Women Composers

Meet composer Cecelia Olszewski, a composition student at the Bienen School of Music at Northwestern University, and founder and president of the Cosmia Opera Collective.

As the new concert season gets underway, composers and orchestra administrators say they are feeling a shift in whose music gets heard.

After finding an abysmally low number of women artists' work within jazz's unoffical book of standards, Carrington set out to fix the problem with a book of her own.

The new record label La Boîte à Pépites is dedicated to raising the profile of female composers whose works have been neglected.

The 2019-2020 Philadelphia Orchestra season was built around two themes – BeethovenNow (in the 250th anniversary year of his birth), and WomenNOW. And our…

In the mid-19th century, there were few performance opportunities for large-scale works by women composers. Today, a symphony composed in the 1840s by…

March 1, 2021. We're kicking off our celebration of Women's History Month with sparkling music by Schumann and Mendelssohn presented by The Nash Ensemble…

On WRTI, regardless of the month, you can always count on hearing music by composers who are women, and performances by women artists. But during Women’s…

February 1, 2021. A collection of classical music written by African-American women over the last century is a jewel—an example of the depth and range of…

When young composers explore old musical formulas, exciting things can happen. Mass for the Endangered is a contemporary twist on an ancient tradition.