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Hand Werk Incredulous in Harvard

Saturday, 8 March 2014

On Saturday, 8 March, Cologne-based en­semble hand werk are giving the first of the Harvard Group for New Music’s con­certs for the year. In a mam­moth pro­gramme that in­cludes works by my col­leagues here Sivan Cohen-Elias, Marta Gentilucci, Justin Hoke, Tim McCormack, Manuela Meier, Marek Poliks, Ian Power, and Sabrina Schroeder, they will play my […]

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Where are the women in your local music scene? — Paris Edition

Thursday, 8 March 2012

Last year for International Women’s Day, I took a look at the or­ches­tras of Manchester and how women were rep­res­ented in their activ­ities. Since then I have moved to Paris and seeing as I am studying at IRCAM, it seemed apt to in­vest­igate how well fe­male com­posers were rep­res­ented at this institution.

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Where are the women in your local music scene?

Tuesday, 8 March 2011

As it’s International Women’s Day, I wondered how well that most re­ac­tionary of mu­sical beasts, the or­chestra, would stand up to tests of gender equality. I wondered how many fe­male com­posers were being per­formed by Manchester’s three or­ches­tras this season, and then ex­panded my re­search into con­ductors, so­loists and rank and file player num­bers. Perhaps […]

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    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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