WHITE PLAINS, Westchester County (WABC) -- A Bronx woman is facing charges after allegedly assaulting a Metro-North train conductor with a pumpkin. It happened in October on a Metro-North train, where ...

La Maestra, held in Paris this September, is the first fully realized competition solely for women conductors — an effort to help balance a... Women Conductors Are The Rule, Not The Exception, At A ...

Finnish conductor Susanna Malkki has recently wrapped the first run of concerts in a two-week guest spot with the San Francisco Symphony. She has appeared twice before at Davies Symphony Hall as she ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- The heartbeat of any orchestra is the conductor. The conductor sets the tone for the members and their music, and the Philadelphia Orchestra has a new assistant conductor, Naomi ...

Paniz Faryoussefi was this month the first woman to conduct the Tehran Symphony Orchestra, leading the ensemble over two days of performances of Schubert, Sibelius and Kachaturian In some Iranian ...

Local conductor Yip Wing-sie was an early inspiration, showing her women could stand at the head of an orchestra. But Chan did not seriously consider a conductor's career until her undergraduate years ...

Hong Kong-born conductor Elim Chan became the first woman to win the major Donatella Flick Conducting Competition - Copyright AFP/File Eyad BABA Hong Kong-born ...