2011 Winner for the Sylvia Glickman Award of the International Alliance for Women in Music
November, 2011 >> Sylvia Glickman
Memorial Prize ($500), supported by the Hildegard Institute, awarded to
a composer at least 40 years old for unpublished works for 3 or 4
instruments, drawing from woodwinds, strings, and piano, with some
preference for
piano trios and piano quartets. The music must have had no professional
performances.
Winner: Kathryn Mishell of
Austin, TX for "Piano Quartet" for violin, viola, cello and
piano.
Honorable Mention: Diane Berry
of Victoria, BC for "A Northern Winter's Night" for
violin, viola, cello and piano
Honorable Mention: Marilyn Devin of Los Angeles, CA for “Spring
Quartet” for
string quartet."
Hildegard in the Two Wilmingtons: Continued!
June, 2011 >> Once again, this time in June 2011, two cities called Wilmington hosted programs supported by the Hildegard Institute. On June 12, in Wilmington, North Carolina, the
Port City Music Festival kicked off its annual summer series, with a program that included three songs by Sylvia Glickman, settings of three poems by Emily Dickinson. Mezzo-Soprano Kyle Engler performed with pianist Daniel Lau. The series continued on June 14 and June 15, with chamber music programs that included pieces by Amy Beach and Clara Schumann, deftly including works by important women composers with works by Mendelsson, Bach, Schubert, Ravel and Dvorak. Attendance has increased, support has increased, and the series promises to become a fixture in eastern North Carolina. The attached photo shows (left to right) Steve Framil, cellist and series director, Harvey Glickman, Tim Fain, violinist, Daniel Lau, and Kyle Engler.
Also in June, in the "other" Wimington (Delaware), the Delaware Chamber Music Festival (performers include members of the Hildegard Chamber Players) featured pieces by composer Vivian Fung, on two of their four programs. The 2011 series assumed an international tone, and included works from France, Indonesia, China, Germany and USA. The series, directed by Barbara Govatos, is now a decade old and something of a Delaware institution.
Sylvia Glickman Memorial Concert Series
March, 2011 >> The Hildegard Piano Trio performs at the Bala Cynwyd Library, Highland Avenue & Old Lancaster Road, Bala Cynwyd, Sunday March 6 at 2pm.
The Hildegard Piano Trio is comprised of members from the Hildegard Chamber Players, including Philadelphia Orchestra members Barbara Govatos, violin, and John Koen, cello, as well as pianist Gilya Hodos. Founded by Sylvia Glickman in 1989, and based in Philadelphia, the Chamber Players come together to perform programs of mostly women's music — past and present — in many venues on the East Coast. Under its current artistic director, Barbara Govatos, the group will perform a diverse program including music by Clara Schumann, Pauline Viardot Garcia and some less frequently heard Spanish gems.
Sylvia Glickman Featured in Article for Main Line Times
November, 2010 >> Journalist, Bonnie Squires, discusses Sylvia Glickman's work and life in an article entitled "Thanks to a musician's passion, Hildegard Institute promotes women composers" (November 23, 2010).
"I think Sylvia Glickman was the Jewish counterpart to Hildegard, a multi-talented, passionate woman." says Squires in discussing Sylvia's passion and life's work.
Sylvia Glickman Scholar at the Royal Academy of Music 2010 recently announced.
November, 2010 >> Yulia Mahmet'eve is an 18 year-old Russian pianist, who joined the BMus Programme at the Royal Academy of Music in September 2010. She was awarded the Sylvia Glickman Scholarship for 2010-2011.
Yulia was born in Siberia in 1991 and later moved to Moscow with her family. In 1999 she studied at Gnesins' Music School and in 2003 she attended the Central Music School College with Professor Valery Piassetski. In 2005, Yulia participated in The Moray Piano Competition in Scotland and was awarded second place. In the same year in Russia she was awarded first place in the Y Flier competition for young pianists.
Yulia has performed in many Russian cities, including the main halls of Moscow and St.Petersburg. She has participated in concerts in Verona and Florence, as a soloist, an accompanist and soloist in chamber music ensembles. She also took part in Vladimir Spivakov International Charity Foundation concerts and has participated in masterclasses with Valery Piassetski and Nicholay Petrov.
Yulia is thrilled to be studying at the Royal Academy of Music and is extremely grateful for the Sylvia Foodim Glickman Scholarship support, which enables her to take up her studies at the Academy.
New Film Released about Hildegard von Bingen
October, 2010 >> In Vision, New German Cinema auteur Margarethe von Trotta (Marianne and Juliane, Rosa Luxemburg, Rosenstrasse) reunites with recurrent star Barbara Sukowa (Zentropa, Berlin Alexanderplatz) to bring the story of this extraordinary woman to life. In a staggering performance, Sukowa portrays von Bingen�s fierce determination to expand the responsibilities of women within the order, even as she fends off outrage from some in the Church over the visions she claims to receive from God. Lushly shot in the original medieval cloisters of the fairytale-like German countryside, Vision is a profoundly inspirational portrait of a woman who has emerged from the shadows of history as a forward-thinking and iconoclastic pioneer of faith, change and enlightenment.
More about the film
More about Hildegard von Bingen
October, 2010 >> On Sunday, October 24 at 7:30 PM, the Department of Music presents the Hildegard Chamber Players in Roberts Hall, Marshall Auditorium. This concert is free and open to the public.
