UF students can enjoy live music from France, Italy, India and other countries this weekend.
UF is hosting the 20th International Festival of Women Composers this week. A free concert will be held Saturday at 7:30 p.m. at UF’s School of Music, Room 101. More than 20 performers will play music composed by women from all over the world.
The concert was organized by Miriam Zach, the festival’s founder and creative director. Zach, a music professor at UF, started the event to honor female composers.
Angela Jonas, an executive administrative assistant at the School of Music, said she will sing German art songs from the romantic period.
The pieces she chose are by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann and Alma Mahler, which she selected because she usually sings opera, Jonas said.
“I have sung for 25 years from a limited pool of composers, and this was an opportunity for me to branch out,” Jonas said.
Ferol Carytsas, the volunteer coordinator at UF Health Shands Arts in Medicine, wrote in an email that she will be performing pieces by Wilhelmine von Bayreuth on the viola.
“I wanted to be a part of this event because I feel it is important to recognize and feature works by female composers,” Carytsas said. “The diversity of performers and repertoire is interesting and exciting.”
