Nathalie Stutzmann
In 2023 Nathalie Stutzmann made history by becoming the first woman to direct the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and the second woman to lead a major American orchestra, after MacArthur Fellow Marin Alsop.
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Amy Brooks
American author and illustrator.
Elinor Remick Warren
American contemporary classical music composer and pianist
Liza Lehmann
English musical composer and vocalist
Amy Marcy Cheney Beach
American composer and pianist
Cécile Chaminade
French musical composer
Helen Grime
Composer Helen Grime has had works commissioned by ensembles and institutions including the London Symphony Orchestra, Barbican Centre, Aldeburgh Music, Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, Britten Sinfonia, BBC Scottish Symphony Orchestra, Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center and the Tanglewood Music Center.
Missy Mazzoli
Grammy-nominated composer Missy Mazzoli was deemed “one of the more consistently inventive, surprising composers now working in New York” (The New York Times) and “Brooklyn’s post-millennial Mozart” (Time Out New York).
Sarah Kirkland Snider
Called “an important representative of 21st-century trends in composition”, composer Sarah Kirkland Snider writes music of direct expression and dramatic narrative that has been hailed as “rapturous” (The New York Times), “groundbreaking” (The Boston Globe), and “ravishingly beautiful” (NPR).
Gabriela Lena Frank
Identity has always been at the center of composer/pianist Gabriela Lena Frank’s music.