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10 Young Female Composers You Should Know

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Sarah Kirkland Snider

Sarah Kirkland Snider has been on the classical circuit for years, but her breakthrough came with last year’s arresting Penelope. A collaboration between Snider, playwright Ellen McLaughlin, singer Shara Worden (of My Brightest Diamond), the Signal chamber orchestra, and conductor Brad Lubman, Penelope is a song cycle about a woman whose amnesiac husband returns to her after 20 years. To help the two of them deal with their separation and reunion, she reads him The Odyssey. While these mirrored stories might scream “meta,” there’s nothing inaccessible about Snider haunting and epic work. Writing for The New York Times, Steve Smith observed that Penelope “had an elegiac quality that deftly evoked sensations of abandonment, agitation, grief and reconciliation.”

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I love Zoe Keating so much…

Nice list! I’d add Kamala Sankaram, Melissa Dunphy and Andrea La Rose.

can only see the first two unfortunately!

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[...] 10 Young Female Composers You Should Know This post on Flavorwire highlights 10 women drawn from a list of 100 composers under 40 compiled via an NPR listener poll. Musicians include Lera Auerbach, Ann Cleare, Missy Mazzoli and Rachel Grimes. Each woman profiled has her work showcased in a video clip. [...]

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