Who are your favourite Black Women Composers? Add their names here ⤵️so we can expand our blog post by Lizzy Hardman SHARE, SHARE, SHARE!!!

Introducing… OPEN MEETINGS! 🎶 Want to get involved in the exciting things we’ve got in the pipeline? Come along to our open meetings: a space to chat, discuss ideas and issues, and get your ideas into action!

OUMS is thrilled to unveil our HT24 Termcard! We're bringing plenty of music into your lives this term, and keep your eyes peeled for even more OUMS goodies coming up this term!🫵🏻🎶💙

Join @gdilaccio & @donne_uk Be a part of the 'Let Her Music Play' campaign to set a Guinness World Record™ with a 24-hour concert performing only works by women & non-binary composers. #LetHerMusicPlay ➡️donne-uk.org/let-her-music-… 💪🏼1£FOR EQUALITY: paypal.com/donate/?hosted…

On this day in our history... ✨ Pianist, composer and conductor Avril Coleridge-Taylor made a second appearance at Wigmore Hall in 1934, conducting two of her father Samuel’s works for orchestra including the Othello Suite Op. 79.

Expressing solidarity with Sheku Kanneh-Mason and family in response to the appalling racism he is facing. As a positive, thoughtful and important role model in classical music and beyond, we respect and value his wide-ranging contributions to society and urge others to do the same.

You have to be a leading lady but you can’t be nominated for best actress. You have to be a strong female director but you can’t be nominated for best director. You have to have a wildly popular dance song but you can’t be nominated for best original song.

Did you know Fanny had a brother?? And that he was also a musician? Today is his 215th birthday

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Art is not luxury. It is community, expression, empathy, a mirror, a path through conflict. Creativity is intrinsic to all humans. If you defund the 'fancy expensive bits' then you defund aspiration, inspiration, you defund leaders, you defund careers, you defund lives.

Looking forward to a great evening this evening in Holywell! 🎶

Looking forward to joining this amazing panel today to talk about diverse programming as part of RETUNE Festival by Alternative Canon Project at Faculty of Music Proud to be a part of some great, innovative programmes and excited to see what future programming could look like #LetHerMusicPlay

Every single note on Radio 3 this International Women’s Day is written by a woman. Join us for live performances, premieres and to learn more about the 10 women composers joining #BBCTenPieces #IWD2024

Conductors are awesome.

'What happens to the women the girl choristers become?' By now this should be an easy question to answer, but it isn't. We are hugely dismayed to learn of the disbanding of @StJohnsVoices; a choir which enables talented young women (sopranos/mezzos/altos) to develop their gifts

louder for those in the back. “excellence and inclusivity aren’t mutually exclusive”.

Violinist Elena Urioste and her husband, pianist Tom Poster, are frequent duo partners, and founded the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective in 2017 classical-music.com/features/artis…

"Only when gender equity is seen as a necessary foundation for achieving excellence will classical music start to sound like an art form fit for the 21st century." I wrote about changing attitudes towards women in classical music for The Daily Telegraph telegraph.co.uk/music/classica…

Absolute banger it is too!! 🎄