Conference: "Women in Music: canon and fascination in the rediscovery of a repertoire"
The presence of women throughout the History of Music, in every era, is widely documented. Whether as composers, performers, patrons, music publishers, conductors, educators, or instrument makers,...
Mel Bonis, Jeanne Demessieux
Two composers, two organists. The present program highlights the richness and diversity of the organ works by the French composers Mel Bonis and Jeanne Demessieux. A student of César Franck...
Clémence de Grandval, Stabat Mater
Born in 1828 into French high society, Marie-Félicie-Clémence de Reiset had access to a refined musical education. She trained as a singer with Laure Cynthie Damoreau, having also studied...
Sunday Mass
As has been the practice for some years now, artists participating in the Madeira International Organ Festival – in this case, organists João Vaz and Beatriz Resendes, and the Capella de S. Vicente,...
Ora, (canta) et labora
Music from the Monastery of São Bento da Avé-Maria, of Porto. Founded in 1517, the former Royal Monastery of São Bento da Avé-Maria was the most important institution for cloistered religious...
Women composers from the 18th to the 20th century
Fanny Cäcilie Mendelssohn (1805-1847) was a German composer and pianist of the early Romantic era, later known as Fanny Mendelssohn Bartholdy and as Fanny Hensel. Her compositions number some 450,...
Lilith
Composers in countercurrent. I wish to show the world, as much as possible in this musical profession, the mistaken idea that only men possess the gifts of art and intellect, and that these...
Fiesta
This concert reveals the organ in a feminine light, combining fervour, lyricism, and modernity. Reimagined dances, meditative chorales, festive explosions, and suspended harmonies create a journey...
Hildegard Von Bingen
Abbess and composer. Hildegard von Bingen was born in Bermersheim, Germany, in 1098, into a noble family serving the counts of Sponheim. She was the tenth child of Hildebert and Mechthild and, as...
Para la otra que quiere ser monja
Music in sixteenth-century South European feminine institutions. This program brings together repertoires that, despite today being often performed in various concert or musicological...
Madre no mi far monaca…
Music in seventeenth-century feminine convents in Northern Italy. The female monasteries and convents were major centers of culture and the arts throughout the entire Early Modern period. The...
