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Where are the women in your local music scene?

As it’s International Women’s Day, I wondered how well that most re­ac­tionary of mu­sical beasts, the or­chestra, would stand up to tests of gender equality. I wondered how many fe­male com­posers were being per­formed by Manchester’s three or­ches­tras this season, and then ex­panded my re­search into con­ductors, so­loists and rank and file player num­bers. Perhaps […]

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    Chris Swithinbank is a British-Dutch com­poser who works with both acoustic in­stru­ments and elec­tronic sounds. He is cur­rently a stu­dent at Harvard University with Chaya Czernowin.
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