The Milken Archive of Jewish Music has worked to promote awareness of the accomplishments of such American Jewish women composers as Vivian Fine, Joelle Wallach, Shulamit Ran, Miriam Gideon and Sheila ...

Quick. Name a female film composer. Right… a woman. Who? Fanny… Mendelssohn? No sorry, she was Felix’ sister and pre-dated the cinema industry by about two generations. The fact is, you may not know ...

One of the most remarkable statistics to emerge from this year’s Emmy nominations is the number of women cited in the music categories: nearly 27 percent (14 of 52 noms) are female, the highest ...

The Women Composers Festival of Hartford has been happening in the Hartford area since 2001. This year, the two-day event is Feb. 28 and March 1 at Central Connecticut State University’s Founders Hall ...

NT BUZZ Female Affairs, an international contemporary classical music initiative dedicated to showcasing women composers, will make its India premiere in Goa this December in collaboration with the ...

Think of Saturday evening as ladies’ night at the Clark State Performing Arts Center for the Springfield Symphony Orchestra’s “Heritage and Harmony: Celebrating Women Composers” Masterworks concert ...

More information: The showcase includes concert readings of four newly written orchestra pieces by Aspen Music Festival and School composition fellows, performed by the Aspen Conducting Academy ...

Updated 11:21 a.m. When the Philadelphia Orchestra announced its 2018-2019 season in the spring, many people noticed that there were no scheduled performances of pieces by women. Vice president of ...

As the movie business struggles with diversity and gender equality issues, there are signs of progress on the music front: At least four features being released between now and year’s end have been ...

Classical music conductors are hugely influential in determining what music you hear at concerts. They are the single biggest gatekeepers for whether most living composers will have their works ...

“We are trying to get to the bottom of [gender disparity in composers],” says Lolita Ritmanis, the current president of the Alliance for Women Film Composers. “The main thing is a lack of awareness.