Take the Female Composers Challenge!
March is Women’s History Month, and I am excited to announce a month-long challenge encouraging you to get to know more female composers! The challenge has two components:
- Each day of the month of March, listen to one piece of music by a female composer.
- Each day of the month of March, sightread through one piece of music by a female composer.
That’s it! Simple right? As I have been reading and researching and listening, I have been amazed at how many amazingly talented female composers there have been throughout history. Why are we not taught about these women? How was it that I completed a four-year college degree in music and was hardly taught about any of these women? Many of them overcame extremely challenging social expectations and norms to even attempt to have careers as composers, and there is SO MUCH really amazing music that has been composed by women throughout history. We just need to find it, learn about it, and share it with our students.
I really feel that we as piano teachers can help to change the music history narrative as we include works by women in our teaching. As teachers, we need to discover repertoire by women that we can teach to our students. Our students will become familiar with the composers we present to them. All of our students need composers that they can look up to, and to realize that women can compose too.
Will you accept the challenge? Simply sign up here and I will send you a carefully-curated listening calendar that you can follow! I have done so much research and I am super excited to guide you as you learn about 31 amazing female composers. The earliest composer and musical work featured on the calendar is from the 9th century, and the most recent musical work included was just barely released on January 22 of this year!
Along with the free listening calendar, I will also send you a brief email each morning during the month of March telling you about the composer of the day. And there will also be several exclusive freebies throughout the month!
I am so excited! I hope you will join me!
