Teresa Carreño
Celebrated Venezuelan pianist, composer and conductor
Celebrated Venezuelan pianist, composer and conductor
Italian Singer, Poet, Conductor, Composer and Scholar
Swedish singer of international renown
Blanche of Castile (1187-1252), Queen of France
Vittoria Colonna (1490-1547), an Italian poet
For more than two decades she gave pleasure to thousands of radio listeners with her eclectic and intelligently planned radio recitals, but her most important contribution to her adopted country was as the first woman to gain a measure of national repute as a composer. By writing successfully for symphony orchestra she effectively dispelled the myth that women could only produce small-scale works for drawing-room performance. Together with the younger Dorothea Franchi and Dorothy Freed, she led the way for many other women who have made their mark as composers in New Zealand since the mid 1960s.
German abbess and mystic who organized a school of nurses for service in the hospitals; noted composer whose works are still performed today, as well as a brewer and herbalist who described using hops in beer.
Composer of traditional and contemporary Māori music and was one of the foremost authorities on historical chants of Te Arawa.
Identity has always been at the center of composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s music.
Heather Christian is an Obie Award-winning composer and singer-songwriter.