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Kyle Rivera
Photo courtesy of San Francisco Symphony
No photographer credited.
San Francisco Symphony has announced that Kyle Rivera, currently a master's student in music composition at Yale, has won the fifth Emerging Black Composers Project prize. Congratulations to Mr. Rivera!
Before I post the press release, let me note the previous winners:
- Jens Ibsen
- Xavier Muzik
- Tyler Taylor
- Trevor Weston
"Additional prizes" have been awarded to the following:
- Jonathan Bingham
- Shawn Okpebholo
- Sumi Tonooka
Of the eight composers who've won or been awarded prizes, seven are men. And this is an anonymous competition. Is this a "pipeline problem"? Not enough women applying? Maybe there should be some recruitment. I'm certainly curious about the percentage of composers who are Black women.
The press release is below the jump. There are some typos - missing spaces - in the original.
