One Equal Music
Marginalised, neglected, ignored for centuries, and only now coming to the fore. The fate of brass chamber music mirrors that of the female composers of the past.
Our counterfactual history redresses both balances: placing the music of two female composers, Élisabeth Jacquet de la Guerre and Clara Schumann, alongside that of their historically more celebrated male contemporaries. In Baroque mythologically-inspired theatre music, and Romantic music for the keyboard we imagine a world in which these men and women had written for brass.
From the present day we have Forever the Dance by Edward Gregson, and a 2024 Septura commission, Seven Heavens by star UK composer Roxanna Panufnik.