Diversifying Your Music Repertoire

From site: "The Composer Diversity Database allows conductors, performers, presenters, and researchers to expand and broaden their scope of musical repertoire and to discover a vast array of women, non-binary, Black, Latinx/Latin American, East Asian, West Asian/North African, South Asian, Southeast Asian, American Indian/Alaska Native composers from throughout history and around the world." Created by the Institute for Composer Diversity (ICD)

The ICD database searchable by instrumentation and pedagogical level.

A directory of composers that links to websites. * Chamber Music America uses the acronym ALAANA to indicate composers who identify as
African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, and Native American

Searchable by composer, musical element, or time period. Includes links to YouTube audio examples.

Compilation of original works by composers in the African Diaspora. Search by composer or repertoire. Presented by Dr. Louise Toppin and Videmus.

Includes scores, lesson materials and score annotations, music theory examples, and more,

from site: "A directory of all [past] historic Black composers currently known by MBC"

from site: " MBC’s Living Composers Directory is designed for those seeking to commission; for performers, conductors, and concert programmers seeking existing music; and for other researchers and scholars of contemporary classical music." Email and websites provided when available.