In The News WFAE 90.7 Charlotte NPR Examining a push to increase diversity in classical music (10/30/23) Harvard University Southern-Pian Society: An affinity group for graduate students of color at the Harvard University Department of Music (Resources Page) Seattle Times A fresh approach to classical music engages live audiences (4/21/23) Eastman School of Music Diversifying Classical Repertoire for Intermediate Ensembles: Commissioning Brittany J. Green’s “Freedom 2040: The Tomorrow We’ll Build” (2/2/2023) NPR Our biggest orchestras are finally playing more music by women. What took so long? (10/17/22) The Hill US orchestras including more work from women and minorities (6/23/22) Pianist Magazine 400% rise in performances of works by women composers and composers of colour, according to new report (6/22/22) Broadway World New Report Finds Significant Increases in Works by Women and Composers of Color Performed by American Orchestras (6/22/22) New York Times U.S. Orchestras Playing More Works by Women and Minorities, Report Says (6/21/22) Chicago Tribune Breaking Barriers at Ravinia highlights women composers (7/17/23) Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras CYSO Announces Composer-in-Residence Program (5/6/22) MinnPost Sphinx and the art of diversifying classical music (4/5/22) Broadway World New Music USA's Amplifying Voices Announces First of Nine New Co-Commissioned Works from Program to be Premiered this Spring (3/25/22) San Francisco Classical Voice America’s Orchestras Get Serious About Diversity (8/10/21) New York Times Asians Are Represented in Classical Music. But Are They Seen? (7/21/21) Musical America Sphinx Organization Announces 2021 Sphinx Venture Fund Recipients (11/10/20) Billboard ASCAP, Wise Music Trust Sign on to Classical Music Diversity Initiative 'Amplifying Voices' (11/10/20) Répertoire International des Sources Musicales Diversity in RISM (10/26/20) Vox Why Beethoven’s Fifth matters in 2020 (9/25/20) Houston Chronicle Houston’s ROCO: definitely not your parents’ chamber orchestra (9/22/20) Pacific Symphony Blog The Organization Exploring Diversity in Composition (8/20/20) Chicago Sun-Times Six artists of color make their mark in classical music — an industry where diversity is rare (8/10/20) I Care If You Listen 5 Questions to Valerie Coleman (8/4/20) Christian Science Monitor ‘Our voice matters’: Promoting female composers in classical music (7/29/20) San Diego Union-Tribune In San Diego, classical music’s making room for the new (7/3/20) Broadway World Las Vegas Las Vegas Philharmonic to Lead Commission of New Work by Juan Pablo Contreras (6/18/20) Colorado Springs Indy Our own drive-in rave coming Friday (6/17/20) Houston Chronicle ROCO’s Brass Quintet takes its brass to Houston streets (6/10/20) The Good Men Project We Need More Diverse Music in Our Schools (6/9/20) Yale Daily News Piece by Piece: The Art of Representative Concert Programming (4/15/20) Trilloquy Opus 46—A Little Less Beethoven (4/2/20) Music Ed Mentor Podcast The Challenges and Benefits of Programming for Diversity (April 2, 2020) I Care If You Listen Excluding Beethoven: Western Art Music’s Identity Crisis (3/26/20) The Lawrentian Classical Music Must Die (3/6/20) WRTI-FM Inspiring a New Generation of Women Composers In Philadelphia and Beyond: This is Erin Busch's Story (3/4/20) The Chattanoogan.Com CSO Awarded Arts Works Grant By National Endowment For The Arts (3/3/20) UMKC University News UMKC Libraries “Shining a Light” on underrepresented composers (2/26/20) Toledo Blade Telling new stories: Music highlights history of people of color (2/22/20) Wall Street Journal New York Philharmonic Begins Premiering Work of 19 Female Composers (2/6/20) The Brass Junkies Podcast Gretchen Renshaw James on conducting, diversity and playing tuba in Seraph Brass (2/4/20) I CARE IF YOU LISTEN New Voices Essay Contest Second Place Winner: Sierra Wojtczack (1/16/20) NewMusicBox Cultural Appropriation in Classical Music? (11/21/19) San Francisco Classical Voice “Women Composers Unbound: Four New Recordings” (11/19/19) NAfME "Mirror, Mirror on the Wall, . . . Am I Providing Opportunities Reflecting All?" (11/12/19) NPR Music News "Nicholas Payton Reimagines Musical Tradition With 'Black American Symphony'" (11/6/19) Deutschelandfunk "Wege zu mehr Diversität in Konzertprogrammen" (11/5/19) NPR All Songs Considered “The 2010s: Classical Music's Decade Of Reckoning” (10/29/19) Teaching Music "Teaching Composer Diversity" (October 2019, 22-25) Chattanooga Times Free Press "Bernadette Peters, works by women composers highlight Chattanooga Symphony & Opera's 87th season" (9/21/19) The Strad Why Are Women Composers Markedly Behind In Terms Of Prominence? (8/22/19) University of Colorado Boulder Cleveland Residency Features Women’s Panel (8/21/19) Arizona State University Arizona State University School of Music doctoral student gives back through music (6/21/19) NAfME Music in a Minuet A Resource for Diversity (6/4/19) Boston Public Schools "BPS Puts The Composer Diversity Database Into Action" (4/8/19) Christian Science Monitor "Finding their voices: Music feeds the soul for women facing homelessness" (3/28/19) Washington Post “Do we need a whole festival of women’s music? The Boulanger Initiative thinks so.” (3/1/19) Adaptistration "Institute For Composer Diversity Begins Rolling Out 2019-2020 Season Report" (2/27/19) NPR Music News "Top Flutist Settles Gender Pay-Gap Suit With Boston Symphony Orchestra" (2/21/19) WQXR "Beyond the Concert Hall: 5 Organizations Making a Difference in Classical Music in 2018" (12/22/18) Washington Post "Best of classical music 2018" (12/7/18) ASCAP Composer Diversity Database wins Deems Taylor/Virgil Thomson Media/Internet Award (10/18/18) Kansas Music Review The Composer Diversity Database (9/22/18) I CARE IF YOU LISTEN "5 Questions to Rob Deemer" (6/27/18) Adaptistration The Composer Diversity Database (6/4/18) Sightlines “A Musical Tool for Change: New Database of Women Composers Launched” (4/8/18) The Clyde Fitch Report “Meet the Women Composers Database (3000 of Them!) (1/25/18) San Francisco Classical Voice The World’s Orchestras Receive Report Card on Diversity: D for Dismal (7/2/24) Violinist.com Experiencing the ASTA/SAA Conference with Composer Lauren Spavelko (4/15/24) I Care if You Listen It’s Not Just an Access Problem – Orchestras Aren’t Creating Safe Environments for Black Musicians (4/3/24) SUNY Fredonia Music scores by acclaimed composer Coleman added to Reed Library collections (1/19/24) The Bitter Southerner The Classical Jewels of the Black Mecca (11/7/23) NewMusicBox "A Tool For Change: The Women Composers Database" (1/24/18) Adaptistration A Fully Operational Women Composers Database (1/2/18) Journal of the Society for American Music Media Review: Institute for Composer Diversity (5/23) ACDA Choral Journal Working toward Balanced Programming with Tools from the Institute for Composer Diversity Choral Works Database (March/April 2023) Datylon Blog The journey towards repertoire diversity in U.S. orchestras (3/23)
