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Explore and learn more about women composers

Click on each composer to listen to programmes and learn more. Scroll to the bottom of this page for a collection of archive material on more women composers.

Discover further archive content on women composers - click on a composer's name below to reveal Radio 3 clips and programmes.

Grażyna Bacewicz (1909-1969)

Sally Beamish (born 1956)

Judith Bingham (born 1952)

Nadia Boulanger (1887-1979)

Laura Bowler (born 1986)

Charlotte Bray (born 1982)

Diana Burrell (born 1948)

Yi Chen (born 1953)

Unsuk Chin (born 1961)

Tansy Davies (born 1973)

Louise Farrenc (1804-1875)

Emily Hall (born 1978)

Augusta Holmès (1847-1903)

Emily Howard (born 1979)

Elena Kats-Chernin (born 1957)

Nicola LeFanu (born 1947)

Liza Lim (born 1966)

Elizabeth Lutyens (1906-1983)

Elizabeth Maconchy (1907-1994)

Kaffe Matthews (born 1961)

Claudia Molitor (born 1974)

Meredith Monk (born 1942)

Thea Musgrave (born 1928)

Lucy Pankhurst (born 1981)

Roxanna Panufnik (born 1968)

Rachel Portman (born 1960)

Shulamit Ran (born 1949)

Kaija Saariaho (born 1952)

Rebecca Saunders (born 1967)

Ethel Smyth (1858-1944)

Hanna Tuulikki (born 1982)

Errollyn Wallen (born 1958)

Jennifer Walshe (born 1974)

Judith Weir (born 1954)

Grace Williams (1906–1977)

Debbie Wiseman (born 1963)

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