Tag Archive for: Black Composers

The Emerging Black Composers Project is back

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While we still might be recovering from Thanksgiving,  there’s the rest of the holidays to consider.  Shopping for gifts, decorating the house while listening to music. Gifts have already come to Kyle Rivera, who won the Michael Morgan Prize for Black composers. 

The Pegasus Opera Company in the UK is looking for partners to produce an opera about the Windrush Generation. 

The Detroit Opera presents two little known and rarely staged operas. 

The Miro Quartet debuts its first holiday album called Hearth.

THE FIRST EVER (?) BOOK OF CHORAL MUSIC ALL WRITTEN BY BLACK COMPOSERS

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In what may be a first, there’s The Oxford Book of Choral Music by Black Composers. It was edited and curated by conductor, educator, and composer Marques L. A. Garrett.  Listen to the music here. 

Pamela Dawson of Desoto High School in Texas revels in her win as the 2023 Grammy Music Educator of the Year.

Apply to enter the J.S. Bach Competition.

Composers might want to enter the American Composers Forum Spring National Call.

The Black British Classical Foundation is celebrating the coronation of King Charles III with a concert.