Repertoire Catalog

For so many years, I just followed the pipeline path that was laid out for me, performing the pieces I was given, with the expectation that would get me the career I needed. A graduate class focused on women composers completely shifted my whole life trajectory and spurred my passion for research, advocacy, and educating others on the importance of inclusion and representation within musical programming. 

The Catalog of Trumpet (and Brass) Works by Gender-Marginalized People and/or Black, Indigenous, or Persons of Color began as a small passion project (and grew thanks to anxious pandemic energy) and has morphed into so much more. Within the catalog, you will see music written by composers from all marginalized backgrounds, including composers marginalized by race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, orientation, and disability. There are so many others doing this DEI documentation work, and the intention of my website and resource is not to be the be-all-end-all, but rather to make available the knowledge I have to share with anyone interested in discovering solo and chamber repertoire to program and teach. 

For anyone using this resource - I cannot stress enough how important it is to just use this as a starting tool and then go beyond the initial search - build relationships and connections with the composers, program this music, send along program pages to the composers! Each composer has an amazing story and voice and deserves so much more than a line in a spreadsheet/database. I value transparency above all and please know, all living composers included in this resource provided their consent and confirmed all information. I did not add any living composers that I was unable to reach or who opted out of being included. There are composers in this resource are no longer living - they are unable to provide their consent, but I still wanted to showcase their repertoire contributions. 

This is just a fully-available open-sourced catalog, where you can sort and search on your own. This is NOT a database (not enough hours in a day to manage that!!), but I did want the ability where you can sort and see everything available. I know a spreadsheet isn’t the most beautiful final product, but it gets the point across - to promote the works of some amazing humans.

If you: a) are a composer who is not listed here but would like to be; b) are a composer who IS listed and would like any information changed/updated/added/taken away; or c) know of other composers I should check out and reach out to, please send me an email!! Reasons you may not see every composer under the sun on this resource: I haven’t heard back from them, they opted out, or I may just not know their music (I am but one person after all!)

-AK

** ”And Brass” is in parentheses as there is a whole tab on brass works! It’s a great place to start when looking for chamber music. One more head up - there are multiple tabs at the bottom of the spreadsheet!!