Women's History Month 2026 on Classical WMHT

By Charlotte WilsonMusic

Women's History Month 2026 on Classical WMHT episodes

March 21 Errolyn Wallen
(1958 – ) First Black woman to be Master of the King's Music
4 min
March 20 Elena Kats-Chernin
(1957 –) the prolific and much loved Russian-Australian composer and pianist
5 min
March 19 Kaija Saariaho
(1952 – 2023) The Finnish Spectralist; first woman in over a century to be performed at the Met
4 min
March 18 Tania León
(1943 -) The Cuban American composer, first Latin American woman to win a Pulitzer
4 min
March 17 Germaine Tailleferre
(1892 – 1983) the only woman in the famed Les Six French group of composers
5 min
March 16 Lili Boulanger
(1893 – 1918) First woman to win the Prix de Rome
4 min
March 15 Nadia Boulanger
(1887 – 1979) Pianist, conductor, and greatest teacher of the 20th Century
5 min
March 14 Dora Pejačević
(1885 – 1923) the pioneering Croatian pianist and composer
4 min
March 13 Henriette Renié
(1875 – 1956) the greatest harpist of all time
4 min
March 12 Mel Bonis
(1858 – 1937) most prolific and successful, but forced to be a society lady. With a secret life
4 min

About Women's History Month 2026 on Classical WMHT

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Hudson Valley-based composer Anna Clyne presents a daily series of podcasts for WMHT-FM presenting her choice of 31 women composers through history for the 31 days of March.

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