Women Composers

The Icelandic composer talks about the creative forces behind her distinctive music, her presence in the movie Tár and the "dome of energy" that fuels her country's artistic productivity.

Columbus’ resident early music ensemble, The Early Interval, brings the holiday season to a close with a Twelfth Night concert featuring exquisite music composed by women in the convents of 16th- and 17th-century Italy.

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

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

It has been said that life begins at 40. Columbus composer Sharon Udoh explores the upheaval of her life as a 40-year-old in a new musical work full of surprising twists and turns.

On the 100th anniversary of the passing of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, a much-neglected work by British suffragette and composer Ethel…

Six years ago, fifty bucks and an outside-the-box choir helped Caroline Shaw become the youngest person to win the Pulitzer Prize for music. Here's a look…

She was an African-American woman trying to make it in a white man’s world – and she succeeded, performing with world-class orchestras and winning three…

Question: How can music by women composers be performed on more concerts?Answer: Perform it.That’s what the Columbus-based string quartet Chamber Brews is…

Columbus conductor and clarinetist Antoine Clark wants women musicians and musicians of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to be heard.Clark is…