Anna Bon News Today

On the third weekend of October, Manor Kilbride residents gathered to celebrate the rich culture and heritage of their area at the Vales around Cloughlea Festival.

A musical event bringing together female performers of all backgrounds.

Chamber Music Charleston returns to the Piccolo Spoleto Festival this season with two specially curated programs of rediscovery and adventure.

Over the years, we’ve learned more and more about composers such as Anna Bon and their music. She was an Italian keyboard virtuosa in the 18th century, who began her musical studies in 1743 at the same Venetian music school where Antonio Vivaldi had taught until only a few years earlier. You’ll hear one of Anna Bon’s keyboard sonatas on Sunday Baroque this weekend.

Featured works by Isabella Leonarda, Anna Bon, Francesca Caccini, Maria Hester Park, Mary Harvey, Wilhelmine von Bayeuth, and Mary Young Barthelemon.

Portland Baroque Orchestra is pleased to present Byron, Bon, and Brandenburg 5. Byron Schenkman reprises their digital production with a twist! Featuring harpsichord concerti by J. S. Bach and Princess Wilhelmine of Prussia (later Margravine of Brandenburg-Bayreuth), a flute sonata by Anna Bon, and Bach’s Brandenburg Concerto No. 5. Featuring PBO’s own Janet See on...

My journey down a wonderful rabbit hole: Discovering music by women composers In this piece, musician Erica Ann Sipes takes us on a delightful journey of uncovering and performing music created exclusively by female composers throughout history. Guest post by It all started several years ago, in the summer of 2017. I had been asked by a flute player, Sarah Wardle Jones, if I would play piano for a recital she had put together of music composed by women, a particular interest of hers. I of cou...