Sheet Music by Women Composers at Boosey & Hawkes

Written for the 2025 BBC Radio 3 Epiphany Carol Service, broadcast from Pembroke College, Cambridge, Arise, shine sets the first three verses of Isaiah 60: 'Arise, shine, for your light has come, and...

A setting of one of the seven O Antiphons, O Adonai, is built upon an ostinato figure on a single note which starts and ends the composition, initially using the words of the title. Acting as a drone...

This anthem was commissioned by Anna Lapwood for the Choir of Pembroke College, Cambridge, during her tenure as Director of Music, to mark the 40th anniversary of women being admitted to study at the...

Rooted in the grand, solemn settings of the Mass Ordinary in 19th- and 20th-century France, Kerensa Briggs’s Messe Solennelle brings a contemporary perspective to the genre. Commissioned for The Cathe...

Considered to be one of the first modern American madrigals.

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872–1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

The Symphony in B minor of 1905 is Kashperova’s grandest composition, revisited by her in 1909 in order to transform the orchestral original into a large-scale concert work for solo piano. She may wel...

Piece by Piece 1& 2 - Graded pieces in attractive contrasting styles, following on from Right from the Start. Includes traditional melodies, tunes from the classical repertoire and original, jazzier n...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

The composer states that her Cello Concerto is antithetical to her other concertos. “While in the concertos for violin and piano, in the Double Concerto, and in my new sheng concerto I was seeking to...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky’s piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

A setting of the poem by Robert Louis Stevenson (‘Late lies the wintry sun a-bed, A frosty, fiery sleepy-head’), Winter-Time was written by the choristers of Pembroke College Girls’ Choir, under the d...

A setting of Christina Rossetti’s poem Dream Land, the raw emotional quality of Dreamland reflects on the beautiful imagery and themes of fantasy and death of the poem. Written in the Autumn of 2020,...

Immerse yourself in the enchanting world of vocal music with the '3 Madrigals', published by the prestigious Boosey & Hawkes. This delightful work for two-part women's choir (Soprano and Alto) with pi...

Written for the Pembroke College Chapel Choir in November 2022, Drop down, ye heavens is a setting of the refrain and final stanza of the Advent Prose, itself based on various portions of the Book of...

I am a pool is taken from A Memory of the Ocean (2023), a collection of pieces scored for choir, piano and cello. The text is a setting of The Sea-Wind by American poet, Sara Teasdale (1884–1933). Com...

In August 2024, Lucy Walker travelled to Lindisfarne with St Martin’s Voices for a festival of services and music to mark St Aidan’s Day. There the choir premiered Make me an Island, an introspective...

Das Stück Allegro ma non troppo wurde im Winter 1993/94 im Elektronischen Studio der Technischen Universität realisiert und zum 50. Geburtstag von Folkmar Hein, seinem langjährigen Leiter, in Auftrag...

Leokadiya Kashperova (1872-1940), hitherto consigned to a footnote in musical history as Stravinsky's piano teacher, is undergoing rediscovery. A double graduate of the St Petersburg Conservatoire, sh...

First performed at the Wigmore Hall in 1921, Rebecca Clarke’s Trio has good claim to be considered her masterpiece. This expressive and emotionally complex score is one of the outstanding utterances i...

Immerse yourself in the timeless charm of traditional melodies with the "3 Old English Songs," published by the renowned Boosey & Hawkes. This enchanting sheet music edition features a uniquely intima...

Anmerkung der Komponistin:Akrostichon-Wortspiel besteht aus sieben Szenen aus den Märchen Die unendliche Geschichte von Michael Ende und Alice hinter den Spiegeln von Lewis Carroll. Die ausgewählten T...

Notes from the editor:Chiara Margarita Cozzolani (1602 - ca. 1678) was choir nun and composer who resided in the Convent of Santa Radegonda in Milan, Italy. Like many young women from wealthy families...