The FWSO has also brought in more female guest conductors in recent seasons. Classical music groups across the country have also been programming more female composers, but they are still ...

While female conductors are now more regularly ascending to music director positions at small and midsize orchestras, only two women in this country -- Falletta and Alsop -- run big-league ...

Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by As Marin Alsop leaves the Baltimore Symphony after 14 years, the field is taking a step backward: 25 major American orchestras, no female music ...

Music Female conductors to watch. November 3, 2017. Susanna Malkki. (Simon Fowler) By Anne Midgette. Here are some women who are following in the footsteps of Marin Alsop, JoAnn Faletta, Simone ...

In the highly traditional world of classical music, one seldom sees women conductors. Among more than 20 of the nation's largest orchestras, only one is led by a woman director. Jeffrey Brown ...

Still, female conductors are the minority, ... Marin Alsop, music director of the Baltimore Symphony, works with Monika Wolinska at the Hart Institute for Women Conductors in 2017.

Premieres Friday, March 25 at 9 p.m. on PBS (check local listings) Great Performances: The Conductor tells the story of the first female conductor of a major symphony, Marin Alsop. Documenting ...

So assimilated have female conductors become in today’s classical music world that it’s easy to forget how long it took for them to gain acceptance in a traditionally male-dominated area of ...

Xian Zhang will be the first woman to lead the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra, beginning in fall 2016. NEWARK -- Xian Zhang, a Chinese conductor with an international stature and well-known to ...

But as administrators search for a conductor of her stature, as well as for someone to tip the scale of gender balance in the United States — where there won’t be any female music directors ...

When the Delaware Symphony Orchestra turns the page and begins to write its 120th chapter this fall, its melodic story will feature a new star character: DSO's first-ever female music director ...

Conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in performing 'What Keeps Me Awake,' by the DSO's composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in ...