Detroit Symphony Orchestra | Between 2 Stands Season 1, Episode 6 - Ken Thompkins and Garrett McQueen @detroitsymphony | Uploaded June 2020 | Updated October 2024, 17 hours ago.
Join Andrés, Scott, and Abe for an open discussion on racial equity in classical music. Joined by guests Ken Thompkins and Garrett McQueen, this week's episode dives into topics such as: diversity on stage, what are the pathways to developing orchestras with equal racial representation? And, blind auditions: are they "fair"?

Principal Trombone Ken Thompkins has been a member of the DSO since 1997. His solo trombone recording: "Sonatas, Songs and Spirituals" features the music of Alec Wilder, Philip Wharton, Stephen A. Taylor, and William Grant Still. "Sonatas, Songs and Spirituals" is the winner of The American Prize in Instrumental Performance, 2018-19.

Garrett McQueen is a former DSO African-American Orchestra Fellow and co-hosts the podcast Trilloquy (www.trilloquy.org), now in its second season. This is the short bio. We could go on.