the project.
Pianists Sandra Mogensen and Erica Sipes have known each other on Twitter for more than a decade. When they finally met in person in early 2020, they decided to pursue their shared interest in helping people explore the world of piano music composed by women.
In order to make it easy to find this repertoire, they have sorted through the entirety of the great online resource, IMSLP, and have compiled the PMSW Directory. This online guide provides access to thousands of scores of pieces composed by women and information about each composer. In tandem with the PMSW Directory, these two pianists are building a resource of videos of this repertoire on their YouTube channel.
In addition, you can now purchase our first two anthologies of piano music at the Early Elementary and Late Elementary levels. Please click here to read more.
What others are saying
about the project
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The Collaborative piano blog
With the current momentum to make the repertoire more inclusive, never has there been as much interest in the music of women composers as there is now. However, it's often hard to find properly curated sources of works in order to choose the right pieces to perform or teach - where does one look?
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Musedu
Piano Music She Wrote is a project which helps us explore the world of piano music composed by women. Pianists Erica Sipes and Sandra Mogensen have sorted through IMSLP to compile their PMSW Directory – a spreadsheet which gives access to thousands of piano pieces. In addition, they are building a resource of videos of this repertoire on YouTube.