Illuminate: The Open Fund for Organisations
Illuminate Women’s Music is delighted to announce its 2019 Season I touring concert series which is supported by the PRS Foundation’s The Open Fund for Organisations. Illuminate Women’s Music is an organisation dedicated to the promotion of music, both historical and contemporary, composed by women.
We also support talented female performers, giving repeat performance opportunities across the UK and, for 2019, in the USA. For their first season of 2019, Illuminate Women’s Music will commission five emerging women composers -Angela Elizabeth Slater, Sarah Westwood, Blair Boyd, Kerensa Briggs and Laura Shipsey – to write new works for Boston-based Prism trio consisting of performers Anna Arazi (piano) Subaiou Zhang (violin) and Sara Wilkins (cello).
These new works will be premiered in Boston, MA, and further performed at the Women Composer’s Festival of Hartford, CT with several performances following across the UK in 2019. Historical works by Morfydd Owen, Grażyna Bacewicz and Rebecca Clarke will be programmed alongside these new works. Highlights include Morfydd Owen’s 1914 piano trio, a work which has never been performed in the US and is little known in the UK, and Lili Boulanger’s D’un Matin de Printemps for piano trio. These concerts will demonstrate the rich and exciting variety in women’s music, rightly bringing this wonderful repertoire as well as new works to new audiences both in the US and UK!