Jenny Frost In these strange and unsettling times, we continue to see that music brings us together, as it always has. From the virtual c...

An illustrated lecture by Sarah MacDonald with the Selwyn Consort (members of the Choir of Selwyn College, Cambridge) Minerva Festival | ...

Museums and exhibitions seem to be thriving in most places across Europe at the moment, with virtually every reasonable sized town and c...

Described as ‘at once intimate and visionary’ by BBC Music Magazine, Freya Waley-Cohen’s music has been performed all over the country in...

HELLO! The Minerva Festival turns two this year! Inaugurated in 2018, the festival aimed to elevate the voices of female composers who ha...

Historically, when women have had a career in music they leave the professional sphere when they marry and then fade further into the bac...

Redressing the imbalance of women in music means creating spaces for them to be properly, seriously valued – a space which has historical...

As James Brown and Betty Jean Newsome once wrote, this is a man’s world. Forms of expression, narrative and even language have arguably b...

I first came across the music of Rebecca Clarke when I learnt her piece ‘Morpheus’ for viola and piano. It is a beautiful folky, impressi...

Elisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre (1665-1729) was a French harpsichordist, organist and composer known in the court of Louis XIV. She was bo...

I was in my second year of graduate school looking for recital repertoire when I discovered Florence B. Price and her music. No. Discover...

The nineteenth-century was a hot-bed of strongly gendered descriptions of woodwind instruments, their sounds, their performers, and their...

When Virginia Woolf hand-sewed the bindings of over a thousand copies of Orlandoin 1928, she stood unflinchingly in front of The Canon an...

I was Organ Scholar at Robinson College as an undergraduate from 1992-95, and after a brief subsequent sojourn in my native Canada, I ret...

When I was approached to be a part of the Cambridge Female Composer Festival, having a role organising the composing competition seemed l...

The idea for this festival came from two annual recitals held in Christ’s chapel dedicated to music by female composers. We both loved th...