2013 Festival

The Women Composers Festival of Hartford continues its annual tradition of celebrating the diversity of women’s music with five engaging concerts, March 2-9, 2013. Featuring Welsh-born composer Hilary Tann as this year’s composer-in-residence, the festival includes performances of historical and living women composers held across the Greater Hartford area.

2013 Composer-in-Residence: Hilary Tann

Hilary Tann lives in the foothills of the Adirondack Mountains in Upstate New York where she is the John Howard Payne Professor of Music at Union College, Schenectady. She holds degrees in composition from the University of Wales at Cardiff and from Princeton University. From 1982 to 1995 she held a number of Executive Committee positions with the International League of Women Composers and she was Composer-in-Residence at the 2011 Eastman School of Music Women in Music Festival. Praised for its lyricism and formal balance, her music is influenced by her love of Wales and a strong identification with the natural world. A deep interest in the traditional music of Japan has led to private study of the shakuhachi and guest visits to Japan, Korea, and China. Her compositions have been widely performed and recorded by ensembles such as the European Women’s Orchestra, Tenebrae, Lontano, Meininger Trio, Thai Philharmonic, Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, BBCNOW, and KBS Philharmonic in Seoul, Korea. As composer-in-residence, she is speaking at The Hartt School’s Institute for Contemporary American Music, Central Connecticut State University’s Music Forum, the Musical Club of Hartford and other regional institutions. Information on her music and recordings can be found at www.hilarytann.com.

2013 Festival Schedule

Saturday, March 2, 2013
5:00 pm – American Women in Music, Berkman Recital Hall, The Hartt School, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117

Wednesday, March 6, 2013
5:00 pm – ICAM Composer’s Seminar, The Hartt School Rm 410/12, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117
7:30 pm – Local Composers Concert, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. Hartford, CT 06106

Thursday – March 7, 2013
10:00 am – Musical Club of Hartford, Westminster Presbyterian Church, 2080 Blvd. West Hartford, CT 06107
3:00 pm – CCSU Music Forum, Founders Hall, Central Connecticut State University, 1615 Stanley St. New Britain, CT 06050
8:00 pm – Music of Hilary Tann, Berkman Recital Hall, University of Hartford, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117

Friday, March 8, 2013
7:30 pm – Flute Works Concert, Charter Oak Cultural Center, 21 Charter Oak Ave. Hartford, CT 06106

Saturday, March 9, 2013
8:30 am – 6:00 pm – WCForum, Wilde Auditorium, 200 Bloomfield Ave. West Hartford, CT 06117
7:30 pm – Concert Pro Femina,  Unitarian Society of Hartford, 50 Bloomfield Ave. Hartford, CT 06105