Picture Wednesday – November 1, 2012

Happy Post-Halloween and Picture Wednesday! For this week’s post, we have a beautiful picture from the 2011 Holiday Fundraiser. It was an evening of music, food, and drink to raise money for the 2012 festival.

This winter, we will be using Fractured Atlas again for our online fund drive. Fractured Atlas is a website which will host the drive and allow people to view the campaign and donate money. There will be information and a video about the festival. Also on the site there will be information about the various fun thank-you-gifts for each of the donating levels.

So keep your antenna up as our Fractured Atlas campaign will be up and running soon!

Picture of the week!

Hello!

For this week’s post, we have a picture of the wonderful Gilda Lyons to share with you. This is from the 2011 Festival Concert Pro Femina where Gilda sang soprano for her own three-movement work entitled A Small Handful, written in 2002.

Ms. Lyons was the featured Composer Guest for the 2011 festival. She had pieces performed on four of the exciting concerts from that festival including the Chamber Orchestra Concert and the Electro-Accounstic Evening, showing her diversity and range as a contemporary composer.

Be sure to come and see the 2013 Festival Concerts where you can check out this years Festival Guest as well as hear works by many other interesting, dynamic women!

Picture Wednesday October 10th

Here we are again…Wednesday’s picture of the week! Below is the Coro Pro Femina with Richard Leslie performing at the Concert Pro Femina in the 2011 Festival. They peformed a Gloria from the thirteenth century, arranged by Ruth Still.

Here, Richard is playing the trumpet, but he is also an active singer. As a baritone, he is a member of numerous choirs in which he has had the opportunity to sing principal roles such as Frank in Die Fledermaus. He also performs regularly with his wife, composer/singer and Festival coordinator Patrice Fitzgerald.

Picture Wednesday October 3rd

          Hello! I am the new Festival Intern, Cassandra Thielen. A percussionist and music management student at Hartt, I will be working with the Women Composer’s Festival of Hartford for the next couple of months and will have the pleasure of writing these wonderful Wednesday posts. So without further to do, here it is!

          The weekly Wednesday post! Here is pictured Richard Leslie performing at the 2011 Festival Concert Pro Femina. He played Elegy by Festival Associate Director Jessica Rudman and a Gloria from the 13th century arranged by Ruth Still with the Coro Pro Femina. The concert included pieces from every century in between and plenty from the composers of today. To hear diverse programs such as this, be sure to check out this years festival concerts!

2013 Guest Ensemble – The Dahlia Flute Duo

The Women Composers Festival of Hartford is pleased to announce the Dahlia Flute Duo as their guest ensemble for its 2013 festival. A celebration of the diversity of women’s music, the festival is scheduled March 6-10 at institutions across the Greater Hartford area, featuring the Baltimore-based duo in multiple programs, including an evening of flute music on Friday, March 8.

Praised as a “truly a great chamber music experience” and “consummate musicians,” the Dahlia Flute Duo is sought after as performers, lecturers, and clinicians. Flute, alto flute, and piccolo virtuosi, the Duo has two world premieres to their name and counting. Mary Matthews and Melissa Wertheimer formed the Duo at the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University.
 The ensemble has been featured at the Avalon Theatre, Mannes’s International Festival for Contemporary Performance, Artscape, the Academy Art Museum Series, the Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory, the Peabody Spotlight Series, the Harmony Hall Series, the Baltimore Book Festival, the Candlelight Concert Society Outreach Series, the Walters Art Museum, and First Night Dover. Additional performances include publicity events held by Baltimore’s Wide Angle Youth Media and the Baltimore Office of Promotion and the Arts. For more information, be sure to check out www.dahliafluteduo.com.

The Women Composers Festival of Hartford has, for the last twelve years, provided an educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women’s music. Recognized as a champion of women’s music by institutions such as Meet the Composer, the International Alliance for Women in Music, and the Women’s Education and Leadership Fund, the festival’s goals include informing audiences through performances of music that has been and still is being written by women in an effort to broaden people’s understanding of musical literature and women’s contributions to this field.