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17th century Italian musician and nun Isabella Leonarda wrote at least 200 compositions, and was the first woman to compose sonatas for violin and basso continuo. In addition to composing more than 200 works. She was 16 when she entered the convent in her hometown of Novara, and she stayed there for the rest of […]

Valérie Sainte-Agathe is the Chorale Director of Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale.. The Martinique native earned her Bachelor of Music degree in Choral Conducting from Universite Paul Valery in Montpellier, and her Diplome d’Etudes Musicales in Piano, Chamber Music and Theory from the Montpellier Conservatory. She also earned a Master’s Degree in Management from the University

I’m so excited to introduce to you the talented young Canadian soprano Mikaela Bennett! The Juilliard School graduate is making a splash in prominent performances across the U.S. In 2019, Lincoln Center gave her ‘Lincoln Center Award for Emerging Artists’ and in 2018 she made her critically acclaimed debut at Lyric Opera of Chicago playing

Composer Stefania de Kenessey is a Yale and Princeton-trained musician has written a wide range of compositions including choral, vocal and operatic, chamber and orchestral works, documentary film scores, theater and dance music, and more. Stefania de Kenessey composed a work for her friend, horn player Ann Ellsworth. ANN’S ROUND, and it’s today’s Beautiful Music.

Eleanor Alberga is a composer, pianist, and conductor. The Kingston, Jamaica-born musician knew at age 5 that music is her calling in life — she began composing at age 10. She studied piano and voice at The Royal Academy of Music in London, and went on to an impressive and varied array of collaborations as

Critically-acclaimed American mezzo soprano Denyce Graves is not only an astonishing talent as a singer, she is also a teacher and a philanthropist and activist as the founder of The Denyce Graves Foundation. Today’s Beautiful Music features Denyce Graves singing Caccini’s AVE MARIA, as well as an archival 60 Minutes interview with the opera start.

If you listen to the weekly broadcast of Sunday Baroque, you know that today is the first of our two-part Bach Birthday Bash. So today’s Beautiful Music features music by Johann Sebastian Bach, too. Violinist Hilary Hahn plays the ADAGIO movement from Bach’s Sonata #1 for solo violin. This performance was her encore of a

Conductor Jeri Lynne Johnson is Founder and Artistic Director of the Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, a professional ensemble in Philadelphia. She gave a scintillating TED Talk about her journey in classical music, and about how to bring classical music to the next generation. Today’s Beautiful Music features Jeri Lynne Johnson — her TED talk, as

Joan Trimble was a pianist, composer, and half of a two-piano team with her sister Valerie. The Irish musician was born in Enniskillen, Co. Fermanagh, and studied at the Royal Irish Academy of Music and Trinity College in Dublin. Then she enrolled at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied piano with

French musician Louise Farrenc was a composer, teacher, and virtuosa pianist who lived from 1804-1875. In 1842 she became a Professor at the Paris Conservatory, making her the first and only woman to hold that position throughout the 19th century. Today’s Beautiful Music is Louise Farrenc’s lovely ANDANTE played by violinist Esther Abrami with HER