Documentary Film

Orchestrated

Trailer Released

Kyle P. Walker is featured in Orchestrated, a documentary film examining questions of access, representation, and cultural ownership in classical music.

The film charts the unknown story of the first full-time African American symphony orchestra in the context of a century-long Black struggle for an equal place in classical music. It follows Kyle P. Walker on a quest to uncover the lost traces of this audacious project, connect to living witnesses, and understand why this critical chapter of shared history has vanished.

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Recital Program & Recording Project

Bach to BlackNotes

Active

Bach to BlackNotes is both a concert program and a recording initiative tracing the evolution of keyboard writing from J.S. Bach through the piano music of Black American composers.

The program is available for booking as a solo recital. A recording project is in development.

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Recording Initiative

Samuel Coleridge-Taylor: Piano Works

In Progress

This recording project focuses on the piano works of Samuel Coleridge-Taylor, much of which remains underrecorded, with the aim of making a serious artistic case for Coleridge-Taylor's place in the concert repertoire.

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The Larger Work

The concert hall has always been a site of cultural argument. These projects take that argument seriously — not as activism, and not as sentiment, but as the actual work of deciding what music is worth playing and why.

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Three Fours, Valse Suite, Op. 71 No. 2 Samuel Coleridge-Taylor
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