FEMALE BAND COMPOSERS

Women composers are just that, composers.

They think, feel and hear the world in their own unique way.

Listen – study – program – perform.

Through more frequent performances we can break the bias towards female composers and make programming their music on a regular basis the new normal.

FEMALE BAND COMPOSER LIST

Currently, there is a focus on works from Grades 1-4. For more resources relating to works by women please consult the comprehensive list of useful links on the ColourFULL Music webpage!
GET ON THE LIST! Entries will be updated periodically. To have your works considered, please fill out the form at the bottom of the page and submit!
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COMPOSER	NATIONALITY	NAME OF CHART	GRADE	LSITEN	SEE THE SCORE	CONTACT DETAILS
Elena Specht	American	Knight Ride	0.5	You Tube	Contact Composer	Contact Elena
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Noble Procession	1	Listen	Score Sample	Email Carol
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Cruisin' Bluesin'	1	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Carol
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Rock Attack	1	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Carol
Dugger, Kelly	American	Monsters, Unite!	1	You Tube	Score	Email Kelly
Estes, Laura	American	Cook Strait Crossing	1	You Tube	Score	Email Laura
Hoefle, Heather	American	Donut Factory	1	Listen & See Score	Score sample	Email Heather
Hoefle, Heather	American	Red Sky at Morning	1	Listen & See Score	Score	Email Heather
Hoefle, Heather	American	Skyward March	1	Listen & See Score	Score	Email Heather
Hoefle, Heather	American	The Next Thing	1	Listen & See Score	Score	Email Heather
Jolley, Jennifer	American	Last Stage to Red Rock	1	Listen	Score Sample	Email Jennifer
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	Awaken	1	Listen	Score Sample	Email Cait
Piunno, Nicole	American	Fall Fanfare	1	MIDI	Score Sample	Email Nicole
Piunno, Nicole	American	Spring Fanfare	1	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Nicole
Sindberg, Laura	American	Ninni, Baba (Hush, my baby)	1	Scroll to listen	Score	Email Laura
Specht, Elena	American	Aquilegia Chorale	1	Listen	Contact composer	Email Elena
Williams, Neille	Australian	Hand clap Symphony	1	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Woodrow, Haley	American	A New Day	1	You Tube	You Tube	Email Haley
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Whirlwind	1.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Belah Sun Woman	1.5	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Softly Speaks the Night	1.5	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Carol
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Moon Song and Tribal Dance	1.5	Listen	Score Sample	Email Carol
Estes, Laura	American	S'vivon!	1.5	You Tube	Score	Email Laura
Glen Broder, Annie	Canadian	Ride of the Royal North West Mounted Police	1.5	Contact publisher	Contact publisher	Email publisher
Piunno, Nicole	American	Peanut Butter Jam	1.5	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Nicole
Williams, Neille	Australian	Classical Mash	1.5	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Archer, Kim	American	The Devil's Workshop	2	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	Hymn to the Dawn	2	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	Jig	2	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	Supervillain	2	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Berg, Stephanie	American	Pick up your sword & follow me	2	Listen	Contact composer	Email Stephanie
Bernofsky, Lauren	American	Cloud Nine	2	Listen	Score Sample	Email Lauren
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Earthshine	2	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Lessons from Mother Earth	2	You Tube (1st movt)	Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Salon Morisot: Majesty	2	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Salon Morisot: Devotion	2	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Salon Morisot: Enchantment	2	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Sunchaser	2	You Tube	Score	Email Carol
Estes, Laura	American	Verity March	2	You Tube	Score	Email Laura
Giroux, Julie	American	Amaranthine	2	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Julie
Giroux, Julie	American	When country comes to town	2	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Julie
Giroux, Julie	American	The Bonsai Tree	2	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Julie
Hoefle, Heather	American	All will be well	2	Listen	Score sample	Email Heather
Huss, Christina	American	Forevermore	2	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email publisher
