"As soon as I stepped into the sphere of jazz, I quickly realized that it was a very testosterone ruled sphere," Hurst said. "Every jam space I would walk into, it was approached as if it was a competition. And when I'd walk into a room and they saw that I was a woman, or heard I was a vocalist, it was automatically assumed that I didn't know anythign about jazz history, theory, ear training styles or how to even lead a band. And that's when my drive to prove them all wrong began."
Amplifying the Voices of Women in Jazz
How Rhiannon Hurst ’25 spotlighted the music of women and nonbinary artists through Holy Cross’ highest academic honor.
