Hildred Roach Collection on Pan African Composers

Hildred Roach, pianist, educator, lecturer, and author, is a native of Charlotte, N.C. A retired professor from the University of the District of Columbia, she also taught at Tuskegee, Fayetteville State, Howard and Virginia State Universities. Having received B.A. and M.M. degrees from Fisk and Yale Universities respectively, she studied at the Juilliard School of Music and the University of Ghana with such noted musicians as Carrie R. Quander, Margaret Welch Wilson, Richard Stark, Katherine Bacon, Seymour Fink, William Masselos, Alan Forte, Ward Davenny, Janet Knapp, Bela Nagy, F. Laires, and J. Kwabena Nketia. The founder of Group 3 (which played works of Pan African composers in the 1960s-80s), a member of Alpha Kappa, and Phi Beta Kappa, she earned scholarships from Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, John Hay Whitney, the Ford Foundation, Yale and Fisk, etc.; she is listed in Eileen Southern’s Dictionary of African and Afro-American Musicians, Who’s Who of American Women and Outstanding Educators of the South.

[Provided by Hildred Roach]