Frank J. Oteri: it is long overdue

It is long overdue!

MICA's Fair Music Initiative, if adopted by the music industry throughout the world (and it should be), is something of a Geneva Convention for composers and musicians; it is long overdue.

Frank J. Oteri is the Composer Advocate at the American Music Center and the founding editor of its web magazine NewMusicBox, which has been online since May of 1999. An outspoken crusader for new music and the breaking down of barriers between genres, Frank has written for publications including BBC Music, Chamber Music, Ear Magazine, Stagebill/Playbill, Symphony, Time Out New York and the Revised New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, has been a frequent radio and pre-concert speaker, and has served as the host for ASCAP's Thru The Walls showcase, Meet The Composer's The Works in Minneapolis, and the 21st Century Schizoid Music series at the Cornelia Street Café. Frank holds a B.A. and a M.A. (in Ethnomusicology) from Columbia University where he served as Classical Music Director and World Music Director for WKCR-FM.