Orchestral musicians increasingly live with precarious finances and inequitable employment conditions, jeopardizing the very future the symphony orchestra as a cultural institution. Heather Kurzbauer, a violinist, journalist and legal scholar who was born in the U.S. and lives in Amsterdam, has made this the focus of an extensive work of research, which was first published in 2022 as her doctoral dissertation, and was just made available this month in book form.
You will recognize Heather as a frequent contributor to Violinist.com, having written numerous articles for us since 2015. Her new book is called
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