The new Phoenix Ensemble has created a new avant-garde trio program exclusively dedicated to female composers: “DONNE”.

DONNE is dedicated exclusively to female composers who during their lifetime have been in the shadow of male artists of their time and to composers who were not only extraordinary artists, but who also had an impact on 19th and 20th century society. 

Among these, Louise Farrenc stands out: the first music publisher who promoted and sold her works as well as the first piano teacher at the CNSM in Paris; Germaine Tailleferre who was the only woman of the group of 6 and a free artistic muse for Ravel, Cocteau and Charlie and the suffragette later named Dama Ethel Smyth.

Thanks to the project, New Phoenix Ensemble is part of Rete.Donne: an important corporation of Italian professional women in Europe.

Two settings are possible:

-Trio with piano, clarinet and cello;

-Trio clarinet, viola / violin and cello

DONNE is a program that can also be declined as:

CONFERENCE & CONCERT: a conference focused on one or more women that had an impact of the society of their time, any disciplines, with a performance of female composers.