Zoran Erić was a Serbian composer based in Belgrade. He taught composition, orchestration, theater and film music at the Faculty of Music, University of Arts in Belgrade, Serbia.
The concerto delle donne was an ensemble of professional female singers of late Renaissance music in Italy. The term usually refers to the first and most influential group in Ferrara, which existed between 1580 and 1597. Renowned for their technical and artistic virtuosity, the Ferrarese group's core members were the sopranos Laura Peverara, Livia d'Arco and Anna Guarini.
Olivera Vojna Nešić is a Serbian composer and professor at the University of Priština Faculty of Arts, in North Kosovo.
The European Music Council (EMC) is a regional group of the International Music Council (IMC) representing Europe. It was established in 1972 as the 'European regional group of the IMC' and was renamed the European Music Council in 1992. The IMC was founded by UNESCO in 1949, and is, today, a non-governmental organisation (NGO), which still retains formal relations with UNESCO. Until 2000 the secretariat was based in Aarau, Switzerland, and is now in Bonn, Germany.
María Luisa Ozaita Marqués was a Spanish pianist, harpsichordist, musicologist, conductor and composer.
Dafina Zeqiri Nushi is a Kosovo-Albanian composer of orchestral music, chamber music and choral music that has been performed in Europe and elsewhere.
Sylvia Constantinidis is a Venezuelan-American pianist, composer, and conductor.
Canary Lee Burton is an American keyboardist, composer and writer.
Leilei Tian is a Chinese composer of contemporary classical music. Born in China, she has studied at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing (1988–1995), the Conservatory of Music in Gothenburg (1997–2001), and IRCAM in Pari )2002–2003s.
Women are active in all aspects of classical music, such as instrumental performance, vocal performance, orchestral conducting, choral conducting, scholarly research, and contemporary composition. However, proportionately to men, their representation and recognition -especially at higher levels- falls a long way below their numbers.
Joelle Khoury is a Lebanese-American pianist and composer of jazz and contemporary classical music.
Antonia Sarcina is an Italian pianist and composer. She is the first woman to have conducted the Banda dei Carabinieri. Specializing in music for brass bands, she has also composed chamber music, orchestral works and music for the theatre. Her piano recitals have frequently been recorded and broadcast on Italian national radio and Vatican Radio.
Alessandra Belloni is an Italian musician, singer, dancer, actress, choreographer, teacher, and ethnomusicologist. Her instrument is the Southern Italian tambourine and her music and dance are focused on the traditional roots of tarantella. Her studies of tarantism are rooted in the culture of Apulia and Calabria, expressing it from women's point of view. Her work has gained international appreciation, especially in the United States and Brazil. She is artist in residence at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine.
Eva Noer Kondrup is a Danish composer of classical music who has written piano pieces, chamber music, orchestral works and operas. As resident composer with the Aalborg Symphony Orchestra in the early 2000s, she wrote Ulvemælk and Salt strøm salt. She is however associated above all with her operas, Neja (1999) and Den Rejsende or The Traveller (2018).
Catherine Kontz is a Luxembourgish composer, director and performer. Her work is often multidisciplinary, incorporating elements of space, theatre, and nonlinearity.
Gertrud Maria Mell, as a singer sometimes simply Maria Mell, was a Swedish composer, musician and sea captain. She worked as a music teacher, served as a church organist and cantor, and directed four choirs. Mell began composing in 1961, creating four symphonies, various classical pieces as well as pop music.
Maria Rosa Ribas Monné is a Catalan composer and pianist. She teaches at the Catalonia College of Music and at the Music School Victòria dels Àngels of Sant Cugat del Vallès in Catalonia. She studied music at the Conservatory of Barcelona, where she obtained the titles of piano, guitar, solfeo and composition. She was awarded an Honourable Mention for Fugue and the honour prizes of Piano, Chamber Music, Harmony and Composition.
Chiti is a village in Besisahar Municipality, Lamjung District, Gandaki Pradesh, Nepal.
Composer and pianist Antonietta Gambara Untersteiner was born in Istanbul, Ottoman Empire, but lived in Italy most of her life.
Elsa Marianne Stuart-Bergstrom was a Swedish author, composer,( and music critic who wrote several biographies, composed about 60 songs as well as orchestral works, and sometimes published under the pseudonyms Kaimen or E.M.S.
