Sheet Music by Female Composers: A Rich and Diverse Selection

With "relatif à la sonorité" for string trio, Edition HH presents a captivating piece of late 20th-century chamber music radiating pure energy, vibrant colors, and infectious vitality. As the title su...

Fluid in texture and tempo - hypnotically mercurial variations of timbre and rhythm Each part contains the other 3 instruments printed small, making the co-ordination of this complex music a pleasure...

Cicada larvae live underground for years, creeping about slowly and peacefully in the darkness until that sudden, beautiful brief moment when, one warm, damp summer's eve, they emerge, metamorphosed i...

A finely structured web in an entirely original sound world.

These three pieces form a very short instrumental opera, based on the life of James Reid, a bagpiper in Prince Charlie's Jacobite army, who was captured by the English in 1746, and executed after a ju...

Experience Johann Sebastian Bach’s timeless masterpiece in a touching new light: With "Licht auf Bach – Song of Peace", Ponticello Edition presents a sensitive arrangement by Traudl Herrmann based on...

Chen Yi describes the cheery interplay of HAPPY TUNE as: 'When one instrument plays a lively melody, the other plays a vivid rhythmic pattern in the accompaniment. The pair of string instruments imita...

TACHUN (SPRING OUTING) was composed in 2021 for The Joy Project, to commission uplifting works for performance at free outdoor concerts in the San Francisco Bay region. The work's title comes from the...

“Spring Vitality,” the first movement of Chen Yi's SONG OF SPRING for string quartet, embeds rhythmic speech in quietly churning fragments of polyphony to suggest the sounds of falling rain, sure to c...

Immerse yourself in the captivating sound world of chamber music with the "String Quartet No. 4", published by the renowned PWM Edition. The string quartet has long been considered the pinnacle of ens...

Long before writing Passalega, I harboured the idea of creating some form of organically homogeneous chain of musical tensions evolving ever more distinctly into a musical utterance, although still in...

Experience the fascinating tonal richness and intimate expressive power of the string trio! Published by the renowned Sikorski Musikverlag, this high-quality edition is crafted for the classic yet dem...

Commissioned by Jana Marko and Alexander Gérard for the Elbphilharmonie. When I was younger I enjoyed writing program notes for my music - I felt it was a way for me to protect it from possible misund...

A Room Of One's Own (2020) is a work composed for eight string instruments by Britta Byström. The work is 9 minutes long.

Battle of the Shadow Hunters is a dark, driven character and teaching piece. It was written for second year students to give them practice with a minor tonality, but also easy enough rhythmically to a...

Siri Brander (1866-1934) was one of the first female composers to be played by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra. Elegie (originally for piano) was arranger for string orchestra by A. E. Westerlind...

A dramatic work with a hint of romance, Conquistador! depicts the life and adventures of the Spanish explorers known as Conquistadors. Repeated note passages in A minor provide a glimpse into life on...

A moving tribute by Susan Day to the people we admire - whether it be family members, role models, or those serving our country - this piece in E minor uses easy rhythms, pizzicato, some divisi in the...

Students will love Shipwreck Coast - a dark and stormy piece by Erica Donahoe! Cello and string bass players will enjoy digging into the opening melody, and all members of the orchestra will be challe...

Students will love Shipwreck Coast - a dark and stormy piece by Erica Donahoe! Cello and string bass players will enjoy digging into the opening melody, and all members of the orchestra will be challe...

Written specifically with intermediate students in mind, Waterfalls by Kathryn Griesinger offers a joyful major melody that captures the carefree cascading of a sparkling waterfall. With a cheerful D...