The Grant Park Orchestra was formed in 1944 when the Chicago Park District assembled a single resident orchestra under the direction of Principal Conductor Nikolai Malko to perform at the Grant …

Jeri Lynne Johnson is a conductor, composer, and cultural entrepreneur whose visionary artistry is reshaping the orchestral landscape. Acclaimed by the Los Angeles Times as “a stunning, rhythmically vital conductor,” she …

Lauded as “exquisite” by The Philadelphia Inquirer and “a pianist of sterling artistry” by Gramophone, GRAMMY Award winning pianist Michelle Cann is one of the most sought-after artists of her generation. …

Considered by many as the dean of African American composers, William Grant Still, the son of educators, was born in Woodville, Mississippi on May 11, 1895. His father, a musician who …

Maurice Ravel was one of the three major composers—the others were Gabriel Fauré (for a time Ravel’s composition teacher) and Claude Debussy—who brought French music out of its 19th-century preoccupation with …

The music of Florence Price blends European classical traditions and Black American idioms, with its echoes of spirituals, blues, and jazz. She was the first Black woman to have a symphonic …