BIPOC Composers worthy of platform from the Classic Era to Present

Abelardo, Nicolar (1893–1934)

Aldridge, Amanda (1886–1956)

Arnold, Maurice (1865–1937)

Barès, Basile (1845–1902)

Bland, James A. (1845–1911)

Bonds, Margaret (1913–1972)

Boulogne, Joseph Chevalier de Saint-Georges (1745–1799)

Burleigh, Harry T. (1866–1949)

Carreño, Teresa (1853–1917)

Chen Yi (b. 1953)

Cole, Bob (1868–1911)

Coleridge-Taylor, Samuel (1875–1912)

Connor, Aaron J. R. (d. 1850)

Cook, Will Marion (1869–1944)

Davis, Gussie (1863–1899)

Dédé, Edmond (1827–1901)

Dédé, Eugène (1867–1919)

Dett, R. Nathaniel (1882–1943)

Douglass, John Thomas (1847–1886)

Europe, James Reese (1881–1919)

Freeman, Harry Lawrence (1869–1954)

Garcia, José Maurício Nunes (1767–1830)

Gomes, Antônio Carlos (1836–1896)

Gonzaga, Chiquinha (1847–1935)

Handy, W. C. (1873–1958)

Hazzard, Isaac (1804–c.1864)

Holland, Justin (1819–1887)

Jiménez, José Manuel (1851–1917)

Johnson, Francis (1792–1844)

Johnson, John Rosamond (1873–1954)

Joplin, Scott (1867–1917)

King, Betty Jackson (1928–1994)

Lambert, Charles Lucien (1828–1896)

Lambert, Lucien-Léon Guillaume (1858–1945)

Lambert, Sidney (1831–1905)

Logan, Wendell (1940–2010)

Lusitano, Vicente (?–after 1561)

Moore, Dorothy Rudd (b. 1940)

Moore, Undine Smith (1904–1989)

Nepomuceno, Alberto (1864–1920)

Perry, Julia (1924–1979)

Ponce, Manuel (1882–1948)

Postlewaite, Joseph W. (b. 1827)

Price, Florence (1887–1953)

Ricketts, Estelle (b. 1877–?)

Sancho, Ignatius (1729–1780)

Smith, Hale (1925–2009)

White, Clarence Cameron (1880–1960)

White, Joseph (José Silvestre) (1835–1918)

Wiggins, Thomas (Blind Tom) (1849–1908)

Williams, Henry F. (1813–1903)

Xinghai, Xian (1905–1945)

Yamada, Kōsaku (1886–1965)

Baroque Era

Biber, Albinoni, Handel, Telemann, Vivaldi, Bach

Classical Era

Hadyn, Mozart, Donizetti

Early Romantic

Beethoven, Schubert, Felix Mendelssohn, Fanny Mendelssohn

Late Romantic

Brahms, Schumann, Verdi, Mahler, Wagner, Strauss

Late Romantic, Early 20th Century French

Lalo, Faure, Satie, Debussy, Ravel, Dutilleux

Russian and Nationalist Lineage

Rimsky Korsakov, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Shostakovich, Smetna, Dvorak, Haas, Schuloff, Klein, Hartmann

British Lineage

Vaughn Williams, Elgar, Walton, Britten, Bridge, Peter Maxwell Davies

Spanish and Latin Lineage

Villa Lobos, Lalo, Piazzolla, Golijov

20th and 21st Century - Avant Garde to Neo Romantic to Indigenous Voices

Bela Bartok, Stravinsky, Messaien, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, John Cage, Elliot Carter, Aaron Copland, Philip Glass, John Zorn, Gunther Schuller, David Baker, John Adams, Carlos Simon, William Grant Still, George Walker, Daniel Roumain, James Lee III, Adolphus Hailstork, Timo Andres, Anthony R Green, Gabriela Lena Frank, Stephen Prutsman, Rhiannon Giddons, Jessie Montgomery, Jarod Tate, Pauline Oliveros, Edgar Varese, Harry Partch, etc.

Fifty for the Future - Kronos Quartet