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Diverse Composers on State Adjudication Lists sorted both by composer and by difficulty
www.bravajazz.com "Brava Jazz is on a mission to support and champion women composers and arrangers in the field of big band jazz by creating a platform for their music to be widely published and distributed. With a diverse array of music for all ability levels from middle school to professional, Brava Jazz provides a definitive resource for jazz ensemble directors to diversify their setlists effortlessly through the performance of the highest quality music composed and/or arranged by women."
Mexican Repertoire Collection at Dartmouth allows for score previews, recordings, and direct website links to composers.
Percussion Pieces by Black Composers is a searchable Google sheet
https://3-2music.com/ is a jazz publisher specializes in music by Latinx composers
The Wind Repertory Project is massive database that enables directors to search and view repertoire through a variety of filters including grade level, ensemble type, form/style, soloist, and composer nationality/ethnicity/gender
The Composer Diversity Database: composerdiversity.com
Haley Woodgrove, ​Winner of the 2019 Shannon Shaker’s Women’s Band Composition Competition
List of works focusing on Grades 1-4, curated by composer Jodie Blackshaw
Tim Robblee's "Super Cursory List" of great compositions by women
Women Composers of Wind Band Music compiled by Christian Folk and Dr. Cynthia Turner
    with YouTube playlist
...And We Were Heard Initiative: connecting underrepresented composers with band directors
BandQuest series from the American Composers Forum is a curated series from some of the country's top composers including Libby Larsen, Chen Yi, Jennifer Higdon, and Alex Shapiro
Bravo Music publishes concert band works from Japan
LGBTQ Band Composers Project curated by Lee Hartman
Searchable database of solo and chamber ensemble music of all genres composed by members of the New York Women Composers, Inc.
Music by Black Composers: musicbyblackcomposers.org

Additional resources not specific to wind band:

Young Women Composers Camp https://www.youngwomencomposers.org
The Composers Equity Project: A Database of ALAANA,* Women, and Gender Non-Conforming Composers *Chamber Music America uses the acronym ALAANA to indicate composers who identify as African/Black, Latinx, Asian/South Asian, Arab/Middle Eastern, and Native American
Women in Music  "As long as the entitled and powerful decide what platforms are made available, they also decide what and who is allowed to be heard. It’s a form of passive censorship. Like the tree falling in the forest with nobody to hear it – does it make a sound? If there is no platform for women composers how can we hear what they have to say? From Michael Haas's "Female Composers: 'Degenerate,' 'Deviant' or Deliberately Downgraded?" 
"The Big List" of Women in music throughout history
Repertoire by Women's Composers by the Woman's Philharmonic Advocacy
International Women's Brass Conference list of commissioned works
Many, Many Women: an index of over 1000 composers, improvisers, and sonic artists
Groundbreaking Women Composers part 1
​http://blogs.jwpepper.com/index.php/19-groundbreaking-women-composers-part-1/
Groundbreaking Women Composers part 2
http://blogs.jwpepper.com/index.php/19-groundbreaking-women-composers-part-2/
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