Community Women's Orchestra

Community Women's Orchestra
Community Women's Orchestra
Also known as CWO
Origin Oakland, California, USA
Genres Classical, popular
Occupations Orchestra
Instruments 60-70 Instrumentalists
Years active 1985–present
Website www.communitywomensorchestra.org
Members
Conductor
Dr. Kathleen McGuire
Assistant Conductor
Sandra I. Noriega
Strings Attached - Ensemble Conductor
June Bonacich
Past members
Founder & Conductor Laureate
Nan Washburn
Conductor Laureate
Ann Krinitsky

The Community Women's Orchestra (CWO), based in Oakland, California, was founded by conductor Nan Washburn in 1985 as a community adjunct to The Women's Philharmonic (TWP), a now-defunct, professional orchestra.[1]

Part of CWO's original purpose was to explore orchestral music by women composers for TWP. Today, CWO is an independent and growing entity. It continues to focus on encouraging women in music, and includes at least one work by a woman composer on each of its programs. An assistant conductor is appointed annually in an effort to create more opportunities for women conductors, and Strings Attached - an entry-level ensemble - encourages the participation of women instrumentalists of varying abilities.[2]

In addition to its own concert season of three full concerts and a chamber music event, CWO appeared at four concerts at Louise M. Davies Symphony Hall as guests of the San Francisco Gay Men's Chorus (SFGMC), 2005-2008. Also in 2008, the CWO toured to Miami, Florida, to perform at the quadrennial GALA Choruses Festival.

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Mission

CWO provides an ensemble in which women musicians may participate in a supportive, non-competitive environment, promoting the awareness, recognition, knowledge and performance of music by women composers.

Women's music

The CWO has been responsible for numerous regional, national, and world premieres of works by women's composers, including Juliette Folville and Dame Ethel Smyth. In its 25th season (2009–2010), the CWO commissioned and premiered three new works by composers Martha Stoddard, Hilary Tann, and Mary Watkins, and premiered a newly orchestrated work by June Bonacich. CWO was the first orchestra to play Fanny Mendelssohn's Overture In C, when conductor JoAnn Falletta was in the process of reconstructing the work.[3]

Recordings

The CWO appears on several recordings with the SFGMC, and in 2010 released its first self-produced CD, featuring commissioned works in honor of the orchestra's 25th anniversary.

Discography

  • Divas' Revenge: Opera & Broadway Our Way (SFGMC, November 2005)
  • USS Metaphor (SFGMC DVD, May 2008)
  • Creating Harmony: 30th Season Highlights and New World Waking (SFGMC double CD, Dec. 2008)
  • Women's Work and Play - 25th anniversary CD (August, 2010)

Conductors

  • Nan Washburn, founder and conductor laureate, 1985–1990
  • Ann Krinitsky, conductor laureate, 1990–2001
  • Sara Jobin, guest conductor, 1998
  • Martha Stoddard, interim conductor, 2004–2005
  • Dr. Kathleen McGuire, 2005–present

Assistant conductors

  • Dana Sadava, 2007–2008
  • Jessica Bejarano, 2009
  • Yuchi Chou, 2008–2010
  • Sandra I. Noriega, 2010–present

Strings Attached (Ensemble) conductors

  • June Bonacich 2010–present

Notes and references

  1. ^ Kosman, Joshua. "R.I.P., Women's Philharmonic, you were the perfect blend of achievement and idealism". San Francisco Chronicle, Page E1, March 4, 2004. http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2004/03/04/DDG8G5CHBH1.DTL. Retrieved 2007-04-04. 
  2. ^ Community Women's Orchestra website. "Strings Attached - New CWO Ensemble". Community Women's Orchestra. http://www.communitywomensorchestra.org. Retrieved 2010-09-27. 
  3. ^ See Letter From JoAnn Falletta, May 12, 2010

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