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Upcoming events
Illuminate Spring 2023 season
This winter and spring Illuminate is returning to its touring seasons. We have the wonderful Trio Sonorité, consisting of pianist Jelena Makarova, cellist Daryl Giuliano and clarinettist Neyire Ashworth, as Illuminate's performers in residence. They will be performing an array of works by women from the past and present including works by Louise Farrenc, Errollyn Wallen and Stephanie Ann Boyd. We're also delighted that our programmes will also include four new Illuminate commissions from composers Sylvia Lim, Kristina Arakelyan, Vinthya Perinpanathan, and composer in residence Angela Elizabeth Slater.
Our season is made up of five concerts, touring around the UK between February to May and visiting London, Nottingham, Birmingham, Manchester, and Southwell. We hope you will join us to celebrate the creativity of women both as composers and performers!
Illuminate is very grateful to its funders, the Vaughan Williams Foundation, Hinrichsen Foundation and Marcus Trust. Their support has made the commissions and upcoming concerts all possible!
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Top row: Illuminate logo, composer Sylvia Lim, composer Vinthrya Perinpanathan, composer Angela Elizabeth Slater. Bottom row: cellist Daryl Giuliano, pianist Jelana Makarova, composer, Kristina Arakelyan and Neyire Ashworth
Illuminate reviews
‘If Illuminate returns you should go and hear for yourself’
Richard Bratby, Spectator
The Illuminate string quartet made a splendid debut, joined by a solo soprano in a programme that featured not one, not two, but six world premieres by women composers alongside music by neglected predecessors. This important project is proving what many - yet too few, still, in the wider musical world - know already: that women have always composed music of exceptional quality, and that increasing numbers are doing so today.”
Steph Power, composer, writer, critic
‘If Illuminate returns you should go and hear for yourself’
Richard Bratby, Spectator
The Illuminate string quartet made a splendid debut, joined by a solo soprano in a programme that featured not one, not two, but six world premieres by women composers alongside music by neglected predecessors. This important project is proving what many - yet too few, still, in the wider musical world - know already: that women have always composed music of exceptional quality, and that increasing numbers are doing so today.”
Steph Power, composer, writer, critic
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We need your support!
Below you can support current and future Illuminate seasons and activities. We need your support to continue the work we do in shining a light on the work of women composers from both the past in present. Illuminate Women's Music is voluntary led by our composers in residence and we need your help and support in continuing this wonderful and vital work.
Photo courtesy of Christine Turner from 2018 concert series
