Silent Scores | Solarek Piano Trio

'Silent Scores'

A concert of underrepresented women composers given by the Solarek Piano Trio in aid of the Youth Music Centre Bursary Fund.

The concert will include by a talk given by Marina Solarek about finding, studying and making women composers part of the standard reperoire.

“Is another generation growing up not finding out about the musical magic of Dora Pejacevic, Lili Boulanger, Pauline Viardot, Marguerite Canal? There are so many female composers who have written not only huge amounts chamber music but also mountains of symphonic works.

It was immensely difficult for women to get their works published during their lifetimes. But now there is a second struggle: we have to find these hidden treasures, these silent scores. How do we choose which works to study? Our teachers have grown up with a traditional repertoire of male composers only.