Diversify the Stand provides accessible educational music for younger musicians by commissioning composers marginalized by race, ethnicity, nationality, gender, and orientation. They strive to listen and learn from the stories and experiences of passionate musicians. In their podcast, they interview musicians, performers, educators, historians, and entrepreneurs to expand how they think of the music musicians perform and expand our knowledge into non-traditional career paths. They have established connections with many other individuals and organizations who are striving to make a difference in the programming and music education fields in regard to diversity, equity, and inclusion.

These videos were created as a collaboration between the Trumpeter’s Multi-Track Competition and Diversify the Stand in order to promote and record musical works by composers marginalized by Race, Ethnicity, Nationality, Gender, and/or Orientation. Works were submitted by May 2022 and recorded in June and July in 2022, with released the following month of August.