Whistling Hens was founded by soprano Jennifer Piazza-Pick and clarinetist Natalie Groom to perform and commission music by women composers and create a financially and artistically equitable future for women in music. Inspired by quote by a male music critic who said of Lili Boulanger in 1918, "women composers are at best whistling hens,” the duo was hatched. From 2018 to 2022, Whistling Hens has commissioned twelve works, seven transcriptions, and a women composer coloring book, as well as performed fifteen premieres. In meeting people around the world, the Hens have noticed that it is rare that anyone can think of more than a handful of women composers, and they seek to change this through targeted programming and educational outreach that empowers listeners to reflect on the impact male privilege has had on traditional music programming and question the status quo of gender inequality in the classical music community. Learn more at whistlinghens.com.