Celebrating, Performing, and Supporting Music by Women Composers
OUR MISSION
Boulanger Initiative advocates for women and all gender-marginalized composers. We foster inclusivity and representation to expand and enrich the collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be. We promote music composed by women through performance, education, research, consulting, and commissions.
Concert series devoted to presenting music by women composers, past and present, striving to challenge established inequalities in concert programming.
Workshops, presentations, lectures, and publications to help expose students and audiences to the idea that women have composed, and do compose, music.
Commissions
Supporting the composition and performance of new music by women composers, to foster awareness, create possibility, and inspire creativity.
Boulanger Initiative is committed to making the music of women composers more accessible for audiences, performers, teachers, and anyone who wants to create a more equitable world through music. We are currently offering consulting services in three areas: instruction, curating for presenters, and curating for performers.
Redefining the Canon
Part of Boulanger Initiative’s mission is “to work toward greater inclusivity, and to enrich our collective understanding of what music is, has been, and can be.” Redefining the Canon is an unprecedented initiative which aims to update the most widely-used orchestral audition excerpts to include excerpts by historically underrepresented composers.
Music Inclusion Hub
Your digital hub for culturally responsive, intersectional, mixed media music resources.
Created by your friends at Boulanger Initiative , Castle of our Skins, & D-Composed, The Music Inclusion Hub provides high-quality, culturally competent, historically expansive, and diversity-promoting resources for educators & young learners.
Access Beyond the Box: Into the Barlines Baroque-Era Women Composers Curriculum Guide & Supplement here.
“The Boulanger Initiative is a welcome addition to the world of music, helping to celebrate women composers and making the stage more equitable in composing and performing.”