Through this project we are striving to celebrate and promote the different ways that women contribute to the music world. This organization operates under three major pillars, music of women in history’s past, the music of today’s female composers, and cultivating a future for women’s music of the future.

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Past: At many points in history, the option to compose was not allotted to women, and where it was, it was met with resistance and heavy limitations. For a major portion of the 19th century, women are limited to the performance and writing of music for the keyboard, voice, and select string instruments. Through this project we strive to interpret and rearrange some of these historical masterworks to discover what their music may have sounded like if they had been allowed to compose unrestricted like their male counterparts. This portion of the project additionally serves to make the music of these women available to wind musicians as it otherwise would not have been.

Present: This ensemble additionally seeks to program significant works written by living female composers of today’s era. Among all the improvements and progress we have made towards equity in music, women remain largely under-commissioned, and under-programmed. We seek to improve visibility of today’s composers such that their works can be performed and appreciated as their male counterparts’ compositions are.

Future: The capstone of our project is to utilize funding to commission works for the wind repertoire by promising upcoming women composers. Women historically have struggled to access the same resources as their male counterparts in this field, and our ensemble seeks to provide the resources that a young professional would need to get their foothold in the field of music composition.

This year our project culminates in the world premiere of a new work, Through Leaves and Trees. A work for 10 winds composed of a Woodwind and Brass Quintet combined, written by Tufts undergraduate student Aviva Senzon.