Renowned new music pianist Sarah Cahill will perform a concert of music by women composers at 8 p.m.
Monday at Bowling Green State University.
The concert in Bryan Recital Hall at the Moore Musical Arts Center is part of the Music at the Forefront
concert series sponsored by the MidAmerican Center for Contemporary Music. The concert is free and open
to the public.
Cahill, recently described as “a sterling pianist and an intrepid illuminator of the classical
avant-garde” by the New York Times, brings her ongoing project The Future is Female to Bowling Green.

Her project features music by women from around the globe, ranging from the 18th century to the present.
Cahill describes The Future is Female as “a ritual installation and communal feminist immersive
listening experience.” Her programs include music by a wide array of diverse women composers including
Teresa Carreño (Venezuela), Frangiz Ali-Zadeh (Azerbaijan), Žibuoklé Martinaityté (Lithuania), Nina
Makarova (Russia), Chen Yi (China), Vítezslava Kaprálová (Czechoslovakia), and Florence Price (United
States), among many others.
Cahill will also give the premiere performances of Theresa Wong’s “She Dances Naked Under Palm Trees,”
inspired by the song “Images” by Nina Simone, during these concerts. The San Diego Tribune describes
Cahill as “a vessel through which musical ideas can pass, a communicator whose technique is put at the
service of empathy and understanding.” She was named a Champion of New Music by the American Composers
Forum for 2018.
Music at the Forefront is an annual concert series featuring performances by accomplished and innovative
performers of contemporary music.