Join us at the music library in celebrating wonderful music by Canadian women composers. In our collection, we have music composed by women, books about music written by women, recordings by women, and recordings of music composed by women. This October, for Women's History Month, we are celebrating these important contributions to our cultural lives as Canadians.
Listen!
Enjoy this playlist at Naxos Music Library
Explore the collection!
The library has a huge collection of scores from women composers. Explore and take a look at some of what we have to offer.
Violet Archer
Canadian composer, teacher, pianist, organist, and percussionist. Find out what's in the library!
Maya Badian
Romanian-born Canadian composer, musicologist, and professor. Find out what's in the library!
Norma Beecroft
Canadian composer, producer, broadcaster, and arts administrator. Find out what's in the library!
Norma was one of the founders of the performing arts establishment New Music Concerts; explore their archives, held by the Music Library.
Diane Berry
Toronto-born performer and composer. Find out what's in the library!
Annesley Black
Canadian composer with a background in Jazz and Electronic Music. Find out what's in the library!
Linda Bouchard
Canadian composer and conductor. She is also an active conductor, teacher, and producer. Find out what's in the library!
Gena Branscombe
Canadian pianist, composer, music educator, and choir conductor. Find out what's in the library!
We have Gena's stuff in our archive, take a look.
Albertine Caron-Legris
Canadian pianist, composer, and music educator. Find out what's in the library!
Dolores Claman
Canadian composer and pianist. She is best known for having composed the 1968 theme song for Canadian Broadcasting Corporation's (CBC) Hockey Night In Canada show. Find out what's in the library!
Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux
Canadian composer and music educator who played an important role in the contemporary classical music scene of Canada and France from the late 1960s through the mid-1980s. Find out what's in the library!
Jean Coulthard
Canadian composer and music educator. Important contributor to Western Canadian music in the twentieth century. Find out what's in the library!
Eleanor Daley
Canadian composer of choral and church music, a church choir director, choral clinician, and accompanist. Find out what's in the library!
Lorraine Desmarais
French-Canadian jazz pianist and composer. Find out what's in the library!
Emily Doolittle
Canadian composer, zoomusicologist, and Athenaeum Research Fellow and Lecturer in Composition at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland. Find out what's in the library!
Barbara Monk Feldman
Canadian composer of mostly chamber and piano works. Find out what's in the library!
Vivian Fung
Canadian born composer who writes music for orchestras, operas, quartets, and piano. Find out what's in the library!
Ruth Watson Henderson
Canadian composer and pianist. She was the accompanist for the Festival Singers of Canada under Dr. Elmer Iseler for many years. Find out what's in the library!
Alice Ping Yee Ho
Canadian pianist and composer, considered to be "among the most important composers writing in this country". Find out what's in the library!
Patricia Blomfield Holt
Canadian composer, pianist and music educator. Find out what's in the library!
Rhené Jaque
Canadian musician, composer and music educator living in Quebec. Find out what's in the library!
Larysa Kuzmenko
Juno Awards-nominated Canadian composer and pianist based in Toronto, Ontario. Find out what's in the library!
Jeanne Landry
Canadian composer, pianist, and teacher who taught counterpoint and harmony at the Faculty of Music at Université Laval. Find out what's in the library!
Anne Lauber
German-born Canadian composer, conductor, and music educator. Find out what's in the library!
Rachel Laurin
Canadian organist, composer, and music educator. Find out what's in the library!
Lee Hope
Taiwan-born Canadian composer. Find out what's in the library!
Albertine (Caron) Legris
Canadian pianist, composer and music educator. Find out what's in the library!
Ruth Lomon
Canadian composer. Find out what's in the library!
Alexina Louie
Canadian composer of contemporary art music. Find out what's in the library!
Kelly-Marie Murphy
With music described as “breathtaking” (Kitchener-Waterloo Record), “imaginative and expressive” (The National Post), “a pulse-pounding barrage on the senses” (The Globe and Mail), and “Bartok on steroids” (Birmingham News), Kelly-Marie Murphy’s voice is well known on the Canadian music scene. Find out what's in the library!
Barbara Pentland
One of the pre-eminent members of the generation of Canadian composers who came to artistic maturity in the years following World War Two. Find out what's in the library!
Elizabeth Raum
Canadian oboist and composer. Find out what's in the library!
Ginette Reno
Canadian author, composer, singer, and actress. Find out what's in the library!
Gisele Ricard
Co-founded the Groupe d’interprétation de musique électroacoustique (GIMEL) Find out what's in the library!
Sylvia Rickard
Canadian composer from Toronto. Studied at U.B.C. with Jean Coulthard. Find out what's in the library!
Nicole Rodrigue
Canadian composer and music educator. Find out what's in the library!
Ann Southam
Canadian electronic and classical music composer and music teacher. She is known for her minimalist, iterative, and lyrical style. Find out what's in the library!
Judy Specht
Composer, performer and educator, was born in Prince Rupert, British Columbia. Find out what's in the library!
Nancy Telfer
Canadian choral conductor, music educator and composer. Find out what's in the library!
Carol Ann Weaver
Virginia-born composer, pianist, and teacher. Find out what's in the library!
Gayle Young
Canadian composer and author. Young is an adherent of microtonality who has invented a number of musical instruments and notational systems. Find out what's in the library!