EHRFEM
The press
From the shadow
into the light
here is still an underrepresentation of women standing in the front ranks of the music world—be it as musicians, composers, conductors, or promoters. This is certainly not due to a lack of talent or qualification. For this reason, I began addressing this issue with a wide range of people, sparking a process that has led many to commit to making women and female artists a central focus in music. These conversations and efforts are intended to be the prelude to a collective movement of lasting support and encouragement. Following the joy of presenting the "1st Vienna New Year's Concert of Female Composers" in the 2023/24 season, our upcoming New Year's Concert on January 1, 2025, will feature a program equally balanced between female and male composers.
Cathrin Chytil
Director Ehrbar Hall
:IN-CONCERT-HIGHLIGHTS
NEW YEAR'S CONCERT OF THE
COMPOSER:INSIDE
We are particularly pleased that "La Philharmonica" will be playing the upcoming New Year's concert in the Ehrbar Saal.MORE INFO & TICKETS
Half of the programme will consist of music by female composers and half by male composers.
Celebrate the first day of the new year with us to the honourable waltz beat.
LILYA ZILBERSTEIN
She began her training at the age of five at the Gnessin Special Music School in Moscow, won numerous prizes and emigrated to Germany in 1990. One year later, she made her debut with the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra under Claudio Abbado, which laid the foundation for her collaboration with other internationally renowned orchestras.MORE INFO & TICKETS
ALMA DEUTSCHER
The 18-year-old multi-talented Alma Deutscher wrote her first composition at the age of six. Labelled a child prodigy and highly praised by conductors such as Zubin Mehta and Sir Simon Rattle, she now performs her own music as a soloist with many international orchestras.MORE INFO & TICKETS
WHY EHRFEM?
If this question is still in the air, it should be noted here once again: Female composers and musicians have hardly been recognised in the great historiography of music and have not been written about.*
The Ehrbar Saal is delighted that so many powerful women will once again fill it in the coming months.
Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Un ballo in maschera" told from the perspective of the female protagonist "Amelia". The saxophonist Michaela Reingruber, who asks in her concert title whether the saxophone is female. Will she answer this question? The Helmut Deutsch Lied Competition, which for the first time has a female composer in the programme of pieces to be performed, namely songs by Alma Mahler. And the planned New Year's concert with female waltz composers from the past and present, conceptualised and presented by Irene Suchy.
But what does it have to do with the
New Year's concert by female composers?
The New Year's Concert in the Ehrbar Saal, which will take place on 1 January 2024 at 5 pm, will feature waltz compositions by female composers. Namely by Josephine Weinlich, Charlotte Wiener, Lena Stein-Schneider, Hilda Löwe, Leopoldine Blahetka, Viola Falb, Sofia Gubaidulina, Johanna Doderer and Melissa Coleman.
With every woman
the story becomes richer
Women have composed great works and they continue to do so more and more. They compose and they conduct. It is up to society to make their work, skills and creativity visible. This is done by creating opportunities for them to perform on big stages and showcase themselves. It is up to the funding institutions, the organisers, the dramaturges and directors and the audience to decide how visible female artists and composers are made. It is up to society to rewrite history, backwards and forwards. It becomes more beautiful, deeper and richer with every woman who moves into the limelight.
*A long version of this text, back to the first composer,
which has officially designated itself as such, can be found in our latest freshly printed programme book,
which will be available for free in the foyer of the Ehrbar Saal from September.
which has officially designated itself as such, can be found in our latest freshly printed programme book,
which will be available for free in the foyer of the Ehrbar Saal from September.
