Ensemble Altera

Feminine Voices Recording

As a way to say thank you for any past and future contributions to our Feminine Voices crowdfunder, donors who can give $100+ will be entered into a raffle for several great prizes!

RAFFLE PRIZES (limit one prize per donor) A physical copy of our Lamb's Journey CD, sent to you - a gift of at least $100.

Two complimentary VIP tickets to one of our upcoming Feminine Voices concerts in Providence and Cambridge - a gift of at least $250.

A private dinner with director Christopher Lowrey - a gift of at least $1000.

Feminine Voices is a groundbreaking recording project almost three years in the making. It will feature the upper voices of Ensemble Altera and the exquisite artistry of harpist Li Shan Tan. Music by women composers has until very recently, shamefully, been a relative rarity in classical music. We applaud and wish to amplify the ongoing movement to redress this imbalance. To that end, our program includes music by eight different women: Hildegard von Bingen, Imogen Holst, Germaine Tailleferre, Cecilia McDowall, Joanna Marsh, Barbara Strozzi, Elizabeth Poston, as well as a new commission for Ensemble Altera by Kerensa Briggs. The cherry on top is Benjamin Britten's beloved Ceremony of Carols, a work largely reserved for boys' choirs these days, but originally written for the women of the Fleet Street Choir. Our version will restore Britten's original vision. The music is a kaleidoscope that makes the perfect backdrop for the changing of the seasons, as we move from the stark beauty of autumn into the wondrous period of winter to follow.

$9,738 raised

97% of $10,000 goal · 37 supporters