Female composers have lost some ground
Every year, the organization Donne - Women in Music analyses concert programmes in around thirty countries for the visibility of female composers. They are slightly on the decline.
Last season, only 7.5% of works performed in orchestral concert halls were by women. This is a slight decrease compared to the previous year (7.7 percent). Of the works performed, 5.8 percent were by white women and 1.6 percent by women from the global majority: Black women (0.59 percent), Asian women (0.5 percent), women of mixed race (0.40 percent), Indigenous women (0.07 percent) and women from the Middle East (0.02 percent).
The report by Donne - Women in Music analyzed the repertoire of 111 orchestras in 30 countries for the 2023-2024 season. It builds on an annual survey that began in 2018 and identifies trends in diversity and equality programming in the global concert repertoire.
Link to the report:
https://donne-uk.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/03/DonneReport2024.pdf
