I start by thanking our Lazio Region, and especially Prof. Claude Scheiber and his staff here in Bruxelles, together with my dear friend, Honourable Silvia Costa, without whose help today's event would have been an impossible dream. Thank you Marie Paule Roudel, a long time friend from UNESCO, who is here with us today and to all the experts who have given their time and experience to prepare the Draft Recommendation. I also wish to greet the Mayor of Fiuggi,…

Good morning! The person talking to you is what the Italian tax authorities consider a "lavoratrice atipica" (Atypical worker). In actual fact I am a professional musician and musicologist and the President of the international Fondazione Adkins Chiti: Donne in Musica (Women in Music) with a network of over 41 thousand women composers in all fields in 109 countries. Our central role to promote and empower women composers, songwriters and creators of music has been recognized by UNESCO, by ECOSOC…

Thank you, many many times, Silvia Costa, Italian MEP and Rapporteur for the Creative Europe Programme 2014-2020. There is now a new tool with which to combat discrimination for women in music and the Performing Arts: “European Keychanges for Women in Music and the Performing Arts”. This book, with support from the “Group of the Progressive Alliance of the Socialists and Democrats in the European Parliament”, is dedicated to the unsung heroines in music and the performing arts, those who…

Each project is born from an initial idea. In 1978 Donne in Musica was born thanks to the intuition of internationally renowned musician and musicologist Patricia Adkins Chiti. For 35 years the Foundation, thanks to a growing network of 108 countries, carries out a mission that - despite much progress – is always very essential for the entire world of music: the necessity of removing all gender discrimination and inequality for all women who create and compose music. This section…

 Mozart e le Donne di P. Adkins Chiti Celebrazioni in Onore di Santa Brigida di P. Adkins Chiti FELIS MUSICUS – Tra Leggenda ed Ispirazione di P. Adkins Chiti Dal volume "Women and Media in Europe" - Febbraio 2006 - Lo scritto "Lipstick Protest" Convegno Foggia 2004 - P. Adkins Chiti Lettera aperta alle Compositrici Gennaio 2004 Ostinazione Artistica – Le Suore Compositrici Italiane CTS Montevideo 2003 - Presentazione di P. Adkins Chiti CTS Montevideo 2003 - Presentazione di P.…