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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.
Lara Maigue was born to Filipino composer and arranger Professor Rayben Maigue, and soprano Nanette Moscardon, who also served as her first classical mentor. [3] She later received training from Fides Cuyugan-Asensio at the University of the Philippines College of Music, where she graduated with a major in Voice.
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]
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 ...
Marian Anderson (1897–1993), singer of classical music and spirituals, including opera; Martina Arroyo (born 1936), major international operatic soprano; Kathleen Battle (born 1948), operatic soprano and concert performer; Harolyn Blackwell (born 1955), lyric coloratura soprano who has performed in many of the world's leading opera houses
Women in classical music (11 C, 60 P) A. Classical accompanists (63 P) B. Baroque musicians (3 C, 21 P) C. Child classical musicians (1 C, 130 P) Classical singers (6 ...
Martine Bailly (born 1946), classical cellist, first cello of the Orchestre de l'Opéra national de Paris; Emmanuelle Bertrand (born 1973), award-winning soloist and recording artist; Lisa Cristiani (1827–1853), classical cellist, one of the first professional female cellists in Europe; Reine Flachot (1922–1998), international cellist and ...