Derek Douglas Carter (b.1994, he/him) is a composer, conductor, and artist currently residing in Kentucky. His music has been performed across the Midwest, New England, the South, as well as in Canada, Poland, and Spain. Carter has been a festival…
Mexican American composer Robert Xavier Rodríguez composed "Gambits: Six Chess Pieces" in 2002. The work was commissioned by Charles and Sarah Riehm, and dedicated to Andrew Riehm & the Musica Nova ensemble of the University of Texas. The music…
David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (December 21, 1931 – March 26, 2016) was an American jazz composer, conductor, and musician from Indianapolis, as well as a professor of jazz studies at the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music. Baker is best known as…
Chinese-born American composer Wang Jie wrote "From New York, With Love II" for flute, viola and harp. Program notes for the composition on Jie's website state: "It’s been tickling my ears that countless New Yorkers are greeted every day by a musical…
Chinese-born American composer Wang Jie wrote "From New York, With Love" for flute or piccolo and percussion. Program notes for the composition on the composer's website indicate: "It’s been tickling my ears that countless New Yorkers are greeted…
Korean American composer HyeKyung Lee has written for diverse genres and media. As written on Jack Sutte's website: "Frenetic Dream was written for Jack Sutte in 2001. Frenetic Dream makes use of a minimal amount of material (stated in the opening)…
Freedmen honors the legacy of Native Americans and former African slaves (adopted into Native American tribal membership through emancipation or marriage), who traversed the Trail of Tears. African-American descendants with Native American ancestry…
Black composer, jazz pianist, arranger and conductor Billy Childs comosed "Four Portraits for Violin" on commission from Rachel Barton Pine. The premiere took place in 2017 by Rachel Barton Pine at the University of Kentucky. The work contains four…
