BBC Radio 3 holds 24hr celebration of women composers
BBC Radio 3 will mark International Women’s Day with 24-hours of special programming which puts the work of female composers in the spotlight.
As part of this, the station has commissioned two new works which receive their world premiere performances as part of the celebration.
Film composer, vocalist and educator Ella Jarman-Pinto has set a text by the poet Jo Brandon for soprano Nazan Fikret and pianist Rebecca Cohen which explores the emotional impact of the pandemic on women, in a piece called Plango: A Cure Lament. It gets its world premiere performance in the drive-time programme In Tune.