March of the Women
To celebrate International Women’s Day and Women’s History Month, ‘March of the Women’ was established to celebrate female composers from around the world and their “flute+” repertoire.
It is a curated collection of works by female composers worldwide. Below are the works showcased in 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023 and 2024.
The repertoire demonstrates the various ways that the flute can be used in music, and shows the strength and creativity that women bring to the world of music.
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2024
Alex Manton - Streets of Spain (feat. Nichaud Munday)
Peggy Glanville-Hicks - Sonatina (feat. Kim Falconer & Alan Hicks)
May Howlett - Bird of Paradise (feat. Tomomi Matsuo)
Sally Greenaway - Of Moths and Moonlight (feat. Nathalie Resciniti & Melinda Seaw)
Aristea Mellos - Meditation (feat. Kiri Sollis)
Leah Blankendaal - Salt in my eyes in my hair in my mouth (feat. Issie Brown & Matt Withers)
Cathy Milliken - Round Robin I (feat. Lina Andonovska)
Jodie Rottle - Blueprint In Shades Of Green (feat. Jodie Rottle, Rebecca Lloyd-Jones, Han Reardon-Smith)
Rosalind Carlson - Forest Bell-Birds (feat. Jessica Scott)
Esther Rofe - Two Songs Of William Blake (feat. Laila Engle & Merlyn Quaife)
Elizabeth Younan - Fantasia II (feat. Rosie Gallagher)
Julia Potter - What Lies Beneath (feat. Alyse Faith & Sandra Ionescu)
Jane Stanley - On Bright Air (feat. Melissa Doecke)
Liz Cheung - Deciduous Tree (feat. Chloe Chung & Liz Cheung)
Kirsty Beilharz - Burnished (feat. Melanie Walters)
Alice Chance - Inhaltations (feat. Tamara Kohler)
Samantha Wolf - Collideoscope (feat. Phoebe Bognár)
Ros Bandt - Drifts In Sand (feat. Keyna Wilkins)
Miriam Hyde - 5 Solos for Flute and Piano (feat. Laura Cliff & Alan Hicks)
Liza Lim - Bioluminescence (feat. Lily Bryant)
Holly Norman & Niels Rosendahl - Post-Swim Feeling (feat. Asha Henfry & Sarah Saunders)
Ella Macens - The Nottingham Post (feat. Rachel Howie & Meriel Owen)
Fran Griffin - Blackheath (feat. Anna Cooper)
Elena Kats-Chernin - Kate Waltz (feat. Elissa Koppen & Peter de Jager)
Rhonda Berry - Simplicity (feat. Samantha Mailer)
Mirrie Hill - Suite (feat. Sonia Croucher & Stephanie Nicholls)
Annie Hsieh - The Thin Air Between Skins (feat. Kim Tan & Rosanne Hunt)
Betty Beath - Two Songs for Baroque Flute (feat. Meredith Beardmore)
Noemi Liba Friedman - I Should Like To Speak (feat. Paula Rae)
Johanna Selleck - Sonata For Flute And Piano Mvt 1 (feat. Alex Huyghebaert & Olivier Hébert-Bouchard)
Catherine Likhuta - Me Disagrees (feat. Lilly Yang, Carlin Hara-Crockford & Amanda Pang)
2023
Julia Vlahogiannis - Running Aura (2022)
Anne Norman - Oodnadatta Who (2019)
Sharon Lin - Spring (2017)
Caerwen Martin - Midnight Loon (2017)
Elizabeth Maconchy - Colloquy (1979)
Ivana Loudová - Suite I. Adagio (1959)
Bonnie-Rose Gibson - Rain in the Making (2022)
Katia Tiutiunnik - Daripada Kedalaman (2015)
Dilorom Saidaminova - Flute and Piano Sonata, mvt 2: Andante cantabile (2015)
Alicia McFarlane - Realisation (2022)
Miriam Hyde - Evening Under the Hill (1968)
Melody Eötvös - The Baron in the Trees 1. Introduction (2020)
Princess Anna Amalia - Sonata in F Major
Adrienne Albert - Across the Cs (2015)
Lili Boulanger - Nocturne (1911)
Amanda Maier - Sonata in B Minor 1. Allegro (1878)
Elena Kats-Chernin - Eliza Aria (2005)
Nadine de la Croix - Hepta Tarantella (2010)
Dorothea Hofmann - Ein königlicher Traum (2018)
Robyn Ellis - David's Midnight Run
Maria Grenfell - On a Moonlit Night (2000) arr. Christine Draeger
Jocelyn E. Kotchie - Run With The Wind (2007)
Anne E. McKennon - Fledgling (2019)
Paige Dashner Long - Contrafusion! (2017)
Margaret S. Brandman - Antics 2. Adagio (1985)
Carla Thackrah - Earthgods (1999)
Christine Draeger - Into Forever (2013)
Laura Abraham - A Hazy Memory (2018)
