Nkeiru Okoye • Composer

OP ED NEWS -- 9/19/2015 -- Regarding Women Composers, It's the Patriarchy, Stupid -- By Robert Gross

HYPERALLERGIC -- 8/3/2015 -- As the Met Abandons Blackface, a Look at the Legacy of African Americans in Opera  -- By Allison Kinney

CHARLESTON TODAY -- 10/29/2014 -- The Flight of a New Festival  -- By Peter Ingle

THE POST AND COURIER -- 10/26/14 -- Review: Musicians excel in final Colour of Music Festival programs  -- By Adam Parker

WOMEN’S PHILHARMONIC ADVOCACY BLOG -- 3/11/2014 -- Nkeiru Okoye. Feminist in the concert hall  -- By Liane Curtis

SIGHT WORD SOUND -- 3/3/2014 -- “Opera Review: Chamber Opera Premiere”  -- By Mark W. Greenfest

THE NEW YORKER -- 2/10/2014 -- “Can Crowd Funding Replace Artists’ Day Jobs?”  -- By Elizabeth Weiss

THE CHRISTIAN SCIENCE MONITOR -- 2/1/2014 -- “Harriet Tubman: Conductor, spy and Civil Military Mind”  -- By David Clark Scott

MS. MAGAZINE -- 3/10/2013 -- “100 Years Later: The Harriet Tubman Symposium.”  -- By Janell Hobson

THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 2/3/2013 -- “Raising Voices and Awareness for Overlooked Works" -- By Steve Smith

THE TIMES HERALD-RECORD -- 2013 -- “Underground Railroad inspires new composition” -- By James F Cotter

TIMES HERALD RECORD -- 1/7/2013 -- “SUNY New Paltz professor's opera hails historical figure”  -- By Jeremiah Horrigan

NEWSDAY -- 2/20/2012 -- “Arias of a freedom Train”  -- By Steve Parks

THE NEW YORK TIMES -- 2/27/12 -- “Songs, some coded, of liberation”  -- By Karen Lipson

CLASSICAL VOICE OF NORTH CAROLINA -- 2008 --  “Concert Review”  -- By W. Gerald Cochran

BALTIMORE SUN -- 10/3/2006 -- “Is this how it was with Mozart?”  -- By Glenn McNatt

CLASSICAL VOICE OF NORTH CAROLINA -- 2006 --  “Concert Review”  -- By W. Gerald Cochran

BOSTON GLOBE -- 8/19/2005 -- “Children's concert provides a 'Journey' for all ages”  -- By Christina Linklater

THE BOSTON HERALD -- 7/18/2005 -- “Landmarks Orchestra pays tribute to poet Wheatley's life `Journey'”  -- By David Cleary

BOSTON SUNDAY GLOBE -- 7/17/2005 -- “A pioneer’s struggle inspires a sound: A composer and a writer create a work about the first African-American Poet”  -- By Richard Dyer

BAY STATE BANNER -- 7/21/2005 -- “Landmarks Orchestra opens ‘Journey of Phillis Wheately’  -- By Caldwell Titcomb

HOME NEWS TRIBUNE -- 2/22/1999 --  “Actor Glover Takes the Lead in RU Student’s Premiere”  -- By Frederick Kaimann

HOME NEWS TRIBUNE -- 2/19/1999 --   “Following Her Muse”  -- By Frederick Kaimann

RUTGERS MAGAZINE -- 1997 --  “Music of the Spheres: The Sound of Music, to Student – Composer Nkeiruka Okoye, Mixes Jazz, Pop, Gospel, African, and Classical motifs”  -- By Bill Glovin

RUTGERS FOCUS -- 1997 --  “Winning Scores: ‘Real Composer’ Impresses Detroit Symphony”   -- By Stacey B. Hersh