1. La Fondazione: dal 1978 ad oggi
Women in Music was born in 1978 as a grass roots movement created by opera singer and
musicologist, Patricia Adkins Chiti and became an international non-profit Foundation in 1996. It
promotes and supports women composers, songwriters and music creators of all nationalities through
its network of over 27,000 affiliated organisations, composers, performers, pedagogues, musicologists
and researchers in 113 countries.
Its mission is the “Declaration of Fiuggi”, in 32 languages. It encourages respect for women’s cultural
diversity and creativity in line with the UNESCO 2005 Convention for Cultural Diversity. The
Foundation promotes best practices facilitating the introduction of cultural policies to protect and
promote diversity and capacity-building opportunities.
If music is not performed it is not perceived to exist.
Donne in Musica promotes excellence in contemporary music and encourages intercultural dialogue.
The Foundation’s pioneering role in the affirmation of the concept of the uniqueness of women as
creators of music has been recognized by the Italian government, UNESCO, the EUC, the EUP, the
Arab Academy and UNESCO’s International Council for the Music. Since the seventies it collaborates
with the Vatican and since the nineties with UNESCO and the European Music Council.
The Foundation’s Music library and archives are probably the largest of their kind in the world, with
over 42,000 musical scores and databases for 21,000 composers.
Since 2011 the "1000 orchestras" project has encouraged 87 first perfomances of orchestral works by
women composers. Donne in Musica also runs an online "Encyclopaedia of Living European Women
Composers, Songwriters and Creators of Music" and works with radio and television in 60 countries.
International projects undertaken by the Foundation include 1,480 live concerts with music by 6700
women composers from 79 countries, reaching millions through radio and television streaming.

2. In 2000 for the Grand Jubilee, it presented 147 concerts in cathedrals and churches, two telecasts
worldwide: "Maria Mater Mundi" and "The Jubilee of Artists".
In 2005, for UNESCO’s World Music Forum, Hollywood, it presented "A Celebration of Women in
Music." And in 2006, in Vienna’s Schonbrunn Theatre for the Mozart Celebrations, Maria Teresa
Agnesi Pinottini’s opera, "Ulisse in Campania".
May 2015, in St. Peter's Basilica, saw the presentation of the new "Missa Pro Terrae Humilibus" for the
poor and outcast, commissioned for and dedicated to Pope Frances and with music by ten women
composers from Argentina and Italy.
The Foundation’s advocacy includes participation in international conferences and formulation of
legislative proposals: in 2015 Donne in Musica joined forces with ECSA (European Composer and
Songwriters Association) and presented the EUP with a Recommendation for a directive to protect
and promote composers. Previously it had written “Key Changes for women in Music and the Performing
Arts” for the European Parliament.
Between 1990 and 2015 it was consultant for projects in Austria, Cyprus, Germany, France, Scotland, Spain,
Slovenia, Sweden and Serbia and participated in European Programmes:
2001 - Pyramids ou Pillaires;
2002 - Culture Gates;
2006 - 2009 - Women and Media in Europe; 2008 - Extra;
2009 - Music in Motion;
2011- 2013 -WIMUST (Women in Music Uniting Strategies for Talent);
014 - 2016 - Balkan Female Jazz Artist in Residency programme.
Donne in Musica encourages_
Capacity Building with residence periods in Fiuggi for composers and researchers from every part
of the world:
Research and Publication of books: Since the 1980’s it has researched, written and published 51
books and over 1000 scholarly papers in Italian, English, Arabic, Spanish, German, Turkish, French,
Portuguese, Russian, Croatian, Serbo-Croatian, Greek, Korean and Turkish. (2016 “Donne e Musica in Turchia”
in Turkish, English, (Ed. Bilgi University, Istanbul) e “Le Musiciste del Lazio” (ed Sillabe srl).
Outreach ed inclusione through concerts in theatrs, auditoriums, churches, schools, centres for
the elderly and for mentally disable;
“Music for the Mind”: help for music schools and conservatories in need through the supply of
music, scores, recordings, dvds, books, encyclopaedias;
Custody, catalogation, digitalization e promotion of its own patrimony of over 43 thousand
scores of music by women in all parts of the world, all genres and from the 11th century onwards.