Keeton-Howard, Erin	American	Mischief, Magic and Mayhem	2	Listen	Score	Email Erin
Keeton-Howard, Erin	American	Wanderlust	2	Listen	Score	Email Erin
McDonel, Jennifer	American	A Joyful Noise	2	Listen	Contact composer	Email Jennifer
McDonel, Jennifer	American	Appalachian Whisper	2	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Jennifer
Mier, Shirley	American	Forge Ahead	2	Listen	Score Sample	Email Shirley
Mier, Shirley	American	Song of the Wind	2	Listen	Score sample	Email Shirley
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	Into the Blue	2	Listen	Score	Email Cait
Nishimura, Yukiko	Japanese	Ancient Flower	2	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Yukiko
Petherick, Claire	Australian	Between the Hills	2	Scroll to listen	Score	Email Claire
Piunno, Nicole	American	Seeking Solace	2	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Nicole
Piunno, Nicole	American	Woven	2	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Nicole
Salfelder, Kathryn	American	Reminiscence	2	You Tube	Listen & see score	Email Kathryn
Shapiro, Alex	American	Rock Music	2	Listen	Contact composer	Email Alex
Specht, Elena	American	Zig Zag	2	Listen	Contact composer	Email Elena
Woodrow, Haley	American	Fanfare and Song	2	You Tube	You Tube	Email Haley
Woodrow, Haley	American	And it begins	2	Listen	You Tube	Email Haley
Woodrow, Haley	American	March of the shadows	2	Listen	Score via page	Email Haley
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Bluebell	2	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Primula	2	Sample audio	Score	Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Under a Winter Sky	2	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Archer, Kim	American	Kings of Old	2.5	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Chamberlain, Nicole	American	Hopewell	2.5	You Tube	Score	Email Nicole
Chen, Yi	Chinese	Spring Festival	2.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
Dugger, Kelly	American	Forest Light	2.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Kelly
Estes, Laura	American	Kvetchers	2.5	You Tube	Score	Email Laura
Jolley, Jennifer	American	Through the Looking Glass Falls	2.5	Listen	Score Sample	Email Jennifer
Lehtonen, Hanna-Mari	Finnish	Tango Corazon	2.5	You Tube	You Tube	Email Hanna
Love, Karlin	Australian	Beyond the Break	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Karlin
Love, Karlin	Australian	Cloud Juice Stomp	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Karlin
Magin, Carrie	American	Letchworth Fanfare	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Carrie
Mooke, Martha	American	X-ing	2.5	You Tube	Score	Email Martha
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	Reflections	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Cait
Rudman, Jessica	American	Through the Looking Glass	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Jessica
Scholl-Greene, Joni	American	The Dawnland	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Joni
Shapiro, Alex	American	Paper Cut	2.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
Williams, Neille	Australian	Charlie found a blue diamond	2.5	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Allen, Virginia A.	American	Women of the Podium March	3	You Tube	Contact composer	Email Virginia
Archer, Kim	American	Awakenings	3	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	Ballad for Aisha	3	Listen	Score sample	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	Beacon	3	Listen	Score	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	Goonwad	3	Contact Composer	Score	Email Kim
Archer, Kim	American	In the gathering dark	3	Listen	Score	Email Kim
Berk, Stacey	American	Phrygian Festival Overture	3	Listen	Contact composer	Email Stacey
Bernofsky, Lauren	American	Heart of Fire	3	Listen	Contact composer	Email Lauren
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Terpsichorean Dances	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Into the Sun	3	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Letter from Sado	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Jodie
Bremer, Carolyn	American	Impulse Engine	3	Listen	Score Sample	Contact publisher
Bremer, Carolyn	American	Tinker to Evers to Chance	3	Listen	Score Sample	Contact publisher
Bremer, Carolyn	American	Pieces of Eight	3	Listen	Score Sample	Contact publisher
Budiansky, Mollie	American	Flight of the Dragon	3	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Mollie
Budiansky, Mollie	American	Strong to Save	3	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Mollie
Busch, Ashlee	American	Rhythmix	3	Click title to Listen	Score Sample	Email Ashlee
Chamberlain, Nicole	American	Byzantium	3	Listen	Score	Email Nicole
Chamberlain, Nicole	American	Wild Horses of Cumberland Island	3	Listen	Score	Email Nicole
