EOS

What do great composers look like? Where do they come from?

How we answer these questions is the focus of the EOS (Educate. Open. Strengthen.) Project.  Created at the BMC in the spring of 2020, the Project’s mission is to open new doors and allow our community to explore what and who we’ve been missing – namely, composers who are Black, Indigenous, and People of Color as well as those who identify as anything other than cis male.

The ability to write complex, evocative musical works belongs to no one race or gender, a fact that has long been obscured by the traditional canon.  But there is a long list of gifted composers- from contemporaries of the acknowledged “great composers” to living, emerging artists today- who have created powerful works of depth and grace.  EOS, under the direction of Heather Sommerlad, and with the participation of BMC faculty and local musicians, seeks out this unjustly neglected music to study and perform in a spirit of social justice and a desire to add to our understanding of great art.

Educate. Open. Strengthen. We are here to do the work. 

We welcome donations in support of this project!