Women composers have been hugely successful in this year's Ivors Composer Awards, with winners in six categories and a lifetime achivement award. Huge congratulations to Charlotte Harding, Anna Meredith, Laura Jurd, Alison Rayner, Erika Fox, Charlotte Bray and Hilda Paredes.
https://ivorsacademy.com/awards/the-ivors-composer-awards/#nominees
The Daffodil Perspective is raising funds to help continue their work championing women and creating diversity in classical music. If you've enjoyed the show and their work please consider donating.
More information on the GoFundMe campaign here
Multi-instrumentalist and composer Rachel Beckles Willson brings her quartet Beyond Mode to London, animating a unique soundworld of voice, oud, bowed tanbur and double-bass interwoven with Indian tabla. The programme combines music by a female musician at the Ottoman court in 18th-century Istanbul, Dilhayat Kalfa, and newly-written instrumental pieces, songs and extemporisations for this unique quartet.
At the heart of the programme is Beckles Willson's Sing no Sad Songs for Me,
the composition that launched the ensemble, exploring the poetry of Christina
Rossetti, child of Italian exiles in 19th-century London. Sing no Sad Songs for
Me expresses the mysteriousness and poignancy of parting in death, while
bringing together in music the spaces of Europe and Asia all too often held
apart.
Beyond Mode emerged from musical encounters at Labyrinth Musical Workshops,
Crete. Rachel Beckles Willson is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and
researcher, Professorial Research Associate at SOAS, University of London. Her
work is dedicated to seeking out and amplifying unheard voices - often those of
women, often those of people on-the-move.
£4 online booking required to guarantee seat allocation.
https://www.rachelbeckleswillson.com/Beyond-Mode/
1 year, 42 shows, 55 hours of music. How did it go?
409 composers including 204 female composers, 155 living composers and 40 BAME composers/composers of colour.
33 hours of music by women composers, 13 hours of music by living women composers, 6.75 hours of music by BAME composers/composers of colour
584 pieces including 339 by female composers.
14 pieces per week on average including 8 by women, 3 by living composers and from May onwards every show had at least 1 piece by a BAME compose/composer of colour.
Most Played Composer: Florence Price (14 times)
Mozart was played twice, Bach twice and Beethoven once.
See the full infographic report here:
The Daffodil Perspective is now 1 year old!
Celebrate 1 year of championing gender equality in classical music with this special birthday show, featuring a special selection of some favourite pieces from throughout the year.
https://www.mixcloud.com/TheDaffodilPerspective/the-daffodil-perspective-1st-birthday-show/
This week discussing the work and music of visionary composer Wendy Carlos and a very exciting world premiere recording of Margaret Bond's epic cantata The Ballad of the Brown King from Malcolm J Merriweather and company.
Plus music from Elfman, Elisabeth Lutyens, Arvo Part and more!
https://www.mixcloud.com/TheDaffodilPerspective/the-daffodil-perspective-1st-november-2019/
The Tailleferre Ensemble will be playing Rhian Samuel's Redlands Suite, Cecilia McDowall's Century Dances & Claude Arrieu's Trio tomorrow at All Saint's Church, High Wycombe, 1:10pm.
http://www.allsaintshighwycombe.org/concerts.html
Women in Music has learned of an excellent new resource listing works for clarinet by women composers. The resource can be found here https://www.clarinetrepertoire.com/
