zamus: early music festival | Symposium: Invisible Women

Western music history was mainly written by men, with a few female exceptions: This year's symposium focuses on lesser-known female composers such as Antonia Padoani Bembo and Isabella Leonarda and aims to shed light on their lives and works. However, we not only want to shed light on important historical female figures, but also on the present and the influence as well as difficulties of women in the early music scene. 

The symposium is organised in cooperation with the Royal Conservatoire of Brussels and GEDOK. 

10:00-10:30 | Lecture | Virtuoso female singers, or: What does the female Renaissance sound like? 

Sabine Meine Musicologist Cologne University of Music and Dance 

10:45-11:15 | Round table discussion 

Karla Enríquez – violinist BoulevardBaroque 

Mélanie Froehly – managing director zamus 

Sabine Meine – musicologist 

Dorothee Oberlinger – recorder player, festival director

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11:30-12:30 | Lecture concert | The Italian repertoire of Adriana van den Bergh 

Ira Givol – violoncello 

Peter van Heyghen – recorder

Joanna Huszcza – violin

Kris Verhelst – harpsichord

Exhibition |

Johanna Hansen: Moon Rabbit to Moon Fish - Poetry meets Painting 

Johanna Sarah Schlenk: But wherever we are is light