 She has been commissioned to write works for the American Guild of Organists, George Shirley, Duke Ellington, and her sister Joy Simpson arranged music for Kathleen Battle, Jessye Norman, and the Porgy and Bess Chorus of the New York Metropolitan Opera, and has performed with musical organizations such as Philadelphia's National Opera Ebony (later renamed Opera North).Based in the Washington, D.C., area, Curenton is Music Director of the Washington Performing Arts Society's Men and Women of the Gospel and an associate of the Smithsonian Institution.She has given lectures and participated in workshops on early 18th-century black religious music and the music of African-Americans during the Civil Rights era.