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Michael Begay--Photo courtesy Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project (NACAP)

5 Questions to Michael Begay (Host, Original Score podcast)

In 2000, the Grand Canyon Music Festival (GCMF) began the Native American Composers Apprentice Proje...
Author
Jacob Kopcienski
Queen Drea--Photo by David Glasgow, DLG Images

5 Questions to Queen Drea (interdisciplinary sound alchemist)

A true sound alchemist, Queen Drea uses no recipe. A Twin Cities-based vocalist, electronic artist,...
Author
Jillian DeGroot
Elena Moon Park--Photo by Gala Narezo

5 Questions to Elena Moon Park (musician, educator, producer)

Elena Moon Park is a true Renaissance woman. A freelance violinist, a multi-instrumentalist, a music...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Mari Esabel Valverde--Photo by Vero Kherian

5 Questions to Mari Esabel Valverde (composer, singer)

Mari Esabel Valverde is a composer and singer whose music is full and rich, with texts that delve in...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Vanessa Reed--Photo by Ruth Kilpatrick

5 Questions to Vanessa Reed (President and CEO, New Music USA)

In August 2019, Vanessa Reed was appointed President and CEO of New Music USA following a decade at...
Author
Lauren Ishida
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5 Questions to Jennifer Jolley (composer)

When you visit Jennifer Jolley’s website, the tagline says, “Composer. Blogger. Professo...
Author
Brianna Matzke
Yaz Lancaster--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Yaz Lancaster (interdisciplinary artist)

Yaz Lancaster is an interdisciplinary artist who combines violin performance, composition, poetry, a...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Juhi Bansal--Photo by Nicolas Gerpe

5 Questions to Juhi Bansal (composer, conductor, teacher)

Composer Juhi Bansal was brought up in India and Hong Kong, and she grew up playing the piano and li...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Valerie Coleman--Photo by Matthew Murphy

5 Questions to Valerie Coleman (composer, flutist)

According to the Institute for Composer Diversity’s analysis of 120 American orchestras’ 2019-2020 p...
Author
Lana Norris
Philip Ewell--Photo by Pascal Perich

5 Questions to Philip Ewell (Author, Music Theory and the White Racial Frame)

Philip Ewell is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College, CUNY and the CUNY Graduate...
Author
Lauren Ishida
Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa--Photo courtesy of the artist

5 Questions to Tanyaradzwa Tawengwa (Castle of our Skins Creative-in-Residence)

Castle of our Skins, a music initiative in Boston focusing on Black artistry through music, recently...
Author
Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
NextNotes 2020

Spotlight On: 2020 American Composers Forum NextNotes Creators

American Composers Forum’s NextNotes program honors talented young artists from across the cou...
Author
Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
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PoC Perspectives on Diversity Initiatives, Part 2

This is the second installment of a two-part series addressing the growing trend and praise of diver...
Author
Sugar Vendil
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PoC Perspectives on Diversity Initiatives, Part 1

I felt compelled to write this piece after observing the growing trend and praise of diversity initi...
Author
Sugar Vendil
Helena Tulve--Photo by Marco Giugliarelli

5 Questions to Helena Tulve (composer)

Just over one year ago, I travelled to Tallinn, Estonia for the joint presentation of Estonian Music...
Author
Amanda Cook
Oni Buchanan--Photo by Mark Wilson Images

5 Questions to Oni Buchanan (Ariel AVANT Impact Performance Competition)

An ad for Oni Buchanan’s most recent venture with Ariel Artists might read: “Pianist, po...
Author
Kathleen McGowan
Elizabeth de Brito © all rights reserved 2020

5 Questions to Elizabeth de Brito (Host, The Daffodil Perspective)

Elizabeth de Brito is the host of The Daffodil Perspective, an online classical radio show with a fo...
Author
Gemma Peacocke
Sunita LeGallou--Photo by James May

5 Questions to Sunita LeGallou (Producer and Host, Music for PhDs)

Music for PhDs is a podcast that describes itself as “an art project disguised as a podcast...
Author
Stephanie Boyd
Luna Composition Lab Fellows 2019-20, Olivia Bennett, KiMani Bridges, Madeline Clara Cheng, Ebunoluwa Oguntola, and Sage Shurman

5 Questions to the 2019-20 Luna Composition Lab Fellows

The Kaufman Music Center’s Luna Composition Lab is a program that brings together a cohort of...
Author
Colin Holter
Quanice Floyd

5 Questions to Quanice Floyd (Arts Administrators of Color Network)

Quanice Floyd is a music educator and arts administrator based in the D.C. metro area. With a decade...
Author
Amanda Cook
Ciyadh Wells--Photo by Austin Steele

Turning Up the Volume: Ciyadh Wells (guitarist, activist)

Turning Up the Volume is a collection of interviews that focuses on the individual stories of up and...
Author
Jessica Griggs
Erika Boysen Moving Sound app

5 Questions to Erika Boysen about Moving Sound (mobile app)

Interdisciplinary performers working in new music are constantly turning to new and evolving forms o...
Author
Megan Ihnen
Olivia Shortt--Photo by Alejandro Santiago

5 Questions to Olivia Shortt (multi-disciplinary artist)

Olivia Shortt (she/her/hers: Anishinaabe from Nipissing First Nation) is a Tkarón:to-based multi-dis...
Author
Lana Norris
Katie Brown and Dalanie Harris--Photo by Richard Desinord

5 Questions to Katie Brown & Dalanie Harris (Classically Black Podcast)

Violist Katie Brown and double bassist Dalanie Harris, co-hosts of Classically Black Podcast, discus...
Author
Lana Norris
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