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Interview
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Angélica Negrón was born in Carolina, Pue...
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Sun Yung Shin
It’s a feel-good situation: Krishna Thiagarajan, President and CEO of the Seattle Symphony, has foun...
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Stephanie Boyd
Pianist and composer Kris Davis is the Associate Program Director of Creative Development for the In...
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Lana Norris
Terri Winston is the Founder and Executive Director of Women’s Audio Mission (WAM), a San Francisco/...
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Tristan McKay
Tyshawn Sorey is an acclaimed composer and multi-instrumentalist from Newark, New Jersey. A virtuosi...
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Gemma Peacocke
American composer and soprano Nia Imani Franklin is the founder and operator of Compose Her, an init...
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Tracy Monaghan
Eun Lee is the Executive Director and Founder of The Dream Unfinished, an activist orchestra based i...
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Clover Nahabedian
This article was commissioned by American Composers Forum. Accomplished music educator Portia Dunkle...
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Sun Yung Shin
In 2000, the Grand Canyon Music Festival (GCMF) began the Native American Composers Apprentice Proje...
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Jacob Kopcienski
A true sound alchemist, Queen Drea uses no recipe. A Twin Cities-based vocalist, electronic artist,...
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Jillian DeGroot
Elena Moon Park is a true Renaissance woman. A freelance violinist, a multi-instrumentalist, a music...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
Mari Esabel Valverde is a composer and singer whose music is full and rich, with texts that delve in...
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Stephanie Boyd
In August 2019, Vanessa Reed was appointed President and CEO of New Music USA following a decade at...
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Lauren Ishida
When you visit Jennifer Jolley’s website, the tagline says, “Composer. Blogger. Professo...
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Brianna Matzke
Yaz Lancaster is an interdisciplinary artist who combines violin performance, composition, poetry, a...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
Composer Juhi Bansal was brought up in India and Hong Kong, and she grew up playing the piano and li...
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Gemma Peacocke
According to the Institute for Composer Diversity’s analysis of 120 American orchestras’ 2019-2020 p...
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Lana Norris
Philip Ewell is an Associate Professor of Music Theory at Hunter College, CUNY and the CUNY Graduate...
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Lauren Ishida
Castle of our Skins, a music initiative in Boston focusing on Black artistry through music, recently...
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Anne Goldberg-Baldwin
American Composers Forum’s NextNotes program honors talented young artists from across the cou...
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Alyssa Kayser-Hirsh
This is the second installment of a two-part series addressing the growing trend and praise of diver...
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Sugar Vendil
I felt compelled to write this piece after observing the growing trend and praise of diversity initi...
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Sugar Vendil
Just over one year ago, I travelled to Tallinn, Estonia for the joint presentation of Estonian Music...
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Amanda Cook
