Women's History Month Composers

This page represents the composers and titles that were highlighted in graphical form on our Facebook page starting in 2021 (archived here).  Not all composers are highlighted each year which is why some composers have more titles than others listed.  This is due to the number of composers to highlight as wells as number of band pieces in their catalog.

Updated (March 2026)

Katy Abbott

  • Fast Ride In A Suave Machine
  • Jumeirah Jane


Keiko Abe

  • Prism Rhapsody
  • Prism Rhapsody II

Adrienne Albert

  • Courage
  • Fanfare for 13 Brass

 Dianna Appler

  • Danse Macabre
  • American Suite Op. 98

Kimberly Archer

  • Fanfare Politeia
  • American Labor Songs
  • Common Threads
  • Fanfare Dissensus

Yvette Audain

  • Strive
  • Skirmish in Seven

Carol Barnett

  • Cyprian Suite
  • Prelude and Romp
  • Tirana

Jennifer Bellor

  • Electric Vortex
  • Uprising
  • Bordello Nights
  • Querencia

Stephanie Berg

  • Soaring Through Infinity
  • Voices of Eve

Katherine Bergman

  • Dream Machine
  • Blueprints for Hope
  • Turbinia
  • The Front Line
  • Prairiescapes
  • Basswood Canopy
  • Over Wild Solitude


Stacey Berk

  • Fanfare Jubilee
  • Phrygian Festival Overture
  • Flight
  • Portraits of the Odyssey

Lauren Bernofsky

  • Cloud Nine
  • We Wish You a Klezmer Christmas


Jodie Blackshaw

  • Letter from Sado
  • Twist
  • Peace Dancer
  • Cantago5
  • ..into the blue stretch of light..
  • Terpischorean Dances
  • Twist
  • Feathered Angels
  • Wind of Life
  • For there is nothing lost
  • Vulnerable Joy

Nancy Bloomer Deussen

  • Reflections on the Hudson
  • The Dawn of freedom

Kathryn Bostic
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Susan Botti

  • Terra Cruda
  • sull’ala

Carolyn Bremmer

  • Early Light
  • Dances from the Age of Aquarius
  • Impulse Engine

Carol Brittin Chambers

  • So Wondrous Bright
  • Cedar Canyon Sketches
  • The Rusty Bucket
  • Pipe and Thistle
  • Dances for the Muse, Terpsichore
  • Alegría
  • The Rusty Bucket

Mollie Budiansky

  • Aileron Lullaby
  • Flight of the Dragon
  • May Rose March
  • 5000 Austin Creek Road
  • Information Echo

 Ashlee Busch

  • Rhythmix
  • Celtic Dances
  • Apotheosis

Nicole Chamberlain

  • Byzantium
  • Foxfire
  • Mastodon Fanfare
  • Wild Horses of Cumberland Island
  • Undaunted
  • Foxfire
  • Mastodon Fanfare

Valerie Coleman

  • Roma
  • UMOJA

Kelly Dugger

  • Rocky Mountain Overture
  • Forest Light
  • The Ankh of Eternity

Amy Dunker

  • Julien’s Dream
  • For God and Country
  • Amparo Edo Biol
  • Snapan
  • Cleopatra

Laura Estes

  • Wicklow
  • Kvetchers

Roshanne Etezady

  • Milestone

Katheryn Fenske

  • Nordic Adventure

Michele Fernández

  • Embers of the Ancient Realms
  • Of Endless Miles and Empty Rafts

Danielle Fisher

  • Seeds
  • Pathways

Jane Frasier

  • Resolution
  • Mrs McGrath
  • Festivous Sonata

Nancy Galbraith

  • Euphonic Blues for Wind Ensemble
  • Audible Images
  • Elfin Thunderbolt
  • Washington's Landing

Lisa Galvin

  • Quintescent Journey
  • The Spirit of Solitary Defender
  • We Shall Overcome
  • Bayside Reflections
  • Blaze the Trail
  • Altius
  • Radiant Joy

 Julie Giroux

  • Journey Through Orion
  • One Life Beautiful
  • Fields of Gold
  • Hymn for the Innocent
  • Autumn Rose
  • In My Father’s Eyes
  • Husaria Cavalry Overture
  • Dragon Sky
  • Beyond Measure
  • Boston Liberties

Sally Greenaway

  • Around the World
  • Auróra Musis Amíca

Brittany J. Green
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Joni Greene

  • Moonscape Awakening
  • Glow
  • Enigma Machine
  • Cameron's Dream
  • Circean Waters

Jocelyn Hagen

  • The Gold in Broadcast Blue
  • Shieldmaiden
  • Salute
  • Medusa
  • The boat that brings them home

Shelley Hanson

  • Albanian Dance
  • Elegy for Albinoni
  • Seis Manuel (from Islas y Montañas)
  • Patapan

Holly Harrison

  • And Whether Pigs Have Wings
  • Splinter

Brenda Hascall

  • Alexander’s Waltz
  • March Carnival
  • Rocket Launch March
  • The Moon Over Nipomo
  • The Mandalorian
  • Country Apples
  • Giraffes in Space
  • The Quack Quack March
  • Hanerot Halalu A Song for Hanukkah
  • Forever Free
  • Moonlight in Morro Bay

Sarah Hercsh

  • Truckdance
  • The Upside Down

Jennifer Higdon

  • Fanfare Ritmico
  • Rhythm Stand
  • Blue cathedral
  • Mysterium
  • Road Stories
  • Percussion Concerto
  • Soprano Sax Concerto
  • Machine
  • Aspire

