Is your music diverse enough for Oxford to publish

New guidelines have been issued by the unblinkingly woke Oxford University Press:

Sheet Music Submissions

Oxford University Press is one of the longest-established and most respected music publishers in the world, with a distinguished heritage that began in 1923. Eminent composers published in those early days included William Walton, Ralph Vaughan Williams, and Constant Lambert. Today, OUP builds on this and is proud to publish world-renowned composers including Bob Chilcott, Gabriel Jackson, Cecilia McDowall, Sarah Quartel, John Rutter, Howard Skempton, and Mack Wilberg.

We publish quality music that educates, that inspires, that has a global voice and that brings communities together. It is our role as a publisher to share that music widely, enabling it to be performed by musicians and heard by audiences around the world.

Oxford University Press is committed to promoting and maintaining a culture of equality, diversity, and inclusion, and acting upon issues of diversity and inclusion is vitally important to fulfilling our mission. We recognize that many groups are currently under-represented in our music catalogue, and we are committed to changing and rapidly improving this through future publishing. As part of this commitment, we are currently accepting submissions from composers who:

• live with a disability; and/or
• are women; and/or
• identify on the broader spectrum of gender; and/or
• are from under-represented ethnic groups; and/or
• are from a lower socio-economic group

We encourage composers from these groups to submit their music for review