Playing All the Notes: Flute Music by Underrepresented Composers

Michelle Barraclough with Joshua Lyon, Carmela Steyaert, and Grace Young At the end of the Fall 2021 semester, I encouraged my college flute students to consider learning a piece by an underrepresented composer (female and/or a person of color). Previously, works by these composers were not frequently included in traditional concert programming. Happily, this is changing. I provided a few resources for finding repertoire and was pleasantly surprised when several students learned music by these composers. Taking this idea one step further, in the spring of 2022, three of my students and I learned pieces and did some research on … Continue reading Playing All the Notes: Flute Music by Underrepresented Composers