The classical music world is pretty white. But rather than simply accept the imbalance and hope things change eventually, Allison Migeon and her partner Brandyn Lewis decided to do something about it.

“It started in 2021,” Migeon said. “Brandyn and I were asking ourselves a lot of questions, like many people, about what we wanted to do and things we wanted to change professionally. Also, with everything that happened around (the death of) George Floyd, we took time to think — how could it be that in the milieu we had evolved in for so many years, there was so little representation of people of different origins? It was always the same types of people on stage, and the same types of repertoire being played.”

And so Migeon and Lewis founded Ensemble Obiora , Canada’s first orchestra comp

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