SUPPORT WOMEN IN CHORAL COMPOSITION
In a shifting funding landscape, your support sends a clear message. 2025 marks the 5th anniversary of the HerVoice program—and we’re celebrating with a Day of Giving on June 5, 2025!
Uplift women in composition by donating $5 today and sharing with 5 (or all!) of your friends.
“You Can’t be What You Can’t See”
Recent studies suggest that only 7% of music performed is by women composers – and only 1.7% by LIVING women composers. The brainchild of Artistic Director John William Trotter, HerVoice is designed to elevate women’s voices and provide training and mentorship to the next generation of women choral composers.
This year marks the 5th anniversary of the program. In just five years, HerVoice has provided group mentoring for nearly 200 women composers, plus one-on-one mentoring, workshops and performance opportunities to 18 winners.
But in a shifting funding landscape, opportunities like these are still too rare. Your support sends a clear message: this program matters and deserves to grow.
We’re celebrating with a Day of Giving on June 5—and we’re inviting you to help us reach our goal: 500 supporters giving just $5 each.
Here’s how you can help:
1. Donate $5 – Your gift, no matter the size, makes a statement.
2. Share this email with 5 friends – or all your friends!
Let’s help the next generation see—and be—themselves on stage.
It’s about representation and seeing yourself in that role…it really helps foster courage and confidence in what you do.
The program offers a tremendous amount of valuable information on how to grow and how to work in this industry.
The mentorship with female composers who are well known… makes this an ongoing process that has been beyond just working on the piece.
Being named a winner was my first validation that I’m writing good music that people want to perform, as all of my previous performances had been by groups I was already involved with. That, along with the excellent business advice I received from Stacy Garrop, encouraged me to take a look at how I was allocating my music-making time. I decided to cut back on my conducting and spend more time focusing on composing (and trying to sell those compositions).
