Flautist Eliza Shephard is not one to do things by halves.

So, when it came to recording the first disc of what is now her five-year, five-part March of the Women project, it was always going to be something lofty.

Eliza Shephard holds up a bass flute.

“It was Valentine’s Day 2020, and I was looking the new year in the face,” Shephard tells Limelight. “My performing-teaching balance was off, and I didn’t have any creative projects coming up that I was crazy-inspired by. I needed something new to build upon my passions and enhance my skills.”

One such passion was music by women and with a thirst to add more works by female composers to her repertoire, Shephard decided to spin her new project for the upcoming International Women’s Day on 8 March. Instead of a one-day celebration, however, she made the ambitious decision to release one recording of a piece of flute music, composed by a female composer, every day in March.

“Thirty-one pieces in a month – not so hard, right? Um, it is,” she laughs. “But it did help that in 2020, about mid-March, routines all...