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Recorded at the Isabel Bader Centre for the Performing Arts in Kingston, Ontario, Canada, this album highlights the balance of musical ingenuity and brilliance of female composers of colour including Florence Price, Montague Ring (Amanda Aldridge), Chiquinha Gonzaga, Estelle Ricketts, and L. Viola Kinney. Each are celebrated as leading figures for their respective artistry as a composers, performers, and pedagogues, while heavily influencing the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.
Description
Herstory: Solo Piano Works from Female Composers of Colour represents the sixth commercial recording by pianist Luke Welch in addition to Northern Magnolias: Robert Nathaniel Dett Piano Works, Samuel Coleridge-Taylor Piano Works, The Return: Beethoven and Schumann, Crossing Borders, and The Universal Language. This album features a full program of solo piano works by a collection of prominent female composers including Montague Ring (Amanda Aldridge), Florence Price, Chiquinha Gonzaga, Estelle Ricketts, and L. Viola Kinney. This album officially released on Friday, June 19, 2026.
The program includes:
Florence Price:
– Etude
– Memory Mist
Chiquinha Gonzaga:
– Atraente
– Granta Esperanca
– Sultana
-Walkyria
Montague Ring (Amanda Aldridge):
– Four Moorish Pictures: An Eastern Suite
– T’Chaka: African Suite
L. Viola Kinney
– Mother’s Sacrifice
Estelle Ricketts
– Rippling Spring Waltz
