The project.
This website is a project of Choir Alberta as part of organization's extensive choral library of more than 4,000 titles and 160,000 octavos. It is intended to showcase the choral music composed and arranged by women from across Canada.
The body of choral work by Canadian women has grown considerably over the past 2 decades, as has the prominence of this music in concert programs across the country. This project was designed to compile a resource for conductors and educators that would facilitate their learning about these composers/arrangers and the music they write. It includes such pioneers as Violet Archer, Lydia Adams, and Diane Loomer, and extends to early-career composers and arrangers like Sarah Quartel, Katerina Gimon, and Tracey Wong.
The project has been designed in such a way that it can easily be expanded upon as composers become more established, new composers enter the scene, and newly composed pieces are premiered and published.
The body of choral work by Canadian women has grown considerably over the past 2 decades, as has the prominence of this music in concert programs across the country. This project was designed to compile a resource for conductors and educators that would facilitate their learning about these composers/arrangers and the music they write. It includes such pioneers as Violet Archer, Lydia Adams, and Diane Loomer, and extends to early-career composers and arrangers like Sarah Quartel, Katerina Gimon, and Tracey Wong.
The project has been designed in such a way that it can easily be expanded upon as composers become more established, new composers enter the scene, and newly composed pieces are premiered and published.
