For Season II, Illuminate Women's Music is delighted to announce the formation of a new ensemble, the Illuminate String Quartet, who will be performing across the UK with soprano singer Patricia Auchterlonie!

In Season II, Illuminate Women's Music is commissioning new works by six women composers. The composers are Caroline Bordignon, Soul Zisso, Joanna Ward and the Illuminate composers in residence Angela Elizabeth Slater, Sarah Westwood and Blair Boyd. The composers will be collaborating  with the performers of the newly formed Illuminate String Quartet and soprano singer Patricia Auchterlonie. The Illuminate String Quartet members are Clarice Rarity (violin), Christine Cornwall (violin), Katherine Clarke (viola) and Cecilia Bignall (cello).These new works will be programmed alongside a wealth historical works by composers such as Rebecca Clarke, Barbara Strozzi, and Ruth Crawford Seeger giving a rich context to the strong but neglected tradition of women’s music, and rightly bringing these works as well as new ones to the attention of new audiences across the UK.

Illuminate Women's Music 2019 seasons II is supported by Ambache Charitable Trust, RVW Trust and Arts Council England.
Open session 22nd August at Snape Maltings:
Join Illuminate Women's Music after a week residency at Snape Maltings in association with the Ulysses platform presenting some of the works that will be taken into the Season II concerts.
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
We are delighted that the ISM (Incorporated Society of Musicians) are supporting our Cambridge concert.
The ISM is the UK’s professional body for musicians, including nearly 10,000 performers, composers and educators.
If you are working at a professional level in music, you can join the ISM from just £15 a year to benefit from essential support, advice, insurances and more.
To find out more, visit the ISM website, call 020 7221 3499 or email [email protected].

​Thursday 5th September 2019

Second International Conference on Women’s Work in Music at Bangor University!
 Pre-concert talk 
   6.45-7.15pm
Angela Elizabeth Slater, founder of Illuminate Women's Music, in                   conversation with composer and critic Steph Power.

Programme will include new works by composers Joanna Ward, Sarah Westwood, Yfat Soul Zisso, Blair Boyd, Caroline Bordignon and Angela Elizabeth Slater, featured alongside historical works by Barbara Strozzi, Rebecca Clarke, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Vivian Fine and many more!

Concert 7.30pm
​Neuadd Powis Hall
Bangor University Tickets: £12, £5 students and under 18s

​Saturday 12th October 2019, 1.00pm
Birmingham Centrala
Unit 4 Minerva Works, 
158 Fazeley St, 
Birmingham, B5 5RT

Tickets £10 standard £5 students - booking info to come
​Tickets may be bought on door.

Monday 4th November 2019, 1.00pm

St Michael’s Church near Northgate
Cornmarket St,
Oxford OX1 3EY

​Come and join us in your lunch break to enjoy the works of women composers old and new!

​Free entry
University of Huddersfield
​St Paul Hall
Queensgate, 
​Huddersfield, HD1 3DH

​Come and join us in your lunch break to enjoy the works of women composers old and new!
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​Free entry
Friday 8th November 2019, 7.30pm

University College,
Oxford
OX1 4BH

Tickets £10 concessions £7 - buy on the door


​Saturday 9th November 2019, 7.30pm

Queens Lecture Theatre
Emmanuel College
St Andrew's St, 
Cambridge, CB2 3AP

​Free Entry or pay as you feel.