On 8th June 2021, the Basel Sinfonietta performed a great programme of works by Grażyna Bacewicz, Ruth Gipps, Cécile Marti, Dorothy Howell and Florence B. Price in the Casino Bern in Switzerland.
New interview on the podcast channel SURVIVING CLASSICAL MUSIC
Grace Newcombe and Andrew Burn interviewed Jessica Horsley for a new podcast focussing on women in classical music.
“… this fluid, nuanced performance by the BBC Concert Orchestra and Horsley…”
Rebecca Franks, Review in The Times (9.3.21) of the Live Broadcast for BBC Radio 3 to mark International Womens’ Day with the BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by Jessica Horsley.
Debut with the BBC CO
Jessica Horsley will be debuting with the BBC Concert Orchestra in March 2021 in London, Basel, Bern and Zurich as part of the Festival frauenkomponiert 2021.
Review of the Festival frauenkomponiert 2018 in the IAWM journal
Karla Hartl’s review of the Festival frauenkomponiert 2018 is now available online.
A second look: in conversation with Stefan Brotbeck
On Monday 17th December at 6.15 pm, Stefan Brotbeck will be putting questions on life, creativity and freedom to conductor, barytonist/violist and researcher Jessica Horsley.
frauenkomponiert on Radio SRF2 Culture
frauenkomponiert orchestral concert on Radio SRF2 Culture on 19th April 2018 at 8–10 pm.
Evasion for solo viola and orchestra – commissioned work by Heidi Baader-Nobs for the Festival frauenkomponiert 2018
The orchestral work for this year’s festival was written by Swiss composer Heidi Baader-Nobs with Mariana Doughty as viola soloist.
The Festival frauenkomponiert 2018 gets underway with an interactive concert for schools
The interactive concert for school children in Münchenstein near Basel with actress Barbara Schneebeli was one of many great moments of the Festival frauenkomponiert 2018.
Agnes Tyrrell’s Overture “Die Könige in Israel” c. 1880 – a milestone at the Festival frauenkomponiert 2018
According to the critic Sigfried Schibli in his review of the orchestral concert in Bern, the piece has, “the most important quality for an overture: it makes you want to hear more!”.