National Sawdust, the performance space in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, announced the winners of its first Hildegard Competition for rising female and nonbinary composers. The winners, Emma O’Halloran, X.

If classical music during the 20th and 21st centuries has become increasingly invisible, as reflected in such depressing tomes as Joseph Horowitz’s Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise ...

From Hildegard von Bingen to Hildur Guðnadóttir, here are some of the most influential women of the music world in history ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

Conductor Gemma New leads the Dallas Symphony Orchestra in performing 'What Keeps Me Awake,' by the DSO's composer-in-residence Angélica Negrón, at the Morton H. Meyerson Symphony Center in Dallas on ...

Are women composers finally getting their due? This weekend alone in San Diego, thirteen works by eleven female composers were featured in three different classical events. True, all the soloists were ...

Women have always had a lot of the big names in jazz: Billie Holiday, Sarah Vaughan, Ella Fitzgerald. These artists broke barriers in the male-dominated genre; the trails they blazed are carried forth ...

While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe Flower wanted to highlight a lesser known group of women with her new ...

Pinar Toprak is shattering the glass ceiling for female composers. Having already scored the popular Fortnite video game, she recently achieved her greatest accomplishment yet: Creating the score for ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without every studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...