may not have known about  - the toys are not only for the boys! No way! Enjoy!

                                         synthtopia.com/content/2015/05/15/40-years-of-women-in-electronic-music/

Women in Music UK incuded some pioneer electronic music in the 2nd round of our commissions a few years back (a role that PRS For Music Foundation has taken on board now with its excellent women make music  fund) . Follow the links here to find out more!

www.womeninmusic.org.uk - select projects (and remember to post your women's music events in the what's on facility)

www.prsformusicfoundation.com/funding/women-make-music/  Next round in in 2016 - details published in December - keep a look out!


Fw: Two Sound and Music artist opportunities and two paid internships

On Thursday, 22 October 2015, 17:33, Natalia Franklin Pierce <[email protected]> wrote:


Dear N/A
I hope you’re well.
I just wanted to let you know about two opportunities for artists open at the minute with the Open Data Institute and Sounding Motion. They close on Monday 9th November. It would be amazing if you’re able to shout about it to your networks. (see more info by clicking on the links below).
Make new music with the Open Data Institute! (Embedded)

Work closely with ODI staff, experts, curators and networks to create a new music or sound work inspired by, using or telling the stories of data. 
>> Apply now


Deadline: noon Monday 9 November 2015
Make new music with Sounding Motion (Portfolio)

Develop your collaborative skills and work in close partnership with instrumentalists, choreographers and dancers to develop a new short dance work for Sounding Motion
 >> Apply now

Deadline: noon Monday 9th November
We also have a paid internships for two 18-24 year olds who are registered unemployed if you might know anyone who’d be interested and eligible. More info here http://soundandmusic.org/projects/we-are-recruiting-two-interns
Any help you can offer with spreading the word about these opportunities would be much appreciated. Do let us know if we can return the favour.
Very best wishes and thanks,
Natalia
 
Natalia Franklin Pierce

Sound and Music
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Caroline Kraabel

I hope you will consider listing or helping to publicise the following series that I have been putting together... in fact, JUST fewer than half the musicians involved are women, but I feel it will be a culturally and musically significant in that all of the women involved (I cannot speak of myself in this way, but unhesitatingly say this of the others) are exceptionally gifted and fascinating improvisers, from Beibei Wang, a Chinese musical prodigy still in her twenties and burning to discover improvisation, through to Maggie Nicols, prominent feminist and one of the principal contributors to what is now recognised worldwide as the innovative and ground-breaking British improvised music idiom.
http://www.beibeimusic.com/
http://www.charlottehug.ch/
http://www.hannahmarshall.net/
http://www.masskraabel.com/
http://masskraabel.tumblr.com/

With sincere thanks and best wishes,
Caroline Kraabel


The Silver Wire
An improvised music series on William Blake's home ground in North Lambeth. A walk, a poem, three sets, three different groupings each evening.
Monday 26 October 2015, 8.30pm
FOR EVERYTHING THAT LIVES IS HOLY
John Edwards (double bass)
Charlotte Hug (viola, voice)
Caroline Kraabel (alto sax, voice)
Maggie Nicols (voice)
Phil Wachsmann (violin, viola, electronics)
Monday 30 November 2015, 8.30pm
THE PRICE OF EXPERIENCE
John Edwards
Caroline Kraabel
Mark Sanders (percussion)
Beibei Wang (percussion)
Cleveland Watkiss (voice, electronics)
Monday 21 December 2015, 8.30pm
I WANT! I WANT!
John Edwards
Caroline Kraabel
Hannah Marshall (cello)
Evan Parker (saxes)
Daniel Thompson (guitar)
I'klectik Art Lab, Old Paradise Yard, 20 Carlisle Lane SE1 7LG (corner of Royal Street), next to Archbishop’s Park. The price of the experience: any one note (£5; £10 ...)