When a woman steps onto the conductor's podium, she is always one of the first: the first to lead a world-class orchestra, the first to conduct the closing night of London's Proms, the first to win the German Conductor Prize. It seems as though the world of orchestral conducting might finally be ready to change its attitudes toward female conductors.

• SRF
• Accentus Music
• Marin Alsop
• Barbara Hannigan
• Sylvia Caduff
• Joana Mallwitz
• Anu Tali
• Konstantia Gourzí