DeJarnett, Megan	American	Strength in all things	3	Listen	Score	Email Megan
Dugger, Kelly	American	The Anhk of Eternity	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Kelly
Dunker, Amy	American	Ice	3	Listen	Score	Email Amy
Elizabeth Raum	Canadian	Quest and Discovery	3	Listen	Scroll for score	Contact Elizabeth
Elizabeth Raum	Canadian	Prelude	3	Listen	Scroll for score	Contact Elizabeth
Estes, Laura	American	Wicklow	3	You Tube	Score	Email Laura
Galvin, Lisa	American	Blaze the Trail	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Lisa
Galvin, Lisa	American	Bayside Reflections	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Lisa
Giroux, Julie	American	Dream Dancer	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Julie
Higdon, Jennifer	American	Rhythm Stand	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
Hoefle, Heather	American	Riu Riu Chiu	3	Listen & See Score	Score	Email Heather
Koh, Emily	Singaporean	Homemade recipe: nasi ulam	3	You Tube	Contact Composer	Email Emily
Magin, Carrie	American	And the nightwatchers awake	3	You Tube	Score	Email Carrie
Mier, Shirley	American	Maiden Voyage	3	Listen	Contact composer	Email Shirley
Mooke, Martha	American	Kayomatique	3	You Tube	Score	Email Martha
Morlock, Jocelyn	Canadian	Ned the Neck	3	Listen	Scroll for score	Email Jocelyn
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	Chasing Sunlight	3	Listen	Score Sample	Email Cait
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	Autumn	3	Listen	Score	Email Cait
Nishimura, Yukiko	Japanese	Winter Milky Way	3	Listen & See Score	Score Sample	Email Yukiko
Nishimura, Yukiko	Japanese	Merry Go Round	3	Listen & See Score	Score Sample	Email Yukiko
Olson, Tawnie	Canadian	Pop!	3	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
Piunno, Nicole	American	On a hill far away	3	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Nicole
Scholl-Greene, Joni	American	Cameron's Dream	3	Link on page	Score Sample	Email Joni
Shapiro, Alex	American	Depth (Movt I Immersion)	3	Listen	Contact composer	Email Alex
Shapiro, Alex	American	TIght Squeeze	3	Listen	Contact composer	Email Alex
Shapiro, Alex	American	Moment	3	Listen	Contact composer	Email Alex
Williams, Neille	Australian	Shenandoah	3	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Star Ship	3	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Flying Away	3	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Purple Martin	3	Listen	Score	Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Jacaranda Mimosiforia	3	Listen	Score	Email Yukiko
Barnett, Carol	American	Cyprian Suite	3.5	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Carol
Barnett, Carol	American	Tirana	3.5	Scroll to listen	Score Sample	Email Carol
Barnett, Carol	American	Overture: Southeast Sunday	3.5	Scroll to listen	Score Sample	Email Carol
Barnett, Carol	American	Marian Variants	3.5	Scroll to listen	Score Sample	Email Carol
Barnett, Carol	American	Prelude and Romp	3.5	Scroll to listen	Score Sample	Email Carol
Baugher, Grace	American	Remembering the remarkables	3.5	Scroll to listen	Contact composer	Email Grace
Bergman, Katherine	American	Turbinia	3.5	Scroll to listen	Score	Email Katherine
Bergman, Katherine	American	Blueprints for Hope	3.5	Listen	Score	Email Katherine
Bingham, Judith	British	Bright Spirit	3.5	You Tube	Score Sample	Tweet Judith
Botti, Susan	American	Eye of the Hawk	3.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
Brittin-Chambers, Carol	American	Cedar Canyon Sketches	3.5	You Tube	Score Sample	Email Carol
Brouwer, Margaret	American	Red Hill Special March	3.5	Contact composer	Contact composer	Email Brouwer Music
Budiansky, Mollie	American	5000 Austin Creek Road	3.5	Listen	Score Sample	Email Mollie
Elizabeth Raum	Canadian	Ballad of John Ware	3.5	Listen	Scroll for score	Contact Elizabeth
Galvin, Lisa	American	The Spirit of the Solitary Defender	3.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Lisa
Greenaway, Sally	Australian	Auróra Musis Amíca	3.5	You Tube	Scroll to view	Email Sally
Joosten, Heidi	American	Lakeshore Portrait	3.5	Contact composer	Contact composer	Email Heidi
Kieffer, Olivia	American	…and then the Universe exploded	3.5	Listen	Score Sample	Email Olivia
Larson, Libby	American	Hambone	3.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
León, Tania	Cuban	Alegre	3.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email BandQuest
Likhuta, Cathy	Australian	Through Healer's Eyes	3.5	Contact composer	Contact composer	Email Cathy
Love, Karlin	Australian	Musings on a Bach Sarabande	3.5	Listen	Score	Email Karlin
Love, Karlin	Australian	Walking in the Labyrinth	3.5	Listen	Score	Email Karlin
Love, Karlin	Australian	Assorted Colours	3.5	Listen	Score	Email Karlin
