Print Media
Profiles and Interviews
Ms. Magazine: A Conversation with Music Composer Nkeiru Okoye of “Harriet Tubman” Opera Fame (2022)
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The New York Times: Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted (2021)
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Classical Voice of San Francisco: Nkeiru Okoye - Now is the Moment (2020)
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NPR/WDET - Detroit Razed Black Bottom. This Composer Doesn't Want You To Forget (2020)
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WFAE: Charlotte Symphony Set To Debut New Piece On City's History (2018)
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Baltimore Sun: Is this how it was with Mozart? (2006)
The New York Times: Songs, Some Coded, of Liberation (The New York Times, 2012
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Newsday: Arias of a Freedom Train (2012)
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Times Herald-Record: SUNY teacher's opera hails historical figure (2013)
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Concert and Recording Reviews
African Sketches
The New York Times Steve Smith, 2013
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When the Caged Bird Sings
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Briar Patch
from "TALES FROM THE BRIAR PATCH"
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Charlotte Mecklenburg
Classical Voice of North Carolina (2019)
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Harriet Tubman:
When I Crossed that Line to Freedom
Hyde Park Herald (M.L. Rantala, 2016)
Der Opernfreud (Harold Lacina, 2020)
Oberlin Conservatory Magazine (2016)
Cleveland: The Plain Dealer, Mark Satola 2016
Cleveland Classical: Nkeiru Okoye’s opera Harriet Tubman (2016)
I Care if You Listen: Arlene and Larry Dunn, 2016
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Inside is What Remains
Tulsa World, James D. Watts, Jr. 2021
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Songs of Harriet Tubman
Lightwood Press, (Concert review, Laurence Carr, 2022)
Boston Globe, (Zoë Madonna, 2018)
The Boston Musical Intelligencer, 2018
Compulsive Reader, (Recording review, Daniel Garrett, 2013)
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The Journey of Phillis Wheatley
Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Blog (Recording review, 2014)
The Boston Herald, 2005
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Voices Shouting Out
Classical Voice of North Carolina, 2006
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We've Got Our Eye on You
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