Violinist Esther Abrami: New Album Spotlights Music by Contemporary and Historic Women Composers – symphony.org

Esther Abrami at a recording session for her album featuring works by women composers.
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In Monday’s (4/28) National Public Radio, Olivia Hampton writes, “The first time Esther Abrami saw a violin, she was just 3 years old. Little did she know at the time, it would be the start of a lifelong love affair.” Abrami’s new album Women, recorded with the Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, “features the world-premiere studio recording of Irish composer Ina Boyle’s Violin Concerto (1935) … Boyle has largely been forgotten, something she shares with several of the 14 composers and songwriters on the album, including Brazil’s Chiquinha Gonzaga (1847-1935) and Venezuela’s Teresa Carreño (1853-1917)…. The works on the album are conducted by Irene Delgado-Jiménez, who recently completed a two-year fellowship in the conducting incubator led by Marin Alsop … Among the living composers on the album are Oscar winners Rachel Portman and Anne Dudley … Miley Cyrus via an arrangement of ‘Flowers,’ and Yoko Shimomura … After completing her studies when she was 25, Abrami realized ‘in all those years, I’d learned hundreds of pieces, but not a single one of them had been written by a woman,’ said Abrami, now 28. ‘I started kind of doing my own journey and my own research, and it was like opening the door of a hidden treasure.’ ”
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