5 Summary of Week 1

This week, you have reflected on your own musical practice and how aware you already are of women composers. You have considered how classical music came to be so male dominated and the challenges to changing this which remain, including difficulties accessing scores of women’s compositions and nervousness about programming unfamiliar works. You have also heard about the work which Gabriella Di Laccio is doing with Donne Women in Music to challenge this.

Next week, you will begin to think about how you might go about diversifying your own repertoire. You will also hear from Roísín Maher talking about how she is leading change in this area through her work directing the all-woman Finding A Voice Music Festival.

You can now go to Week 2.