Music by Women Festival

Mississippi University for Women is pleased to announce its inaugural Women in Music Festival on March 3-4, 2017 to be held in historic Poindexter Hall on the campus of the Mississippi University for Women in Columbus, Mississippi. The festival will include papers, presentations, workshops, panels, lecture recitals, and performances all relating to the subject of music composed, taught and performed by women. The festival will feature concerts of new and historic music written by women composers historically as well as in the present day. The Program Committee welcomes proposals from various fields of the musical profession. This festival aims to bring together independent musicians, composers, academics, students, and teachers who are interested in exploring topics relating to music written by women. Musicians from all professional settings are encouraged to consider submitting proposals in a range of topics including performance, musicology, theory, and music education among others. Composers are invited to submit scores for various solo instruments and small chamber ensembles in response to the “Call for Scores.”