The 2024 National Pathways Festival convenes 60 talented pre-college musicians of color from Pathways programs across the country for a multi-day musical intensive. The 2024 fellows, including six of our own Accelerando students, were selected through a competitive audition process to study and perform with Nashville Symphony musicians. The festival will culminate in a side-by-side concert led by Giancarlo Guerrero.
The Pathways Festival weekend is presented in partnership with Equity Arc. To learn more about Equity Arc, please visit https://equityarc.org/event/national-pathways-festival-summit/
The Pathways Festival Side-by-Side performance is presented in partnership with Equity Arc, The Big Blue Opera Initiative's Harry T. Burleigh Festival, and the National Museum of African American Music.
Admission is FREE or Choose-What-You-Pay, but tickets must be reserved in advance.
Who is Equity Arc?
Equity Arc is a national coalition of musical organizations and advocates who collaborate to provide classical musicians of color with advancement and mentoring opportunities to further their musical careers. The collective work follows two paths: Building a comprehensive arc of support and mentorship for instrumentalists to navigate the journey from student to professional and assisting in breaking down barriers to achieving success in the field. Equity Arc also provides forums, resources, and training for member organizations to dismantle the structural inequities, biases, and systemic racism ingrained in their policies and practices that inhibit the creation of equitable opportunities and environments for classical musicians of color.
In 2023, Equity Arc launched the National Collective for Musical Pathways, a collaborative initiative that provides a nucleus for Pathways programs across the United States. Pathways programs offer subsidized, musical training and mentorship that prepares pre-college musicians of color to enter prestigious collegiate music institutions. The National Pathways Festival is an annual opportunity for select fellows in the Collective to convene annually for a multi-day musical intensive, working alongside professional musicians and performing in our country’s preeminent concert halls. The Equity Arc Annual Convening brings together partners from across the field for focused discussion and action to level the playing field in classical music.
VIOLIN I Miro Raj, Pedro Goutay, Aki Santibanez, Alex Hernandez-Williams, Ellisah Catten, Elvis Duarte, Gabriel Vignon-Villani, Javier Irizarry, Natalie Huang, Yiguo Zhang, Primavera Fund
VIOLIN II Cyrano Jett Rosentrater, Primavera Fund, Principal Alba Gilabert-Reid, Andrei Nague, Ayra Karlin, London Diggs, Nevaeh Bass, Paloma Furst Chavira, Waverly Alexander,
VIOLA Lucas Lauprasert, Neena Agrawal, Dylan Gutierrez, Jean-Caleb Belizaire, Kiran Anderson, Na'ilah Shahid,
CELLO Kwanyun Loo, Caleb Graupera, Gui Vignon-Villani, Julio Martin-Navas, Lorenzo Ye, Lucas Das,
BASS Kevin Porter, Aram Karpeh, Madalena Kozol, Project STEP Maereg Million, Travis Phillips, |
OBOE Liliana Ortiz, Giovanni Sanchez,
FLUTE Aarushi Kumar, Trinity Gabreylski, Angel Reverol,
CLARINET Brahin Ahmaddiya, Nihar Bhavsar,
BASSOON Dhiren Sivapala, Fabrizio Milcent,
HORN Austin Adaranijo, Gui Cooper, Christian Palacios, Julianna Ivette Perelez Ruiz,
TRUMPET Alex Vinson, Natalia Noriega, Erre Maqueos,
TROMBONE Gabriel Silva, Bernard Ekwuazi, Orlandis Maise,
BASS TROMBONE Jake Sanchez,
TUBA Keith Holmes,
PERCUSSION Rishab Jain, Kenneth Felton III, Sydney Vance,
HARP Lea Kung, |