Projects, groups, and organizations to support

 

Founded by Dr. Kaitlin Bove, … And We Were Heard connects historically-marginalized composers (by race or gender) with ensembles to rehearse, perform, and create high-quality recordings of their work.

 
 

Established in 2018 by founders Joy-Leilani Garbutt and Laura Colgate, Boulanger Initiative advocates for gender-marginalized composers through performance, education, research, consulting, and commissioning projects.

 

Brass Out Loud

 

Brass Out Loud co-founders Kate Amrine, Rebecca Karu, and Melissa Muñoz seek to uplift and inspire brass players through inclusive and diverse events.

 
 

The Black Music History Library (BMHL) was created by Jenzia Burgos, to be a growing collection about the Black origins of music. This resource covers the 18th century to present day and includes everything from articles and books to documentaries, podcasts, and more covering a wide range of genres.

 
 

Ashleigh Gordon and Anthony R. Green founded Castle of Our Skins as a performing and education platform to explore and celebrate Black artistry through music.

 
 

Founded in 2018 by Jules Biber, Danielle Buonaiuto, Brian Mummert, and Andrew Yee, ChamberQUEER hosts performances, workshops, and in-person and virtual events to provide an inclusive and intersectional space highlight and programming queer artists and composers.

 
 

“The Chromatic Brass Collective, founded by Black women, is an organization for brass musicians that celebrates, performs, mentors and educates in an effort to increase the visibility of racially and ethnically underrepresented women and gender non-conforming people throughout the brass world.”

 
 

Composer Dr. Jodie Blackshaw founded ColorFULL music as a way to “forge a new future for wind band music, one FULL of colour, FULL or equality, FULL of tolerance, FULL of respect,” creating change within wind band programming.

 
 

Gala Flagello and Aaron N. Price created Connecticut Summerfest as an accessible week-long festival to connect emerging composers with chamber music ensembles for a week of composing, creating, and world premieres.

 
 

Brandi Wallace-Pace founded Decolonizing the Music Room “to help music educators develop critical practices and center BBIA (Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian) voices, knowledge, and experiences in order to challenge the historical dominance of white Western European and American music, narratives, and practices.”

 
 

Donne, Women in Music is a charitable foundation dedicated to achieving gender equality in the music industry. We are here to connect and empower anyone who identifies as a woman in order to create a more equitable music industry.

 
 

Girls Who Conduct is an initiative created in 2020 by Chaowen Ting as a way to empower and encourage the upcoming generation of women, women-identifying, and non-binary conductors through mentorship programs, training, and community building.

 
 

IWBC was formed in 1992 by Susan Slaughter, and has continued building a platform to support, educate, and inspire women brass musicians.

 
 

Founded by Rachel Barton Pine, Music by Black Composers (MBC) is an educational program, inspiring Black students to continue training, as well as making the music of Black composers more accessible.

 
 

Nora Segura-Barpal and Josh Wilson created the Music Inclusion Coalition (MIC) as a way too make music more accessible, inclusive, and supportive for BIPOC and LGBTQ students, as they move from high school to the collegiate level.

 
 

Leading Tones Music is an online publishing store, bringing inclusive educational music to band and orchestra directors looking for new music to program. Leading Tones is also a big advocate for new music, connecting ensembles to composers to create new commissioning projects.

 
 

Lift Music Fund began in August 2020, as a way to combat racial inequity within music. Lift Music Fund provides microgrants to make music more accessible and equitable to BIPOC student musicians. They also provide resources and support as young musicians work to achieve their goals in music.

 
 

Music Theory Examples by Women is a database of excerpts and works by women, sorted into a variety of theory concepts to apply in music lessons.

 
 

Rising Tide Music Press, founded by Allyssa Jones, is a no-profit publishing company, building a platform to publish the works of emerging Black, Brown, Indigenous, and Asian (BBIA) composers.

 
 

Roots of American Music, founded by Kevin T. Richards in 1999, provides arts-integrated programs to diverse communities while promoting and preserving traditional American music.

 
 

Directed by Dr. Anna Edwards, the Seattle Collaborative Orchestra (SCO) is a “diverse, multigenerational performing arts organization dedicated to diversity in symphonic classical music.”

 
 

“Silver Melted Into Sound is a music festival for concert band, vocal ensemble, and string orchestra designed to support the programming of diverse composers held on May 6, 2022, on the campus of Wright State University.”

 
 

The Sphinx Organization is an organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of diversity in the arts, with a multitude of educational, performing, leadership, and development programs.

 
 

TESJI was founded in 2020 and promotes diversity, equity, and inclusion in the tuba/euphonium community through community events and commissioning projects.

 
 

Women in Music South Africa stemmed from the Women’s Music Collective created by composer, Clare Loveday, and is a network for women to come together, and promote and support each other.

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