3. Network of women composers, musicologists, researchers, musicians, teachers and
practitioners – those in RED have a Women in Music Organisatiom – often have
more than one
Afghanistan
Alaska
Albania
Algeria
Argentina
Armenia
Australia
Austria
Azerbaijan
Belgium
Belize
Bolivia
Bosnia + Herzegovina
Botswana
Brazil
Bulgaria
Canada
Chile
China
Colombia
Congo
Costa Rica
Croatia
Cuba
Cyprus
Czech Republic
Denmark
Dominican Republic
Ecuador
Egypt
England
Estonia
Finland
France
Georgia
Germany
Ghana
Greece
Guatemala
Haiti
Hong Kong
Hungary
Iceland
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Ireland
Israel
Italy
Jamaica
Japan
Jordan
Kazackistahn
Kenya
South Korea
Kosovo
Kuwait
Latvia
Lebanon
Liechtenstein
Lithuania
Luxembourg
Macedonia
Madagascar
Malaysia
Marocco
Mauritius
Mexico
Moldova
Mongolia
Montenegro
Netherlands
New Zealand
Nigeria
Northern Ireland
Norway
Pakistan
Palestine
Peru
Philippines
Poland
Portugal
Qatar
Romania
Russia
San Marino
Scotland
Senegal
Serbia
Singapore
Slovak Republic
Slovenia
Somalia
South Africa
Spain
Sri Lanka
Sweden
Switzerland
Syria
Taiwan
Tajikistan
Trinidad
Tunisia
Turkey
Ukraine
United Arab Emirates
United States of America
Uruguay
Uzbeckistahn
Venezuela
Wales
Zimbabwe

4. BOOKS AND PUBLICATIONS.
IN PREPARATION
Le Musiciste del Lazio – Creatrici, Muse, Mecenate, Sillabe Editore srl 2016 (dall’Impero Romano ad
Oggi)
La Storia della Sopravivenza Musicale (le suore italiane e la musica), Comune di Fara in Sabina, 2016
Women and Music in Turkey, İstanbul Bilgi University Press, Istanbul, 2016
Jamila e le Altre: la musica delle donne nel Mediterraneo dalla Civiltà Sumerica fino al 1492 contributi
da 17 paesi – previsto per il 2018.
PRINTED
Missa in Terrae Humilibus 2015, Ordinary of the Mass, music by ten Argentinean and Italian women
composers dedicated to Pope Frances, Sillabe Editore srl. 2015
Natale in Musica 2014, anthology of New Music for Christmas for organ, clarinet, accordion and
violoncello by nine women composers, Sillabe Editore srl. 2014
Keynote Changes for Women in Music and the Performing Arts Patricia Adkins Chiti - Introduzione
MEP Silvia Costa - S&D - European Parliament, Bruxelles, 2014
WIMUST – Women in Music Uniting Strategies for Talent - (in 16 lingue) TMR, Roma (2012)
žene i Muzika u Srbiji Women and Music in Serbia, Del Gallo Editore srl, Spoleto (PG) 2011 (Serbian,
Italian, English).
Le Lombarde in Musica Editore Colombo, Roma 2008 (Italian/English)
Jamila e le Altre Colombo, Roma 2007 (Italian, English, Arabic)
Quaderno Numero sei: Donne in Jazz – Women in Jazz Editore Colombo, Roma 2007 (Italian, English)
Quaderno Numero cinque: Music for the Mind – Montenegro e le Donne in Musica. Editore Colombo,
Roma 2007 (Serbo Croatian, Italian, English)
Quaderno Numero quattro: Atti 2005 World Music Forum in Los Angeles Editore Colombo, Roma
2007 (English)
Quaderno Numero tre: Calypso as Instrument of Social Justice, Editore Colombo, Roma 2007 (English)
Ulisse in Campania –Edizione Curci, Milano 2006 (Italian)
Quaderno Numero due: Così fan tutte: le donne creative nell’epoca dei lumi Editore Colombo, Roma
2006 (Italian
Quaderno Numero uno: “In onore di Suor Isabella Leonarda -Le Voci inascoltate delle donne” Editore
Colombo, Roma 2006 (Italian)

