Women Composing

a celebration through the centuries to the present


Laura Pettigrew (born 1954)

Laura Pettigrew is a Canadian composer who received a Bachelor of Music and Master of Music in Composition from the University of Regina (Saskatchewan). She plays the flute and the flute figures in many of her compositions.

This is an evocative work for flute and piano called Echoes on Deception Lake:

This is an ochestral work entitled Dòchas, which is Scotch Gaelic for “hope”: