Wikipedia:WikiProject Women in Red/Music

WiR redlist index: Music


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This is a list under development of missing articles on women who are (or have been) notable for their work in music as composers, instrumentalists, performers or educators.

General

  • Women Blues performers/Women Blues artists

Awards

Works

Bands/Concerts

Argentina

  • Tengwar (band) [es], female-fronted folk metal band

Brazil

  • Grupo Tarancón [pt], Latin folk group with a female vocalist
  • Madame Saatan [pt], female-fronted heavy metal band

Cuba

Finland

  • Tacere, female-fronted symphonic power metal band. Article was deleted, maybe it could be resurrected in a better shape

Germany

  • Dinka (band) [de], project by DJ Tamara Maria Kler

Peru

  • Yawarhiem, female-fronted power metal band

United Kingdom

  • Daskinsey 4 Brighton band [14]
  • Dregs (band) members of Good Throb, Self Defense Family [15]
  • Good Throb 3/4s female punk band from London/Reading, member of Frau [16]
  • Macnaghten-Lemare Concerts, taking place between 1931 and 1937, important concerts organized by conductor, Iris Lemare, Elisabeth Lutyens and Anne Macnaghten. Benjamin Britten became known through these concerts, [17], [18]
  • Efialtis Greek London band, members of Nekra and Good Throb [19]
  • Koven (DJ) London based electronic music duo comprised of producer Max Rowat and vocalist Katie Boyle
  • Ravioli Me Away artists and pop band [20]
  • Roseanne Barrr 2 piece band from London [21]
  • Sammo Hung (band) Cardiff band, early 2000s [22]
  • Silver Fox (band) Newcastle band [23], [24]
  • Towel (band) Bristol band, active 2014-current [25]
  • The Wharves, members from Ireland, England and France, surf pop, [26]

United States

  • Advaeta, New York shoegaze, [27]
  • Casselberry/DuPreé, all-female reggae/world music band [28] [29] [30]
  • CELLO (quartet), all-female cello quartet, [31]
  • Little Moon, women-fronted band who won the 2023 NPR Tiny Desk Concert
  • Lovie Austin and Her Blue Serenaders, 1920's all girl band, [32]
  • Margaret Bonds Chamber Society, a group of black musicians who played music composed by black composers, started by Margaret Bonds
  • Jane Noria, operatic singer, 1910
  • Pollyanna Syncopators, 1920's all girl band, [33]
  • The Mod 4, a fantastic all-female garage rock band in the 60s who did the incredible song "Open up Your Mind." I'd like to write an article on them, but right now sources are really hard to come by. Does anyone have any helpful information or sources (you could contact me @ Garagepunk66)?
  • Neon Music - part of the Wikipedia:GLAM/Women of Rock Oral History Project
  • Twisted Tutu, New York based female duo, album is Play Nice (album)
  • Virgil Whyte's Musical Sweethearts, 1943, all girl band [34]
  • A bunch of redlinks in current and former members of Sweet Honey in the Rock
  • Natalie Chami Chicago-based experimental ambient musician. Solo project TALsounds, part of Good Willsmith [35] [36] [37]
  • Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Boston[1]
  • Boston Woman’s Symphony [2]
  • Leah Shapiro current drummer in the Black Rebel Motorcycle Club rock band.
  • your link here

Composers/lyricists

Conductors

Bulgaria

  • Radosweta Bojadshiewa, has a wiki entry here Радосвета Бояджиева

Estonia

  • Linda Saul [de]

France

  • Mélanie Levy-Thiébaut [38]

Switzerland

United States

  • Rebekah Crouch Covell (b. 1939), leading college band director [40]
  • Marietta Sherman, director, [41]
  • Gladys Stone Wright, band director, [42],
  • Elena Moneak Orchestral Conductor [3][4]

Educators

United States

  • Daphne Carr, ethnomusicologist, music critic, [43]
  • Iris Daniel Engel Barnes, [44] (local, needs a few more sources)
  • Nelli Gardini (d. 1970), singer and voice teacher in Chicago[45]
  • Lara Pellegrinelli, PhD ethnomusicologist, teaches at Princeton's Jazz Dept, [46]
  • Leonor Xochitl Perez scholar focusing on women in Mariachi, [47]
  • Carolyn Utz, (1913-2005), music educator and youth advocate, Ohio Women's Hall of Fame
  • Add redlinks here

Instrumentalists

See also the many redlinks on List of female violinists

Unsorted

  • Raquy Danziger, percussion
  • Naghmeh Farahmand, percussion
  • Lisette Santiago, percussion
  • Megan Sprague, percussion
  • Bonnie Whiting, percussion
  • Alli Marshall, percussion
  • Aparna Keshaviah, percussion
  • Hope Medford, percussion
  • Brandi Mizilca, percussion
  • River Guerguerian, percussion (NEEDS Work)

From the Naxos series "Women at the Piano":

  • Bärbel Andreae
  • Emma Contestabile
  • Ginette Doyen
  • Lilly Dymont
  • Lenore Caroline Engdahl
  • Madeleine Grovlez-Fourgeaud
  • Marie-Thérèse Fourneau
  • Liza Fuchsova
  • Carmen-Marie-Lucie Guilbert
  • Denise Herbrecht
  • Felicitas Karrer
  • Muriel Kerr
  • Ida Krehm
  • Gisèle Kuhn
  • Denise Lassimonne
  • Jean Melville
  • Dorothea Mendelssohn (current article is a redirect)
  • Lottie Morel
  • Ida-Marie-Louise Périn
  • Cornelia Rider-Possart
  • Reah Sadowsky
  • Grete Scherzer
  • Hilde Somer
  • Annarosa Taddei
  • Frieda Valenzi
  • Madeleine de Valmalète
  • Marie-Aimée Warrot
  • Eva Wollman

Liner notes for the series can be found here: Volume 1, Volume 2, Volume 3, Volume 4, and Volume 5.

Australia

Austria

  • Beatriz Klien, pianist
  • (Marie Pachler exits) Marie Pachler-Koschak/Marie Leopoldine Pachler-Koschak/Marie Leopoldine Pachler (1792–1855), Austrian pianist who was one of Beethoven's favourite performers

Canada

  • Isabelle Mathieu, pianist, [48]

China

  • Hai Zheng, born in Shanghai, [49]

Cuba

Denmark

  • Grethe Krogh (born 1928), organist
  • Tanja Zapolski [da] (born 1980 in Ukraine), pianist
  • Dorthe Zielke [da] (born 1977), trumpeter

France

  • Evelyne Crochet (1934—), pianist
  • Nell Gotkovsky, violinist
  • Blanche Tarjus, violinist
  • Adélaïde Ferrière, percussionist (fr:Adélaïde Ferrière)

Germany

  • Pauline Boeykens, American-German lives in Berlin. Tuba player. [52], [53]

Hungary

  • Judit Bálványos, saxophonist [54] [55]
  • Hedwig Kanner-Rosenthal/Hedwig Kanner (1882–1959), pianist and teacher

Indonesia

  • Victoria Sarasvathi (born 1997), child concert pianist [56]

Italy

  • Anna Busoni/Anna Weiß-Busoni (1833–1909), pianist and mother of Ferruccio Busoni[57]

Japan

  • Maki Namekawa, plays a lot of Philip Glass
  • Yukie Ota, flautist, [58], [59]
  • Yuko Yamamura, hornist, award winning french horn player, [60]
  • Add redlinks here

Kazakhstan

  • Alfia Nakipbekova [61]

Netherlands

  • Natascha Rogers, Dutch/American percussionist, eventually moved to France, many news sources in French and Dutch.

Norway

  • Bettina Flater, guitarist, flamenco, [62]
  • Inger Mikkelsen Røsoch [no] (1905-1997), pianist
  • Liv Opdal [no] (born 1962), cellist
  • Ingrid Røynesdal (born 1978), pianist

Russia

  • Marina Kolomiitseva, pianist

Slovakia

  • Ida Czernecka, pianist

Spain

  • Sants Sagrera i Anglada [ca], (1893-1983), cellist
  • Noa Drezner, guitarist, flamenco born in Israel, living in Jerez, Spain, [63]
  • Mercedes Luján, guitarist, flamenco guitar, [64]
  • Celia Morales, guitarist, flamenco guitar,[65]

Sweden

  • Gunilla von Bahr [sv] (1941-2013), flautist
  • Nora Duesberg-Baranowski [sv] (1895-1982}}, Austrian-born Swedish violinist
  • Anna Lindal [sv] (born 1954), violinist

Turkey

  • Seta Tanyel, pianist

United Kingdom

  • Angela Brownridge, UK pianist
  • Anna Crookes, winner of BBC Young Musician of the Year, 1982, pianist
  • Stephanie Gonley, English violinist
  • Judith Hall (flautist) [66] [67]
  • Brenda Lucas, pianist
  • Mary Ryan (flautist) taught at the Guildhall (that page lists 9 other flautists you might also want to think about including one of her students), played on the BBC in 1966 and in London in the 1970s (more, more), in later life founded the Burton Bradstock festival and played in Tilford, and bequeathed a composition award. Most of the sources about her will not be online, I suggest contacting the Guildhall School of Music and Drama for pointers.
  • Viola Tunnard, English pianist
  • Add redlinks here

United States

  • Mary Louise Knutson, award-winning jazz pianist and composer [68], [69],[70]
  • Jacqueline Acevedo, percussionist from NY, [71]
  • Julie Albers, cellist, [72], [73]
  • Susan Allen (harpist), born 1951, page 34
  • Lori Barnet, cellist, [74]
  • Caroline Lattin Beardsley (1860-1944), organist
  • Lori Bell, flautist [75], [76]
  • Carolyn Brandy, percussionist, drummer, [77], [78], [79]
  • Loren Brown, cellist, [80]
  • Kiku Collins, trumpeter[81][82]
  • Sylvia Cuenca, drummer [83], [84], [85]
  • Ann Ellsworth, french horn
  • Nina Flyer, cellist [86]
  • Pamela Frame, cellist, [87]
  • Pam Gore, drummer, [88]
  • Marianne Gythfeldt, clarinet
  • Susan Keith Gray, pianist, [89]
  • Bonnie Hampton, cellist, [90], [91]
  • Barbara S. Hedlund, cellist, mentioned in other wiki articles, [92]
  • Georgia Kelly, harpist, has recordings [93]
  • Laura Koepke, bassoon
  • Georgia Pray Lasselle, cellist
  • Jacqueline Leclair, oboe
  • Jen Leigh/Dirty Jenny, guitarist, [94]
  • Katherine Allen Lively, Texas musician and music editor for the Woman's Viewpoint (1923)
  • Kali Malone (b.1994), American composer and organist now based in Sweden [95], [96]
  • Catharina Meints, cellist [97]
  • Tara Helen O'Connor, flutist
  • Elizabeth Panzer, jazz harpist
  • Dorothy J. Papadakos, organist, born 1960, page 30
  • Michelle Perry (hornist), Fulbright Scholar, French horn player, [98]
  • Laura Pleasants, guitarist, part of the band, Kylesa, [99]
  • Marlene Rosenberg, jazz bassist
  • Mary Cherubim Schaefer (1886-1977), organist
  • Arma Senkrah/Arma Levretta Harkness, born 1864, violinist
  • Marlysse Simmons, keyboards, Bio Ritmo
  • Susan Slaughter, trumpeter[100]
  • Anne Martindale Williams, cellist, [101]
  • Valerie Walden, cellist, [102]73139/http://www.cello.org/Newsletter/Articles/walden.htm]
  • Connie Weldon/Constance Weldon, tuba player[103][104]
  • Gabi Holzwarth/Draft:Gabi Holzwarth

Music Critics/Scholars/Music industry executives

China

  • Wu Xiaoying, editor of Audio and Video World (Yinxiang shijie)

United Kingdom

  • Rebecca Franks (writer), staff writer at BBC Music Magazine, music critic, [105]

United States

  • Stacey Anderson, rock critic and writer for Rolling Stone and Village Voice, [106]
  • Pat Namaka Bacon (b. 1920), often called "Aunty" author and scholar of Hawaiian culture, especially related to music, Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, [107], [108]
  • Pamela Blevins, co founder of The Maud Powell Signature, Women in Music
  • Jeanne Fury, NY Rock columnist, writer for Decibel and Newsday, [109]
  • Holly George-Warren, editor for Rolling Stone Press, worked at Grammy Museum and Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, music critic, [110]
  • Leah Greenblatt, Entertainment Weekly, music critic, [111]
  • Kathy Iandoli, music journalist, author, music business professor, [112], [113]
  • Frannie Kelley, New York magazine, NPR, music critic, [114]
  • Nekesa Mumbi Moody, music editor for the Associated Press, [115]
  • Evie Nagy, music critic and editor at Billboard and Rollingstone.com [116]
  • Anne Hilde Neset, avant-garde music critic, [117]
  • Heather Phares, editor at All Music Guide, [118]
  • Bettina Richards, founder of Thrill Jockey
  • Karen A. Shaffer, co-editor of The Maud Powell Signature, Women in Music
  • Julianne Escobedo Shepherd, writes for AlterNet, [119]

Music industry execs

  • Wendy Goldstein A&R Republic Records Billboard Women in Music]
  • Jenna Adler Agent Billboard Women in Music
  • Marlene Tsuchi Agent Billboard Women in Music
  • Cara Lewis Agent Billboard Women in Music
  • Marsha Vlasic Agent Billboard Women in Music
  • Elizabeth Mathews CEO ASCAP Billboard Women in Music
  • Sheryl Zelikson Colbert music producer Billboard Women in Music
  • Laurie Pepper Widow's Taste Records [120]
  • Ruby Marchand Chief Industry Officer at the Recording Academy, former A&R executive at WMG, Music Business professor [121]

Organizations

  • Women in Music (organization), founded in 1985, [122]

International

  • Soundgirls.org founded in 2013 by Karrie Keyes and Michelle Sabolchick Pettinato, [123]
  • Women Band Directors International founded in 1969 by Gladys Stone Wright, [124]
  • Women's international Music Network founded in 2012 by Laura B. Whitmore [125]

China

  • Chinese Woman Composers' Association, [126] founded by Wang Quiang [127]

United States

  • Los Angeles Women in Music, [128]
  • Woman Organ Player Club, 1925, first club of its kind, founded in Boston

Other

United States

  • Shirley Carter (musician), founded Texas Girls' Choir in 1962, Texas Women's Hall of Fame, [129]
  • Linafornia, American record producer from Los Angeles ([130], [131], [132], [133], [134], [135], [136], [137], [138], [139])

Audio Engineers

United States

  • Leslie Mona-Mathus, Emmy Award Winning, Grammy Nominated Mixer / Sound Designer ABC News Creative and Marketing [140]


Performers

Albania

  • Eranda Libohova, singer
  • Anita Take, singer
  • Edi Luarasi, singer
  • Afërdita Zonja, singer

Argentina

  • Aída Denis [es] (1918-1994) [141]]
  • Claudia Levy, tango composer and singer, feminist [142], [143], [144]
  • Elsa Rivas [es] (1925-2010) [145], [146]

Australia

Austria

Brazil

  • Dj Vivi Seixas (or maybe just Vivi Seixas), DJ, daughter of Raul Seixas)
  • Celine Imbert [pt], soprano
  • Marina de La Riva [pt], Brazilian singer of Cuban descent.
  • Vanessa Rangel [pt], former Brazilian singer, now a lawyer

Some names in User:T._Anthony/Missing_Brazil_articles:

Canada

  • Ann Monoyios, soprano [Ann Monoyios]

China

  • Chen Ming, pop singer during the 1990s. [148]

Egypt

  • Yara Mekawei

Equatorial Guinea

  • Patrima [149], [150]

Ghana

  • Azizaa

Germany

  • Uta Graf, soprano [151]
  • Patrizia Hardt, alto [152]
  • Adriana Ruppert, Germany-born DJ with exposure in the US as well as South America

Haiti

  • Lumane Casimir [153] [154]
  • Carole Demesmin [155] [156]
  • Farah Juste [157] [158]
  • Odette Mennesson-Rigaud

