Women's History Month on WMHT Podcast
1) Joan Tower
(1938 - ) the pioneering Grammy-winning American composer, curator of this series, who continues to be internationally commissioned and performed after 65 years of composing
2) Caroline Shaw
(1982 - ) the two-time Grammy winning, Pulitzer prize winning, super-imaginative American composer, founder of Roomful of Teeth
3) Jessie Montgomery
(1981 - ) the Grammy award winning Black American composer and violinist, Musical America’s Composer of the Year 2023
4) Missy Mazzoli
(1980 - ) the American composer, first woman to be commissioned by the Metropolitan Opera and first person to win the inaugural Music Critics award for best opera in 2017
5) Jennifer Higdon
(1962 - ) the multi Grammy award and Pulitzer prize-winning composer, flautist, and long time professor at the Curtis Institute
6) Unsuk Chin
(1961 - ) the self-taught South Korean composer, winner of a number of lucrative prizes, living in Berlin
7) Julia Wolfe
(1958 - ) the Pulitzer prize winning American composer, big mover and shaker in contemporary music circles and co-founder of Bang On A Can
8) Pamela Z
(1956 -) the experimental Black composer, singer and performance artist, renowned for her pioneering electronics
9) Libby Larsen
(1950 - ) Founder of the American Composers Forum and first woman resident composer with a major orchestra in America. And a thinker, a speaker, and a musical mover and shaker
10) Meredith Monk
(1942 -) the American composer, singer, director, film-maker, choreographer and legend in her own lifetime, still composing and creating