Cat Hope

Press/Media: Profile/Interview

Description

Professor Cat Hope is Head of the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music at Monash University. She's also a composer and noise artist and her recent Peggy Glanville Hicks lecture on women's participation in music at all levels makes sobering reading. She crunches the hard data - about the gender pay gap, men's over-representation in leadership positions, female composers' under-representation in concert programs and so on. But there's progress afoot says Hope and she'll outline the positive news on today's Music Show. And discuss her new opera Speechless, about children in immigration detention.

Includes broacast of the following music by Hope

Music heard during this interview:

Track Title: Cruel and Usual
Artist: Atticus String Quartet
Composer: Hope 
CD Title: Ephemeral Rivers
Label: hat[now]ART 200

Track Title: Sogno 102
Artist: Decibel
Composer: Hope
CD Title: Ephemeral Rivers
Label: hat[now]ART 200

Period8 Dec 2018

Media contributions

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Media contributions

  • TitleCat Hope
    Degree of recognitionInternational
    Media name/outletABC FM Radio
    Media typeRadio
    Duration/Length/Size30 minutes
    Country/TerritoryAustralia
    Date8/12/18
    DescriptionProfessor Cat Hope is Head of the Sir Zelman Cowan School of Music at Monash University. She's also a composer and noise artist and her recent Peggy Glanville Hicks lecture on women's participation in music at all levels makes sobering reading. She crunches the hard data - about the gender pay gap, men's over-representation in leadership positions, female composers' under-representation in concert programs and so on. But there's progress afoot says Hope and she'll outline the positive news on today's Music Show. And discuss her new opera Speechless, about children in immigration detention.
    Producer/AuthorThe Music SHow/Penny Lomax
    URLhttps://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/musicshow/cat-hope-peggy-glanville-hicks-gender-women+music/10588790
    PersonsCat Hope
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Keywords

  • australian music
  • gender
  • opera
  • animated notation

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