Women of Notes

Doreen Carwithen Bishop Rock
Dorothy Howell Lamia
Florence Price Piano Concerto
Bartók Concerto for Orchestra

28 February 2026 7.30pm

Clare Hammond piano
Philip Ellis conductor

A trio of long-neglected female composers make up the first half of this concert. From Buckinghamshire, Birmingham and Arkansas in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, their music has been unfairly overlooked and now enjoying a belated revival.

Lamia, based on the Keats poem of the snake transformed into a woman, was played at seven successive seasons of the Proms but then not again until 2010; Florence Price was the first black woman to have a symphony performed by a major orchestra; Carwithen, was the first woman anywhere in the world to work full-time as a film composer.

And we conclude, in the second half, with one of Bartók’s most popular, and accessible works and an orchestral tour de force.

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