List of women composers broadcast on BBC Radio 3 since International Women’s Day 2015 Lead Producer: Olwen Fisher [email protected] Editor: Edwina Wolstencroft [email protected] Kassia [810- (before) 865] Eastern Roman Hildegard of Bingen [1098-1179] German Suor Leonora D'Este [1515-1575] Italian Maddalena Casulana [c1544-c.1590] Italian Vittoria Aleotti [c.1575-(after)1620] Italian Sulpitia Cesis [1577-(before)1619] Italian Francesca Caccini [1587-(after)1641] Italian Caterina Assandra [1590-(after)1618] Italian Lucrezia Orsina Vizzana [1590-1662] Italian Chiara Margarita Cozzolani [1602-c.1676-78] Italian Leonora Duarte [1610-1678?] Flemish Barbara Strozzi [1619-1677] Italian Isabella Leonarda [1620-1704] Italian Maria Xaveria Perucona [c.1652-(after)1709] Italian Rosa Giacinta Badalla [c.a.1660-c.a.1710] Italian Élisabeth Claude Jacquet de la Guerre [1665-1729] French Camilla de Rossi [fl.1670-1710] Italian Maria Antonia Walpurgis Symphorosa [1724-1780] German Anna Bon (di Venezia) [1738-(after)1769] Italian Anna Amalia of Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel [1739-1807] German Marianna Martinez (or Marianne von Martinez) [1744-1812] Austrian Maddalena Laura Sirmen [1745-1818] Italian Sophia Giustina Dussek [1775-1831] Scottish of Italian descent Maria Theresia Paradis (also von Paradies) [1759-1824] Austrian Marie Bigot [1786-1820] French Maria Szymanowska [1789-1831] Polish Gertrude van den Bergh [1793-1840] Dutch Louise Farrenc [1804-1875] French Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel [1805-1847] German Maria Malibran [1808-1836] Spanish - sister of PV below (& mainly known as a singer) Pauline Viardot [1821-1910] French of Spanish descent Kate Fanny Loder [1825-1904] British (Marie) Clémence de Grandval [1828-1907] French Alice Mary Smith (Alice Mary Meadows White – marriage name) [1839-1884] British Alma Mahler (Alma Mahler Maria Gropius Werfel) [1879-1964] Austrian Emilie Mayer [1812-1883] German Clara Schumann [1819-1896] German Laura Netzel [1839-1927] Swedish Ingeborg Bronsart von Schellendorf [1840-1913] Swedish Elfrida Andrée [1841-1929] Swedish Hélène Tham [1843-1925] Swedish Émile Paladilhe [1844-1926] French Ika Peyron [1845-1922] Swedish Augusta (Mary Anne) Holmès [1847-1903] French of Irish descent Annie Fortescue Harrison [1848-1944] English Helena (Mathilda) Munktell [1852-1919] Swedish Teresa Carreño [1853-1917] Venezuelan Amanda Maier-Röntgen [1853-1894] Swedish Eva Dell'Acqua [1856-1930] Belgian of Italian descent Helen Hopekirk [1856-1945] Scottish, moved to USA Eva Del’acqua [1856-1930] Belgian Cecile Chaminade [1857-1944] French Mélanie Bonis (Mel Bonis) [1858-1937] French Hilda Sehested [1858-1936] Danish Catharina van Rennes [1858-1940] Dutch Ethel Smyth [1858-1944] British Amy Woodforde-Finden [1860-1919] Chilean-born, naturalized British citizen (1873) (Laura) Valborg Aulin [1860-1928] Swedish Euphemia Allen [1861-1948] British Liza Lehmann [1862-1918] British Alice Tegnér [1864-1943] Swedish Rita Strohl [1865-1941] French Amy Beach [1867-1944] American Johanna Müller-Hermann [1878-1941] Austrian Ruth Almén [1870-1945] Swedish Leokadiya Kashperova [1872-1940] Russian Henriette Renié [1875-1956] French