This looks great: concert in Oxford, next Tuesday Oct 29th: programme of four wonderful, C19 female composers. Performed by Laura Granero (Forte)piano - FANNY DAVIES Ensemble (piano) and Pablo Tejedor-Gutierrez (cello).

Irish student, Charlotte Taylor: in 1884 the first woman in the UK to receive a BA in music (and lit); and the first woman in Ireland to receive a degree.

I am so enjoying this album: most of the ten female baroque composers featured here are new to me - and some are recorded here for the first time.

Hanni Liang’s new album is devoted to piano works from a wide range of female composers: Ethel Smyth, Errollyn Wallen, Sally Beamish, Chen Yi and Eleanor Alberga ❤️

I love this celebration of musical friendship - that of these two legendary performers as well as the composers they play. ‘Merci’ features Faure & his circle. A fab way to embrace the likes of Nadia & Lili Boulanger, Pauline Viardot & Saint-Saens ❤️

The VWF database is a great resource - particularly useful for me whilst researching British female composers. (Plus the gendered dynamics - and historical specificity - of Williams positioning himself as ‘Uncle’ to his former female students is fascinating in itself….)

I’ve been looking into Theresa Beney. Like many UK women composers I’ve found, she proudly recorded herself as a ‘composer’ in the census (which shows she was living with a married man in 1901). Do you know of her Dr Naomi Paxton? she played for the Actresses’ Franchise League.😀

I’m finding some determined career women amongst historic women composers. In 1912 Australian musician May Brahe left her husband and 3 young children, travelling to the UK to establish herself (eventually successfully) as a composer. 2 yrs later she relocated them to London.

The International Alliance for Women in Music is pleased to announce the 2024 cycle for the Pauline Alderman Awards for outstanding scholarship on women in music. Works published during the calendar years 2022 and 2023 will be considered for cash prizes.

Wonderful account of Priaulx Rainier. It’s fascinating on her rich artistic connections (Barbara Hepworth espy) and also on the visuality of her compositional practice. I haven’t always ‘got’ her music. This is so beautifully written it has moved me to try again, Oliver Soden 🙏

Amazing to see from the new website, that the ever modest HenselPushers left. find me on bluesky has, on top of everything else, written easy to play arrangements of the entirety of Fanny Hensel’s Das Jahr. They come with great teaching resources ❤️🎹

Every week Dr Rose Teanby ‘s posts make me happy.