african american composers

A new recording, American Counterpoints, sets two undercelebrated African American composers in counterpoint and brings to light a long-obscured musical masterpiece in its first commercial recording.

Conductor Kellen Gray's most recent recording, African American Voices II, is the first major recording of important works by three noted African American composers - but it is more than that. The recording’s collection of distinctive musical voices stands to bring nuance to our understanding of the landscape of African American music.

A video about African and African American women leaders and showcasing the work of a Columbus composer, visual artist and cello quartet has recently been…

Columbus Composer Dr. Mark Lomax had ambitious goals for his musical cycle 400: An Afrikan Epic – to heal wounds and release people from the devastating…

She was an African-American woman trying to make it in a white man’s world – and she succeeded, performing with world-class orchestras and winning three…

Columbus conductor and clarinetist Antoine Clark wants women musicians and musicians of diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds to be heard.Clark is…

It’s an unjustly neglected repertoire of music, likely obscured, at least in part, because of racism. Friday evening, one organist will bring some of this…

11:00 Wagner, Verdi...Joplin. Scott Joplin, the composer known for his ragtime pieces, also wrote opera. In fact, in the last hundred years, several…