Wiki Category: Women Composers

Gould, Elizabeth

Gould Hochman, Elizabeth United States
(b 8 Mar 1904; d Toledo OH, Feb 1995)
Six Affinities 1962
American Music Center ’

Gotkovsky, Ida

Gotkovsky, Ida France
(b Calais, 26 Aug 1933)
Brass Quintet (Quintette de Cuivres) 1993
COMPOSER ’

Gomez, Alice

1960, San Antonio, TX
American composer

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • Salsa Metalica for brass quintet
  • Hydra for brass quintet
  • Jazz it! for brass quintet
  • El Huapango Guango for brass quintet
  • Fanfare for the Forgotten Empire for brass ensemble
  • Reincarnation and Dance for brass ensemble
Biography

Alice Gomez has served as Composer-In‐Residence with the award winning San Antonio Symphony, the Midland‐Odessa Symphony, the Performing Arts Center of Gallup, New Mexico, and the Guadalupe Cultural Arts Center, a renowned Chicano music and arts center in Texas. Gomez has received numerous composer awards from the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers. Internationally recognized for her concert music, compositions, musical talent and creativity, Gomez’s contributions to a multitude of musical genres is widely acclaimed.

Currently, Gomez’s compositions are used at many institutions of higher learning, elite universities, and schools of musical study around the world. Her current work is in symphony, ballet, opera and underscoring for film and drama. Gomez also continues to compose chamber music instrumental and choral collections that are unique in the cultural aspect that only Gomez can provide.

References

Alice Gomez Official Website

Glatz, Helen (Sinclair)

(b Durham, 13 Mar 1908; d Devon, 15 Jun 1996)
English composer and pianist

Works for brass ensemble
  • Essex Suite (1935) for brass band
  • Fanfare (1967) for brass
  • Suite (1968) for brass quintet
Biography

Helen Sinclair Glatz was an English composer who studied with Vaughan Williams, Gordon Jacob, and Sir Charles Groves at the Royal College of Music. She was the first woman to receive the College’s Albert Memorial Medal for Composition and won a scholarship to go to Hungary to study with Zoltan Kodaly and Sándor Végh. She married the linguist Wolf Glatz in Hungary and remained there for the duration of the Second World War.

Following the death of her husband in 1952 she joined the staff at Dartington Hall in Totnes, where she taught piano, percussion, accompanied choirs, conducted, and worked closely with Imogen Holst and Sir William Glock. She played as a ballet rehearsal pianist for Marie Rambert, and also took the time to further her percussion studies with James Blades, who gave her his prized side drum. Her pupils included bassoon and oboe player Lindsay Cooper, symphonic composer Philip Sawyers, Benjamin Britten’s music assistant (after Imogen Holst) Rosamund Strode (1927-2010), and organist John Wellingham.

Glatz stayed at Dartington for the rest of her life, living in a cottage on the estate and receiving an honorary fellowship in 1995.

She composed chamber music, brass ensemble and percussion music, solo pieces and theatre music. Her Elegy for violin and strings, originally written for Dartington Hall founder Leonard Elmhirst, was performed on tour by the Goldberg Ensemble in 1990 and also played at Dartington in 1994 to celebrate his centenary. Other works include three children’s ballets, a choral cantata and two psalm settings.

Glatz would write Christmas music for Dartington every year. Her Five Carols Without Words for wind quintet gained some popularity after the 1958 Festival and became her best known work, and one of the few to be published.

The music of hers that is most often heard today is her 1930 arrangement for strings of Vaughan Williams’ Hymn-tune Prelude on Song 13 by Orlando Gibbons, originally written for the pianist Harriet Cohen. The arrangement was recorded by Richard Hickox and the London Symphony Orchestra in 1999. The only other work of hers to be recorded is her 1967 Fanfare.

Gifford, Helen

Gifford, Helen Australia
(b Hawthorn, 5 Sep 1935)
Going South 1987
Australian Music Centre 20’

Gates, Dorothy

Irish-born American composer and trombonist

Works for Brass Ensemble
  • Are you Washed (1987) for brass ensemble
  • Five for Five (1994) for brass quintet
  • Between Friends (2003) for brass quintet
  • Another World (2009) for brass quintet
  • Hope (2013) for brass ensemble
  • A Christmas Fanfare (2016) for brass ensemble
  • State of Mind (2017) for brass ensemble
  • Breathe (2018) for brass quintet
  • A Sea Suite (2020) for brass quintet
Biography

Dorothy Gates was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Like her fellow countryman, George Bernard Shaw, she believes in the power of art to see your soul and transform the world. Dorothy received her Bachelor of Music degree in Composition and Trombone Performance from Queens University Belfast, Master of Music degree in Trombone Performance from the University of Michigan and her PhD in Composition from the University of Salford. Her principal composition teachers were Kevin Volans, George Wilson, Joseph Turrin and Peter Graham.

Dorothy has produced works in many genres. Brandywine Brass commissioned and premiered the brass quintet A Sea Suite in Delaware in February 2020; the New York Philharmonic Brass & Percussion premiered the Brass Ensemble version of The Holly & the Ivy with trombone soloist Wycliffe Gordon in December 2019; the US Army Band “Pershings Own,” recently premiered the Concert Band version of Servant of Peace – Concerto for Trombone, with Soloist Dr. Natalie Mannix (Professor University North Texas) at the American Trombone Workshop in Arlington, Virginia in March 2018.

References

Dorothy Gates Official Website