23. January 2025 | Press releases:

Focus on talented female musicians End-of-term concerts as a musical plea for equality in music

The University Orchestra of TU Braunschweig invites you to its end-of-semester concerts starting on 25 January, presenting a musical homage to women in music. With the title “Femininomenom – Symphonic Music by Female Composers”, listeners can look forward to a varied repertoire by these talented female composers.

With its concerts, the University Orchestra of TU Braunschweig aims to contribute to promoting the representation of female composers. Statistics show that women are underrepresented in music. Works by female composers have also rarely been included in the repertoire of the University Orchestra. With its current programme, the orchestra aims to change this by presenting a ‘whole universe’ of phenomenal music by female composers.

The orchestra’s choice of pieces focuses on female composers who were ingenious but often worked in obscurity, some of whom came from the region, such as Anna Amalia von Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel. Many of these composers published their works under pseudonyms and faced many social and family obstacles. Their works were rarely performed. These concerts will give the compositions of these brilliant women a well-deserved platform.

The concerts are free of charge.

Admission tickets will only be issued one hour prior to the start of each concert in the Audimax.

Venue

Audimax of TU Braunschweig, Universitätsplatz 3, 38106 Braunschweig.

Concert dates

  • Saturday, 25th January 2025, 7:00 p.m.
  • Sunday, 26th January 2025, 5:00 p.m.
  • Tuesday, 28th January 2025, 8:00 p.m.

The programme includes

  • Anna Amalia of Braunschweig-Wolfenbüttel (1739-1807): Overture to the Singspiel “Erwin and Elmire” (1776)
  • Mélanie Hélène Bonis (1858-1937): Ophélie op. 165 No. 2 from “Les Femmes de légende”
  • Lili Boulanger (1893-1918): D’un matin de printemps (1917-18)
  • Cécile Chaminade (1857-1944): Concertino in D major, op. 107 for flute and orchestra (1902)
  • Meike Katrin Stein (*1991): Nautilus. A symphonic poem of cinematic music (2021)
  • Amy Beach (1867-1944): Gaelic Symphony in E minor, op. 32 (1896)

Performers

Soloist Kseniia Konoval (flute) and the TU Braunschweig Ochestra conducted by Markus Lüdke.