impulsradio #4 – celebrating Womens‘ Day: an hour of young female composers

The fourth episode in our series is dedicated to showcasing female musical talents. Even though many advancements have already been made to change the male-occupied role model of the classical music composer, women are still underrepresented in contemporary music festivals and music academies. With this hour of exciting new compositions by young female composers of the impuls academy 2025, we want to draw attention to the fact that there are a lot of talents to discover, and women in music are going strong! Tune in and enjoy!

Playlist:

Athanasia Kontou – unedited
Jieun Lee – frog manslaughter
Katya Shirshkova – transition spaces

Shiwei Liu – Yu-un for 5 instruments
Milica Modra – Glaciers
Gaia Aloisi – della pace interrotta

host: Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka

The impulsradio series is curated by Margarethe Maierhofer-Lischka, member of Ensemble Schallfeld, with music and statements from people of the impuls community. It is a cooperation project between Radio Helsinki and impuls.