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…
Black composer Dr. Immanuel T. Abraham composed the "24 Caprices for Solo Violin" between 2010 and 2020. As indicated on the composer's website: "These twenty-four caprices are my collection of advanced repertoire for unaccompanied violin written…
Queer Afro-Latinx violinist and composer Darian Donoovan Thomas wrote "Disintegrating Foundation Under a Catastrophe of Air" in 2020/2021. Commissioned by Bass Players for Black Composers. The composer's website includes the following statement:…
Dr. Hicks is a graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music (BM in composition, ’76), the University of Massachusetts (Lowell), (MM in Pianist, composer, performer, lecturer, recording artist, arranger, and conductor, Geoffrey Dana Hicks is a…
Heralded as a composer and flutist, Leslie Burrs reveals the mystical richness of his instrument, while he embraces the vast spectrum of American musical tastes.
Embrace him, and let his music leap into your heart.
Black composer Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III's compositional style blends musical ideas from both the African American and European traditions. The publisher's website shares the following notes about "A Simple Caprise: Variants on a Theme of…
A Sunrise Elsewhere is an attempt to characterize the sky’s continuous transformation during dawn and dusk. The title references the fact that each sunset is simultaneously a sunrise in another location – accordingly, the piece is a palindrome with…
Black composer Jeffrey Mumford's "A Wind of Suspended Prominences" for clarinet and piano was premiered by clarinetist William Powell and pianist Zita Carno on April 17, 1981.
Black Creole violinist, conductor and composer Joseph Bologne, Chevalier de Saint-Georges composed the "Adagio in F Minor" for solo piano. The work was published in 1977.
