Women Composers Project

TMI Founder Hannah Lee Tungate started WCP in 2018 for Women’s History Month.

For the last six years, she has shared information about one composer a day throughout March, continuing her Women’s History Month tradition. Something that started as a coffee break research task has become so much more, and was the precursor to our creation. You can read Hannah’s reflection on WCP’s creation and impact on our blog.

If you’d like to follow along on instagram, you can do so here.

Click on an image to read about the composer featured.

Up next for our 2023 Orchestra Stats review is the long awaited: Melbourne Symphony Orchestra! We have redone this one multiple times, trying to find the best way to accurately represent their season. If we only look at their Concert Season, 85.5%
Up next in our 2023 Orchestra Stats review: Canberra Symphony Orchestra! We've had heaps of people telling us about the amazing work CSO are doing, so we were keen to see just how good they were. Not only is it great to see 28% of the works progr
Happy New Year! We're back with our 2023 Aus orchestra stats breakdown. Up next we have ASO aka Adelaide Symphony Orchestra. In 2022, ASO were the top orchestra for programming works by women, so we had high hopes for 2023. It seems this was most
Next up in our 2023 stats breakdown is TSO aka Tasmania Symphony Orchestra Across their main season, 3 special events and their 6pm series we’d hoped to see better for the orchestra’s 75th Anniversary year. There has been an increase
First up in our 2023 stats breakdown is WASO aka West Australian Symphony Orchestra We had hoped WASO were improving but 4 works by women seem to be their limit per year. We do see more works by Australian Composers including a work by William Ba
Happy 100th Anniversary Madeleine Dring! Dring was one of the first composers we featured, and the first pieces of vocal music Hannah learnt when taking her ABRSM Voice exams way back in 2007/8. Hannah has always admired and enjoyed Dring’s
🏳️‍⚧️Happy Trans Day of Visibility! 🏳️‍⚧️ Rose Russell (they/she) is an 18-year-old composer and pianist, currently completing her third year of compositional study at the UWA Conservatorium of Music under the tutelage of Dr James Ledger.
Anna Amalia (1723–1787) 2023 marks 300 years since she was born and today is the 236th anniversary of her death. Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia was a composer and music curator and was the youngest sister of Frederick the Great. From 1756 to
Lucrecia Roces Kasilag (1918–2008) Lucrecia Kasilag was a Filipino composer and pianist. She is particularly known for incorporating indigenous Filipino instruments into orchestral productions. She was taught solfeggio by her mother, who was
Kitty Parker (1886–1971) Happy Birthday Kitty, born on 28th March 137 years ago! Katharine (Kitty) Parker was an Australian pianist and composer. Born in Tasmania, she was the 3rd of seven children. She inherited her musical talent from her
Rosephanye Powell (b. 1962) Rosephanye Powell has been hailed as one of America’s premier women composers of solo vocal and choral music. Dr. Powell’s works have been conducted and premiered by renowned conductors and have been premiere
Josephine Amann-Weinlich (1848–1887) Josephine Amann-Weinlich was an Austrian pianist, violinist, conductor and composer. She founded and conducted Europe’s first women's orchestra. Born in Dechtice (now Slovakia), she was a daughter
Marina Baranova (b.1981–) Marina Baranova was born in Ukraine into a family of musicians. At an early age it became clear that she had synaesthesia – an ability to convert colours into sounds. She would sit down at the piano , put her c
Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (1848–1919) Nadezhda Rimskaya-Korsakova (Russian: Надежда Николаевна Римская-Корсакова) née Purgold was a Russian pianist and composer. She began piano at age 9. Beginning in the 1850s she participated in
Meta Cohen (they/them/she/her) is a composer, sound designer and dramaturg with work spanning music, theatre and interdisciplinary art. They are currently based in Melbourne, Australia, on the unceded land of the Yaluk-ut Weelam people. Meta’
Anna Cramer (1873–1968) 150th Anniversary Anna Cramer was a Dutch composer and pianist. Cramer was born in Amsterdam and studied at the Conservatory of Music. In 1897, upon graduating, Cramer moved to Berlin to study composition with Wilhelm
Errollyn Wallen is a multi award-winning Belize-born British composer and performer. Her prolific output includes twenty-two operas and a large catalogue of orchestral, chamber and vocal works which are performed and broadcast throughout the world. S
Leopoldine Blahetka (1809–1885) (the student of Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch) Leopoldine Blahetka was an Austrian composer and pianist. She was born in Guntramsdorf near Vienna. Her father was a history and maths teacher and had good relations
Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch (1785–1858) Catherina Cibbini-Kozeluch (Katerina Koželuh) was an Austrian composer and pianist. Born in Vienna, she was the daughter of prominent composer, pianist and music publisher Leopold Kozeluch. She studied m
Kamala Sankaram (b. 1978) Praised as “one of the most exciting opera composers in the [USA]"” (Washington Post), composer Kamala Sankaram moves freely between the worlds of experimental music and contemporary opera. Recent commissi