College of Arts and Sciences – Faculty Focus » Archive » Cynthia Hutton: Teaching at a Sounding Pitch. Associate Professor of Music Director of Band Activities Cynthia Hutton plays the French horn (by Rory N. Finney) Over the past twenty years, Cynthia Hutton has conducted nearly thirty different music ensembles—from Boulder Concert Band and La Jolla Civic-University Orchestra to her current role as artistic director and conductor of the Youth Symphony of Southern Oregon. Last spring alone, she served as guest conductor and clinician for South Ridge High School Wind Ensemble, Grants Pass High School Wind Ensemble, and Oregon State University Band Festival as well as clinician and adjudicator for Siskiyou County District Band Festival. She was the invited conductor during an invitational performance for the 31st Annual College Band Festival.
Kjos Publications. Anne McGinty is the most prolific woman composer in the field of concert band literature.
Her many compositions and arrangements for concert band, string orchestra, flute, and flute ensembles (over 225 titles), all but one of which have been published, extend from the elementary through the professional level. More than 40 of these compositions were commissioned from bands in the United States. Ms. McGinty was also the first woman commissioned to write an original work for the United States Army Band. That composition, entitled "Hall Of Heroes", featured the US Army Band & Chorus and was premiered in March, 2000, with the composer conducting. Ms. She began her higher education at The Ohio State University, where Donald McGinnis was her mentor, band director and flute teacher.
She is a life member of the National Flute Association and served on its Board of Directors. Although no longer performing as a flutist, Ms. Ms. Anne McGinty and Mr. Mr. In 1953 Manley Whitcomb asked Mr. Mr. Lend Me a Pick Ax: The Slow Dismantling of the Compositional Gender Divide. In the world of classical music, as elsewhere, women have made tremendous progress over the last 30 years.
Following the introduction of blind auditions in the 1970s, which greatly reduce bias, women now make up about half of the string and woodwind players in American orchestras. Women occupy prominent administrative positions in major musical institutions. Women direct and design productions at important opera houses. Women also make up about 30 percent of composition students in American colleges and conservatories. While this is a vast and positive change, it’s still not easy for women to get their works performed, especially by symphony orchestras. Orion Ensemble. September 6, 2011 CHICAGO—The Orion Ensemble, Chicago’s nationally recognized and critically acclaimed chamber music ensemble, presents Chamber Treasures Meet Chicago Jazz, its 19th season of concerts, featuring Spanish compositions, a tribute to women composers, a jazz-focused program and more.
Orion will perform each of its four concert programs at venues spanning the Chicagoland area: Ganz Memorial Hall at Roosevelt University, where Orion is Ensemble-in-Residence at the Chicago College of Performing Arts (Chicago); the Music Institute of Chicago’s Nichols Concert Hall (Evanston); and Fox Valley Presbyterian Church (Geneva). The season opens with “Spanish Flair,” featuring two piano trios by Catalan composers and two additional early 20th century works.
Guest pianist Miguel de la Cerna contributes a work commissioned for Orion and performs with the Ensemble for the final program, “All That Jazz!” Women Composers. This article appeared in the September 1998 issue of the OC Weekly, originally headlined "Behold the Power of the Phallus!
" It takes special equipment to be a classical composer. An intimate grasp of harmony. Mechanical deftness in counterpoint. An imagination for developing themes. An ear for orchestral color. That last tool isn’t just another piece of extramusical baggage. Look at the six resident music series of the Orange County Performing Arts Center and their 1998-99 season (gearing up in October), and you’ll see a unisex vision that makes gratuitous tokenism seem like a refreshing change of pace. “I wish I could say that it was an anomaly, but it’s fairly typical,” says Long Beach Symphony director JoAnn Falletta, who has a long track record as an advocate of music by women - both here and in San Francisco as former director of the Women’s Philharmonic. FSO concert of female composers makes history. Launching its 62nd season of symphonic music making, the Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, its Artistic Director Maestra Elizabeth Shulze, Managing Director Laura Kelly, and the Symphony Board of Directors made musical and cultural history in a landmark concert Saturday evening, playing to a capacity audience in Ardrey Auditorium.
Events. Women composers will be celebrated by Research Center. 'Alive By Her Own Hand' will include lectures, concerts, recitals and papers Participants in the upcoming program on women composers include (clockwise from left) the Cecilia Circle, Ketty Nez, Livia Lin, Pam Dellal and Mary Lou Newmark Jan. 18, 2011 The Brandeis University Women's Studies Research Center (WSRC) will celebrate women composers with a weekend of concerts and conferences Jan. 22-23.
American Women Composers Midwest, Inc. (AWCMI) Collection An inventory of its records at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Summary Information Repository Richard J.
Daley Library Special Collections and University Archives Creator. PIANO ~ IN THE MOMENT: WOMEN COMPOSERS OF THE 21ST CENTURY. In March & April of each year from 2010-2012, Oni Buchanan will be performing programs from her new concert series, IN THE MOMENT: WOMEN COMPOSERS OF THE 21st CENTURY, featuring solo piano works written by women composers since the year 2000.
For this vibrant series (which also coincides with National Women’s History month), Ms. Buchanan conducts comprehensive research into the music of living women composers. Her programming choices are guided by the fundamental quality these works all have in common: a level of authenticity that demands embodiment in performance. New York Women Composers.
The New York Women Composers has awarded nine 2013 Seed Money Grants for the coming season.
One is a recording grant and the others are a mixture of focused and disseminated concerts. 1. Women Composers Festival of Hartford (Hartford, Connecticut). This year's festival will take place March 6-9, 2014 . 2.