Teresa Del Riego [1876-1968] British (Spanish ancestry) Elisabeth Kuyper [1877-1953] Dutch Poldowski (real name Régine Wieniawski) [b.1879-1932] Belgian-born British Susan Spain-Dunk [1880-1962] British Nancy Dalberg [1881-1949] Danish Marion Bauer [1882-1955] American Dora Pejacevic [1885-1923] Croatian María Grever [1885-1951] Mexican Rebecca Clarke [1886-1979] British Geni Sadero [1886-1968) Turkish Florence Price [1887-1953] American. BAME Nadia Boulanger [1887-1979] French Alba Rosa Viëtor [1889-1979] Italian, settled in USA (1919) Ina Boyle [1889-1967] Irish Giovanna Douglas Scotti [1889-(after)1938] Italian Alba Rosa Viëtor [1889-1979] Italian, moved to USA Ethel Glenn Hier [1889-1971] American of Scottish ancestry Pauline Hall [1890-1969] Norwegian Giulia Recli [1890-1970) Italian Morfydd Lywyn Owen [1891-1918] Welsh Edna Bentz Woods [1891-1974] American (Marcelle) Germaine Tailleferre [1892-1983] French Lili Boulanger (Marie-Juliette Olga Boulanger) [1893-1918] French Francine Benoît [1894-1990] French/Portuguese Henriëtte Bosmans [1895-1952] Dutch Mariá Teresa Vera [1895-1965] Cuban Margaret Sutherland [1897-1984] Australian Muriel Herbert [1897-1984] British Dorothy Howell [1898-1982] British Lilian Elkington [1900-1969] British Ruth Crawford Seeger [1901-1953] American Rosa García Ascot [1902-2002] Spanish Ilse Weber [1903-1944] Czech Mary Plumstead [1905-1980] British Ann Ronell (Real Name: Ann Rosenblatt) [1905-1993] American Grace Williams [1906-1977] Welsh (Agnes) Elisabeth Lutyens [1906-1983] British Miriam Gideon [1906-1996] American Berta Alves de Sousa [1906-1997] Portuguese Elizabeth Maconchy [1907-1994] English of Irish heritage Imogen Holst [1907-1984] British Zenobia Powell Perry [1908-2004] American. BAME Jean Coulthard [1908-2000] Canadian Grażyna Bacewicz [1909-1969] Polish Dana Suesse [1909-1987] American Minna Keal [1909-1999] British Phyllis Tate [1911-1987] English Peggy Glanville-Hicks [1912-1990] Australian Miriam Hyde [1913-2005] Australian Margaret Bonds [1913-1972] American, BAME Joan Trimble [1915-2000] Irish Vítězslava Kaprálová [1915-1940] Czech Molly Drake [1915-1993] Welsh (Margaret) ‘Peggy’ Hubicki [1915-2006] English Geraldine Mucha [1917-2012] Scottish, moved to Prague Jórunn Viðar [1918-2017] Icelandic Dilys Elwyn-Edwards [1918-2012] Welsh Ruth Gipps [1921-1999] British Doreen Carwithen [1922-2003] British Ester Mägi [b.1922] Estonian Emahoy Tsegue-Maryam Guebrou [b.1923] Ethiopian. BAME Madeleine Dring [1923-1977] British Angela Morley (born Walter "Wally" Stott) [1924-2009] British Daphne Oram [1925-2003] British Bebe Barron [1925-2008] American Maria de Lourdes Martins [1926-2009] Portuguese Thea Musgrave [b.1928] Scottish, based in USA Maddalena Fagandini [1929-2012] British Betty Roe [b.1930] British Clotilde Rosa [1930-2017] Portuguese Sofia Gubaidulina [b.1931] Tatar-Russian Ruth Watson Henderson [b.1932] Canadian Éliane Radigue [b.1932] French Pauline Oliveros [1932-2016] American Teresa Procaccini [b.1934] Italian Barbara Heller [b.1936] German Alice Coltrane [1937-2007] American BAME Ann Southam [1937-2010] Canadian Constança Capdeville [1937-1992] Portuguese Delia Derbyshire [1937-2001] British