Billetterie festival

IDENTIFY AND VALUE
THE REPERTOIRE
OF WOMEN COMPOSERS

Founded in 2020 by cellist Héloïse Luzzati, the association’s ambition is to identify and promote the works of past and contemporary women composers. In the 2022-2023 season, only 6% of classical music works programmed in France were composed by women – representing around 4% of programming time. Through a wide range of actions (concert season, festival, record label, video channel and score publishing), the association aims to change these figures.

DISCOVER THE NUMBERS

RESEARCH

READING

concerts

vidEos

RECORD label

PUBLISHING

recherche

lectures

concerts

vidéos

label

édition

OUR VISION

Bringing the lives and works of women composers to a wider public is the only way to restore them to their rightful place in music history, and to write a richer, more honest and more inclusive history together.

Notre vision

OUR MISSION

  • Promote a rigorous research approach to shed light on women composers of the past
  • Identify and promote the works of women composers to ensure greater equality in artistic programming.
  • Bring the lives and works of women composers to the attention of all audiences, including those furthest removed from culture.
  • Imagining innovative formats for bringing classical music to life with digital tools and in local areas
Notre mission

OUR VALUES

  • Gender equality
  • Excellence
  • Creativity
  • Inclusion
  • Innovation
Nos valeurs

A PROJECT
UNIQUE IN THE WORLD

Our approach is based on an ambitious research project. Every week, we visit libraries, archives and the descendants of female composers to digitize new scores. The works thus found are then the subject of “reading” sessions organized with a group of prestigious musicians, to determine which can be programmed and in what context. By setting very high standards (we don’t program a work simply because it’s written by a woman, but because it’s a masterpiece that’s been overlooked because it was composed by a woman), and by entrusting the works to the best performers, we give these works the chance to make their way back into concert halls.

LISTEN TO WOMEN COMPOSERS

Crédits : © David Blondin (Royaumont, Garbo la Solitaire, Vanessa Wagner), © Fabrice Gaboriau (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, haut de page), © Jad Scylla (Bibliothèque Nationale de France, bas de page)