Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Voice-Piano [Bc]

Mahsa Vahdat is one of the most important Persian artists and most influential Iranian women in our time. Through her many albums and her worldwide performances during more than 25 years she has devel...

Your singers will love jumping into Courtney's fun, jaunty rendering of this beloved bit of Americana, which contains interplay between voice parts and engaging hand clapping. Also available for SSA (...

Songs from the Exotic were commissioned by Josephine Nendick, who gave the first performance with Michael Finnissy on 7th October 1987 in Cambridge. These four songs were inspired by folk traditions o...

A Spanish Liederbooklet is a short song cycle (of about eight minutes' duration) for high soprano and piano written for Eileen Hulse in 1988. Eileen gave the first performance, accompanied by Graham J...

Work for Solo Soprano and Chamber Orchestra, commissioned by Carnegie Hall. Text: Maya Angelou, Toni Morrison and Clarissa Pinkola Estés. The piece was first performed by Jessye Norman and the Orchest...

This was originally written for soprano, counter tenor and baritone soloists and chamber orchestra. This version scored for soprano, counter tenor and piano, was composed in 1997 for a concert given b...

All the songs in The Voice of Desire are conversations between humans and birds. In each case, the birds seem to have a more sophisticated viewpoint that their human hearers. One of the highlights is...

Vocal score for Adriana Mater - the second opera by Finnish composer Kaija Saariaho and librettist Amin Maalouf. Written in 2005, the work is Saariaho’s largest in size and duration, and explores them...

Cinq Reflets was commissioned by the Royal Stockholm Philarmonic Orchestra - Stockholm Concert Hall Foundation and features texts by Amin Maalouf and Jaufré Rudel. The first performance took place on...

With a libretto written by Weir herself, based on the cryptic supernatural short story Der Blonde Eckbert by Ludwig Tieck. This one act pocket version of the opera makes use of a Chamber group ra...

Words adapted from an English folk song, and written for the NMC Songbook.

Miss Fortune, by British composer Judith Weir, is a contemporary re-telling of a Sicilian folk story. Tina's wealthy family lose all their possessions overnight and she is thrown into a life of povert...

Natural History is a work by Judith Weir for Soprano and Orchestra. The work sets four brief texts taken from Chuang Tzu, a classical collection of Taoist writings from the 4th, 3rd and 2nd centuries...

Judith Weir's Good Morning, Midnight was commissioned by Wigmore Hall and was first performed on 6th June 2015 at the Wigmore Hall in London. The work is arranged for Mezzo-Soprano and Chamber Ensembl...

This song is from a projected musical film created by director/writer Margaret Constantas. On the Wentloog Levels near Cardiff, two artisan shoemakers, husband and wife, have fallen on hard times. The...

A short setting of Shakespeare's sonnet 116, Let me not to the marriage of true minds, for baritone and piano, first performed in Smithfield in July 2017.

A short work for tenor and piano setting the text of Laura Mucha. The work was commissioned by the Prince Consort and premiered by Andy Staples and Alisdair Hogarth at St. Swithin's, Bath, UK as part...

Commissioned by John Turner for Gordon Crosse's 80th Birthday concert at The Martin Harris Centre, Manchester University, 22nd October 2017. Premiered by Lesley-Jane Rogers (soprano) and John Turner (...

This piece for contralto and piano setting a text from Charles Baudelaire was co-commissioned by Oxford Lieder and the Baudelaire Song Project, with the generous support of the Nicholas John Trust, th...

A short work for mezzo-soprano and piano setting the text of former Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom, Andrew Motion

For soprano and piano, commissioned by Carolyn Sampson.