Who is your favourite composer? Bach … Handel … Vivaldi?  Or perhaps Chopin, Schubert, Brahms, or Liszt? How many of those were women?

So how do you explain this? Were there no gifted women composers before the beginning of the 20th century? Are women just not creative?

And although women have been writing music for centuries, their output has always been considered less important. Till recently, they have never had the same professional opportunities as their male peers. Nowadays at last, more and more women composers are becoming part of the history of music and feature regularly in concert programmes.

Musique est une femme is a project which aims to reinforce this process. It is a joint initiative by the foundation TAK-Temat Aktualny Kultura /Poland, Handelsbeurs Concert Hall/Belgium, Molyvos International Music Festival/Greece, and the Cēsis Concert Hall/Latvia.

In colaboration with Latvian National Music Council and Latvian Composers Union everyone is invited to join the discussion "The role of the whoman in the music". 

The participants are composers Ilona Breģe, Linda Leimane and Anna Veismane, violonist Magdalēna Geka and composer, the chairman of the Latvian Composers Union Rolands Kronlaks. The discussion will be moderated by the musicologist Dāvis Eņģelis.

The project is supported by the Programme Creative Europe and Ministry of Culture of Republic of Latvia.

Participation is free of charge, but the entrance is possible only with a Covid-19 vaccination or recovery certificate.