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The first Black guest artist to perform with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra
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The first trans woman in the opera program at San Francisco Conservatory
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The world’s preeminent Rapa Nui (Easter Island) musician
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Nkeiru Okoye is an American composer of African American and Nigerian ancestry. She learned to play piano at age 8 and began writing music at age 13.
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Rosephanye Powell (b.1962) has been hailed as one of America’s premier women composers of solo vocal and choral music. She has an impressive catalogue...
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Ella Sheppard (1851-1915), soprano, pianist and reformer, was the matriarch of the Fisk Jubilee Singers, a social reformer, confidante of Frederick Douglass, and one of the most distinguished African American women of her generation.
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Louisa Melvin Delos Mars was born Louisa Melvin in Providence, RI around 1858. During the 1880s she and her younger sister, Carrie Melvin Lucas, formed a duo...
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Tania León (b. Havana, Cuba) is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations.
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Sofia Asgatovna Gubaidulina (b. 1931) was born in Chistopol during Stalin’s reign and graduated from the Kazan Conservatory in 1954...
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Born and raised in England, with a German mother and an American father, Rebecca Clarke (1886-1979) spent much of her adulthood in the United States...