I'm passionate about diversity and inclusion in my repertoire. Here's a my list of repertoire by female and black composers that I've performed just in the last few years!
Music by Female composers:
Grazyna Bacewicz: Overture (10’)
Amy Beach: Piano Concerto (40’)
Sally Beamish: City Stanzas (piano/orchestra)
Henriëtte Bosmans: Poeme for Cello/Orchestra
Lili Boulanger: Faust et Helene (30’)
Lili Boulanger: D’un Matin du Printemps
Cecil Chaminade: Concertstuck for Piano/Orchestra
Louise Farrenc: Overture no. 1
Louise Farrenc: Overture no. 2
Louise Farrenc: Symphony no. 2
Louise Farrenc: Symphony no. 3
Gabriela Lena Frank: Three Latin American Dances
Gabriela Lena Frank: Concertino Cusqueño
Gabriela Lena Frank: Pachamama Meets an Ode (co-commissioner)
Gabriela Lena Frank: La Llorona (viola/orchestra)
Dorothy Howell: The Rock (10’)
Dorothy Howell: Divertissements (13’)
Dorothy Howell: Koong Shee (25’)
Dorothy Howell: Lamia (13’)
Dorothy Howell: Humoresque (5’)
Dorothy Howell: Piano Concerto (20’)
Hannah Kendall: The Knife of Dawn (chamber opera - 60’)
Molly Kien: Pyramid
Chan Hae Lee: Five Pansori Songs
Emilie Mayer: Symphony no. 5
Emilie Mayer: Faust Overture
Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
Clara Schumann: Piano Concerto (25’)
Ethel Smyth: Serenade (35’)
Ethel Smyth: Overture to ‘The Wreckers’
Ylva Skog: They Call Her Love
Germaine Tailleferre: Harp Concertino
Germaine Tailleferre: Partita
Andrea Tarrodi: Number 9, Number 9 (commissioner)
Andrea Tarrodi: Serenade in 7 colours
Andrea Tarrodi: Lucioles
Andrea Tarrodi: Zephyros
Judith Weir: Forest
Grace Williams: Fantasy on Nursery Rhymes
Ayanna Witter-Johnson: Faiya (9’)
Music by Black composers: Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Petite Suite
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: The Bamboula
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Othello Overture
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Novelletten
Samuel Coleridge Taylor: Hiawatha’s Wedding Feast
Duke Ellington: Harlem
Duke Ellington: Night Creature
Ulysses Kay: Of New Horizons
Hannah Kendall: The Knife of Dawn
Jessie Montgomery: Starburst
William Grant Still: Symphony no. 1