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Slightly short notice, I know, but here's what's happening tonight. Do come along if you can. I'm chairing and we have some rea...

Marin Alsop's selfie from the Last Night of the Proms Heartening news this morning that Marin Alsop has been appointed chief condu...

The Association of British Orchestras has been shaking things up this year and nowhere more so than in the matter of female conductors. Ja...

A few weeks ago I went to listen to Marin Alsop giving masterclasses for young women conductors and had a terrific interview with her. She i...

Xian Zhang. Photo: Benjamin Ealovega Here's a gentle crack in the glass overhead: Xian Zhang has been named principal guest conduc...

I've got a piece in the new edition of Classical Music Magazine, responding to one last month by Alexandra Coghlan. Here's Alexand...

Morley College has announced the next in its series of workshops for young women music students to try their hands at conducting, led by the...

Some potentially explosive stuff in my "Insiders Anonymous" piece for Classical Music Magazine this month: how conducting careers ...

I'm sure the answers to that question are many and varied. But here's one for the mix: some of them write books. I've put a fe...

...a lot of us did just that on Saturday, in a discussion that formed part of the Women of the World Festival at Southbank Centre. A sizeabl...

I've just taken part in a discussion for WQXR's programme Conducting Business on the topic of women conductors, together with Emman...

In an excoriating piece for the NPR blog, Anastasia Tsioulcas shreds the latest sexist remarks against women conductors - which include comm...

Here's my feature for the Indy about what we can learn from the little list here on JDCMB t'other day. Thanks again to all the doug...

Following that rather daft public row about Vassily Petrenko's alleged remarks re women conductors , I thought we'd do something con...