The Brass Ceiling
Yael Cohen
Hi everyone! I’m Yael and welcome to The Brass Ceiling.I am a trumpet player, but also a musician, and most importantly, a storyteller. I also happen to be a girl, and despite it being 2022, only 3% of trumpet players are female. Consequently, I have always had to navigate a male-dominated environment riddled with gender, age, and power dynamics… in other words I’ve dealt with a lot of crap and I’m sick of it!The title of this podcast, The Brass Ceiling, is really just a play on the phrase "the glass ceiling"; this pun on the famous saying feels relevant as I want to bring to light the gendered struggle that female brass players experience which is preventing them from thriving in this niche, just as on a more macro level, women and most non-straight-cis-white-men have to navigate countless systems that were not built with them in mind.I want to use this space to talk about our stories and our musical journeys, but I also want to use this platform to crowdsource and workshop ideas t