Elizabeth Tang - Mixed Meter Duet
Zoe Russell - Three Months: A Memory
Amy Beth Kirsten - Pirouette on a Moon Sliver (2011)
2022
Eliza Shephard - Don't Knock, Smash (2021)
Sally Greenaway - Pastorale & Caprice (2021)
Caroline Henbest - Sometimes (2021)
Anne Boyd - KaKan (1984)
Sarah Elise Thompson - sanddollar (2020)
Dindy Vaughan - Orpheus (2000)
Annie Hui-Hsin Hsieh - Contemplations (2015)
Deborah Cheetham - Gulaga (2019)
Leah Curtis - Clarity (2004)
Caroline Henbest - Straight Lines (2021)
Joan Tower - Valentine Trills (1998)
Helen Stowasser - Legend (1975)
Roxanna Panufnik - A Wind at Rooks Haven (1997)
Meta Overman - Haiku, mvt 2 (1983)
Eve Duncan - Aer Turas (2018)
Ruth Crawford - Diaphonic Suite, mvts 1 & 2 (1930)
May Howlett - Thermals (2007)
Chen Yi - Night Thoughts (2004)
Phyllis Batchelor - Sonata, mvt 3: Vivace (1972)
Anne Boyd - Goldfish Through Summer Rain (1979)
Helen Gifford - Fantasy, mvt 1: Liberamente (1958)
Cecilia McDowall - The Moon Dances: Paper Sea and Silver Coin (2003)
Sophie Lacaze - Voices of Australia (2007)
Adrienne Albert - Piccolodeon (2019)
Jennifer Higdon - Zaka (2003)
Meredith Connie - Tiddalik (2020)
Alicia Hart - Scat Me Down (2012)
Brenda Gifford - Mungala: Clouds (2018)
Rhonda Macken - Solitude on the Lake (1987)
Melody Eötvös - Tardigradus (2017)
Amy Beth Kirsten - Pirouette on a Moon Sliver (2011)
2021
Dolce Tormento - Kaija Saariaho (2004)
Fantasie - Tania Owens (2017)
Ten Short Pieces, Flauto - Carlotta Ferrari (2010)
Spirit of the Stallion - Phyllis Avidan Louke (2013)
Song Without Words - Jane Hammond (2014)
Death Whistle 1. Ear Knife - Nicole Chamberlain (2019)
Danza de la Mariposa - Valerie Coleman (2011)
Nocturne - Lili Boulanger (1911)
Etude 1. Cymballic - Brandy Hudelson (2014)
Aubade - Emily Doolittle (1996)
Spring Song - Lauren Bernofsky (2015)
Sonata for Flute and Piano Mvt. 2 - Lita Grier (1995)
I Will Not Be Sad In This World - Eve Beglarian (2009/2021)
Birds in Light Rain 1. Eastern Rosellas 2. Crested Pigeons - Ann Ghandar (1998)
Four Pooh Stories mvt 1. In which Christopher Robin leads an Expotition to the North Pole - Maria Grenfell (1992)
Chaconne Op. 8 - Cécile Chaminade (1878)
Two Skazkas - Lora Al-Ahmad (2019)
Bali Moods No. 1 - Anne Boyd (1987)
Firefly - Jane Stanley (1999)
Woven 1. Spinning 2. Knotted 3. Tight Weaven - Victoria Bond (2010)
Vignette - Eugênie R. Rocherolle (1999)
Haiku 1. & 3. - Meta Overman (1983)
Blinding Moon - Amanda Handel (1989)
Chickens in the Garden - Alaunde Copley-Woods (2008)
The Children's Hour - Lori Archer Sutherland (1997)
Muriranga-whenua - Helen Fisher (1992)
Microscope cross-section 1. & 2. - Roxanne Della-Bosca (1998)
Rep:air - Alex Shapiro (2001)
Bref - Linda Bouchard (2015)
Folktale - Ali Ryerson (2020)
Nadiya - Reena Esmail (2016)
2020
Mostly Milk - Lucy Hollier
Melusina's Dream - Christine Draeger
Petals Fraying - Kezia Yap
Jellyfish - Michaela Cornelius
Australian Melodies - Margaret Sutherland
Blue Silence - Elena Katz-Chernin
Meditation - Ros Bandt
Only The Words Themselves Mean What They Say - Kate Soper
Piece Romantique - Cécile Chaminade
Haiku - Natalie Williams
Winter Spirits - Katherine Hoover
Requiem - Chloe Moon
Hgrrrsht - Dobromila Jaskot
Una Notte Sacra - Katia Tiutiunnik
Pastorale - Germaine Tailleferre
Still - Eliza Shephard
Suite for Wind Quintet Mvts 1 & 2 - Ruth Crawford Seeger
Valentine - Katy Abbott
Shoreditch Grind - Elizabeth Younan
Wind Quintet Mvt 1 - Grażyna Bacewicz
Floating in Space - Keyna Wilkins
Holiday Piece for Melanie - Dulcie Holland
Te Tangi a te Matui - Helen Fisher
Australian Bird Suite Mvts 1 & 2 - Rosalind Carlson
Four Pieces: Birdy, Elegy - Victoria Borisova-Ollas
Keshovati - Wendy Hiscocks
Fantasia on Waltzing Matilda - Miriam Hyde
Flexion - Nicole Chamberlain
Sometimes the City is Silent - Janice Misurell-Mitchell
Dash - May Lyon
Northern Lights - Melissa Keeling