March 23: Live from Miami!
(That is, Miami, Florida and Miami, Ohio)
Cuban pianist Jose Lopez, faculty at Florida International University, performs a program in honor of the 100th anniversary of Aurelia De La Vega, including composers Tania Leon, Orlando Jacinto Garcia, Antonio Lizaso, and Ivette Herryman Rodriguez.
Korean cellist Sarah Kim, faculty at Miami University (Ohio), performs a program, by contemporary Korean composers, including the premiere of a solo cello work, “Women of Note,” which she commissioned from Victoria Bond.
April 28: Laura Schwendinger Opera “Margaret Fuller”
This concert will feature an opera composed by Laura Schwendinger about Margaret Fuller, a 19th century American journalist and women’s rights advocate. Full cast and chamber orchestra.
May 12: The Whistling Hens
Whistling Hens was founded by Soprano Piazza-Pick and clarinetist Natalie Groom to perform and commission music by women composers. The duo’s name was plucked from a quote by a male music critic who wrote in the New York Times in 19189, “women composers are at best whistling hens.” The Whistling Hen will perform works written for them by composers Victoria Bond, Judith Shatin, and others.