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Today we are proudly featuring the irrepressible J

Today we are proudly featuring the irrepressible Joan Tower in our composer highlight posts (see last week’s post about Fanny Mendelssohn). Now in her mid-80’s, living in New York’s Hudson Valley and still composing every day without fail - she is as lively, incisive, and funny as ever. She has taught at the famed Bard College for 52 years and counting, and loves her students like children, having none of her own. She credits her colourful, rhythmic musical language to her childhood in Bolivia where her mineralogist father took the family for work. “It’s thrilling” is how she describes being featured in a programme of all-female composers, noting the growing spotlight on what women have been achieving all this time with little recognition. She notes a marked increase in female music students over the decades too: “They are less obedient now, and more questioning. Those are the ones that you want.” Joan herself is a feminist icon, famous for her Fanfares ‘for the Uncommon Woman’ in response to Copland’s ‘for the Common Man’. The first woman to receive the coveted Grawemeyer Award as well as Chamber Music America’s National Service Award, the League of American Orchestras’ highest award the Gold Baton, a rack of honorary doctorates and three Grammys, she is one of the most important composers living today. She credits music itself as the secret to a long life. Thank you Joan for your amazing gifts! Find a link in our Linktree to a great interview with Joan from the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra.

Visit What’s On at nztrio.com for full notes, all concert info and booking links
Original programme note and research by Charlotte Wilson
Photography credit: Bernard Mindich
Programmed work: Joan Tower (USA; b. 1938), Trio Cavany (2007) - c.19’

#joantower
#femalecomposers
#fanfaresfortheuncommonwoman
#theuncommonwoman
#womenssuffrage
#equalrights
#fullpictureplease
#musicheals
#GrawemeyerAward
#CMANationalServiceAward
#GoldBaton
#chambermusicamerica
#leagueofamericanorchestras
#contemporaryclassicalmusic

🎶 a beautifully delicate moment from fanny mend

🎶 a beautifully delicate moment from fanny mendelssohn’s piano trio - we’re absolutely loving being on tour with this gorgeous programme 💎

🌙 moody shots from our kerikeri show last night

🌙 moody shots from our kerikeri show last night 💛

🥐 we’re back on the road with ‘untamed hope

🥐 we’re back on the road with ‘untamed hope’… first stop, the french bakery in warkworth enroute to kerikeri 🇫🇷

If you’ve read the full programme notes for Trip

If you’ve read the full programme notes for Triptych 3 Untamed Hope already, you might agree that there are quite a few notable stories behind this all-female line up of composers from the 19th to 21st centuries. We’d like to highlight a few of these - starting with Fanny Mendelsshon. Fanny and her famous brother Felix were a talented force in this family – one given a clear path to fame, the other faced tremendous obstacles both during and even after her lifetime because of her gender. Fanny was a prolific composer from the age of 10 and a formidable pianist who apparently “played like a man” and who some even deemed a superior talent to Felix. Felix would’ve likely agreed as they were very close and he had many of her works published under his name - including one he played for Queen Victoria. Felix was sent off on a Grand Tour of the capitals of Europe to gain musical experience while Fanny stayed at home to ‘prepare her trousseau’ like a good woman. Even in the 1980s, when researcher Marcia Citron requested access to Fanny’s oeuvre, the Mendelssohns’ curator and fervent admirer of Felix deemed Fanny “just a housewife” and blocked access to the archives for his entire tenure. Eventually Citron was able to uncover more than 500 compositions along with letters and diaries that allowed Fanny’s story and musical gifts to find their rightful place in society. See Marcia's book Gender and the Musical Canon.

Visit What’s On at nztrio.com for full notes, concert info and booking links.
Original programme note and research by Charlotte Wilson
Original portrait by Moritz Daniel Oppenheim, 1842
Programmed work: Fanny Mendelssohn (GER; 1805 – 1847), Piano Trio in D Minor, Op.11 - c.25’

#GenderandTheMusicalCanon
#fannymendelssohn
#femalecomposers
#equalrights
#fullpictureplease
#musicheals
#classicalmusic
#marciacitron

Following 3 recent performances of Triptych 3 Unta

Following 3 recent performances of Triptych 3 Untamed Hope, here is a snippet from Colleen Marshall's review: "The audience was quick to reward this exciting performance with joyful applause and 3 curtain calls. This concert felt like a precious gift. To programme 4 significant women composers and then present each work with such magnificent virtuosic playing was the ultimate chamber music experience...thrilling." Thanks Colleen! and to all who attended in Christchurch, Nelson, and Motueka 🙏🙏🙏 We've got TEN MORE CONCERTS to come across Aoteara and we can't wait to see you there. Visit What's On at nztrio.com for all concert and booking details. ❤️

Here are a few Listening Notes to accompany this programme.

#fannymendelssohn #evabedggood #JoanTower #ethelsmyth #FemaleComposers #suffragette #equalrights #contemporaryclassicalmusic
#classicalmusic #nzcomposition #nzcomposers #warkworthmusicgroup
#warkworthtownhall #whangareievents #theoldlibrarywhangarei #turnercentre
#kerikerievents #creativenorthland #listeningnotes #nelsonweekly #musicreviews The Nelson Mail

If you missed @evabedggood 's interview on RNZ Con

If you missed @evabedggood 's interview on RNZ Concert last week, have a listen (link in bio) ahead of tomorrow's premier of her beautiful new work titled Ukiyo 浮世 - The Floating World. It was commissioned by Christopher's Classics and, appropriately, will be unveiled in Ōtautahi Christchurch (her home town) at The Piano. See you there 10th October, 7 - 9pm.

Links to all concert dates and tickets for Untamed Hope in bio too 👍🏻❤️

#EvaBedggood
#youngcomposers
#contemporaryclassicalmusic
#christopherclassics

Really lovely to see one of our special commission

Really lovely to see one of our special commissions by composer Jenny McLeod taking on new life at this year's Martinborough Music Festival ❤️. We commissioned 'Clouds' a couple of years back to celebrate Jenny's 80th birthday and are delighted to see it being performed by Finnish pianist Paavali Jumpannen, Serbian cellist Svetlana Bogosavljevic, with NZ's Donald Armstrong on violin - this Sunday 29th Sept at 2pm. https://bit.ly/McLeodyClouds

#martinboroughmusicfestival
#musicfestivals2024
#musicfestivalsnz
#jennymcleod
#nzcomposers
Martinborough Music Festival
#clouds

It's been hard keeping this one under wraps, but a

It's been hard keeping this one under wraps, but all has been 'un-Veiled' 😛🥳! We're stoked to reveal a new collaboration with our friend Finn Andrews and @the_veils at WOMAD Aotearoa 2025! Mark your calendars for March 14th and we'll see you in beautiful New Plymouth for some music fest magic!

#FinnAndrews
#musicalcollaboration
@womadfestival
#womadnz2025
#womadnz
#TheVeils

💥 what a night! we had a blast performing to a

💥 what a night! we had a blast performing to a packed out hall, very special to have @somikimpianist back with us after 6 months of parental leave ❤️

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