This project, run by 12 students at the Universität der Künste Berlin, organizes regular concerts featuring music by artists who have been excluded from the classical canon due to their gender, social or national origin, skin color, religion, sexual identity, disability, or political views. While focusing initially on female-socialized composers , the project adopts an intersectional approach, recognizing overlapping forms of discrimination like sexism and racism. Beyond staging concerts, the team pushes for institutional change: making such diverse programming a mandatory, ongoing part of the university’s music faculty, supporting digitization and archiving of unpublished works, and revising curricula to require diverse composer lineups. They aim to embed awareness of marginalized music across all areas of study and practice—from schools to concert halls—through collaboration with students and teachers alike.
This project, run by 12 students at the Universität der Künste Berlin, organizes regular concerts featuring music by artists who have been excluded from the classical canon due to their gender, social or national origin, skin color, religion, sexual identity, disability, or political views. While focusing initially on female-socialized composers , the project adopts an intersectional approach, recognizing overlapping forms of discrimination like sexism and racism. Beyond staging concerts, the team pushes for institutional change: making such diverse programming a mandatory, ongoing part of the university’s music faculty, supporting digitization and archiving of unpublished works, and revising curricula to require diverse composer lineups. They aim to embed awareness of marginalized music across all areas of study and practice—from schools to concert halls—through collaboration with students and teachers alike.
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