Women Composers

Cutting-edge wearable technology and one central Ohio orchestra’s new initiative are enabling Deaf, Hard of Hearing and DeafBlind audiences to experience the power of music in a whole new way.

Although women than ever before are becoming professional composers, orchestra concert programs continue to feature far more music composed by men. The New Albany Symphony Orchestra and guest violinist Isabelle Ai Durrenberger will buck that trend in a concert this weekend celebrating women composers and performers.

The composer created her own symphonic fable that weaves Andean cosmology with the natural world.

An unorthodox recording process captures four orchestral works by Sarah Kirkland Snider in remarkably delicious and colorful sound.

Noted pianist Sarah Cahill speaks with Classical 101's Jennifer Hambrick about women composers and what matters most in diversifying the classical music canon.

Snider's supercharged relationship with her art form and open-book stance on depression and anxiety shine through in her new opera, which debuts this week in Los Angeles.

The Lithuanian composer, now based in New York, creates layered, deliberate music that she hopes will grant listeners the freedom to enter an altered state of mind.

At age 60, the Mexican composer has finally won the recognition she deserves, with new recordings, prestigious residencies and a star conductor championing her music.

The Carpe Diem String Quartet recently journeyed to WOSU’s Performance Studio to perform a selection from Korine Fujiwara's new work 'Mosey ,' inspired by—of all things—an airport layover.

As one of the most-performed living composers, the Pulitzer winner insists that her music communicate to everyone — from farmers to children to the classical music intelligentsia.