William Grant Still

William Grant Still

male, deceased (1978)
Conductor, African American, AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, Kappa Alpha Psi brother, from Arkansas, composer…Classical composer, African-American, American
William Grant Still (May 11,1895 - December 3,1978) was an African-American classical composer who wrote more than 150 compositions. He was the...
Scott Joplin

Scott Joplin

male, deceased (1917)
From st. louis, missouri, Ragtime composer, James Scott, African American, from Texas, AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer…composer, Classical composer, Classical musician, American, American composer
Scott Joplin was an American musician and composer of ragtime music. He remains the best-known ragtime figure and is regarded as one of the three...
George Walker

George Walker

male, 87 years old
AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, Lyric for Strings, Address for Orchestra, George Theophilus Walker, Rosario Scalero, Pulitzer Prize for Music…American, African-American, Classical composer, composer
George Theophilus Walker (born June 27, 1922) is an African-American composer, the first to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. He received the...
Adolphus Hailstork

Adolphus Hailstork

male, 68 years old
Michigan State University, Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III, David Diamond, Norfolk State University, youngstown state university, American…African-American, Classical composer, composer, AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, African American
Adolphus Hailstork (born Adolphus Cunningham Hailstork III, Rochester, New York, April 17, 1941) is an American composer and educator. He grew up...
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson

male, deceased (2004)
Brooklyn College, Princeton University, Winston-Salem, Conductor, film score composer, jazz musician…AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, classical music, composer, Classical composer, American
Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson (June 14, 1932, Winston-Salem, North Carolina-March 9, 2004, Chicago) was an innovative American composer whose...
Hale Smith

Hale Smith

male, 84 years old
Cleveland, American Academy of Arts and Letters, Broadcast Music Incorporated, C. W. Post College, Cleveland Arts Prize, Broadcast Music, Inc.…African American, AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, Classical pianist, Classical composer, American
Hale Smith (b. Cleveland, Ohio, June 29, 1925) is an American composer, pianist, educator, arranger, and editor. He studied at the Cleveland...
Anthony Davis

Anthony Davis

male, 58 years old
jazz pianist, African American, Academic, American, University of California San Diego, episteme…AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, composer, Jazz composer, Classical composer, American Composers' Orchestra
Anthony Davis (born February 20, 1951 in Paterson, New Jersey) is an American composer and jazz pianist.
Ulysses Kay

Ulysses Kay

male, deceased (1995)
Yale University, Columbia University, City University of New York, Tucson, University of Arizona, World War II…AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, composer, African-American, Classical composer
Ulysses Kay (January 7, 1917, Tucson, Arizona–May 20, 1995, Englewood, New Jersey) was an African-American composer. His music is mostly ne...
David Baker

David Baker

male, 78 years old
David Nathaniel Baker Jr, Third Stream musician, Indianapolis, Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, Jacobs School of Music, Third Stream Jazz…American, AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, composer, American Symphony Orchestra League
David Nathaniel Baker Jr. (born December 21, 1931 in Indianapolis, Indiana) is a leading symphonic jazz composer at the Indiana University Jacobs...
Alvin Singleton

Alvin Singleton

male, 69 years old
New York University, Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Yale, spelman college, American, rockefeller foundation…Classical composer, composer, AfricanAmericanclassicalcomposer, African American
Alvin Singleton (born 1940) is a composer from the United States. Born and raised in New York, he received his music education from New York...