Kay George Roberts

Kay George Roberts
Born(1950-09-15)September 15, 1950
Nashville, Tennessee
EducationFisk University
Yale University
Occupation(s)Conductor and Professor
EmployerUniversity of Massachusetts Lowell

Kay George Roberts (born September 15, 1950) is an American orchestral conductor and a professor of music at the University of Massachusetts-Lowell.[1][2] She is the founder and musical director of the New England Orchestra. She is recognized as the first woman and second African American to receive a doctorate in musical arts from Yale University.[3] As of 2018, she is one of the few female African American conductors in the world.

  1. ^ Curry, George E.; Webber, Brenda L.; Monroe, Sylvester; Payne, Les (2009-02-19). "a maestro". The Best of Emerge Magazine. Random House Publishing Group. pp. 324–327. ISBN 9780307514158.
  2. ^ "The Maestros". Ebony. Johnson Publishing Company. February 1989. p. 56.
  3. ^ Handy, D. Antoinette (1998). Black women in American bands and orchestras (2nd ed.). Lanham, Md.: Scarecrow Press. ISBN 0810834197. OCLC 42329813.