Woman Composer Sunday

Each year on the Sunday closest to International Women’s Day, we celebrate Woman Composer Sunday. This year it falls on International Women’s Day, Sunday March 8.

Our Assistant Director of Music, Alana Brook, is a member of the Society of Women Organists and a strong advocate of performing music by women composers. She writes “Woman Composer Sunday is a great opportunity to explore new repertoire. I am proud to work at Wakefield Cathedral, where we perform music by women composers all year round, but having all of the music by women this Sunday is exciting.”

The Youth Choir will be singing our morning services, and have enjoyed learning a new mass by Margaret Drynan. They will also be singing pieces by Kathleen Robson and Joanna Forbes L’Estrange, and the voluntaries are by Julie Ainscough and Ethel Smyth. In the afternoon we have a service of choral evensong with installations, sung by the Cathedral Consort. They will be singing music by Lucy Walker, Amy Beach and Stephanie Martin, with the voluntary by Johanna Senfter.

Please view our music list, found here, for full details of repertoire and service times.

Join us on Woman Composer Sunday, March 8, to discover some new music!