Festival organizers and musicians smile for the camera at the 2011 Benefit Concert. Aren’t they a good looking bunch?
If you’d like to get involved with the Festival, please contact Daniel Morel at daniel@womencomposersfestivalhartford.com. We are always looking for enthusiastic music-lovers to join our team, and planning is already underway for 2013!
Festival Director Daniel Morel chats with Patrice Fitzgerald, Mattie Banzhaf, Sheri Brown, and other participants at the 2011 Benefit Concert. Thanks to Patrice for hosting this event in her gorgeous home!
How about a little Christmas in July? The next few featured photos come from our 2011 Benefit Concert. Despite being postposed due to last October’s surprise blizzard, the concert – held in December instead – was a great success. Talented musicians from around Hartford presented music that has been performed on previous festivals and previewed works from future events. Today’s photo shows Sheri Brown performing on the alto saxophone.
Though many of the pictures posted so far have shown the great music-making that takes place at the Festival each year, our events also serve as an important opportunity for composers to interact with each other and with audience members. Most of the living composers programmed on the Festival attend, and we always look forward to meeting the women featured each year.
In the photo above, composers Kate Swanson-Ellis (left) and Gale Gardiner (right) chat at the 2010 Local Composers Concert.
For the 2011 Festival, NYC-based composer and vocalist Gilda Lyons served as our Composer-in-Residence. In addition to giving talks to local students and hearing WCF musicians interpret her works, Lyons also performed her extremely moving a cappella composition A Small Handful. Though a video of the work is not currently online, you can check out her recent Songs from the F Train on Youtube.
