Recordings and Media

Check out these recordings and photos from past Festivals and our Documentary!

From our 2021 Virtual Festival, here is String Quartet No. 7: dust motes floating in light by Composer-in-Residence Melika M. Fitzhugh, as premiered by Ensemble-in-Residence, the Craft Ensemble. Click here for complete program notes, as well as information about our 2021 Composer- and Ensemble-in-Residence.

Melika M. Fitzhugh:
String Quartet No. 7: dust motes floating in light

Craft Ensemble:
Amy Sims and Colleen Brannen, violin
Amelia Hollander Ames, viola
Velleda Miragias, cello

Six Japanese Songs, Margaret Garwood (1927-2015)
Pioneer Women: From Skagway to White Mountain, Barbara Harbach (b. 1946)
Whistling Hens: Jennifer Piazza-Pick, soprano; Natalie Groom, clarinet; Ying-Shan Su, piano
Recorded live at Gruss Hall, Trinity College.
Photos from Michael Zager.

Dr. Amy Zigler
Dana Kaufman
Mortyakova/Bogdan Duo
Liz Miller, Keynote
April Kim
Dr. Wanda Brister
Prism Trio
The Whistling Hens
Deborah Beers
Kakia Gkoudina and Kendra Wheeler
Elizabeth Capra
Kirsten Lies-Warfield
Katherine Loo
Choir Matrix
The Fitzhugh Trio
Michelle Fiertek
The Belter Murphy Duo
Joshua Perry
Misty Theisen and Jennifer Bryant-Pedersen
UCONN Collegium
Jill Moran with The Nouveau Classical Project
Jennifer Jolley
Nouveau Classical Project
Jennifer Jolley
Jennifer Jolley with The Nouveau Classical Project
Jennifer Jolley
Nouveau Classical Project
Nouveau Classical Project

See the full 2019 gallery from photographer Michael Zager.

Women Composers Festival of Hartford Documentary

Produced by Liz Bologna, Penny Brandt, Raisa Bonnet, and Rique Colón.
Directed by Raisa Bonnet

Lythraceae: Punica Granatum for Piano Trio, by Melikah M. Fitzhugh
Oblivious for Piano Trio, by Melika M. Fitzhugh
Fitzhugh Trio: Stan Antonevich, violin; Anna Seda violoncello; Melinda Fields, piano
Recorded live at Gruss Hall, Trinity College.
Photos from Michael Zager.

F I X E D HbeaRt by Niloufar Nourbakhsh
Sugar Vendil, piano
Recorded live at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.
Photos from Michael Zager.

Grace Carver (UConn) asked Penny Brandt, former Artistic Director of the WCFH, why the festival celebrates the music of women composers.

You Are Not Alone by Jennifer Jolley. Text by Scott Woods.
Performed by the Nouveau Classical Project.
Recorded live at Asylum Hill Congregational Church.
Commissioned by The Johnstone Fund for New Music and the WCFH.
Photos from Michael Zager.

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