Welcome to this page about my concert series  ‘Think Outside The Bachs’. An exploration of Solo, Consort and Chamber Music written by female composers for the celebration of International Women’s Day. The music was performed by past and present students of Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. The inspiration behind the name of my project is that there are so many wonderful early music female composers whose marvellous work is rarely or less often performed. There is a whole world of music outside Bach and Handel or any other early music composer, you just need to ‘think outside the Bachs’.

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Recently, this programme was performed at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire Bradshaw Hall as part of my Major Project for BMus Vocal and Operatic Studies. I thoroughly look forward to presenting this programme around the UK.

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Below is a link to the programme:

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The programme showcased the talents of composers all the way from the high Middle Ages, passing through the sixteenth century and then to the twentieth century. Much of the music in the programme uses religious or sacred texts in Latin and Italian. Later in the programme, we reach the seventeenth century with Barbara Strozzi and Elisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre writing some more secular and operatic works in English and French. Then, finally, finishes with a performance of the light-hearted madrigal texts and songs of Anne Hodges and Maria Hester Park of the eighteenth century in English.

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The programme is set to take you on a journey. A journey travelling across Europe, from Germany, to Northern Italy, and then to England. Showing the musical parallels between different places in Europe during the twelfth to the twentieth century. You can see how music has evolved and changed with these amazing female composers.

My Major Project was in the works for many months and all the hard work has really paid off. As an ensemble of performers, we all greatly enjoyed interpreting and exploring all of these fantastic pieces. I hope you will enjoy this concert of music by female composers, and truly ‘Think Outside the

Bachs’.