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Women in music perform a variety of roles and make a wide range of contributions. Women shape music movements, events, and genres as composers, songwriters, instrumental performers, singers, conductors, and music educators. Women's music has been created by and for women in part to explore ideas of women's rights and feminism.
Owing to sexism, women composers of Western classical music are disproportionately absent from the music textbooks and concert programs that constitute the patriarchical Western canon, even though many women have composed music. [a] The reasons for women's absence are various. The musicologist Marcia Citron writing in 1990 noted that many works ...
Women in classical music. Martha Argerich, (born 1941) a prominent concert pianist. Women are active in all aspects of classical music, such as instrumental performance, vocal performance, orchestral conducting, choral conducting, scholarly research, and contemporary composition. However, proportionately to men, their representation and ...
Gwyneth Van Anden Walker (born 1947) Avril Anderson (born 1953) Beth Anderson (born 1950) Laurie Anderson (born 1947) Ruth Anderson (1928–2019) Elfrida Andrée (1841–1929) Kerry Andrew (born 1978) Princess Anna Amalia of Prussia (1723–1787) Lucia Contini Anselmi (1876–after 1913)
Yulianna Avdeeva (born 1985), concert pianist. Helena Basilova (born 1983), classical pianist based in the Netherlands. Elena Beckman-Shcherbina (1882–1951), pianist, composer and educator. Maria Belooussova (died 2018), chamber music specialist based in Paris. Ludmila Berlinskaya (born 1960), pianist and actress.
Ako Ito (born 1942), classical guitarist, also Duo with her husband Henri Dorigny (1939–2022), and educator. Kaori Muraji (born 1978), classical guitarist and recording artist. Kanahi Yamashita (born 1997), classical guitarist and recording artist. Naoko Yamashita (born 1961), classical guitarist and recording artist.
Classical conductors work with orchestras, opera companies, ballet companies and choral groups. [1][2] Conducting orchestras has been called a glass ceiling by the BBC. [3] First female conductor of the Colorado, Bournemouth and Baltimore Symphony Orchestras, and of OSESP. First female conductor of the Last Night of the Proms in 2013 [4] Dalia ...
In the 1920s, women singing jazz music were not many, but women playing instruments in jazz music were even less common. Mary Lou Williams, known for her talent as a piano player, is deemed as one of the "mothers of jazz" due to her singing while playing the piano at the same time. [4] Lovie Austin (1887–1972) was a piano player and bandleader.