American Mavericks
American Mavericks
The American Mavericks Project (AMP) celebrates piano music by Black American composers 1900-present, with emphasis on 21st century composers, through commissions, performances, education and research.
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2025 Call for Scores Winners
AMP is thrilled to announce the winners of its 2025 Call For Scores! Marc Douyon’s Prelude and Toccata for Piano and Mikhail Johnson’s Fram di Pliegroun will be performed as part of AMP’s winter, 2025 season. Learn more about the winners here.
AMP is part of the 2025 Composers Now Festival
AMP’s 2/15 concert celebrating contemporary composers at the Newark School of the Arts is part of the the 2025 Composers Now Festival. Read more.
Dorothy Rudd Moore
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Pamela Z
George Walker
Mary D. Watkins
Jeffrey Mumford
Joyce Solomon Moorman
Adolphus Hailstork
Julius Eastman
Carolyn Yarnell