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Orchestras face calls to improve repertoire diversity

Study on gender and race diversity of composers played by orchestras sees UK fare better than global average, but sector figures say there's more work to be done.  

Chris Sharratt
6 min read

UK orchestras are ahead of the global curve when it comes to the gender and race diversity of their repertoires, but compositions by dead white men still dominate across most performance programmes, a...

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