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The contralto voice has the lowest tessitura of the female voices and is noted for its rich and deep vocal timbre. [2] True operatic contraltos are very rare. [3] The following is a list of contralto singers who have regularly performed unamplified classical or operatic music in concert halls and/or opera houses. [4]
Female opera directors (71 P) P. Women classical pianists (28 C, 252 P) V. Women classical violinists (10 C, 186 P) Pages in category "Women in classical music"
She is considered to be one of the foremost classical singers in India. [3] She was a performer of the classical genre khyal and the light classical genres thumri and bhajan. Amonkar trained under her mother, classical singer Mogubai Kurdikar also from the Jaipur gharana, but she experimented with a variety of vocal styles in her career.
Sara Mohr-Pietsch estimates in an article for The Guardian that about 40% of living composers are female, and yet, she laments, only about 17% of names on music publishers lists are female. [34] Research by the Boston Symphony Orchestra suggests a starker discrepancy; in programming for the top 22 US orchestras in 2014–2015, only 1.8% of ...
Garrett has had an extensive music career. A graduate of the Royal Academy of Music and an alumna of the prestigious National Opera Studio, she won the Decca Prize of the Kathleen Ferrier Award in 1979, thereby launching her career. [4] Her professional debut, in 1979, was as Amor in Orontea at the music festival in Batignano.
Evancho was born on April 9, 2000, [5] [6] in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, to Lisa and Michael Evancho. [7] Her father operated a video security business until 2010. [8] She has an older sister Juliet, [9] [10] a younger brother Zachary, and a younger sister Rachel. [11]
Some of the top-earning female singers since the 2000s were Adele, Angham, Beyoncé, Lady Gaga, Madonna, Kylie Minogue, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Britney Spears, Taylor Swift, Ariana Grande, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, Jennifer Lopez, Shakira, and Sherine. Almost all of these singers are also songwriters, and some are also music producers.
Marianne Davies (1743 or 1744 – c. 1818), flutist, singer, harpsichordist, and glass harmonica player; Lorna McGhee (born 1972), Scottish flutist and educator, chamber musician; Susan Milan (born 1947), classical performer, composer and academic; Hilary du Pré (born 1942), flautist and memoirist