New music for harpsichord at Cadogan Hall, French composer Eve Risser's Furakèla
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/edv2rz
'If women’s music and presence in the classical music world isn’t there, then its absence sends a strong message into the minds of young musicians. Omission is a powerful teacher!'
Read the full interview here
https://www.icancompose.com/interview-with-angela-slater/
The London Sinfonietta are giving world premieres of Verdala by Hannah Kendall and Gefallen by Isabel Mundry on Saturday 21 July at 3 pm at The Roundhouse.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e68gfx
There are two events at the BBC Proms on Friday 20 July featuring women composers.
In a Proms Plus talk Rhian Davies, Artistic Director of the Gregynog Festival and author of Morfydd Owen: Never So Pure a Sight, A Life in Pictures, and composer Steph Power discuss the life and music of Welsh composer Morfydd Owen.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/efbp8g
Later in the evening the BBC National Orchestra of Wales perform Lili Boulanger's D’un matin de printemps and D’un soir triste and Morfydd Owen's Nocturne along with music by Felix Mendelssohn and Robert Schumann, and parts of the Proms Plus talk will be broadcast during the interval.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/eddgfx
Pulitzer prize winning New York based composer Caroline Shaw's new work Second Essay: Echo, Third Essay: Ruby will be performed by the Calidore String Quartet at the BBC Proms tomorrow lunchtime. More details here:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e35v9r
Composer Anna Meredith's Five Telegrams is a BBC co-commission with 14–18 NOW and Edinburgh International Festival. It is a multi-media work based on the experiences of young soldiers in 1918.
More information here https://www.bbc.co.uk/events/e8j3v2
Glasgow based Cryptic are inviting applications for multi-media music-based work for this year's season. Applications need to be submitted by 12 noon on 16 July 2018.
Further details can be found here
http://www.cryptic.org.uk/work-with-us/Composer Emily Doolittle explains how we might be making things harder for composers who don't fit a certain stereotype.
https://nmbx.newmusicusa.org/the-long-term-effects-of-gender-discriminatory-programming/
Danielle de Niese describes the predicament of women composers and draws our attention to the outstanding music of Elizabeth Maconchy.
ISM and A N Arts News have joined together to launch a petition to ensure freedom of movement for creatives after Brexit FreeMoveCreate is a campaign to protect freedom of movement for the UK’s creative industries post-Brexit.
The campaign represents the coming together of more than 30,000 musicians and artists from across the memberships of a-n The Artists Information Company (the UK’s largest artists’ membership organisation) and the Incorporated Society of Musicians (ISM - the UK’s professional body for musicians)
Follow this link to find out more about the Free move create campaign https://freemovecreate.org/