Kelly’s Field


Cindy Hill

  • Medieval Knights
  • Speed Skate

Heather Hoefle

  • Tenacity
  • Listen To Me
  • All Will Be Well
  • I Saw Three Ships

Christina Huss

  • Bamboo Warrior
  • Forevermore
  • As a River Flows
  • Remembering Pearl Harbor


Nubia Jamie Donjuan

  • Little Mexican Suite
  • Monarch Migration
  • Tundra
  • Sahuaro

Rebecca G Jarvis

  • Dancing in the Rain
  • Defiance!
  • A Tom Sawyer Portrait
  • Caprice for Winds and Percussion
  • The Toymaker’s Workshop
  • Finding My Way

Jennifer Jolley

  • The Eyes of the World Are upon You
  • Questions to Heaven
  • Never Forget, Never Remember
  • March!
  • Lichtweg/Lightway
  • Dust
  • Ash
  • Dune Aurora
  • The Walkup

Erin Keeton-Howard

  • Woman
  • Mischief, Magic, Mayhem

Liz Lane

  • Hall of Memory
  • Silver Rose

Valerie Laney-Rowe

  • Contrails
  • Victorious

Libby Larsen

  • An Introduction to the Moon
  • Hambone

Jamie Leigh Sampson

  • Ships’ Passing

Tania Leon
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Catherine Likhuta

  • Home Away From Home
  • Planet B
  • The Last Flight Out
  • Bury and Rise

Erin Lilliefors

  • Perilous Seas
  • Flight

Karlin Love

  • Walking in the Labyrinth
  • Musings on a Bach Sarabande

Sally Lamb McCune

  • Pocket
  • High Water Rising

Anne McGinty

  • To Keep Thine Honor Bright
  • Atlantis
  • Variations and Theme for Solo Flute and Symphonic Band
  • Kokopelli

Catherine McMichael

  • Lewis and Clark
  • Cape Brenton Postcard

Cindy McTee

  • Timepiece
  • Notezart
  • Soundings
  • Finish Line

Shirley Mier

  • Steampunk Overture
  • Maiden Voyage
  • Holden Village Vespers
  • Of Lakes and Legends

Isabella Morrill

  • Voyage of the Northern Lights
  • Forever In The Wind

Philomena Nesci

  • Sunset on Loon Lake
  • Strawberry Patch

Deon Nielsen Price

  • Dancing on the Brink of the World
  • Clariphonia

Cait Nishimura

  • Chasing Sunlight
  • Beneath the Canopy
  • Wilderness
  • Intrinsic Light
  • The Nature of Trees
  • Breath of the Mountains
  • Echoes of a Northern Lake
  • Night Light
  • Boreal Pines
  • Golden Hour
  • The Nature of Trees

Yukiko Nishimura

  • Winter Milky Way
  • Flying Away
  • Ancient Flower
  • Scenes from Citizen 13660
  • Sweet New Moon
  • Northern Lights
  • Falling Water

Tania Owens

  • Obi Dancing
  • Soran Bushi

Nicole Piunno

  • Postcard from Sequoia
  • Autumn Air
  • Sunflower Studies
  • Blue Radiance
  • Wilderness of Mirrors
  • In the Depths of Winter

Nova Pon

  • Tilting Sunward
  • SpaceShipOne

Florence Price
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Augusta Read Thomas

  • Crackle
  • Magneticfireflies
  • Dancing Galaxy
  • Carnival

Andrea Reinkemeyer

  • Thank-you notes
  • Hustle and Bustle
  • Smoulder
  • Dos Danzas

Elena Roussanova

  • Contemplation
  • Tatarian Dances

Jessica Rudman

  • Through the Looking Glass
  • A November Night

Kathryn Salfelder

  • Cathedrals
  • Ungrounded Base
  • Stylus Phantasticus

Alex Shapiro

  • Lights Out
  • Tight Squeeze
  • Homecoming
  • Suspended
  • Breathe
  • Trains of Thought
  • Slump
  • Airborne
  • Paper Cut
  • Passages

Amber Sheeran

  • Watercolors Fading
  • A Crown of Violets
  • A Thousand Single Snowflakes
  • Found in A Gardener’s Shed
  • Roll for Initiative
  • Ghost Town

Elena Specht

  • Scenes from Home
  • To New and Old Places
  • Rip Van Winkle: Concertino for Tuba and Band
  • Three Places in the West

Lori Sutherland

  • With Joyful Abandon
  • The Monk's Turned Topsy-Turvy

Erika Svanoe

  • The Haunted Carousel
  • Echoes
  • Springtime Ride
  • Tutued Toucan Can-Can
  • The Town Band
  • She Dares, She Leaps
  • Clocktower Fanfare
  • Determined Hearts
  • The Author’s Suite
  • Bolérobot
  • Band of Heroes

Germaine Tailleferre

  • Marche Pour Harmonie ou Fanfare

Cynthia Van Maanen

  • Elegy for Our Children
  • Three Gossips

Megan Vinther

  • Who Sings When Skies are Grey
  • Brigid of Kildare
  • Nisqually Glacier Views
  • Farallones
  • Central Park Waltz
  • Shine Kindly Here

Amy Webb

  • Klezmer!
  • Voyage of Endurance
  • Bullet Train
  • Partay!

Diane Whitacre

  • Child’s Storybook
  • Heartland OVerture

Mattea Williams

  • One Magnificent Light
  • The Miragecaster

Neille Williams

  • Things That Float And Fall
  • Scary Clown Theme

Haley Woodrow

  • In Two Places
  • March of the Shadows
  • Tapestries
  • Life Unto The Age
  • For Old Times’ Sake
  • This, That, and the Other

Chen Yi

  • Spring Festival
  • Dragon Rhyme
  • Wind

 

Updated through 2026 posts.  March 20, 2026