Disability Awareness Month

Today’s Beautiful Music is an introduction to an organization that helps perpetuate music-making for differently-abled people. OHMI Trust (One Handed Music Instrument Trust) helps develop and adapt musical instruments for people who are physically disabled. The organization has sponsored contests to develop musical instruments for one-handed use, teaches musicians to use them, and raises awareness […]

Gaelynn Lea is a violinist who won NPR’s Tiny Desk Concert competition in 2016. It helped propel the musician’s career, with gigs such as composing the music for MACBETH on Broadway, and . Gaelynn Lea is also Disability Rights activist and speaker. She was born with the genetic condition osteogenesis imperfecta, and plays her violin

Ioana Gandrabur is an award-winning musician and scholar with four degrees in music. The guitarist was born in Bucharest, Romania, and speaks six languages! Today’s Beautiful Music is Ioana Gandrabur’s performance of the gigue and double from Johann Sebastian Bach’s Suite BWV 997. Find out more about the Ioana Gandrabur and her career using the

Nigerian-born soprano Victoria Oruwari’s repertory includes art songs, operatic arias, songs from musical theatre, traditional folksongs and jazz. Her lovely voice provides today’s Beautiful Music — she’s singing IF I LOVED YOU from Carousel. She made the recording to Celebrate National White Cane Day which is on October 15. You can also watch a lovely