5. Women and Media in Europe Editore Colombo, Roma 2005 (Italian /English)
Una Visione Diversa, La Creatività Femminile in Italia tra l’Anno Mille e il 1700 Editore Electa
Mondadori, 2004 (Italian)
Maria Rosa Coccia “Maestra Compositore Romana” Maestro di Cappella in Rome. Editore Colombo,
Roma 2004 (Italian/English)
Messa Virgo Lauretana – MusikFabrik, France, 2004
Las Mujeres en la Musica – las compositoras españolas Alianza Editorial, Madrid 1998 (Spanish)
The Music of the Great Garcias (medium high voice) Alfred Publishing, USA 1997 (English)
The Music of the Great Garcias (medium low voice) Alfred Publishing, USA 1997 (English)
Acts First Symposium “Donne in Musica” Gli Incontri al Borgo 1996 Fiuggi, 1997 (various languages)
Italian Art Songs of the Romantic Era (medium high voice) Alfred Publishing, USA 1996 (English)
Italian Art Songs of the Romantic Era (medium low voice) Alfred Publishing, USA 1996 (English)
Donne in Musica Armando Editore 1996 (Italian)
The Rise and Fall of the Impresario in “Art and Business” Praeger Publishing, Westport, Connecticut,
1996 (English)
Donne in Musica di tre mondi: strade, corti e conventi in “Dame, Draghe e Cavalieri: Medioevo al
Femminile, Atti Convegno Casale Monferrato, Istituto Beni Musicali Piemonte, 1996 (Italian)
Una Voce Poco Fa - Ovvero le musiche delle primedonne rossiniane Garamond Editrice, Roma 1992
(Italian, English)
Donne in Musica Bulzoni Editore 1983 (Italian)
Almanacco delle Virtuose, Primedonne, Compositrici e Musiciste d’Italia dall’AD 177 ai Giorni Nostri
De Agostini Milano 1991 (Italian)
VOLUMES WITH CONTRIBUTIONS FROM FOUNDATION
I Quaderni della Gioventù Musicale - Mozart, Haydn, Schubert, Liszt, Contributo “Mozart and Women”
Edizioni Gioventù Musicale, Metamorfosi Editore, Milano, 2010 (Italian)
Music in Motion: Diversity and Dialogue in Europe Transcript Verlag, Bielefeld, 2009 (English)
Il Genere tra le righe: gli stereotipi nei testi e nei media – Quaderno e CD ROM, Edizioni il paese delle
donne, Roma 2009 (Italian)
Genere e Potere a cura di Simonetta Bisi Bonanno Editore Srl, Acireale – Roma (2008) (Italiano)
Musicus discologus 2 Musiche e scritti per l’80° anno di Carlo Marinelli Edizioni ETS, 2007 (Italian)
Papeles del Festival de Música española de Cádiz, n° 2 Ano 2006, Junta de Andalucia, Consejeria de
Cultura, 2006 (Spanish)

6. The Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women Edinburgh University Press, Edinburgh 2006
Donne Tra Arte, Tradizione e Cultura ed. Il Poligrafo, Palermo 2006 (Italian)
Storia di una Novità: la direzione d’orchestra al femminile Quaderno n° 20 Consiglio Regionale della
Toscana, Firenze 2005 (Italian)
Le Siciliane Editore Emanuele Romeo, Palermo, 2005 (Italian)
Culture-Gates, Exposing professional gate keeping ArCult Media, Bonn, 2004 (English)
La Via della Bellezza, V11 Centenario della nascita di Santa Brigida di Svezia Ord. Santa Brigida, Roma,
2004 (Italian)
Diccionario de Mujeres notables en la Musica cubana Havana Press, Cuba 2004 (Spanish)
Pyramide ou Pilliers - Unveiling the Status of Women in Arts and Media Professions in Europe ArCult
Media, Bonn 2004 (English, French and German)
Soavissima Melodia; Maria Xaveria Peruchona, compositrice del XVII secolo Interlina Edizioni, Novara,
2004 (Italian)
Donne D’Europa, Quali prospettive Luigi Pellegrini Editore, Roma 2003 (Italian)
L’accès des femmes à’ l’expression musicale: Apprentissage, création, interprétation : les musiciennes dans
la société IRCAM/Centre Pompidou L’Harmattan, Paris, 2002 (French)
Tangible and Intangible Dusseldorf, 2000 (English)
The Mezzo Soprano Voice - Frauenstimmen, Frauenrollen in der Oper und Frauenselbstzeugnisse
Munich 1999 (German and English)
International Keyboard Sonata Encyclopaedia Ariago Press, USA, 1987 (English)
International Discography of Women Composers Books and Musica USA 1986 (English)
Insieme per la Pace Commissione Pari Opportunità, Italia 1986 (Italian)
International Encyclopaedia of Women Composers 2° edition Books and Music, USA 1985 (English)
International Encyclopaedia of Women Composers 1° edition Books and Music, USA, 1982 (English)
The Musical Woman Greenwood Press, 1981 (English)
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