Happy International Women's Day!

HAPPY INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

For two years the project DONNE, Women in Music has been celebrating and promoting women in music.

- We do that through our daily blog where we promote TWO WOMEN composers EVERY DAY.

- We do that by creating educational videos about women in music

- We do that by recording music by women

- We do that by creating an online platform with THOUSANDS of women composers for anyone to see and learn more.

Would you like to check the women represented on this blog so far? Watch the video below and celebrate equality, diversity and inclusion with us!

For us:
- Every day is a day of representation,
- Every Day is Equality Day,
- Every Day is Diversity Day,
- Every Day is Women's Day

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This week on Donne 365: 26th to 31st January

It has been an amazing week on #Donne365. Check out our RECAP to find out more about some outstanding women and their music!

Sunday, 26 January

Donne 365 celebrates women in music every day! Check here the composers of the day for January 26th...

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Monday, 27 January

Today’s MixTape has been curated by Fiona Maddocks: chief music critic of The Observer and acclaimed author of three books: Music for Life...

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Tuesday, 28 January

Ana Paola Santillán Alcocer (b. 1972) is a Mexican composer, as written for all genres of contemporary music from orchestral to chamber, chorus...

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Wednesday, 29 January

Check out our new ALBUM OF THE WEEK!Each week, we will post a different album that will make your Wednesday way easier!...

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Thursday, 30 January

The pianist and composer Eugénie-Victorine-Jeanne Alombert once held a notable position in Parisian cultural life; the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris has more than a dozen of her compositions, almost all of them digitized and available to the world through the Gallica website. Her dates...
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Friday, 31 January

Donne 365 celebrates women composers everyday!
Every Friday in 2020 we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented in 2019.

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01 FEBRUARY

KIMBERLEY K. ARCHER - USA
Born 01 February

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DINA SHILLEH - SERBIA

Born 01 February

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Meet the ComposHER: Thea Musgrave

Thea Musgrave is a Scottish composer of opera and classical music. She studied music in Edinburgh and in Paris - there,  she was a pupil of Nadia Boulanger for four years. Thea has more than 160 mature works to date for choir, orchestra, chamber ensemble and the stage.

She has a respected career in composition and was commissioned by several important companies, such as the Royal Opera House, the BBC Orchestras and Choirs and the Boston Symphony Orchestra.

Learn more about her in the Meet the ComposHer of this week!

 I actually began in Medical School, which in Edinburgh, was adjacent to the Music School – which eventually inspired me more than cutting up frogs.

Two teachers – Nadia Boulanger, with whom I studied 4 years in Paris; and
Sir Donald Francis Tovey, whom I never met.But I devoured every word he ever wrote (I studied with his pupil Mary Greerson).

Finding a trusting my own voice as a composer.

I start with an idea which leads me to define the shape, form, and dramatic interaction of the piece before I develop it in often painstaking detail – in which the proportions, harmonic implications, and melodic and contrapuntal details often get re-worked into an organic whole!

I set the Robert Burns poems I chose for SONGS FOR A WINTER’S EVENING as a kind of Scottish FRAUEN-LIEBE UND LEBEN, - tracing the energy and flirtatiousness of a younger girl through sensual attraction to the satisfaction of a life-long relationship.

Songs for a Winter's Evening by Thea Musgrave

My former pupil, now colleague, Janice Hamer has written an important opera LOST CHILDHOOD on the haunting guilt issues resulting from the Holocaust. Here is an extract:

Lost Childhood by Janice Hamer

Trust yourself! And BE trustworthy.

Find and be true to your own unique voice.

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Photo: Kate Mount

14 JANUARY

HOPE LEE - TAIWAN
Born 14 January

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KRISTIN NORDERVAL - USA
Born 14 January

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This Week on Donne 365 - 1 to 10 January

It has been an amazing start of the year on #Donne365. Check out our RECAP to find out more about some outstanding women and their music!

Wednesday, 1 January

Happy 2020!
We wish you all a year full of happiness, diversity and equality!
We have brand new ideas and some new amazing....

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Thursday, 2 January

Among the many women composers side-lined in musical history who are becoming the focus of new interest, Ailsa Dixon only began to receive her share of recognition in the last months of her life. While there were a handful of performances during the 1980s and...

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Friday, 3 January

Donne 365 celebrates women in music every day! Check here the composers of the day for January 3rd...

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Saturday, 4 January

Donne 365 celebrates women in music every day! Check here the composers of the day for January 3rd...

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Sunday, 5 January

Every Friday in 2020 we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented in 2019. Check here the composers...

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Monday, 6 January

Happy Monday everyone! Are you a woman composer expert or just getting acquainted with their works? Either way, we are here...

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Tuesday, 7 January

Layal Watfeh is a Syrian composer, musician and voice actor. She was born in Damascus in 1980 and started her story with music...

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Wednesday, 8 January

Welcome to ALBUM OF THE WEEK! Each week, we will post a different album that will make your Wednesday way easier! And the first....

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Thursday, 9 January

Eunice do Monte Lima Catunda was born in Rio de Janeiro on March 14, 1915. At the age of five she began taking piano classes and musical theory...

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Friday, 10 January

Donne 365 celebrates women composers everyday! Every Friday in 2020 we will post the composers from the last 7 days. In these posts, you can also find the link to the composers we presented...

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BEVERLY GRIGSBY - USA
Born 11 January

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GILDA LYONS - USA

Born 11 January

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