Print Media
Profiles and Interviews
Ms. Magazine: A Conversation with Music Composer Nkeiru Okoye of “Harriet Tubman” Opera Fame (2022)
The New York Times: Let’s Make the Future That the ‘New World’ Symphony Predicted (2021)
Classical Voice of San Francisco: Nkeiru Okoye - Now is the Moment (2020)
NPR/WDET - Detroit Razed Black Bottom. This Composer Doesn't Want You To Forget (2020)
WFAE: Charlotte Symphony Set To Debut New Piece On City's History (2018)
Baltimore Sun: Is this how it was with Mozart? (2006)
The New York Times: Songs, Some Coded, of Liberation (The New York Times, 2012
Newsday: Arias of a Freedom Train (2012)
Times Herald-Record: SUNY teacher's opera hails historical figure (2013)
Concert and Recording Reviews
African Sketches
The New York Times Steve Smith, 2013
When the Caged Bird Sings
Briar Patch
from "TALES FROM THE BRIAR PATCH"
Charlotte Mecklenburg
Classical Voice of North Carolina (2019)
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
Inside is What Remains
Tulsa World, James D. Watts, Jr. 2021
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)
The Journey of Phillis Wheatley
Women's Philharmonic Advocacy Blog (Recording review, 2014)
The Boston Herald, 2005
Voices Shouting Out
Classical Voice of North Carolina, 2006
We've Got Our Eye on You
Further Reading