The Hildegard Chamber Players will explore the incredible success of one of the greatest teachers of the 20th century, Nadia Boulanger. We will tell her story through the endless variety of music created by herself, her students, teachers, friends and loves. Join us for a fascinating look at the diversity of composers who traveled to Paris to study and be encouraged by this great musician, composer, teacher and conductor, including her first student, her sister, Lili, (who won the Prix de Rome at 19), Gabriel Faure, one of her teachers, Aaron Copland, Leonard Bernstein, Thea Musgrave, Astor Piazzolla, Igor Stravinsky, Adolphus Hailstork and our own Jan Kryzwicki. The evening will also include performances of new works by Haverford composers, Ingrid Arauco and Heidi Jacob. Artists: Philadelphia Orchestra strings: Barbara Govatos & Hirono Oka violins, Burchard Tang, viola, and Yumi Kendall, cellist, pianist Charles Abramovic and trumpeter, Frank Ferraro.
The Hildegard Chamber Players Group was founded by Sylvia Glickman (1932-2006), former Associate Professor of Music at Haverford College. This concert is supported in part by the Sylvia Glickman Memorial Fund of the Hildegard Institute, Harvey Glickman, President.
Hildegard in two Wilmingtons, June 2010
June, 2010 >>
On June 20 in Wilmington, Delaware, and on June 22 in Wilmington, North Carolina, two outstanding chamber groups performed programs supported by the Hildegard Institute. In each case, works by Sylvia Glickman, founder of the Institute, were also performed, to great acclaim. The websites of the two Wilmington music festivals indicate the full programs: note the links on our website here to the
Delaware Chamber Music Festival and the
Port City Music Festival.
We are delighted with the response to Hildegard's interest. Founder Sylvia Glickman would have been thrilled, in particular, to see the three handsome male musicians playing a full program of music by women composers in Wrightsville Beach, Wilmington, North Carolina.
Hildegard is delighted with the attachment to these two fine music festivals and we look forward to our connections to their programs in the years ahead.
June, 2010 >> You are cordially invited to share in the musical offerings of the Delaware Chamber Music Festival's 25th season. Along with the great classics of the repertoire (Haydn, Mozart, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, Brahms, Ravel and Stravinsky), Music Director, Barbara Govatos and the fabulous musicians of the DCMF (members of the Philadelphia Orchestra, and invited guest artists David Bromberg, David Krakauer, Laura Heimes, Julie Nishimura and Marcantonio Barone, to name a few) stretch their musical wings to run the gamut of musical styles that have been a hallmark of the festival's many seasons. There will be Blues, Boogie-Woogie, freshly minted music, tango, klezmer and a special salute to music by women, including Sylvia Glickman, Shulamit Ran, Libby Larsen and Serena Le. Each concert is followed by a reception with the artists.
All concerts are held in the acoustically intimate hall of the Music School of Delaware in Wilmington. The dates and times for the concerts are:
Friday, June 18, 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 20, 3:00 pm
Friday, June 25, 7:30 pm
Sunday, June 27, 3:00 pm
For more detailed information about the DCMF, its season, artists, tickets and directions, please visit their website at: www.dcmf.org
This season's concerts are generously supported by the Delaware Division of the Arts, The Hildegard Institute, Mr. Parry Norling and many music-loving individuals.
April, 2010 >>
The Port City Chamber Music Festival in Wilmington, North Carolina, will be playing a program women's music, including "Dances and Entertainments" by Sylvia Glickman, 8 pm, Tuesday, June 22. The program, to include Piano trios by Fanny Mendelssohn and Clara Schumann, is supported in part by the Hildegard Institute. See:
www.portcitychambermusicfestival.com for details.
October, 2009 >> Jennifer Fowler of London, UK was awarded the the Sylvia Glickman Memorial Prize ($500, given by Harvey Glickman in memory of his wife and supported by the Hildegard Institute) by the
International Alliance for Women in Music. The prize is awarded to a composer at least 40 years old, for a work for piano trio or quartet, or any combination of four instruments, drawing from woodwinds, strings, and piano. The work must be unperformed and unpublished. The winning composition will be offered to the Hildegard Chamber Players for possible performance and considered for publication by the Hildegard Publishing Company. Fowler's winning piece is Towards Release for string quartet. Honorable mention goes to Joke Kegel of Amsterdam, the Netherlands, for her You, wind of March, a trio in two parts for violin, cello and piano.
October, 2009 >> The First winner of Sylvia Glickman scholarship, supported by Hildegard Institute, has been announced at the Royal Academy of Music, London, England.
Julia Pajot started playing the piano at the age of eight. Five years later she began her studied at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, which is where she first attempted composition, writing two piano sonatas a short while after.
Julia has written two works for symphonic orchestra, both of which led to her becoming a finalist in the ASCAP Foundation Morton Gould Young Composer Competition in 2006 and 2007. She has also participated in festivals as a pianist and singer. During her undergraduate studies in the USA Julia participated in a number of masterclasses with composers including Helmut Lachenmann and Rebecca Saunders, and was one of four composers whose works were chosen to be recorded for a conservatoire CD.
This year Julia wrote a new work for the Orchestre National de Lorraine to be performed at the Centre Acanthes which was conducted by Jean Deroyer. She is currently studying on the Masters programme at the Royal Academy of Music with Professor Simon Bainbridge.
Julia is grateful to Helmut Lachenmann who has been an important influence and mentor since they met in May 2008. She is also pleased to be the first recipient of the Sylvia Glickman Scholarship at the Royal Academy of Music.