Description

Every day in music classrooms across the country, and across the world—from elementary classrooms, to graduate music libraries—half of all students fail to see themselves represented in walls plastered with posters of “The Great Composers” which feature only male images.

These portraits of some of the master female composers featured on our site will act as a mirror for young women to see themselves in the music curriculum, to see that they too can be successful and influential musicians.

We at Music By Women hope that one day these posters are featured right alongside their male counterparts in a truly representative “Great Composers Collection” so that they may inspire future generations of female musicians and composers as well as well-informed consumers of beautiful music.

Each portrait is masterfully painted by hand with brush and ink by UK artist Margit van der Zwan, with blocks of color added in digitally. www.margitvanderzwan.com