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Was invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to serve on its 2020 Music Panel.


Created and produced "", a new resource for choral communities around the nation, based on "Dark River - the Fannie Lou Hamer Story" by Mary D. Watkins which was given its East Coast premiere at Mount Holyoke in 2014. Featuring historical commentary by Janice D. Hamlet at Northern Illinois University, the event premiered on July 28th, 2020 with the Pioneer Valley Symphony and Chorus, and was presented again on Aug 3rd, 2020 by the West Village Chorale in New York City.


Was featured on , a part of Cleveland Opera Theatre's "Opera For All Online" series. The show discussed his work in diversifying operatic programming and aired on July 1, 2020.


Work with the Mount Holyoke Symphony Orchestra was featured by in an artist interview on June 19th, 2020 titled, "It's not the Police, It's not the Bullets, It's the Attitude; A Conversation with the Artists of Invitation to a Die-In".


Starting in 2022, Johannes Norling is a research affiliate with the Laboratory for the Economics of Africa's Past at Stellenbosch University in South Africa.


Omojola, B. 2023. Director: African Art Music Conversations Series at Mount Holyoke: A Lecture-Recital. The Inaugural edition was held on October 14, 2023, featuring Ishaya Yarison (composer) and Miracle Amah (soprano). Larry Schipull was the piano accompanist.


Omojola, B. 2023. Panel Chair and organizer: 鈥淎frican Art Music: Autonomy, Pan-Africanism, and Cultural Patriotism.鈥 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.


Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: 鈥淎frican Pianism, Pan-Africanism and Anticolonial Nationalism: A Study of the Music of Halim El-Dabh.鈥 Society for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference, Ottawa, Canada, October 19-22, 2023.


Omojola, B. 2023. Conference presentation: 鈥淧itch Organization and Narratology in Post-Colonial African Opera: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.鈥 The African Operatic Voice Conference, University of Bern, Switzerland, September 8-10, 2023.


Omojola, B. 2023. Public Lecture: 鈥淥pera as Political Narrative: Composing the Music of Activism in Funmilayo.鈥 Lagos State University of Education, Lagos, Nigeria, August 4, 2023.