Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

Each part is provided with a running cue. A twelve minute feast for three woodwind friends.

Charmingly packed with wit, grace, symbolism, and irony, Shulamit Ran's THE FLIGHT OF THE BRAVE CHICKEN celebrates the life and work of a graphic artist and illustrator (who played clarinet), who lost...

The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...

The 10-minute piece was written in 2006 for the Berlin Philharmonic's education/dance project 'Modern Times', three years after the orchestra had caused a sensation with 'Rhythm Is It!'. Purple Silenc...

SANSKARA is a free-flowing, lyrical solo work for horn, inspired by the Sufi religion practiced by Garrop's first composition teacher. The composer has written: 'While he and I never talked about his...

A chamber orchestral piece celebrating the lives of five extraordinary women from recent history. This twelve-minute work runs continuously, but has five distinct movements: i) Hedy Lamarr – This 1940...

Composer's note When I visited my homeland of Taiwan in the winter of 2016, I received a telephone call from the Ensemble Kontrapunkte of Vienna asking me to tell it immediately what the title of the...

This chamber work by American composer Joan Tower who is known for her symbolic titles that draw on abstract, action-filled imagery. Fantasy for Clarinet and Piano accompaniment is based on ...those H...

Aphorisms II' contains six short movements. - After the playful, restless two-part counterpoint of the first three movements Movement IV with its slow, melodic legato lines strikes a new tone. In cont...

1968 schuf Ursula Mamlok für den Klarinettisten Jack Kreiselman ein Solowerk, dass von jeglichem Klarinettenspieler nicht nur hohe Virtuosität sondern auch eine enorme Akribie erfordert und dazu noch...

Das dreieinhalbminütige Stück (eingespielt vom Acacia Quartet auf der CD Blue Silence beim Label Vexations840) gehört zu einer Reihe melancholischer Miniaturen, die die usbekisch-australische Komponis...

Ursula Mamlok hat in ihren Werken die Schoa nicht thematisiert. Eine Ausnahme bildet der Rückblick für Saxophon und Klavier, den sie 2002 im Auftrag der Temple University zur Erinnerung an die Reichsp...

Ein wechselvoller Gedankenstrom für Bassklarinette - 'frei' und 'unruhig', 'zart' und 'brutal', 'böse', 'singend'. Dieses kurze Solo-Stück, einem Ausrufezeichen gleich, gibt der Interpret*in Raum sich...

The Shoa never was a theme in the works of Ursula Mamlok - with the exception of Rückblick for saxophone and piano which she wrote in 2002 on commission of the Temple University in memory of Kristalln...

In 1996, clarinettist Peter Jenkin, a member of the Sydney Alpha Ensemble, asked several composers in Australia to write one-minute pieces for a concert. Elena Kats-Chernin drew on melodic and harmoni...

Grand Rag is part of a project in which 67 composers each composed a piece for solo musicians of ANAM (Australian National Academy of Music) in 2021. Elena Kats-Chernin wrote her piece in close collab...

While composing Joy in a Minor Key I attempted to achieve a fleeting, light, poetic, almost never 'touching the ground' quality. The piece is written in my favourite form of rondo waltz with a coda,'...

When I came to Sydney from Russia in 1975 with my sister and parents, we took only a few belongings with us, including beautiful hand-embroidered bed linen. It was so valuable that we never used it. O...

Das hier vorliegende Werk ist ein äußerst illustratives Beispiel für Programmmusik und bezieht sich auf das fünfte Kapitel aus Lewis Carrolls Alices Abenteuer im Wunderland. Beim Spielen der Bassklari...

Klarinette und Klavier

In the fall of 2025, Jean-Guy Boisvert asked me to compose a piece of around five minutes for clarinet and piano, using a text by a Quebec author for inspiration. We quickly agreed on Anne Hébert, and...