The Bafta-winning film has helped increase visibility of women in conducting, but I long for the day when my presence on the podium won’t be remarked on
’ve lost track of the number of times I’ve been asked my thoughts on the filmthese last few weeks. It seems as if everyone wants to know what it’s really like to be a woman in conducting, and how I feel about the abusive fictional character causing a stir on cinema screens across the globe.
Things are slowly improving, but as a woman in this field, I still feel like an outlier. I’m currently the only female student on the postgraduate choral conducting course at the Royal Academy of Music, and throughout my musical education, my conducting teachers have been only men. Such comments might be intended to be constructive, but I find it difficult to respond. No matter how I conduct, I’m always going to look like a woman. In all honesty, I’m still grappling with what it means to be both feminine and a conductor. Historically speaking, conducting is a man’s world: a profession that was created and defined by men.
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