Musical Activism
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Musical activism is the idea of aligning with organizations and collaborating on projects that promote diversity, equity, and inclusion in the arts. It’s using ones musical voice as a tool to enact social change.
What does this look like? |
As a performer
Click on the links below to find out more about the projects Seth is involved with, and how you can help!
Teaching artist- CAMP: Based in Garfield Park, Seth teaches strings and piano in a classroom setting.
Student Mentor- CMPI: Seth mentors 3 families whose students aspire to one day gain admission to a top-level music conservatory
Collaborations
Rize Orchestra with Adrian Dunn: Performs concerts as a Violist.
Connect Gallery Hyde Park: Programs concerts, performs on viola.
Residents Orchestrate Project: Performs concerts in various south and west side neighborhoods in Chicago.
Music By Black Composers through the Rachel Barton-Pine Foundation: Researches and catalogues string quartets written by Black composers.
Past Projects
Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion Fellowship
Grant Park Music Festival Project Inclusion Fellowship
Gimmie Shelter Mixtape: Performed on Viola
Elijah McClain Vigil Oz Park: Violist, wrote musical arrangements.
DuSable Museum Reopening Concert: Violist, wrote musical arrangements.
Notes for Peace: Performed on viola
- Programming works written by composers of diverse backgrounds with an emphasis on women, people of color, and living composers.
- Collaborating with artists and organizations whose projects promote themes of social justice.
- Performing in neighborhoods and communities that do not have regularly scheduled classical music performances.
- Writing arrangements of traditional Black American music: Spirituals, Blues, Jazz, R+B, etc. with the goal of showcasing and acknowledging the rich tradition of this music, where it came from, and its creators.
- Teaching students living in traditionally underserved neighborhoods.
- Mentoring students of color with aspirations of achieving musical success at the highest level.
Click on the links below to find out more about the projects Seth is involved with, and how you can help!
Teaching artist- CAMP: Based in Garfield Park, Seth teaches strings and piano in a classroom setting.
Student Mentor- CMPI: Seth mentors 3 families whose students aspire to one day gain admission to a top-level music conservatory
Collaborations
Rize Orchestra with Adrian Dunn: Performs concerts as a Violist.
Connect Gallery Hyde Park: Programs concerts, performs on viola.
Residents Orchestrate Project: Performs concerts in various south and west side neighborhoods in Chicago.
Music By Black Composers through the Rachel Barton-Pine Foundation: Researches and catalogues string quartets written by Black composers.
Past Projects
Chicago Sinfonietta Project Inclusion Fellowship
Grant Park Music Festival Project Inclusion Fellowship
Gimmie Shelter Mixtape: Performed on Viola
Elijah McClain Vigil Oz Park: Violist, wrote musical arrangements.
DuSable Museum Reopening Concert: Violist, wrote musical arrangements.
Notes for Peace: Performed on viola
