Our favorite resources
Timeline
An international timeline of women’s involvement in choral conducting starting in 1841, created by Kyra Stahr and McKenna Stenson.
Wisdom, Wit, and Will: Women Choral Conductors on Their Art
Wisdom, Wit, and Will is a refreshing perspective on the choral field, rebutting conventional attitudes toward conducting and gender, and including distinctive biographies of some of the pioneering female choral conductors. But even more importantly, this book is of tremendous value to anyone seeking fresh insights into the choral conducting profession.
Art & Science in the Choral Rehearsal
All artists have doubts and anxieties. What are yours? Managing procrastination, anxiety, and creative blocks? Knowing how to trust your work? Dealing with other people? Balancing the need to push through to the end of a work while keeping your health and sanity? Handling rejection and your own success? Dale Trumbore has faced each of these issues, and Staying Composed: Overcoming Anxiety and Self-Doubt Within a Creative Life is her answer. With humor and understanding, Trumbore breaks down each obstacle to a creative career and presents workable strategies for a long-range, manageable, and meaningful life in the arts.
The Burnout Book
This groundbreaking book explains why women experience burnout differently than men—and provides a simple, science-based plan to help women minimize stress, manage emotions, and live a more joyful life.
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Things We Love
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Art and Science in the Choral Rehearsal explores the idea that choral conductors who better understand how the brain learns, and how individuals within groups function, can lead more efficient, productive, and enjoyable rehearsals. Armed with this knowledge, conductors can create rehearsal techniques which take advantage of certain fundamental principles.
Staying Composed
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Women Composers Alphabet Poster
Companion Booklet, Thermos, T-Shirt, and other Posters also available
Women Composer Database
This spreadsheet contains a comprehensive list of women composers and their websites (where applicable), country of origin, and birth/death dates, curated specifically to assist music educators in sourcing and incorporating music composed by women in their programs.
PHENOMENAL
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conduct(her) Presentation
This is our presentation containing current data on women in the field of conducting.
The definitive career guide for grad students, adjuncts, post-docs and anyone else eager to get tenure or turn their Ph.D. into their ideal job.
To ensure success, you need a plan. You need to learn when, where and what to publish, how to write effective job documents and ace your interview, how to cultivate references and craft a competitive CV, how to avoid the mistakes and ‘adjunct traps’ that sink many of your peers, and how to make the leap to nonacademic work, when the time is right. Karen Kelsky has made it her mission to help readers solve the mystery of the academic job market. As a former tenured professor and department head, and creator of the popular and widely respected advice site The Professor is In, she has helped thousands land their dream careers.
The Professor is In
Surprising secrets of success from some of America’s women leaders; all the things a mentor would tell you are revealed in this mentor-in-a-book. Sheila Wellington, the president of Catalyst, draws on Catalyst research, contacts, and know-how to tell you how to understand the unspoken rules in the real world of work today and how to get ahead. Be Your Own Mentor gives advice from top women on how to:
Devise a short-term and long-term career strategy
Gain visibility in the workplace and in your field
Create opportunities to gain valuable experience
Change your career path
Negotiate salary
Balance work and family
And much, much more…
Be Your Own Mentor
On the Compose Like a Girl podcast, Jocelyn shares conversations with composers as a part of her larger initiative that amplifies female-identifying composers, helps conductors diversify their concerts, and works toward more equality in music programming and commissioning.
Compose Like A Girl Podcast
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