Old First Concerts: The Future Is Female: Sarah Cahill, piano

"The Future is Female is a curation and performance project featuring more than sixty compositions by women around the globe, ranging from the 18th century to the present day. For this performance, Cahill presents an evening-length version of the project including many rarely-heard works by Baroque composer Anna Bon, Leokadiya Kashperova (best known as Stravinsky’s piano teacher), Ajerbaijani composer Frangiz Ali-Zadeh, American composer and civil rights activist Zenobia Powell Perry, with selections from Madeleine Dring’s Colour Suite and Hannah Kendall’s On the Chequer’d Field Array’d, a musical depiction of a chess game. Perhaps most notably, Cahill will perform the Piano Sonata by Hungarian composer-pianist Ági Jámbor, who survived a harrowing escape from Nazi-occupied Europe and dedicated this work to the victims of Auschwitz. In preparation for this performance, Cahill has been working closely with Jámbor’s publication editor."

ANNA BON: Sonata No. 6 (1757)
LEOKADIVA KASHPEROVA: selections from Au sein de la Nature (1910)
AGI JAMBOR: Sonata (1949)
ZENOBIA POWELL PERRY: Rhapsody (1960)
MADELEINE DRING: excerpts from Colour Suite (1963)
FRANGIZ ALI-ZADEH: Music for Piano (1989/1997)
HANNAH KENDALL: On the Chequer’d Field Array’d (2013)