Vox Feminarum Corp.

25/03/2026

Happy to announce our first call for score for UK based composers. Link in Bio

20/01/2026

We welcome Dr. Chen Wang, international award-winning pianist, Steinway Educational Partner, signed recording artist, and global arts leader affiliated with the United Nations, into the Vox & Echelon Inner Circle.

19/01/2026

Vox Feminarum proudly welcomes Nicholas Alexander Kaponyas as Vice President.

Nicholas Alexander Kaponyas joins Vox Feminarum’s leadership team with a distinguished background in artist management, arts leadership, and performance.

He worked for three years as an artist manager, representing a diverse roster of artists and contributing to major international concert initiatives, including Lang Lang Plays Disney and Studio Ghibli Live Performance concerts conducted by legendary composer Joe Hisaishi. He also worked at InPulse Creatives, supporting high-profile artistic and creative projects.

Nicholas also works with The Leschetizky Association as a board member and event organizer, further grounding his career in both the traditions and future of classical music. In addition, he currently serves on the board of the Children’s Smile Foundation, reflecting a deep commitment to philanthropy and arts advocacy.

In addition to his leadership and management experience, Nicholas Alexander Kaponyas is an accomplished pianist, bringing both artistic excellence and strategic vision to Vox Feminarum’s mission of elevating voices in classical music.

08/01/2026

Vox Feminarum and Echelon Press is proud to welcome to the Vox & Echelon Inner Circle.
Together, we are committed to showcasing exceptional talent and using music as a powerful form of cultural diplomacy, building bridges, dialogue, and global connection through the arts.

21/08/2025

05/06/2025

I am happy to welcome Sungji Hong as the newest member of our Board of Directors for Vox Feminarum. Sungji Hong, born in Seoul in 1973, is a distinguished composer whose career reflects both artistic excellence and academic rigor. She studied composition with Kyungsun Suh at Hanyang University in Seoul before completing her Master of Music degrees with Robert Saxton and Paul Patterson at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and later with Michael Finnissy. She earned her Ph.D. in composition under the mentorship of Thomas Simaku, John Stringer, and Nicola LeFanu at the University of York. Her development as a composer has also been shaped by prestigious workshops and masterclasses, including Voix Nouvelles at Royaumont and the Darmstadt Summer Courses, where she studied with luminaries such as Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey, Tristan Murail, and Toshio Hosokawa. She further honed her skills under Péter Eötvös and Zsolt Nagy in Herrenhaus Edenkoben. Currently, Hong serves as Associate Professor of Music Composition at the University of North Texas. We are honored to have her join our mission of elevating the voices of women in classical music.

15/04/2025

Join me in Welcoming Conductors & Choir Director Liz Geisewite as our newest director. A Brooklyn-based conductor, singer, teacher, and choral music enthusiast. She is the Director of Choral Education for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and teaches choral conducting at Manhattan School of Music. Previously, Liz taught music and developed curriculum in NYC public high schools for more than a decade. She is the current Treble Choir Repertoire and Resources co-chair for the NY chapter of the American Choral Directors Association and will become President-elect in July 2025. As a student of the Kodály method of music education, Liz has taught Kodály musicianship classes for the National Children’s Chorus (NCC) and studied Kodály methodology at NYU, the British Kodály Academy, and the International Kodály Institute in Kecskemét, Hungary. In 2009, she co-founded Accord Treble Choir, which was selected to perform at the 2012 and 2020 ACDA Eastern Division conferences. Additionally, Liz is the Artistic Director of Brooklyn Treble Choir, a 50+ voice adult community choir based in Brooklyn.

29/03/2025

Beyond happy to welcome Laura Kaminsky as our newest advisor. “With an ear for the new and interesting” (The New York Times), Laura
Kaminsky frequently addresses social and political issues in her work with a distinct
musical language that is “full of fire as well as ice, contrasting dissonance and violence
with tonal beauty and meditative reflection.” (American Record Guide). Her first
opera, As One (co-librettists Mark Campbell and Kimberly Reed) is the most produced
contemporary opera since its 2014 premiere, with 60+ productions internationally.
Other operas: Some Light Emerges and Today It Rains (Campbell & Reed); Hometown
to the World (Kimberly Reed); Finding Wright (Andrea Fellows Fineberg); February
(co-written with Lisa Moore); Lucidity (David Cote); Upcoming: The Post Office: a
chamber opera in poems (Elaine Sexton; Queen City Opera); Time To Act (Crystal
Manich; dramaturgy: Amy Hutchison; Pittsburgh, Montana, Santa Barbara Operas and
Boston Conservatory); Force of Nature (Fellows Fineberg; Utah Opera); Arboreal (Fry
Street Quartet); Vanishing Point (Carpe Diem String Quartet); Threnody...October
2024 (pianist Mackenzie Melemed). Awarded the Polish Gold Cross of Merit (Zloty
Krzyż Zasługi RP) by the President of Poland for exemplary public service/humanitarian
work, Kaminsky has been recognized by the NEA, Koussevitzky Music Foundation at the
Library of Congress, Opera America, Chamber Music America, and USArtists
International, among others. On the faculty at SUNY Purchase and Boston
Conservatory/Berklee, Kaminsky is a mentor for Seattle Opera’s Creation Lab.”

18/03/2025

Extremely happy to welcome Helen Grime as the newest member of our board of Director for London. She has an impressive list of work and her “music has been performed by leading orchestras around the world, among them the London Symphony Orchestra, Hallé Orchestra, Boston Symphony Orchestra, Orchestre de Paris, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin and Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra. Conductors who have championed her music include Sir Simon Rattle, Sir Mark Elder, Pierre Boulez, Kent Nagano, Oliver Knussen, George Benjamin, Daniel Harding, Marin Alsop and Thomas Dausgaard. Her music frequently draws inspiration from related artforms such as painting (Two Eardley Pictures, Three Whistler Miniatures), sculpture (Woven Space) and literature (A Cold Spring, Near Midnight, Limina) and has won praise in equal measure for the craftsmanship of its construction and the urgency of its telling.

Born in 1981, Grime attended St Mary’s Music School in Edinburgh and, following studies at the Royal College of Music in London, was awarded a Leonard Bernstein Fellowship to attend Tanglewood Music Center in 2008. Between 2011 and 2015 she was Associate Composer to the Hallé Orchestra in Manchester and in 2016 was appointed Composer in Residence at Wigmore Hall in London. She was Lecturer in Composition at Royal Holloway, University of London, between 2010 and 2017 and is currently Professor of Composition at the Royal Academy of Music in London. She was appointed MBE in the 2020 New Year Honours List for services to music.”

14/03/2025

Join me in welcoming composer Eun Young Lee as the newest member of our Board of Directors! She will be serving as a liaison between Vox Feminarum and Korea, helping to strengthen our international connections for our “Global Stage Initiative” program. She has been lauded for her “imaginative
use of distinctive sonorities,” (The Boston Musical Intelligencer)
and writes music for a variety of instrumentations. She has
worked with Momenta Quartet, the New York New Music
Ensemble, Pacifica Quartet, eighth blackbird, St. Paul Chamber
Orchestra, Gemini Ensemble, Left Coast Chamber Ensemble,
dissonArt ensemble, INTERWOVEN, Radius ensemble and
ensemble mise-en, among other ensembles.
She has received a number of awards, including Guggenheim
Fellowship and first prize at the Tsang-Houei Hsu International
Music Composition Competition in Taiwan. Her music has been
featured on several CDs including recent releases - Boston Etudes
by Jihye Chang, Nong by gamin, E Plurius Unum by Liza
Stepanova, and From East to West by Sojung Lee Hong. Her
compositions have also been selected for broadcasts on the
European Broadcasting Union and the Korean Broadcasting
System. She earned a PhD at the University of Chicago, and
master’s degrees at Manhattan School of Music and Ewha
Woman’s University. She has served on the faculty of the Boston
Conservatory since 2014 as well as at Tufts University as a visiting
professor in 2016-2017.
“I have been trying to listen well to what I am hearing so that
I can be a good deliverer.”
eunyoungleemusic.co

13/03/2025

Excited to welcome Derival Jean Philip Junior as our development manager for Paris! I’m truly thrilled to be working with him. We go way back to high school, where we spent hours discussing French, Haitian literature and poetry—while also competing for the top grades. After reconnecting in Paris in 2023, he’s been an incredible support. Welcome to the team (though, let’s be honest, we’ve been a team since 2006)!

12/03/2025

Happy to welcome Anne LeBaron to our advisory board. She is a bright soul and a great composer with many years if experience. Anne will cheering us in LA. 🙏🏾. “The compositions of experimental composer Anne LeBaron have been performed around the globe. Venues in Italy, Mexico, Australia, New Zealand, Austria, Sweden, Kazakhstan, Russia, the U.S, and elsewhere have programmed her works for chamber ensemble, orchestra, opera, and chorus. Additionally, for the past five decades, she has performed internationally as a ground-breaking harpist. Major awards include the Alpert Award in the Arts, a Fromm Foundation commission, a Guggenheim, a Fulbright, NEA grants, and artist residencies at Bogliasco and Bellagio. Crescent City, one of her operas celebrating legendary female figures, features voodoo icon Marie Laveau. Her first opera, Blue Calls Set You Free (a more compact version of the large-scale The E. & O. Line foregrounding the mythological figure Eurydice), was performed in 2024 as part of a Russian festival celebrating women composers of opera. Sucktion, a monodrama for soprano and vacuum cleaner, was recently presented by Open Gate Theater in Pasadena. She is currently completing L*D: Huxley’s Last Trip, an opera that includes many of the instruments built by Harry Partch; several scenes have been performed at REDCAT. Her multi-year project, The Heroine with a Thousand Faces, honors women across the globe with musical portraits. LeBaron taught in the Experimental Sound Practices and Music Composition Program at CalArts for twenty-two years, where she was awarded the status of Professor Emerita upon her retirement in 2024.“