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Since 1995, the Women’s Sacred Music Project has been advancing women’s achievements in sacred music:

Discovering a broad range of sacred music by women, much of it unpublished.

Publishing women’s sacred music in Voice Found & Leaders Guide to Voices Found.

Commissioning work by women addressing themes of women in Sacred Scriptures.

Presenting concerts of sacred music by women of various religious traditions.

Educating individuals and communities in the rich resources of women’s sacred music.

Resounding Voices: A Hymn Supplement to Voices Found

The Women’s Sacred Music Project is thrilled to announce that for the twentieth anniversary of the hymnal Voices Found,we are partnering with The Hymn Society in the United States and Canada to curate Resounding Voices, a new collection of hymns, songs, and liturgical music by people who identify as women.

Submissions will be accepted beginning on January 1, 2023. The deadline to submit materials is the end of the day, June 1, 2023.

Visit the CALL FOR SCORES for more information and submission guidelines.

Lydia’s Giving Concert

Daylesford Abbey, November 7th, 2022

Download Program HERE.

News

Executive Director, Dr. Edward Latham, nominated for Pauline Alderman Award

 Executive Director, Ted Latham, has been nominated by the International Alliance for Women in Music ( https://iawm.org/ ) for the 2020 Pauline Alderman Award for his recent chapter on Amy Beach’s music, published by Oxford University Press. Amy Beach, “Phantoms,” Op. 15, No. 2 (1892): Analytical Essays on Music by Women Composers: Secular & Sacred Music to …

New Executive Director and Board Member Appointed

At its May 15 meeting, the Board of Directors unanimously and enthusiastically approved Dr. Ted Latham as the new Executive Director of the Women’s Sacred Music Project, and Ms. Lisa Willson DeNolfo as the newest member of the Board. Dr. Latham and Ms. Willson DeNolfo’s bios are reprinted below. Welcome, Ted and Lisa! Dr. Edward …