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Composer Errollyn Wallen: ‘Christmas carols are about singing together, and about community’

Composer Errollyn Wallen: ‘Christmas carols are about singing together, and about community’
Saint Cecilia Playing The Organ.

Who was St Cecilia? Meet the patron saint of music and musicians, who is still celebrated today
Jenny Lind and Rebecca Ferguson as Jenny Lind

Who was Jenny Lind, the real-life opera singer in The Greatest Showman?

Grace Moore, New York Philharmonic

12-year-old girl makes history as one of New York Philharmonic’s youngest composers

New York Phil

Conductor Han-Na Chang

A prominent critic has stood up for the fragile ‘tyrannical male maestro’. Here’s why he’s missing the point.
Virtual Benedetti Sessions: How to join in and everything you need to know.

Benedetti Sessions: How do I join in with Nicola Benedetti’s Global Violin Sessions, and what pieces will I learn?

Nicola Benedetti

The story of blind pianist, singer and composer Maria Theresia von Paradis

The story of Maria Theresia von Paradis, the blind pianist, singer and composer who inspired Mozart
Undine Smith Moore

Who was Undine Smith Moore? Discover the life and music of the ‘Dean of Black Women Composers’
Who was Chiquinha Gonzaga? Brazil’s first female conductor who left her husband for music

Who was Chiquinha Gonzaga? Brazil’s first female conductor who left her husband for music

Netflix marks film on history’s overshadowed women with statue of Mozart’s sister

Netflix places a statue of Mozart’s sister to celebrate history’s overshadowed women

Mozart

Maria Kolesnikova

Belarus opposition leader Maria Kolesnikova is a flautist with a double major in music

Oksana Lyniv to make history at the Bayreuth festival

Leading opera festival to have woman conductor for first time in history

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The Impossible Orchestra – Alondra de la Parra at the piano with her musical friends

Conductor Alondra de la Parra and the world's classical stars unite to give a voice to vulnerable women and children
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Classic FM’s Composer in Residence, Debbie Wiseman, has written a new piece dedicated to the NHS.

Download the score for Debbie Wiseman’s ‘Thank You’

Wiseman

Meet Nadia Boulanger, the inspiring woman behind the 20th century’s greatest composers

Meet Nadia Boulanger, the inspiring woman behind the 20th century’s greatest composers

Hazel Scott was a piano virtuoso

Who was Hazel Scott, the forgotten jazz virtuoso who fought against racial segregation?

Ethel Smyth

Meet the composer who was also a suffragette: Ethel Smyth

Florence Price, first African American composer t

The inspirational life of composer Florence Price – and why her story still matters today
Marin Alsop and Catherine Bott

‘If someone says “I can’t get used to women conductors”, at least I know what I’m dealing with’: Marin Alsop

Marin Alsop

Mirga Grazinyte-Tyla

‘Why are we afraid of new music? We don’t like what we don’t know’ says conductor Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla
Jessica Curry

‘The video game industry is a hard industry to be in as a woman – let’s claim our space and stop apologising’ – Jessica Curry

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Nicola Benedetti

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