Events › Women Composers for Women's History Month

Join us as we celebrate women composers with this performance by pianist/composer Amy Wurtz.

A fervent advocate for new music and the community that surrounds it, Amy Wurtz is a performer, composer, conductor and curator of new music based in Chicago. She was Curatorial Director of the 2025 Ear Taxi Festival, has been commissioned by Access Contemporary Music and the Chicago Composers’ Orchestra, among others, and has recorded three albums. Amy has lived and worked in California, throughout the Midwest, South America and Europe. In addition to composing and curation, she is Associate Professor of Composition at Elmhurst University and in demand as a solo pianist, chamber and choral musician, conductor, teaching artist, and collaborative pianist.

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Photo by Alain Milotti.