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2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford

An educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women's music.

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2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford

2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford

2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford

2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford

2017 Women Composers Festival of Hartford

An educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women's music.

An educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women's music.

An educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women's music.

An educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women's music.

Amelia Nagoski
Amelia Nagoski
Amelia Nagoski
Amelia Nagoski
3 Campaigns |
Hartford, United States
$2,065 USD 49 backers
41% of $5,000 Flexible Goal Flexible Goal
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Overview
Celebrating diversity in women's music!

The Women Composers Festival of Hartford has, for the last sixteen years, provided an educational and entertaining platform for the promotion of women composers. The festival's goals include fostering music by women composers through performances, outreach, and development. We seek your assistance in continuing this tradition with next year's festival, March 30 - April 2.

With four days of concerts and presentations hosted by venues across greater Hartford, the festival is featuring a variety of works by composer-in-residence  Paula Matthusen, as well as works by local composers, including performances by guest artists like forty/sixty. Thanks to the success of last year's festival, we're able to expand this year, bringing three of the most highly skilled children's choirs from the area to perform new works together in our closing concert.

Your donation allows us to continue bringing well-crafted programs and excellent guests to the Greater Hartford area to enrich the cultural life of the city, and give the compositions performances of the caliber they deserve. We are a non-profit organization, so all donations are tax deductible.

 

Guest Artists, Services, and, inevitably, Basics

We're aiming to grow the festival this year, and that means hiring expert musicians and renting beautiful, resonant performance spaces in addition to printing programs, paying performance licenses, etc. 

We receive in-kind support as well as individual donations and grants, but enhancing the festival with amazing guest performers like the forty/sixty, and that means expanding our support base to pay these artists their worth in time and effort. You are that base!

 

 

Continuing the Festival Mission

Our festival has immediate impact and long-term significance.

  • We employ professional musicians in our area. 
  • We provide concerts and lectures to audiences from all over Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New York.
  • We put a spotlight on women composers, whose work has been in shadows for centuries. 

We've been putting on this festival for sixteen years, and your donation allows the festival to keep celebrating the diversity of music by women composers, advocate for recent and historical repertoire, foster the development of new music, and support continued performance of works. With each festival, more music is presented to an ever growing audiences of enthusiasts and scholars. The festival has featured hundreds of performances in its thirteen years, including dozens of premieres, including works commissioned by us. Emerging composers whose works have been featured in the past continue to develop their careers with ongoing support and interest from festival audiences.

 

We'd Like to Thank You

Your support means a great deal! All funds received go directly toward artists and service providers. Anything received above our goal will help support future planning for 2018 and beyond. No gift is too small. To thank you for your assistance, we have a number of thank-you gifts, each named after a woman who has been significant to the history of music so that you can remember that your support is significant to the future of music!

Most of all, we'd love to see you at the festival!

 

We'd also like to thank Mo

Our graphics and logo were created by local artist and designer Moana McAuliffe. Check out her website for fantastic graphic design!

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Elizabeth I Status

$5 USD
To thank you for your support, we'll post a shout-out of thanks to our followers on Facebook and Twitter. You'll be contributing to a legacy like Queen Elizabeth I, one of the most important patrons of music in history -- without whom we wouldn't have the treasure trove that is English Renaissance music.
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October 2016
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Beatriz, Comtess de Dia Status

$10 USD
To thank you for your support, we'll send you 5 WCFH pencils, so that you can write your own compositions, just like the 12th Century Countess of Dia, the only known woman troubadour.
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April 2017
1 out of 20 of claimed
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Isabella d'Este Status

$20 USD
To thank you for your support, we'll send you a WCFH logo travel mug that you can use to maintain adequate caffeine levels in your blood to sustain a passion for great music as intense as that of Isabella d'Este, 15th Century Italian princess whose court commissioned Monteverdi's Orfeo.
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April 2017
6 out of 20 of claimed
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Eleanor of Aquitaine Status

$30 USD
To thank you for your outstanding support, we'll send you an WCFH "Matron of the Arts" tote bag with our custom designed portrait of Eleanor. When people ask you about it at the grocery store, you can tell them you are a Matron of the Arts, just like 12th Century woman of power and taste, Eleanor of Aquitaine.
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April 2017
5 out of 20 of claimed
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Nadia Boulanger Status

$40 USD
To thank you for your generous support, we'll send you a pair of stemless wine glasses etched with our NEW custom designed portrait of Nadia Boulanger! You'll be able to enjoy an evening of flavorful beverages as you contemplate the impact you've had on the future of music, like Nadia herself.
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April 2017
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Maddalena Casulana Status

$75 USD
To thank you for your support, we'll send you ALL! of the WCF logo swag: pencils, mug, tote, AND stemless wine glasses. With that, you will posses an arsenal of materials "to show to the world the foolish error of men who so greatly believe themselves to be the masters of high intellectual gifts that [these gifts] cannot, it seems to them, be equally common among women,' as Maddalena Casulana wrote in her book of madrigals, the first music publication devoted to the works of a woman (1568).
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April 2017
5 out of 10 of claimed
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Barbara Strozzi Status

$150 USD
This status gives you a full pass to the festival--tickets to every performance, lecture, and workshop, PLUS all the WCF logo swag: pencils, tote bag, travel mug, AND new stemless wine glasses. Your life will be as filled with women composing as 17th Century superstar, Barabara Strozzi!
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March 2017
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Paula Matthusen Status

$250 USD
Support the commissioning of new works by women by supporting us at this very generous level! You'll receive a Festival Pass and all the swag, PLUS credit in our program as a sponsor of the new work composed by our Composer-in-Residence, Dr. Paula Matthusen.
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March 2017
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