Love, Karlin	Australian	On Power	3.5	Listen	Score Sample	Email Karlin
Petherick, Claire	Australian	The Butterfly (roars)	3.5	Scroll to listen	Score	Email Claire
Salfelder, Kathryn	American	Elegy	3.5	Contact composer	Score	Email Kathryn
Scholl-Greene, Joni	American	Moonscape Awakening	3.5	You Tube	Listen & See Score	Email Joni
Shapiro, Alex	American	Lights Out	3.5	Listen	Contact composer	Email Alex
Williams, Neille	Australian	Goblin brawl in a tavern	3.5	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Sweet New Moon	3.5	Listen	Score	Email Yukiko
Bergman, Katherine	American	Dream Machine	4	Listen	Score	Email Katherine
Bergman, Katherine	American	Over Wild Solitude	4	You Tube	Score	Email Katherine
Berk, Stacey	American	Fanfare Jubilee	4	Listen	Contact composer	Email Stacey
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Catango 5	4	Listen	Score	Email Jodie
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Vulnerable Joy	4	You Tube	Score	Email Jodie
Bowen, Jessica Lauren	British	Train of Thought	4	Listen	Score	Email Jessica
Bremer, Carolyn	American	Early Light	4	You Tube	Contact publisher	Contact publisher
Elizabeth Raum	Canadian	Sodbuster	4	Listen	Scroll for score	Contact Elizabeth
Fisher, Danielle	American	Ragamuffins	4	Listen	Score	Email Danielle
Fisher, Danielle	American	Reformation	4	Listen	Score	Email Danielle
Greenaway, Sally	Australian	Around the world	4	Listen (Big Band)	Score Sample	Email Sally
Griffin, Fran	Australian	For those we lost	4	Listen	Contact Composer	Email Fran
Hablewitz, Christin	American	Malala: Symbol of Courage & Peace	4	Contact composer	Contact composer	Email Christin
Hanson, Shelley	American	Elegy for Albinoni	4	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Sally
Hanson, Shelley	American	Patapan	4	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Sally
Hanson, Shelley	American	Seis Manuel	4	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Sally
Hanson, Shelley	American	Volver a la Montaña (“Return to the Mountain”)	4	Listen	Contact composer	Email Sally
Hanson, Shelley	American	Tocata & La Tumba de Alejandro Garcia Caturla	4	Listen	Contact composer	Email Sally
Mauer, Peri	American	Red Sky	4	Listen (excerpt)	Contact composer	Email Peri
Mier, Shirley	American	Steampunk Overture	4	Listen	Score	Email Shirley
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	In Dreams	4	Listen	Score	Email Cait
Nishimura, Cait	Canadian	Intrinsic Light	4	Listen	Score	Email Cait
Piunno, Nicole	American	Eternity in an Hour	4	Listen	Score	Email Nicole
Reinkemeyer, Andrea	American	Dos Danzas	4	Listen	Score	Email Andrea
Scholl-Greene, Joni	American	Net Luck Soaring	4	Listen	Listen & See Score	Email Joni
Specht, Elena	American	Three places in the west	4	Listen	Contact composer	Email Elena
Specht, Elena	American	Bridge to Manhattan	4	You Tube	Contact composer	Email Elena
Tínmard, Ínmard	Spanish	Leave, sons of art	4	Listen	Contact composer	Email Ínmard
Whitacre, Diane	American	Rumor Mill	4	You Tube	Learn more	Email Diane
Williams, Neille	Australian	Cop chases the robber	4	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Williams, Neille	Australian	Little fugue on Frere Jaques	4	Listen	Score	Email Neille
Woodrow, Haley	American	Tapestries	4	Listen	Score	Email Haley
Woodrow, Haley	American	In two places	4	You Tube	Score	Email Haley
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Smiliing after the rain	4	Listen	Score	Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Key West Pink!	4	Listen	Score	Email Yukiko
Abbott, Katy	Australian	Jumeirah Jane	4.5	Listen	Scroll to view	Email Katy
Fisher, Danielle	American	Pathways	4.5	You Tube	Score	Email Danielle
Frenklakh, Batya	Israeli	A Room of One's Own	4.5	Listen	See the score	Email Batya
Hanson, Shelley	American	Albanian Dance	4.5	Listen & See Score	Listen & See Score	Email Sally
Likhuta, Cathy	Australian	Home Away from Home	4.5	Listen	Score	Email Cathy
Blackshaw, Jodie	Australian	Peace Dancer	5	You Tube	Score	Email Jodie
Elizabeth Raum	Canadian	One hundred years of fanfares	5	Listen	Scroll for score	Contact Elizabeth
Elizabeth Raum	Canadian	Echoes of Ft. San	5	Listen	Scroll for score	Contact Elizabeth
Primiani, Leanna	Greek- American	Sirens	5	Listen & See Score		Email Leanna
Primiani, Leanna	Greek- American	Glass Ceiling	5	Listen & See Score		Email Leanna
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Sparkleberry	5	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Summer Triangle for alto saxophone and wind ensemble	5	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Bright Moon	5	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	MONO/PASTEL	5	Listen	Score	Email Yukiko
Yukikio Nishimura	Japanese	Water Reflections	5	Listen & See Score		Email Yukiko

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