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Music Reference Services Quarterly: Boulanger Initiative Database (PDF) (Apr. 8, 2024)

Symphony.org: Boulanger Initiative’s Annual Festival for Women and Gender-Marginalized Composers (Apr. 8, 2024)

The Washington Post: Looking for music by women composers? Here’s an entire festival by Michael Andor Brodeur (Apr. 4, 2024)

WETA 90.9 FM Washington DC: WoCo Fest 2024 “Evolve”: An Interview with Laura Colgate by Nicole Lacroix (Mar. 25, 2024)

The Violin Channel: Boulanger Initiative to Host Festival Celebrating Female Composers (Mar. 7, 2024)

Voice: Interview with co-founder of Boulanger Initiative, Dr Laura Colgate by Candelaria Gómez (Dec. 6, 2023)

International Arts Manager: A week with… Laura Colgate (Volume 19 Issue 08, August 2023)

WETA 90.9 FM Washington DC: WoCo (Women Composers) Festival with the Boulanger Initiative by John Banther (May 2, 2023)

OperaWire: Boulanger Initiative Hosts WoCo Fest 2023: Awaken Featuring Roomful of Teeth by Afton Wooten (Apr. 15, 2023)

Northwest Public Broadcasting: Music Moment: The Boulanger Initiative by Gigi Yellen (Mar. 23, 2023)

OperaWire: Boulanger Initiative Launches Database for BIPOC, Women, & Gender Marginalized Composers by Afton Wooten (Mar. 14, 2023)

Symphony.org: Boulanger Initiative Launches Database of Women and Gender-Marginalized Composers (Mar. 14, 2023)

The Violin Channel: Boulanger Initiative Launches Database for Underrepresented Composers (Mar. 14, 2023)

Symphony.org: Orchestras invited to help diversify audition repertoire by joining Boulanger Initiative’s Redefining the Canon project (Jul. 22, 2022)

Takoma Park Newsletter: A Nonprofit Founded in Takoma Park is Shaking up the Music Industry (Dec. 2021)

DC Theater Arts: Women composers to revel this weekend at WoCo Fest 2021 by Olivia Hampton (Jun. 2, 2021)

The Washington Post: Women composers take the spotlight — and the National Cathedral bell tower — at WoCo Fest by Michael Andor Brodeur (May 27, 2021)

Broadway World: Boulanger Initiative Presents Sarah Cahill's THE FUTURE IS FEMALE: IN CONVERSATION AND PERFORMANCE (Jul. 1, 2020)

Artsjournal: More joy by Greg Sandow (Apr. 16, 2019)

Washington City Paper: Classical Music is Overwhelmingly Male. The Boulanger Initiative Wants to Change That. by Callie Tansill-Suddath (Mar. 4, 2019)

The Washington Post: Do we need a whole festival of women’s music? The Boulanger Initiative thinks so. by Anne Midgette (Feb. 28, 2019)

WERA 96.7 FM Arlington: Classical Explorations #122 (January 31, 2019)

DCist: These Musicians Want To Introduce D.C. To Classical Female Composers by Sriram Gopal (Jun. 21, 2018)

Journal of the International Alliance for Women in Music: A New Force for Advocacy in the United States: The Boulanger Initiative by Cora Cooper (Fall 2018)

Violin Music by Women: The Boulanger Initiative: Exciting New Advocacy for Women in Music by Cora Cooper (Aug. 4, 2018)

Mentions

Forbes: Meet The Next Jazz Legacy Class Of Women And Non-Binary Jazz Stars by Steve Baltin (Apr. 24, 2024)

The Washington Post: The can’t-miss concerts and music festivals hitting D.C. this April by Chris Kelly (Apr. 3, 2024)

The Washington Post: How violist Jim Kelly would spend a perfect day in D.C. by Rudi Greenberg (May 9, 2022)

The Washington Post: A late-spring harvest of classical concerts; or, 10 preludes to summer. by Michael Andor Brodeur (May 6, 2022)

Kindful: Women’s History Month: 11 Nonprofits That Are Advocating For Female Empowerment (Mar. 1, 2022)

The New York Times: 5 Minutes That Will Make You Love the Organ (Dec. 3, 2021)

The New York Times: She Was an Organist for the Ages by David Allen (Nov. 2, 2021)

Larchmont Buzz: Obscure Opera Brought to Life in London by Director with Local Roots by Laura Foti Cohen (Sep. 1, 2021)

The Washington Post: With the Barclay Brass, D.C. takes an outsized role in the small world of classical brass music by John Lingan (Dec. 22, 2020)

Washington City Paper: The National Philharmonic’s New Season Is Virtual, But Its Musicians Are Playing in Person by Emma Sarappo (Oct. 20, 2020)

New Criterion: A review of recent livestreams from the Orchestra of St Luke’s, The Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, Les Arts Florissants & The Boulanger Initiative. by Jay Nordlinger (Sept. 2020)

The Washington Post: In classical music it was a year of building, deconstructing and, occasionally, rescuing by Anne Midgette (Dec. 9, 2019)

The Washington Post: Music by female composers uplifts the art form, in two strong concerts by Anne Midgette (Mar. 10, 2019)

I Care If You Listen: 5 Questions to inti figgis-vizueta (composer) by Gemma Peacocke (Jan. 10, 2019)