expanding the canon through diverse music publishing
dulcamara press
A care-centered community of composers, scholars, and performers working in collaboration to publish music by under-represented composers.
Dulcamara Press was founded to uplift the voices of composers long-relegated to the margins because of gender, race, or ethnicity. That work is more important than ever. Hand-in-hand with making these works accessible and available is the responsibility to support communities that are at risk.
For the forseeable future, we will be donating 20% of the purchase of any score to legal aid organizations for immigration or reproductive justice.
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Our mission is to increase diversity and representation in classical music through the publication and promotion of both historical and contemporary classical music by composers from underrepresented populations.
Rejecting capitalist goals and methods, we are a care-centered community of composers/creators, scholars, and performers. Humane work should foster creativity and artistic growth while acknowledging and protecting human needs and limitations. We share both the burdens and the rewards of artistic labor.
- We publish music by historically underrepresented and marginalized composers and aim to increase access to their work.
- We produce and sell high-quality, sturdy, bound editions that are beautifully designed, well-researched, and can last forever.
- We are a labor collective.
Communities are strengthened by mutual support, not competition. We strive to build a community where artists are connected through mutual care and supported by each other so that we can all keep making art, engaging in scholarship, and prioritizing the work of marginalized and underrepresented composers past and present. Learn more