The Department of Music is proud to present a student collage called "Women's Voices" to close the inaugural SHE Festival of Women in Music.

Students presenting music include Clayre Parson, Dennese Adkins, Fiona Slaughter, Katelyn Barry, Manchusa Loungsangroong, Samantha Canon, Lisa Kulczak, Victoria Ledbetter, Anastasia Mills, Connor Gott, Bryce Owens, Isaac Orvin, Charles Hartman, Katie Craven, Dominique Phillips, Jordan Barnes, Savannah Ellis, and Emily James. This impressive representation of music students will be the highlight of the finale to the festival. This concert features music by female composers including Fanny Cecile Mendellssohn Hensel, Libby Larsen, Erin Goad, Caroline Schleicher Krämer, Lori Laitman, Katherine Hoover, Carmen Liliana Marulanda, and UA Music composition student Elizabeth Greener. 

The concert will be at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, March 30, in the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall. The concert is free and open to the public.

In celebration of the concert and the end of the festival, the department invites the audience to a reception following the concert in the Fine Arts Center lobby.

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

In conjunction with Women's History Month, the Department of Music in the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences will host an inaugural, month-long festival from March 5-30 highlighting the major role that women have played in the art of music.

SHE, A Festival of Women in Music will recognize women across the field with an array of music featuring women composers and performers.

"Music often breaks down the barriers that separate us," said Ronda Mains, the Department of Music's chair.

Mains said that in a time when society often strains to listen, "SHE makes room for audiences to hear new sounds, to feature composers of fame and lesser-known stature, and to amplify exceptional stories — all drawing attention to compositions by women, works inspired by women, and music for women."

Mains said that SHE also crosses borders, intends to evoke an emotional response, and will prompt historical and cultural memories for all who attend.

With guest lectures, performances of Western art music and contemporary music, and a one-woman play, the festival is filled with events that will spur thought and excite audiences.

SHE is sponsored by Adventure Subaru of Fayetteville and presented in partnership with the J. William Fulbright College of Arts and Sciences Humanities Program, the Jim and Joyce Faulkner Performing Arts Center, and the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at the University of Arkansas.

More information about this event can be found on the Department of Music's website.