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September 26, 2016

Jean Snyder

Ethnomusicologist Jean E. Snyder has taught in Kenya and Zambia and has done ethnographic research in Jamaica as well as in communities involved in the steel industry in Southwestern Pennsylvania. Her biography, Harry T....

August 6, 2016

Diana Solomon-Glover

Diana Solomon Glover is a versatile singer and performer who has appeared in opera, concert, oratorio, recital, musical theater, cabaret and televisio

July 2, 2020

Tyshawn Sorey

Tyshawn Sorey (b. July 8, 1980) became Assistant Professor at Wesleyan University in 2017. Sorey is an active composer, performer, educator, and scholar who works across an extensive range of musical idioms. As a...

August 6, 2016

Eileen Southern

African-American musicologist; she received a B.A. and an M.A. from the University of Chicago (1940, 1941) and studied with Gustave Reese at New York University, where she completed her Ph.D. in 1961. She taught...

August 6, 2016

Emery Stephens

Emery Stephens, a native of Boston, received his graduate degree in voice performance at the Boston University School for the Arts.  He has appea

August 6, 2016

JoAnne Stephenson

JoAnne Stephenson is an active performer, lecturer, adjudicator, and choir director. Performances abroad include Beijing, China in 2005, where Dr. Ste

August 6, 2016

William Grant Still

Popularly referred to as "the Dean of African-American Composers", William Grant Still has been almost universally recognized for his contributions

August 6, 2016

Howard Swanson

b. 1907-1978 Many African-American composers have been lauded for the high quality of their song writing. Called the American Fauré .

September 13, 2021

Omari Tau

Omari Tau, baritone, is Co-Founding Artistic Director of Rogue Music Project and Professor of Vocal Music at Cosumnes River College in Sacramento, CA. His degrees are from Michigan State University and the Moores School...