Looking to attend one or more festival events this year?
Tickets are available at the door for $10. $5 discounts available to students, seniors, and LetsGoArts pass holders.
General passes are also available – $15 for the day or $35 for access to the full weekend of events (that’s five concerts and four presentations!). Passes can be purchased online at Eventbrite.
The Women Composers Festival of Hartford announces its 2014 festival scheduled for Thursday, March 6, to Sunday, March 9, at the historic Charter Oak Cultural Center. Andrea Clearfield joins the festival as guest composer, featuring the Philadelphia-based composer in multiple events. The festival includes performances of Dr. Clearfield’s music, in addition to an international selection of historical and living women composers.
Andrea Clearfield is an award-winning composer of music for orchestra, chorus, chamber ensembles, dance, and multimedia collaborations. She has been praised by the New York Times for her “graceful tracery and lively, rhythmically vital writing”, the Philadelphia Inquirer for her “compositional wizardry” and “mastery with large choral and instrumental forces”, by the L.A. Times for her “fluid and glistening orchestration” and by Opera News for her music of “timeless beauty”. Read more about Andrea and other guest artists…
The Sylvanus Ensemble, through its exotic combination, breathes new life to established works, and gives modern music a fresh voice. The core group of oboe, English horn, strings and piano brings an expanded, flexible repertoire to concerts that provides a great deal of variety. Read more about the guest artists…
ICAM Composers Seminar Presentation (PRE-FESTIVAL EVENT) – 5:00PM
The Hartt School, Room 410/12
University of Hartford
200 Bloomfield Avenue
West Hartford, CT 06117
CCSU Music Forum (PRE-FESTIVAL EVENT) – 3:00PM
Founders Hall
Central Connecticut State University
1615 Stanley Street
New Britain, CT 06050
Festival Welcome/Reception – 5:00PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Concert Winds – 7:30PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Concert Reception – 8:30PM
Peppercorn’s Grill
357 Main St
Hartford, CT 06106
WCForum Session One “Electric-Drama” – 10:00AM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
WCForum Session Two “2014 Composer-in-Residence Presentation” – 12:00PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Lunch Reception – 1:00PM
Peppercorn’s Grill
357 Main St
Hartford, CT 06106
Oboe Duo Agosto – 7:30PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Concert Reception – 8:30PM
Peppercorn’s Grill
357 Main St
Hartford, CT 06106
Out of the Shadows – 11:30AM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
WCForum Session Three “Winds and Song” – 3:00PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
WCForum Session Four “On Song” – 5:00PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Sylvanus Ensemble – 7:30PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
Concert Reception – 8:30PM
Peppercorn’s Grill
357 Main St
Hartford, CT 06106
Brunch Reception – 10:00AM
LOCATION TBA
Strings and Other Things – 1:30PM
Charter Oak Cultural Center
21 Charter Oak Avenue
Hartford, CT 06106
The Women Composers Festival of Hartford has, for the last thirteen years, provided an enriching platform for the promotion of women’s music. Recognized as a champion of women’s music by institutions such as the International Alliance for Women in Music and the Women’s Education and Leadership Fund, the festival’s goals include fostering music by female composers, living and historical, through performances, outreach, and development. Continuing our tradition of diversity in performance and outreach takes a great deal of resources. Please consider making a donation to support this effort. Read more about how you can donate.
The Women Composers Festival of Hartford, now in its fourteenth year, is a celebration of the diverse body of women’s music – both past and present. Join us in March 2014 to explore this innovative, fascinating, and fun music. Festival concerts feature works by local composers, guest artists, and many more!
Continuing our tradition of diversity in performance and outreach takes a great deal of resources. Please consider making a donation to support this effort. Read more about how you can donate.
Information on our next festival is up! This includes information on our current score calls and competition.Learn more about planned events and concerts for March 2012.
Continuing our tradition of diversity in performance and outreach takes a great deal of resources. Please help us with a donation.
Thank you so much for your support of the Women Composers Festival of Hartford. Whether you recently learned of our festival or have been an ardent supporter for years, we would like to acknowledge your role in making past festivals a success. Now in its tenth year, the festival has continually highlighted music of historical and current women composers through concerts, lectures, forums, and other outreach efforts across the Greater Hartford area, garnering recognition from institutions such as the International Alliance for Women’s Music as a champion of both new music and women composers.
With the year in full swing, we are about to launch another exciting week of events and ask for your financial support to help us do so. Please check out the exciting information on our 2012 festival and consider donating to keep the festival moving forward. A donation of any amount is appreciated, but the following amounts would help us towards our goals.
$25 can help toward a musician’s honorarium
$50 can help pay for recording and license fees
$100 covers a portion of one evening’s rental fees
$500 can help pay for guest speakers and artists
The Women Composers Festival of Hartford is a sponsored project of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit arts service organization. Contributions for the purposes of the festival must be made payable to Fractured Atlas and are tax-deductible to the extent permitted by law.
