Composeher wins at the Making Music Awards 2023
The GSA Choir’s Composeher project has won the Making Music Award 2023 for the Best Project With A Focus On New Music. The influential Making Music Awards celebrate music creators, arrangers and innovative new music projects. The winners were announced on 5 October at a special ceremony hosted by [...]
GSA Choir to record Composeher compositions
Just days after the successful Composeher world premiere concert, the GSA Choir has announced that it will be recording all seven pieces later this year. The news will extend the reach of the project, raise the profile of the work and enable other choirs to consider programming these wonderful [...]
Composeher world premiere concert tickets now on sale
The ground-breaking Composeher project, devised by the Glasgow School of Art Choir, is in the final stages of rehearsal for a world premiere concert to be held on 27 May 2023 at Glasgow City Halls. The concert of new work has already garnered international interest and involvement, with demand [...]
The GSA Choir launches public workshops with leading composers as part of Composeher project
Events to be held at Glasgow Women’s Library will feature leading composers Dee Isaacs, Cecilia McDowall, Pippa Murphy, Ailie Robertson, Rebecca Rowe, and Jane Stanley. 6 September 2022 The Glasgow School of Art Choir (GSA Choir) has announced a series of four in-person workshop events, beginning in October 2022, which [...]
Composeher – an update from the GSA Choir
The recent easing of Covid restrictions across Scotland has begun to slowly return some sense of normality to many of our lives. As a choir, our undertaking is a fundamentally collaborative one, with intimate rehearsals being essential to how we grow, learn and perform together as a group. As such, [...]
Composeher Kickstarter reaches its £4,000 goal
It’s barely one week since we launched our Kickstarter campaign, but we’re absolutely thrilled to say that we have now reached our £4,000 fundraising target. We wish to extend our thanks to every single person who has supported our Composeher Kickstarter campaign. Whether you pledged funding or spread the word [...]
The GSA Choir announces Composeher
An ambitious project to create new choral music composed by women. The Glasgow School of Art Choir (GSA Choir) has announced its most ambitious project to date to commission, perform and promote seven new pieces of choral music created by leading contemporary composers. Entitled Composeher, [...]
Creative Scotland announces funding for Composeher
Creative Scotland has today announced funding for 40 new creative arts initiatives across Scotland, including the Glasgow School of Art Choir’s ambitious new project, Composeher. Led by the Glasgow School of Art Choir, Composeher has been organised in response to the historic under-representation of female writers across the music [...]