A drummer, a DJ-producer and an orchestra director discuss the challenges for Black artists, how things are changing and increasing access to the arts ...

Award-winning musician Wynton Marsalis tells Katty Kay how growing up surrounded by music shaped his own journey with jazz.

Nina Simone produced a vital force in music, spanning genres and eras always to reflect the times. But why did she define her sound as "Black classical music"?

Gateways Music Festival in association with Eastman School of Music, of the University of Rochester, celebrates the transformative power of Black classical artistry with its Spring Festival 2025 in ...

“Playing classical music in the township was highly ... I think professional black musicians have an individual responsibility to reach back and find others you can empower.” ...

the grace and courage it took to broaden the sounds of classical and Black experimental music in the 1930s and 40s. To tread such rooted ground at any time is an act of fortitude, but to do it ...

From songbook to performers, the Detroit-based Sphinx Organization — via its touring ensemble Sphinx Virtuosi — is reimagining classical music. The Black and Latino 18-piece, self-conducted chamber ...

Black Lives In Music have partnered for a second year running with Warner Classics to mentor the next generation of Black and underrepresented classical musicians and composers, with an event for ...

The Harlem-based company, founded in 1921 by music publisher Harry Pace, recorded Black classical musicians and sold popular music to Black audiences in the 1920s when Black classical singers ...

Montclair State University has appointed Shea Scruggs as the new director of the John J. Cali School of Music, effective July ...