In September 2015, when ABC Classic tracked who composed the music being played on air, female composers received a minuscule share of 2.2%. This galvanised the network to be more deliberate in how it ...

Composers say their vital but often overlooked corner of the industry — still only 1.7 percent female — is rife with harassment, exploitation and worse: "I don’t believe in cancel culture, but I ...

You probably know the names of Bach, Beethoven and Brahms. What about women in classical music? Many female composers have also made significant waves throughout history. Women have been quietly ...

Chloe Flower knows her music history. It’s hard for her not to. She’s spent her life dedicated to the craft, becoming one of the most respected and renowned pianists and composers of her generation.

While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe Flower wanted to highlight a lesser known group of women with her new ...

Are women composers finally getting their due? This weekend alone in San Diego, thirteen works by eleven female composers were featured in three different classical events. True, all the soloists were ...

The realization came as a shock to Héloïse Luzzati. How could she have spent the better part of three decades playing music without ever studying a piece composed by a woman? As her gigs dried up at ...

Pinar Toprak is shattering the glass ceiling for female composers. Having already scored the popular Fortnite video game, she recently achieved her greatest accomplishment yet: Creating the score for ...

It’s been three years since “Captain Marvel,” with a worldwide box office take of $1.1 billion, became the biggest-grossing movie ever scored by a woman: Pinar Toprak. Toprak, who also scored this ...

If classical music during the 20th and 21st centuries has become increasingly invisible, as reflected in such depressing tomes as Joseph Horowitz’s Classical Music in America: A History of Its Rise ...

“Star Trek” has always been known for its progressive casting on screen. But over seven live-action series and 13 movies dating back more than half a century, the science-fiction franchise has never ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. While female vocalists like Mariah Carey and Ariana Grande have a stronghold on modern holiday music playlists, pianist Chloe ...