Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival
Live Stream
Sarah Cahill, piano
Friday, November 20th 2020
11:45am PST / 2:45pm EST / 7:45pm GMT
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Deirdre Gribbin (Ireland, 1967) Unseen (2018) 6′
Annea Lockwood (New Zealand/USA, 1939) Ear-Walking Woman (1996) 8′
Theresa Wong (USA, 1976) She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees (2019) 7′
Maria de Alvear (Spain-Germany, 1960) Intenso (1995) 5’
Aida Shirazi (Iran-USA, 1987) Albumblatt (2017) 6′
Gabriela Ortiz (Mexico, 1964) Preludio y Estudio No. 3 (2011) 9’

This 45-minute concert from American pianist Sarah Cahill comes from her ever-expanding project The Future is Female. A songbook celebrating and uplifting women composers around the world, it includes over 60 pieces that can be sequenced together as a ‘ritual installation’, lasting up to seven hours. Through the project, Cahill draws from a diverse pool of pieces for the piano, tracing a lineage of work that spans from the 1700s to now.

Motivated by a lack of representation in the classical canon, Cahill wanted to redress our agreed upon history of music, finding music from women composers who worked around the world without gaining historical recognition, while also emphasizing the importance of work being made by musicians today. Usually performing the work as a ‘marathon’, intending for listeners to absorb the concert the way they would an exhibition, this lockdown-ready version highlights six of the artists found in Cahill’s repertoire.