From June 11-13, the chamber music festival "her*hits" will take place at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, focusing on female song composers from all centuries and from many different nations, celebrating them with concerts and lectures. Ten days later, the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie will present excerpts from the festival program at the HMDK Stuttgart, providing a platform for the still underestimated and all too rarely performed female composers. Three concerts, performed by students from the universities of Stuttgart, Hanover, Salzburg and Nuremberg, show the incredible variety and quality of this music, which simply has to be performed. Dr. Maria Behrendt, junior professor of musicology with a focus on gender studies at the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, will open the Women Composers' Day with a keynote speech. A concluding round table will discuss the question of what needs to happen so that female composers are finally perceived as equals in concert programs.

With students and professors from the music academies in Stuttgart, Hanover, Salzburg and Nuremberg

Songs by Luise Greger, Muriel Herbert, Agathe Backer Grøndahl, Pauline Viardot, Rita Strohl, Josephine Lang, Cecilia Damström, Sara Ross, Riikka Talvitie and many more.

A cooperation between the Hochschule für Musik, Theater und Medien Hannover, the HMDK Stuttgart and the Internationale Hugo-Wolf-Akademie Stuttgart