Indonesia

  • Titi Juwariyah

Iran

Italy

  • Giuseppina Baldassarre-Tedeschi (1881-1961), soprano
  • Jole De Maria (1929–2007), lyric mezzosoprano/soprano

Japan

  • Hattan Amika, singer and voice actress
  • Makiyo川島茉樹代 [ja], singer and voice actress

Kenya

See [160] for an introduction to the following:

  • Barbara Guantai, singer
  • Lydiah Dola, singer
  • Judith Bwire, singer, composer
  • Binti Afrika, singer

Mexico

  • Jessy Bulbo, punk/pop/alternative rock singer and guitarist

Netherlands

Poland

  • Jadwiga Pietraszkiewicz [pl] (1919-2013) [162], [163]
  • Barbara Zagórzanka [pl]

Romania

  • Rodica Bujor [ro]

Russia

  • Maria Kurenko [ru] (1890–1980), soprano (Russian: Мария Михайловна Куренко / Maria Michailovna Kurenko)

Spain

  • Carmelita Aubert (1912–1979) [164], [165], [166]

United States

  • Patricia Adams (musician), jazz singer [167]
  • Elizabeth "Lizzie" Kahau Kauanui Alohikea, (1885-1939), singer with the Royal Hawaiian Band, Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame
  • Beverly Kane Baker, African American musician
  • Lainie Cooke, jazz vocalist [168], [169]
  • Linda Dela Cruz, (1929–2007), Falsetto singer, Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, activist for Native Hawaiian rights, [170], [171]
  • Erika David, singer from the Bay Area, R&B
  • Toyin Spellman-Diaz, oboe
  • Monica Ellis, bassoon
  • Grace Hoffman (1921–2008), mezzo-soprano
  • Tami Lee Hughes, African American musician
  • Haunani Kahalewai (1929–1982), Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, "Hawaii's First Lady of Song", [172]
  • Nina Keali`iwahamana, vocalist, Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, [173]
  • René Kladzyk (Musician) aka Ziemba, NYC-based musician, composer, perfumer, writer, & cultural geographer. [174], [175], [176], [177], [178], [179], [180], [181], [182], [183]
  • Jane Noria, operatic singer, 1910s
  • Betty O'Hara (ca. 1926–2000), jazz multi-instrumentalist[184][185]
  • Ann One, singer from Los Angeles
  • Victoria K. I'i Rodrigues (1912–1987), singer and translator of lyrics from Hawaiian to English, Hawaiian Music Hall of Fame, [186]
  • Astrid Schween, African American musician
  • Wendy Simon, founder of Jazz Bridge [187], [188]
  • Maria Spacagna, Rhode Island born opera singer and inductee Rhode Island Heritage Hall of Fame Women Inductees [189], [190], [191], [192]
  • Laura Washington (d. 1990) sang with Ella Fitzgerald, Alabama Jazz Hall of Fame, [193]
  • Brittney Spencer - African-American country singer [194]
  • Julie Williams (singer) - African American country singer
  • Reeb Willms, Pacific Northwest country musician (Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms)

Women of Rock Oral History Project

  • Alice de Buhr[195]
  • Cynthia Ross (musician)
  • Eljuri
  • Ginger Bianco
  • Jean Millington
  • Jula Bell
  • Kat Arthur
  • Neon Music
  • Sherry Rayn Barnett
  • Toody Cole

Uruguay

  • Rita Contino [es] (born 1947) opera [196]
  • Luz del Alba Rubio [es] classical/opera [197]
  1. ^ The Women's Symphony Society of Boston, and Women's Symphony Orchestra : Alexander Thiede, conductor, and Stanley Hassell, conductor, 1939-1942. Clippings and programs. Boston Public Library. 1947. {{cite book}}: |website= ignored (help)
  2. ^ Dumpf, Linda (2006). "The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago". Notes. 62 (4). Music Library Association: 857–903. doi:10.1353/not.2006.0048.
  3. ^ Dempf, Linda (2006). "The Woman's Symphony Orchestra of Chicago". Notes. 62 (4). Music Library Association: 857–903. doi:10.1353/not.2006.0048.
  4. ^ "Elena Moneak and orchestra at New Savoy Hotel at Pewaukee". Retrieved 23 April 2019.
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