Women Composers

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…

There was a time when a woman composer was a relatively rare phenomenon. There was also a time when music critics drew a clear line between "masculine"…

“I think of her as the Beyoncé of the Baroque.”That’s Early Interval soprano Elizabeth McConnaughey’s take on Barbara Strozzi, a woman who, centuries ago,…

Imagine a vocalist singing heartfelt words and beautiful music directly to you.That’s the kind of intimacy that Columbus’ organization devoted entirely to…

Her father told her that studying music was no better than becoming, as he put it, a streetwalker. But that didn’t stop French composer Germaine…

Democracy has been called the worst form of government except for all the others. In the United States, democracy is inextricably linked with the…