Tania León

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by Stephi Wild - Mar 25, 2022
New Music USA's Amplifying Voices program, which fosters collaboration toward racial and gender equity in new orchestral music, has over thirty orchestras from across the United States signed up to premiere new works co-commissioned from nine of today's leading composers: Valerie Coleman, Juan Pablo Contreras, Vijay Iyer, Tania León, Jessie Montgomery, Brian Raphael Nabors, Nina Shekhar, Tyshawn Sorey, and Shelley Washington.

by Maria Nockin - May 17, 2021
On Saturday, May 15, 2021, Los Angeles Opera and Opera San Jose presented a recital honoring Latina composers. It includes songs by Modesta Bor, María Luisa Escobar, Chabuca Granda, María Grever, Ernestina Lecuona , Ángela Peralta, Consuelo Velázquez, and contemporary writers, Gabriela Lena Frank, Tania León, Mariela Rodríguez, and Irma Urteaga.

by A.A. Cristi - Apr 20, 2021
American Composers Orchestra (ACO) presents its next Composer to Composer Talk online with Tania León and Angélica Negrón on Wednesday, April 28, 2021 at 5pm ET.

by A.A. Cristi - Mar 16, 2021
Music director Leon Botstein leads The Orchestra Now in two spring concerts livestreamed FREE from the Fisher Center at Bard on April 10 and May 1, an exciting return to performing symphonic works with a larger orchestra on stage. The April 10 program features Tania León’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated work Ácana, alongside music by Bernstein, Stravinsky, and Mendelssohn. The May 1 performance is the first concert of a belated two-part tribute to Beethoven’s 250th birthday. The second part will be performed by the Bard Conservatory Orchestra on May 8.

by Sarah Jae Leiber - Feb 4, 2021
The ASCAP Foundation today announces that it has named Tania León and Betsy Pérez to its Board of Directors.

by A.A. Cristi - Jul 20, 2020
For Week 12 of National Sawdust's Digital Discovery Festival focused on Virtuosity, we present short concerts with genuine virtuosi, including an exceptional percussionist early in her career and a guitarist in the prime of his creative years.

by Stephi Wild - Nov 6, 2019
Jaap van Zweden and the New York Philharmonic will mark the centennial of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which granted equal voting rights to women, by commissioning and premiering works by 19 women composers. The multi-season initiative a?" the single largest women-only commissioning initiative in history a?" will launch in February 2020 with the first six World Premieres. Two more World Premieres will follow in Maya?"June 2020. The eleven remaining commissions will be premiered in future seasons. The commissioned composers are Unsuk Chin, Mary Kouyoumdjian, Joan La Barbara, Tania León, Nicole Lizée, Caroline Mallonee, Jessie Montgomery, Angélica Negrón, Olga Neuwirth, Paola Prestini, Ellen Reid, Maria Schneider, Caroline Shaw, Sarah Kirkland Snider, Anna Thorvaldsdottir, Joan Tower, Melinda Wagner, Nina C. Young, and Du Yun.

by Julie Musbach - Dec 19, 2018
Music scholar, academic and writer Alejandro L. Madrid announced on December 16, 2018 that he has signed a contract with the University of Illinois to write: 'Becoming Tania León. The Journey of an American Composer.' The projected completion date is September 2019. This is sure to be a fascinating read about an extraordinary artist now celebrating more than 50 years in the United States.

by BWW News Desk - Nov 30, 2018
Composers Now, Steinway, ASCAP, and The ASCAP Foundation co-present Dialogues, an evening of performance and town hall-style conversation between composers and audience. The November 30th event features composers Courtney Bryan (New Orleans, US), Felipe Lara (Brazil, US), and Žibuokl? Martinaityt? (Lithuania, US) hosted by Composers Now Founder/Artistic Director Tania Leon.

by Stephi Wild - Nov 18, 2018
Composers Now, Steinway, ASCAP, and The ASCAP Foundation co-present Dialogues, an evening of performance and town hall-style conversation between composers and audience. The November 30th event features composers Courtney Bryan (New Orleans, US), Felipe Lara (Brazil, US), and Žibuokl? Martinaityt? (Lithuania, US) hosted by Composers Now Founder/Artistic Director Tania Leon.