Keiko Abe [b.1937] Japanese Joan Tower [b.1938] American Wendy Carlos (born Walter Carlos) [b.1939] American Gillian Whitehead [b.1941] New Zealand Meredith Monk [b.1942] American Elsa Justel [b.1944] Argentinean Rhian Samuel [b.1944] Welsh Beth Carvalho [1946-2019] Brazilian Nicola LeFanu [b.1947] British, Irish descent Arlene Sierra [b.1948] American, based in UK Libby Larsen [b.1950] American Elena Firsova [b.1950] Russian Cecilia McDowall [b.1951] British Midori Takada [b.1951] Japanese Joy Harjo [b.1951] Native American Judith Bingham [b.1952] British Kaija Saariaho [b.1952] Finnish, based in Paris Judith Weir [b.1954] Scottish Elisabetta Brusa [b.1954] Italian naturalised British Lori Laitman [b.1955] American Anne Dudley [b.1956] British Sally Beamish [b.1956] British Elena Kats-Chernin [b.1957] Australian, born in Uzbekistan Karin Rehnqvist [b.1957] Swedish Errollyn Wallen [b.1958] Belize-born British. BAME Satoko Fujii [b.1958] Japanese Rachel Portman [b.1960] British Jocelyn Pook [b.1960] British Joanna Marsh [b.196?] British, Dubai based (since 2007) Unsuk Chin [b.1961] South Korean, based in Berlin Michiru Ōshima [b.1961] Japanese Karen Tanaka [b.1961] Japanese Isabel Soveral [b.1961] Portuguese Jennifer Higdon [b.1962] American Florentine Mulsant [b.1962] French Galina Grigorjeva [b.1962] Ukrainian, based in Estonia Dragana Jovanović [b.1963] Serbian Lyn Williams [b.1963] Australian Nikki Iles [b.1963] British Kelly-Marie Murphy [b.1964] Born in Italy, raised in Canada, US naturalised Liz Johnson [b.1964] British Carin Bartosch Edström [b.1965] Swedish Evelyn Glennie [b.1965] Scottish Marla Hlady [b.1965] Canadian Liza Lim [b.1966] Australian Deirdre Gribbin [b.1967] Northern Irish Isidora Žebeljan [b.1967] Serbian Rebecca Saunders [b.1967] British, lives in Germany Yoko Shimomura [b.1967] Japanese Rachel Stott [b.1968] British Roxanna Panufnik [b.1968] British of Polish heritage Oumou Sangaré [b.1968] Malian Victoria Borisova-Ollas [b.1969] Russian, based in Sweden Gabriela Montero [b.1970] Venezuelan Lotta Wennäkoski [b.1970] Finnish Rebecca Rowe [b.1970] British Sara Carvalho [b. 1970] Portuguese Juliana Hodkinson [b.1971] British, based in Germany Julieta Szewach [b. 1971] Argentinean Andreia Pinto-Correia [b. 1971] Portuguese Helena Tulve [b.1972] Estonian Gabriela Lena Frank [b.1972] American BAME Mayke Nas [b.1972] Dutch Arianna Savall [b.1972] Swiss-born Catalan Lera Auerbach [b.1973] Russian-born American Tansy Davies [b.1973] British Jessica Curry [b.1973] British Elena Langer [b.1974] Russian-born British Jennifer Walshe [b.1974] Irish Rokia Traoré [b. 1974] Malian Jane Antonia Cornish [b.1975] British, lives in USA Nancy Kerr [b.1975] British Cassandra Miller [b.1976] Canadian Catriona McKay [b.1976] Scottish Weronika Ratusińska [b.1977] Polish Minna Leinonen [b.1977] Finnish Deborah Pritchard [b.1977] British Britta Byström [b.1977] Swedish Jenny Hettne [b.1977] Swedish Tanya Ekanayaka [b.1977] Sri-Lankan British Tatjana Kozlova-Johannes [b.1977] Estonian of Russian origin Anna Thorvaldsdottir [b.1977] Icelandic Anne Victorino d’Almeida [b.1978] Portuguese Anna Meredith [b.1978] British Kerry Andrew [b.1978] British Sarah Dacey [b.197?]