Swiss piano music by women
The Swiss Female Composers Festival has published a "Piano Collection" with ten pieces. A collection for violin and piano is to follow.
Several years ago, the pianist and composer Katharina Nohl founded the platform Swiss Female Composers Festival was founded. It initiates and organizes concerts with the musicians associated with the network. Now the first publication is also on the market, the Piano Collection Vol. 1.
A number of female composers living in Switzerland submitted their compositions for solo piano, ten of which were selected and have now been published as a collection by Universal Edition Wien. Pieces by the following composers are included: Bijayashree Samal, Anastasiia Kuznetsov, Lea Gasser, Aglaia Graf, Sandra Avilova, Catherine Fearns, Ilona Raad, Olga Ponomareva, Dora Fratrić and Katharina Nohl, who also acts as editor. The idea of this Piano Collection is to make music accessible to a wide audience, i.e. the piano is played in the traditional way.
All authors of the Collection were rewarded with a Scodo voucher. Scodo is a new Universal Edition publishing toolthrough which composers can publish their works and receive 70 percent of the sales price instead of the usual 30 percent.
The publication series is to be continued this year with a new Call for Scores. This time, compositions for violin and piano are in demand.
