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July 5, 2023
Conference 2023: Diversifying your Audience Through Non-Classical Programming
Three seasoned orchestra professionals discuss how they collaborate with their teams to build non-classical programming that not only entertains the masses, but also expands their orchestras’ reach into their communities.
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July 26, 2024
Adapting to Changing Audience Tastes and Preferences
Webinar recording; registration required.
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November 3, 2021
Aiming for a More Inclusive Canon
In an excerpt from his new book, Dvořák’s Prophecy and the Vexed Fate of Classical Music, Joseph Horowitz examines why classical music in America “stayed white” and failed to become more inclusive.
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November 18, 2021
Redefining the Canon
Redefining the Canon, a field-wide effort from nonprofit Boulanger Initiative, aims to diversify the most widely-used orchestral audition excerpts by offering technically-comparable excerpts by historically underrepresented composers.
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January 28, 2021
Databases of Repertoire by Underrepresented Composers
Center for Black Music Research; Music by Black Composers, a Project of the Rachel Barton Pine Foundation; Composer Diversity Database; Composer’s Equity Project; Latin Orchestral Music
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July 25, 2022
Conference 2022: We Are What We Play: Orchestral Repertoire in 2022 and Beyond (Innovation Session)
In this 2022 National Conference session, the Institute for Composer Diversity presents their Orchestra Repertoire Report 2022, produced in partnership with the League.
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June 24, 2021
African Diaspora Music Project
An online repository of concert works by composers of the African Diaspora.
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June 15, 2021
Conference 2021: The Artistically Responsive Orchestra
During the pandemic, orchestras forged forward, with creativity and innovation unseen before, to respond artistically to the uncertainty of the pandemic. In this session, we heard from three artistic leaders who rose to the challenge. We investigated the responses their organizations made and how sustainable those responses were in the long term as they balanced a return to the concert hall.
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April 28, 2021
Festival Overtures
Last summer, most music festivals were on hiatus due to the coronavirus pandemic, but this year many festivals are gearing up to return—for a very different kind of summer season. As classical music fans head to outdoor stages or log in to soak up the sounds of orchestral music, what can they expect to see and hear?
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November 3, 2021
Coda: Upbeat
Byron Stripling makes concepts like crossover irrelevant. He attended Eastman School of Music to study classical trumpet—and became an in-demand master of jazz trumpet. He played with legendary jazz bands—and guested with scores of American orchestras. He led jazz bands, played with pops stars—and now he’s the principal pops conductor of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.
