Board of Directors

Karla Hartl
Eugene Gates
Kass Sunderji

Advisory Committee

Jindra Bartova
Michael Beckerman
Timothy Cheek
Erik Entwistle
Eugene Gates
Judith Mabary
Odaline de le Martinez
Jan Smaczny

Mission

The Kapralova Society is a Canadian music society and non-profit publisher founded in 1998 in Toronto by Karla Hartl. The Society's mission is to raise awareness of women's contributions to musical life and to promote the music of Czech composer Vitezslava Kapralova (1915-1940). To this end, the Society publishes research on Kapralova and other women in music in its open access journal, special publications, and on its website, and assists projects that make Kapralova's music available in print and on record (premiere recordings and composer profile releases).

The Kapralova Society is an associate member of the IAWM.

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Journal

Kapralova Society Journal (since 2003)

Books

Kapralova: Collected Correspondence vol. 1 (2015)
Kapralova: Collected Correspondence vol. 2 (2016)
Kapralova: Collected Correspondence vol. 3 and 4 (2017)
The Women in Music Anthology (2021)
Kauza Kapralova v dobove korespondenci a dokumentech. 2nd edn. (2024)
Vitezslava Kapralova: Thematic Catalogue of the Works (2024). Coming soon.

co-published with Czech Radio:
Vitezslava Kapralova: Tematicky katalog skladeb a korespondence s nakladateli (vol.5) (2020)

co-published with Klic Books:
Kauza Kapralova v dobove korespondenci a dokumentech. 1st. edn. (2021)

Sheet music

Kapralova Edition: Pisnicka (Little Song) for piano (2011)
Kapralova Edition: Maticce (To Mom) for three children's voices (2015)
Kapralova Edition: Fanfare for two horns, two trumpets and timpani (2015)
Kapralova Edition: Festive Fanfare for piano (2016)
Kapralova Edition: Dance for Piano (2020)

Tyrrell Edition: Theme and Variations (2021)
Tyrrell Edition: Grosse Sonate (2021; revised ed. 2022)

in partnership with Czech Radio, Baerenreiter, and Amos Editio:

Kapralova Edition: Prelude de Noel (2002)
Kapralova Edition: Deux ritournelles pour violoncelle et piano (2003)
Kapralova Edition: Concertino for Violin, Clarinet and Orchestra(2003)
Kapralova Edition: Military Sinfonietta (2005)
Kapralova Edition: Songs for voice and piano. COMPLETE EDITION (2005)
Kapralova Edition: Leden (January) for soprano/tenor, flute, two violins, violoncello and piano (2005)
Kapralova Edition: Partita (2006)
Kapralova Edition: Sonata Appassionata (2006)
Kapralova Edition: Compositions for violin and piano. COMPLETE EDITION (2009)
Kapralova Edition: Three Piano Pieces and Grotesque Passacaglia (2010)
Kapralova Edition: Five Piano Pieces (2011)
Kapralova Edition: Sad Evening for soprano/tenor and piano (2011)
Kapralova Edition: Tales of a Small Flute (2014)
Kapralova Edition: Piano Concerto in D Minor (2014)
Kapralova Edition: Sad Evening for soprano/tenor and orchestra (2016)
Kapralova Edition: Suita rustica for large orchestra (2017)
Kapralova Edition: Suite en miniature for small orchestra (2018)
Kapralova Edition: Two Choruses for women's voices a cappella (2019)
Kapralova Edition: 'To Karel Capek' for violin, piano and reciter (2022)-2nd, revised edition
Kapralova Edition: String Quartet (2022)-2nd, revised edition
Kapralova Edition: Waving Farewell for voice and orchestra (2023)

Recordings

CD Tribute to Vita Kapralova (2016)
CD Kapralova: Two Choruses for Women's Voices (2023)

in collaboration with recording artists/ensembles and/or in partnership with Naxos, CPO, Koch, Supraphon, and Czech Radio:

CD Kapralova: Portrait of a Composer (1998)
CD Forever Kapralova: Songs (2003)
CD Hudbaby 1 (2003)
CD Martinu: Piano Works (2004)
CD Jezkova: Yellow-Red Poster (2007)
CD Music of Vitezslava Kapralova (2008)
CD Women of Firsts (2008)
CD Hudbaby 2 "I Am Awaiting You" (2009)
CD Kapralova-Martinu: Preludium (2010)
CD Valtova Kosinova: Meeting Point (2010)
CD Kapralova: Piano Concerto and Other Works for Keyboard (2011)
CD Kapral-Kapralova-Martinu: String Quartets (2012)
CD Kapralova: Complete Piano Music (2017)
CD Waving Farewell (2021)
CD La Vita: Leonie Karatas plays Vitezslava Kapralova (2022)
CD Things Lived and Dreamt (2023)
CD Piccolo Legends (2023)
CD Vitezslava Kapralova: The Completed Orchestral Works (2024)

World premiere performances

in partnership with Janacek Academy of Music and University of Michigan:
Ilena (2007)
Fanfare for two horns, two trumpets and timpani (2015)

Radio

CBC (Canada): In Performance: Vitezslava Kapralova (2001)
Radio Vara (the Netherlands): Componist van de Week (2007)
Radio Slovenija (Slovenia): Zenske v svetu glasbe (2010)
BBC (United Kingdom): Composer of the Week: Vitezslava Kapralova (2015)
Czech Radio (Czech Republic): Kontexty: Vitezslava Kapralova (2018)
Czech Radio (Czech Republic): Akademie: The Kapralova Society: The 20th Anniversary (2018)
Czech Radio (Czech Republic): Vizitka (2022)
Czech Radio (Czech Republic): Radiodokument (2022)

Television and film

in collaboration with Amazon:
Mozart in the Jungle, episodes 6 and 9 of the Season 3 of the award winning television series (2016)

in collaboration with EuroArts:
1-hour television documentary "Bugatti: The Czech Musical Avant-Garde between the World Wars" (release 2024)

in partnership with Cinepoint:
Feature-length documentary KAPRALOVA (theatrical release 2025)

Readers' Theater

in partnership with Prague Symphony, Prague Philharmonia, Kapralova Quartet, and ArcoDiva:
Z listu Vitezslavy Kapralove (2019) (2020) (1921) (1924)

Online projects

Women in Music (1998-to date)

Competition prizes and/or entry fee subsidies (discontinued)

The Kapralova Society Award (2011, 2013, 2015); entry fee subsidies (2021–2022)




contact: society[at]kapralova[dot]org