Genghis Barbie – You Guessed It – A French Horn Quartet!

The cover story of this month’s International Musician is an interview with Genghis Barbie, “the Self-Described Leading Post Post-Feminist Feminist All-Female Horn Experience.”

“One thing that we’ve learned from creating and sustaining our own group is that it’s not only about finding the opportunities that are available to you, but actually discovering what it is that you want to create as an artist. People everywhere are hungry for honest, generous art. They want to feel the dedication and passion we pour into what we do, and there is no better way to communicate that than through a unique, self-generated endeavor.”

Read the full article here.

 

 

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Stephen Danyew
Stephen Danyew

Steve Danyew is a composer, saxophonist, teacher, and arts administrator based in Rochester, NY. Danyew composes works for chamber ensembles, large instrumental ensembles, choirs and more, and currently serves as Managing Editor of Polyphonic.org. His music has been hailed as “startlingly beautiful” and “undeniably well crafted and communicative” by the Miami Herald, and has been praised as possessing “sensitivity, skill and tremendous sophistication” by the Kansas City Independent. Steve received a B.M. cum laude, Pi Kappa Lambda from the Frost School of Music at the University of Miami and holds an M.M. in Composition and Certificate in Arts Leadership from the Eastman School of Music.