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Women Composers of the World
On Wednesday 5th March I was honoured to perform as part of Blackburn Cathedral’s regular Wednesday recital series, with Zak...
Abigail Birch-Price
Mar 1411 min read
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Women's Orchestras Series: Her Ensemble
The final post of my Women’s Orchestra Series examines an orchestra much closer to home: UK-based string orchestra, Her Ensemble. The...
Abigail Birch-Price
Feb 127 min read
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Women’s Orchestras Series: Women’s Orchestra of Arizona
My latest post in the Women’s Orchestra Series considers the Women’s Orchestra of Arizona (WOA), founded in 2016 by Livia Gho to provide...
Abigail Birch-Price
Jan 102 min read
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Women's Orchestras Series: Allegra Chamber Orchestra
The next orchestra I wanted to explore for my Women’s Orchestras Series is Allegra Chamber Orchestra, founded in 2016 by Janna Sailor in...
Abigail Birch-Price
Dec 6, 20242 min read
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Women’s Orchestras Series: Zohra
The next orchestra I chose to write about is Afghanistan’s first all-female orchestra, Zohra. Similar to my last blog post which...
Abigail Birch-Price
Nov 13, 20244 min read
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Women's Orchestras Series: Women of the New Millennium
This month’s instalment in my Women’s Orchestras Series explores Mexico’s first all-female orchestra, Mujeres del Nuevo Milenio (Women of...
Abigail Birch-Price
Oct 25, 20242 min read
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Women’s Orchestras Series: La Pietà
The next blog post in the Women’s Orchestra Series highlights Canadian string ensemble La Pietà, founded by violinist Angèle Dubeau in...
Abigail Birch-Price
Sep 28, 20242 min read
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Women's Orchestra Series: Camerata Romeu
This month’s instalment in the women’s orchestra series looks at Cuban orchestra, Camerata Romeu, founded by Zenaida Romeu in 1993 with...
Abigail Birch-Price
Aug 23, 20242 min read
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Women's Orchestras Series: Women's Philharmonic
This month’s instalment in the women’s orchestra series looks at the Women’s Philharmonic, based in San Francisco. It was formed by...
Abigail Birch-Price
Jul 26, 20242 min read
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Women's Orchestra Series: Women's Orchestra of Auschwitz
This month’s blog post tells quite a different story to the others. It focuses on the Women’s Orchestra of Auschwitz, which was founded...
Abigail Birch-Price
Jun 15, 20242 min read
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Women's Orchestras Series: Montreal Women's Symphony Orchestra
The next orchestra I wanted to write about is Montreal Women’s Symphony Orchestra (MWSO), founded in 1940. To this day it remains...
Abigail Birch-Price
May 15, 20244 min read
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String Sensations: behind the scenes
This weekend I released my 2nd album String Sensations! Thanks to your amazing support I’m delighted to have the opportunity to release...
Abigail Birch-Price
May 7, 20248 min read
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Women’s Orchestras Series: The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra
My next blog post in the series of women’s orchestras highlights The Cleveland Women’s Orchestra (CWO). Founded in 1935, it is the oldest...
Abigail Birch-Price
Apr 15, 20243 min read
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Women’s Orchestras Series: Women’s Symphony Orchestra of Chicago
I haven’t written many blog posts for a while, but through research for my MA dissertation last year, I came across some really...
Abigail Birch-Price
Mar 11, 20243 min read
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Until The End of Time: behind the scenes
It feels like ages since I've written a blog post, but I wanted to do one to accompany my latest charity single Until The End Of Time and...
Abigail Birch-Price
Oct 25, 20233 min read
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Musical Families Quiz
For this month’s blog I thought I’d focus on musical families. By this I mean families who have more than one famous classical musician...
Abigail Birch-Price
Aug 15, 20223 min read
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Finding Faith: behind the scenes
This month I released my debut album Finding Faith! I can’t quite believe it has actually happened, but I am so grateful to all my...
Abigail Birch-Price
Jul 11, 20226 min read
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EDI Programming for Orchestras
“If you’re going to embrace diversity, you will have to be ready to change – not just once but every day.” (John E McGrath, ACE, 2006,...
Abigail Birch-Price
May 26, 202215 min read
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Wedding Songs Alphabet
Harking back to my December blog, I decided to have another go at the alphabet game. After getting married during Covid, Zak and I are...
Abigail Birch-Price
Apr 21, 20221 min read
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5 reasons why you should sing in the shower
As we all know, there are two kinds of people - those that sing in the shower, and those that hate listening to shower singing. For the...
Abigail & Zak Birch-Price
Feb 25, 20223 min read
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