Carola Darwin combines a career as an ‘accomplished soprano’ (The Times) with research and writing about music.
Carola Darwin combines a career as an ‘accomplished soprano’ (The Times) with research and writing about music
UPCOMING: Darwin College Lecture Series
Hearing Her Voice: Women Musicians in Vienna 1900
Recent projects express her fascination with the history of women in music and her parallel interest in musical responses to the current environmental crisis:
The Other Voice: women’s musical creativity in Alma Mahler’s Vienna
Forthcoming book with Equinox.
Hearing Her Voice
CD of songs and solo piano music by women composers from Vienna 1900, Johanna Müller-Hermann and Mathilde Kralik, with pianist Marie-Noëlle Kendall.
Endless Forms Most Beautiful
Endless Forms Most Beautiful by Cheryl-Frances Hoad. A song cycle for soprano and string quartet to texts on evolution and the environment. Commissioned with Funds from the Arts Council and premièred at the Oxford Lieder Festival with the Gildas Quartet in 2019.
Publication
Chapters on the composer and conductor Odaline de la Martinez in The Routledge Guide to Women’s Musical Leadership (2024) and the composer Elizabeth Maconchy in Maconchy in Context (CUP, 2026).
