The country’s two most esteemed orchestras achieve 50% female representation for new compositions as years of lobbying, quotas and mentorship pay off
the number of female composers, sound artists and improvising performers in Australia was about 26%. But still very few women were obtaining commissions by orchestras, despite the fact that arguably Australia’s most internationally recognised composers – Lim, Mary Finsterer and Elena Kats-Chernin – are all women.
The long-overdue equal representation in the Australian repertoire of the country’s two oldest and largest symphonic ensembles is part of a wider global trend in the wake of #MeToo, and a trickledown effect from proactive programs such as the Composing“It’s about changing the conversation,” the composer says. “To start saying, you know it’s pretty weird when there are no women around, recognising that absence is not normal.
The report’s co-author, RMIT associate professor Catherine Stone, said the research pointed to a “fundamental mismatch” between the sexes on how they viewed their profession. “Even [male] composers who are willing to acknowledge and discuss gender inequality issues in the industry find it somewhat difficult to reconcile their understanding of this with their own involvement and beliefs about equality,” the report found.
“If a lot of work is handed out and connections made to people in social spaces, and you are somebody who … can’t go out to those social activities , then often you just get left out.”
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