Gateways Music Festival

The Gateways Music Festival (GMF), founded in 1993 in Winston-Salem, North Carolina by pianist Armenta Adams Hummings, is held biennially since 1995 in Rochester, NY, in collaboration with the University of Rochester’s Eastman School of Music.

Its mission is to highlight the contributions and visibility of African-American classical instrumentalists. The GMF includes a large number of community outreach concerts at churches, schools, senior citizen homes, homeless shelters, as well as in renowned concert halls.