Mountains, olives and the vastness of existence: Spain/ Inés Medina-Fernández

It’s Cacophony… at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.

In this epsiode, Inés Medina Fernández presents her choices of music from Spain, carefully chosen from accross the country and including famous musical names we might know – but pieces we definitely won’t!

Listening time: podcast 24mins, music playlist 20 mins… Listen

Music as a thing for shared connection: Netherlands/ Marion von Tilzer

It’s Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.

This episode features music from the Netherlands and Marion von Tilzer’s choices of music that gets us more connected. We’ll hear how, when a performer is relaxed, it can be like being in the audience…or writnig the music afresh, and why the Netherlands is famous for painters…but not composers…… Listen

Super excited and hyped up! Sage Shurman/ USA

It’s Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.

This epsiode we hear top young composer, Sage Shurman, getting super excited – in a pretty chilled Californian kind of way – for both the World Cup football and her choices of pieces by living women American composers for the Women’s World Cup of Classical Music. Can the USA win both? – That will be down to you to decide!

Listening time: podcast 19mins, music playlist 16 mins… Listen

“Planting women’s music in the collective memory of society” Katharina Nohl/ Switzerland

It’s Cacophony …at the Women’s Football World Cup! A glorious celebration of music from around the world, all written by women, and chosen specially for Cacophony by leading female musicians.

In this episode we hear from Katharina Nohl, founder of the Swiss Female Composers Festival, with her choices of music from Switzerland and how giving female composers greater exposure helps plant their music in the collective memory of society. Listening time: Podcast 26 mins, music playlist 30 mins… Listen