Athena Festival is a biennial event celebrating women in music. The festival is sponsored by the Department of Music at

Murray State University Murray State University (MSU) is a public university in Murray, Kentucky. In addition to the main campus in Calloway County in southwestern Kentucky, Murray State operates extended campuses offering upper level and graduate courses in Paducah, H ...

in Murray, Kentucky. The Athena festival strives to promote women composers and inspire young women with their musical aspirations In 2011, The Athena festival helped create the first all women 60x60 mix named after the festival. The 60x60 Athena Mix was curated and coordinated by

Sabrina Peña Young Sabrina Peña Young is an American composer and percussionist. Early life Young grew up in South Florida, the daughter of Dominican and Cuban parents. She spent her early years performing in orchestras, alternative bands, and avant-garde ens ...

. The theme of the 2013 Athena Festival is "Breaking Barriers—Finding Her Own Voice."

Featured Scholars and Composers

*1999 Karin Pendle and Barbara Harbach-George *2001

Adrienne Fried Block Adrienne is the French feminine form of the male name Adrien. Its meaning is literally "from the city Hadria." * Adrienne Albert (born 1941), composer * Adrienne Ames (1907–1947), American actress * Adrienne Armstrong (born 1969), wife of Gr ...

and

Barbara Honn Barbara may refer to: People * Barbara (given name) * Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter * Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer * Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously as ...

*2003 Judith Tick, Peggy Seeger, and Sara Carina Graf *2005 Nancy B. Reichand and

Lori Laitman Lori Laitman is an American composer who has composed multiple operas, choral works, and over 300 songs. Life Laitman was born in Long Beach, New York, in 1955.

*2007

Helen Walker-Hill Helen Walker-Hill (née Siemens; May 26, 1936 – August 8, 2013) was a Canadian pianist and musicologist who specialised in the music of black women composers. Walker-Hill was married to the composer George Walker from 1960 to 1975. The mar ...

*2009 Judith Lang Zaimont *2013 Gwyneth Walker

References

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Athena Festival
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