Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

The Romanian pianist and composer Violeta Dinescu was born in Bucharest on 13 July 1953. There she studied at the C. Porumbescu Conservatoire and took a degree in composition, piano and education, pas...

Instructions for beginners, with works for Gemshorn in C. Historically speaking, the gemshorn repertoire mainly comprises ensemble music from the 16th and 17th centuries. Just like the recorder, it be...

A gem from the Norwegian folk music. No difficult and complicated matter but music based on sounds and atmosphere. The melody is one of pure beauty and mystical characteristic of the tranquil scenery...

Avsked från vildgässen, version 7 (2020) composed by Britta Byström

Mary Cohen's popular Bags of Series is now available for viola! Bags of Tunes is an irresistible collection of well-known tunes, folk music and original pieces for beginner viola players to enjoy. The...

Joan Tower gives the viola plenty to say with Wild Purple, her first solo work written for violist Paul Neubauer. The work gives violists an opportunity to show the expressive and technical capabiliti...

Above Clouds' for viola and piano, created in 2013/14, is one of Mamlok's most recent compositions and is no longer than about three minutes. In this period, however, many a thing happens, even if, as...

This small suite of three solo pieces was written for violist Deborah Lander, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, which recorded Kats-Chernin's first portrait CD Clocks for ABC Classics in 1997. Th...

The piece is part of the ballet Wild Swans, choreographed by Meryl Tankard at the Sydney Opera House in 2002, based on the fairy tale The Wild Swans by Hans Christian Andersen. Originally scored for s...

Note by the composer: "This piece was written in 2006 (for violoncello and piano) for an exhibition dedicated to artists suffering from schizophrenia. The basis of the piece is a sequence of four chor...

Anna Thorvaldsdottir's Sola for solo viola and pre-recorded electronics was composed for Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti. The music, which features extended techniques, was inspired by the search for calm am...

Originally scored for solo cello, this version for solo viola was written in 2019. The theme of the work is 'man & machine' as commissioned by the cellist Michael Nicolas.

Nocturne was written in early 1994 and dedicated to the memory of Witold Lutoslawski. The work, originally written for violin but adapted for viola in this version, is an exploration of early ideas fo...