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French female composer in a male dominated world
19-2-2019
In its issue of today, An Nahar newspaper spotlighted 28-year-old French musician, Camille Pepin, a woman composer in a field almost totally male-dominated with a small margin for females. Pepin will reportedly release her first album ‘Chamber Music’ on February 22 and is preparing her first ballet music, at a time when female shares in concert programs around the world is almost negligible. In an interview with AFP, Pepin said sexist remarks never bothered her, yet she is appalled by the prevalence of gender stereotyping in the music world. Pepin stressed in a statement that she is well aware it will take generations to counterbalance decades of desertion. “There were only men and I was the only woman in the classes I attended at the Conservatoire de Paris,” she said, adding, “I survived despite some bitter memories.” She pointed out that things are slowly evolving and young instructors are coming to the conservatoire, hoping one day this question will not arise again. (An Nahar, February 19, 2019)
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