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The number of Asian and Latino players has risen over the past decade, according to a new report. But Black musicians are still scarce, especially at large orchestras.
Chineke! Orchestra, Europe's first majority-Black and ethnically diverse orchestra makes its U.S. debut at New York City's Lincoln Center.
The Sphinx Organization, led by Afa Dworkin, is celebrating 25 years of pressing the field for more diversity in repertory and rosters.
For the past nine years, Afa Dworkin, 46, has led Sphinx's work to increase diversity in the classical music field, including a program to build the pipeline of Black and Latinx administrators in the field, a $1.5 million venture fund that's making investments in similar efforts to build diversity in classical music around the country and more recently, a plan for an undisclosed gift from philanthropist Mackenzie Scott.
The local husband and wife behind the Sphinx Organization has changed the lives of hundreds of thousands of young musicians in Detroit.