Women Composers

* 1760
✝ 1813 in Hampstead/GB

Maria Hester Park was a British pianist, harpsichordist, teacher and composer. Not much is known about her life, though she was one of the most prolific of 18th century women composers. Before her marriage, Maria Hester Park gave four well-received performances, mostly in the Oxford area, on both the piano and the harpsichord. Her first public appearance was at the age of twenty-two as Maria Hester Reynolds in the Hanover Square concert series with a concerto on the harpsichord. After…

* 1714

A set of 12 trio sonatas for two violins was published under the pseudonym Mrs. Philarmonica by Richard Meares in London about 1715: Parte Prima: Six Sonate a due violini col violoncello obligato e violone o cimbalo and Parte seconda: Six Divertimenti da camera a due violini, violoncello o cimbalo. The imprint on the title Imprim per R. Meares a l’enseigne de la Base Viole Dor dans le Cometeire de St. Paul. - T.Cross Sculpsit refers to the publisher Meares,…

* 1958 in United Kingdom

Sheena Phillips is a composer and choir director based in Columbus, Ohio. She grew up in London, studied maths at Cambridge University, and gradually made her way into choral directing and composing. Her work has been widely commissioned, published or performed by, among others, the National Youth Choir of Scotland, the National Youth Choir of Great Britain, Voices of Ascension (NYC), Amasong (Illinois), Chicago A Cappella, Anima Children’s Chorus (Chicago), the Hallé Choral Academy (Manches­ter), VocalEssence (Minneapolis), Cappella Nova (Scotland),…

* 1972 in Brno, Tschechien

Katerina Pinosová-Ruzicková was born in Brno, Czech Republic in 1972 and studied composition at the Janáček Academy for Music and Performing Arts and Musicology and Aesthetics at Masaryk University in Brno. She was ERASMUS-SOKRATES scholarship holder at the Musikhochschule in Karlsruhe (studied with Wolfgang Rihm). Since 2017 she has been a composition and piano teacher in Schwetzingen. Prizes and awards among others: 2nd prize at the international composer competition “Artistes en herbe” in Luxembourg (2015), honorary prize in the international…

* 1998 in Switzerland

Leorah Pitts is a composer, pianist and violist born in Switzerland. She grew up in different countries, which exposed her to different cultures and musical styles that can be heard in her compositions and arrangements, performed and recorded by professionals and students alike. Among them a piano concerto played by the women’s string orches­tra “Zmora”, Israel (2019). Her repertoire spans in style from classical to jazz and pan-tonal music. Recently, has been researching the partimenti method from the 17th century,…

* 1956 in Altoberndorf

Sibylle Pomorin was born on february 16, 1956 in Altoberndorf in the southern part of Germany. She studied flute and saxophone from 1975 to 1980 at the Staatliche Hochschule für Musik in Münster/ Westfalen. At the same time she played in several chamber music ensembles and jazz-groups. For these groups she also composed. From 1983 she toured with numerous musicians: Peter Brötzmann, Joëlle Léandre, William Parker, Yosuke Yamashita, Chris Cutler, Conny Bauer and others. In 1984-1985 she studied composition with…

* 1969 in Germany

Composer, vocal performer and jazz singer Agnes Ponizil studied composition, jazz voice and musical theatre direction in Dresden and Vienna. Though inspired by free jazz, new music and world music, her songs stand entirely for themselves. Her works include chamber music pieces, film music, two operas and crossover projects. Many of her compositions incorporate improvisation as an intuitively created raw material or as an interactive method. In recent years, she has developed scores as musical games that form elaborate total…

* 1904
✝ 1986

This English composer, writer and pianist received her musical education at the RAM and on the Continent. She also studied the piano with Harold Samuel and the organ with Stanley Marchant. Later in her career she received support from Vaughan Williams. In 1925 she emerged as a composer when seven of her songs were published. Her first work to be broadcast from the BBC was an RAM prize-winning Violin Sonata. From 1930–1939 most of her time was spent abroad and…

* 1963 in Titograd (heute Podgorica, Montenegro)

Tatyana studied piano and composition at the Music Academy in Titograd with Konstantin Bogino and Vojin Komadina. Her concert exam she put on the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover from (Prof. Bernd Goetzke). Since 1997, Tatjana Prelevic is lecturer at the University of Music, Drama and Media Hanover. Since 2003, she also teaches at the Summer School for Chamber Music in Bardou (France). She is involved in the claim of New Music in Hanover and in their homeland…

* 1965 in Wien

Gabriela Proy wurde am 25.03.1965 in Wien geboren. Von 1983-1985 studierte sie Philosophie an der Universität Wien und von 1984-1987 Komposition an der Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst Wien (Neumann, Urbanner). Von 1987-1992 absolvierte sie die InstrumentallehrerInnenausbildung für Gitarre an der Hochschule für Musik Wien (Hein, Schneider) und erhielt das Lehrbefähigungsdiplom mit einstimmiger Auszeichnung. Seit 1988 beschäftigt sie sich mit graphischer Notation und aktueller Musik, gab eine Vielzahl von Konzerten, Performances, Ausstellungen und Installationen. Sie nahm an verschiedenen Meisterkursen,…