Prolific freeborn Creole composer Edmond Dédé’s career took him from New Orleans to Paris, but his masterwork has remained ...

She and her daughter, also an opera singer, founded OperaCréole in 2011 to unearth and highlight the hundreds of years of ...

According to Joseph, “Morgiane” is likely the first four-act opera written by a Black American composer. Dédé was born and ...

available on BBC Sounds – we explore the profound contribution black composers are making to classical music ‘Growing up I thought of a composer as a dead, white male – and just accepted ...

Two short operas that got their premieres at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C. feature Black female protagonists.

Cann knows that many of the names on this program are unknown, but she hopes Chicago audiences will give it a chance.

Hull, of Flutronix, will play their electro-acoustic “Black Being" piece with the Chicago Sinfonietta on Martin Luther King ...

She was popular in her era, and yet, her music has not endured to the same degree as many more celebrated male classical composers. Pianist and conductor Mary Box wants to change that — and not ...

Watch British pianist Isata Kanneh-Mason perform Frédéric Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Samuel Coleridge-Taylor as part of NPR’s ...

an all-Black group of classical musicians, at Atlanta Symphony Hall in November 2023. Michael Giel, APO’s associate conductor, said new songs are being added to Ross’s upcoming show with the ...