#OnThisDay 🎂 22 April 1858: English composer Ethel Smyth was born, known for her opera The Wreckers, and her #WSPU fight for female suffrage. During her time at Holloway Prison she conducted her suffragette anthem, The March of the Women, from her cell window. #WomenComposers ✊

Vítězslava Kaprálová was the 1st woman to conduct the BBC Symphony Orchestra & Chorus and the Czech Philharmonic in her early 20's. An equally brilliant composer, we're excited to perform her amazing Partita for Piano & Strings this Sunday at Kings Place with Noriko Ogawa. #womencomposers kingsplace.co.uk/whats-on/class…

@KorriganConsorts present a spring double-bill, featuring Joanna Ward’s Hunger and Antonio Vivaldi’s Judith Triumphs. More information here: korriganconsort.com/events/

Our 2019-2020 Repertoire Report is in! Find out what major orchestras are playing #womencomposers in the coming season! bit.ly/2Pwlc07 #womeninmusic

Tomorrow we welcome expert speakers @LaurieStras, @annarosebeer, Diana Ambache and Kate Kennedy for a lively sessions exploring the latest findings in historical research on women composers. Have an interest? Join us! #VenusUnwrapped bit.ly/RewritingHerst…

As an upper-class woman, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel "was not encouraged to go on to any kind of public career....Instead she hosted concerts in her Berlin, Germany home, performed music with her friends, and composed—a lot." #womenandmusic bit.ly/2IvAfpQ

--- Diversity in Classical Music | A thread of important reflections --- 1⃣ The fight for equality, diversity and inclusion goes far beyond the music world, and women composers are certainly not the only ones being neglected in many concert halls and radio stations worldwide.

1⃣4⃣ We would like to finish with composer Nicola LeFanu's thoughts.

Without Ethel Smyth and classical music's forgotten women, we only tell half the story theguardian.com/music/2020/dec…

I wrote a thing for the The Guardian 'Classical music has been and can be much, much more than a handful of figures and pieces. That’s something to celebrate.'

Composers and classical twitter, What's your favorite organ piece by a female composer?

Call out on Twitter tonight: a composer for a children’s opera - an ACE-funded DYCP project. ACE say successful applicants must show pay for creatives involved meet industry good practice. Fee for this project (writing, arranging + 3 days R&D) = £1200. 🤷🏻‍♀️ Composers, thoughts?

HELP I have fallen head over heels in love with Florence Price’s music. I know this wasn’t the point of my #FemaleComposerChallenge but I’m too excited to not share some more. This is her ‘An Elf on a Moonbeam’ for day 10. #PlayLikeAGirl

Listen to a brilliant lecture by Nicola Lefanu Oxford Life-Writing’s Centre for the Study of Women Composer’sproject Re:dress

Oge Nwosu, one of our Oxford Life-Writing Visiting Scholars, is one of the composers whose work will be featured at St Pancras Station on International Women's Day, 8 March theguardian.com/world/2022/feb…

Catch Kate Kennedy at the @OxfordLieder Festival on Saturday, at the Forgotten Voices: Women Composers in Song event oxfordlieder.co.uk/event/1405

Four #WomenComposers Per Day in March. #France Augusta Holmés, Germaine Tailleferre, Mel Bonis, Claude Arrieu #salon #musichistory #womensstories #WomensHistoryMonth #womeninmusic

We're looking forward to welcoming Lisa Appignanesi for a conversation with Hermione Lee! Tues 24 May | 5.30pm at St Luke's Chapel Please note venue change! St Luke's Chapel (Radcliffe Observatory Quarter), not the Leonard Wolfson Auditorium Register: eventbrite.co.uk/e/lisa-appigna…

Bravo Air Canada for offering a playlist of classical music by women composers on in-flight entertainment! Improved my flight to Seattle for AGO HEADQUARTERS AGO National Convention no end. #womencomposers #AGOSeattle2022

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