meet the team
The Music Inclusion Hub was founded by three, women-led nonprofits — Boulanger Initiative, Castle of our Skins, and D-Composed. All three founding organizations employ millennial Executive and Artistic leaders in addition to numerous other key administrative personnel.
Music Inclusion Hub's current membership and expansion to other organizations is an intentional statement on the power young women, gender-marginalized, and minority voices can enact through collective work and responsibility. Our partnership is strategic in centering representation as an achievable realization for tomorrow’s leaders.
Boulanger Initiative (BI) advocates for all women and gender-marginalized composers. Their work fosters inclusivity and representation to expand and enrich the collective understanding of what music is and can be. BI promotes music composed by women through performance, education, research, consulting, and commissions.
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Music Inclusion Hub Contributions — Interactive database of works by over 1,500 non-living women and gender-marginalized composers. Accompanying curriculum guides and activity supplements through the Beyond The Box, Into the Barlines Series.
Castle of our Skins is a Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music. In classrooms, concert halls, and beyond, Castle of our Skins invites Black heritage and culture exploration, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated figures of past and present.
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Music Inclusion Hub Contributions — Side-by-side student string ensemble + advanced string quartet works, with companion curriculum guides. Two solo teaching artist pieces, featuring original poetry, music, and curriculum guides/worksheets.
D-Composed is a Black chamber music collective that celebrates Black culture and creativity through the music of Black composers. They aim to make classical music approachable and reflective of the Black experience by intentionally creative experiences that meet the community where they are.​
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Music Inclusion Hub Contributions — Educational performance videos and interviews to amplify and educate the life and work of Black composers. Additional curriculum materials that feature writing prompts, quizzes, and reflection exercises for students.
OrchKids provides Baltimore youth with equitable access to community-based, high-quality music instruction and programming that teaches musical and social skills transferable to all areas of their lives. They are an acknowledged leader in the El Sistema and social-change through music movement throughout the world.​​
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Music Inclusion Hub Contributions — Educational Resources Video Series, composer-featured lesson plans of both living and non-living from historically marginalized communities, and mixed student ensemble piece arrangements.