It's About Time

Symphony Magazine

New York, NY

Jennifer Melick

The good news: more women are getting high-profile jobs conducting orchestras. The bad news: it’s not yet time to retire the phrase “glass ceiling” for once and for all. Will we get there, and if so, when?

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Lidiya Yankovskaya is among an increasing number of conductors forming their own orchestras while balancing guest-conducting and staff positions at other orchestras… Some women are not waiting to get hired for big appointments to make things happen, taking a more entrepreneurial approach. Russian-American conductor Lidiya Yankovskaya serves as Chicago Opera Theater’s music director and does a lot of guest conducting. In 2016 she founded the Refugee Orchestra Project, whose musicians are instrumentalists and singers whose families fled to the United States to escape violence and persecution

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Read the whole article in the Summer 2020 issue of Symphony Magazine!