Women’s History Month

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

“Beware the Ides of March …” Today’s Beautiful Music is a gorgeous aria from George Frideric Handel’s 1724 opera JULIUS CAESAR. Soprano Natalie Dessay performs with Le Concert d’Astrée conducted by Emmanuelle Haïm. You can also use the link below to learn more about Handel’s opera.

There’s nothing quite aslike the sound of a beautifully-played oboe, and Sarrah Bushara plays beautifully indeed! The Eden Prairie, MN native graduated from The Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, where she was co-principal of the Curtis Symphony Orchestra and as a substitute oboist with the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra. Sarrah Bushara

Australian musician Peggy Glanville-Hicks was a composer and music critic who lived from 1912-1990. She attended the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music and the Royal College of Music, where she earned a coveted scholarship. Peggy Glanville-Hicks earned her reputation as a composer mainly writing operas. Today’s Beautiful Music is her 1953 orchestral work THREE GYMNOPEDIES FOR