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Collective Impact in Action: Teaching Artists Build and Sustain the Future

UniSound’s Beckom-Freeman Teaching Artist-in-Residence (BTAR) alumni and BTAR Fellows don’t just create musical opportunities as performers. As teachers and mentors, they build community and maximize impact across music education, community engagement, and organizational synergies. Former BTAR Yusef Shelton “YS1” (’23-24) continues to mentor students across schools and youth-delinquent systems by teaching emotional intelligence, purpose discovery, […]

Mini-Grant Spotlight: Urban Impact

This past May, UniSound thought it would be fun to have a mini-grant contest for our member organizations. Each member organization could send us their favorite programming picture they took over the last year, and our UniSound Steering Committee would award $500 to their favorite. In total, we had four organizations participate and send in […]

BTAR Zuly Inirio Shares Five BIPOC Led Classical Music Podcasts to Listen to in 2022

If you’re looking for a new podcast about classical music from a different lens, check out these podcasts that are not only bringing great commentary to the classical music landscape but also highlight BIPOC artists, composers, and administrators. Melanated Moments in Classical Music is a new podcast that shines a spotlight on musical works […]

BTAR Zuly Inirio Talks About Three Latinx Composers You Probably Didn’t Know

Latinx people make up 18.5% of the overall population of in the United States and there are many Latinx classical musicians on the stage and in the pit. Today, I am highlighting three Latinx composers who are contributing to new American operas that tell the stories of Latinx people and their diverse cultures. Tania León, […]

Arts Ed Collaborative Launches New Artlook SWPA Map

The Arts Ed Collaborative has launched their new project called artlook SWPA. The idea was originally developed by Ingenuity in Chicago as a way to connect schools to arts organizations. Arts Ed Collaborative’s version does the same thing, but with schools and organizations in the southwestern part of PA. The map has two different sides […]

Have You Heard UniSound’s Latest Interview With WQED?

At the end of last month, UniSound took part in our first of multiple interviews with WQEDFM. This first interview is the start of UniSound and WQEDFM’s partnership that was established back in May of this year. WQEDFM wanted to become a partner of UniSound and offered to do a reoccurring interview series were UniSound […]

The Pittsburgh Girls Choir and Pittsburgh Camerata Come Together In New Affiliation

It was just announced in a press release today that the Pittsburgh Girls Choir will now be affiliating with Pittsburgh Camerata. The two choir groups are coming together to have a shared arts administration staff and will start looking right away to hire a full time executive director for the groups. By sharing their resources, […]

If It’s Up, Then It’s Up, Then It’s Up, Then It’s Flute?

A couple of weeks ago, my social media DMs blew up with shared videos of SNL’s Weird Little Flute skit featuring Kid Cudi. My flute colleagues proudly posted the video on their Facebook with the message “We are now mainstream!” With hits such as Future’s Mask Off, Lizzo’s Juice, and Drake’s Portland, listeners of hip […]

Virtual Summer Program Spotlight: Pittsburgh Youth Chorus

In our previous post titled, “A Summer of Music Making Online”, we listed various virtual summer music program offerings from UniSound organizations. Now, we’ve checked back in to hear how these programs have been going. Pittsburgh Youth Chorus (PYC) offered a la carte courses including Songs of the Broadway Stage, Intro to Ukulele, Songwriting, Instrumental […]

Center of Life Receives The Lewis Prize for Music’s COVID-19 Community Response Fund!

UniSound would like to congratulate Pittsburgh’s own Center of Life for being a recipient of The Lewis Prize for Music’s COVID-19 Community Response Fund! “The Lewis Prize for Music invests in youth music organizations and their leaders to facilitate positive change through access to music education. Each of the COVID-19 Community Response Fund recipients embody […]

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