Author: Nicholas Smolenski

The Livingston Symphony Orchestra (LSO) in Livingston, NJ will perform “A Salute to Women Composers” featuring music written by women.

Maestro Jaray and the orchestra will be presenting two special works that are not regularly programmed: Joan Tower’s “Fanfare for the Uncommon Woman No. 1,” dedicated to “women who take risks and who are adventurous” and inspired by Aaron Copland’s famous “Fanfare for the Common Man,” along with Amy Beach’s Symphony No.2, “Gaelic.”

Cellist Jessica Hong, winner of the Livingston Symphony Young Artists Competition as well as of the 2013 International Virtuoso Competition, will also take part in the program. At 15 years old, Hong has already performed in France, Switzerland and South Korea.

The concert will take place on Saturday, March 22nd at 7:30 pm at Livingston High School Auditorium, Livingston, NJ.

Tickets are available at 973-980-1809, or at the door.

Read more about the concert: http://thealternativepress.com/articles/livingston-symphony-orchestra-to-salute-great-wom

Cheers to a wonderfully successful 2014 Festival!
Did you catch NPR’s article about us?

http://wnpr.org/post/celebrating-new-music-diversity-2014-women-composers-festival-hartford

In case anyone missed the update, we’re starting tonight’s concert (Thursday, March 6) at 8PM. See you there!

Our “Concert Winds” performance 8 pm tonight at Charter Oak Cultural Center features all kinds of cool works, from solo compositions to quintets!

Two of our amazing performers are Cathryn Cummings (horn) and Mary Matthews (flute), both chamber music coaches with The Hartt School Community Division who play with groups like {HICO} Hartford Independent Chamber and Cuatro Puntos.

Oboists Charles Huang and Ling-Fei Kang, the main act on Friday night, join us tonight as well.

Tickets available at the door or online at www.womencomposersfestivalhartford.com

To our friends in NY!

March 9th at 7:30 pm, SUNY Potsdam’s Crane School of Music presents “Mothers of Invention,” a free vocal recital featuring music written by women composers including Clara Schumann, Cécile Chaminade, Pauline Viardot, Florence Price, Margaret Bonds, and Ruth Crawford Seeger.

Read more about SUNY’s concert here:

http://northcountrynow.com/featured_events/mothers-invention-recital-feature-music-women-composers-march-9-potsdam-0109353

In the spirit of inventive women, the first concert of our festival, “Concert Winds,” is tomorrow night at 7:30! Can’t wait!

Tickets for our festival at https://www.eventbrite.com/e/2014-women-composers-festival-of-hartford-tickets-5136005932