2011 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 11, 2010 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater
Opera | Presenting | Theater | Visual Arts

Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Music

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$15,000
To support Reflect and Rejoice: A Community Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the tribute will include performances including the premiere of a new work by composer Adolphus Hailstork, a spoken-word performance, and educational activities for school children.

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$25,000
To support a residency by Israeli composer Avner Dorman. Two week-long visits are planned that will include master classes for university music students, lectures to school students and adults at Jewish community centers, radio broadcasts, and the commissioning and performance of a new work by the composer.

Alarm Will Sound, Inc.
New York City, NY
$25,000
To support performances, commissions, and educational activities. Plans include the commissioning and premieres of new works by composers Roger Reynolds and Ken Ueno with the public able to track the development of Ueno's work online; performances at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in Columbia, MO; and workshops and performances for young performers at the Kaufman Center's Special Music School in New York City. 

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$22,500
To support the American Music Festival: Nurturing New Generations of Creative Artists. The five-day festival will feature commissions by numerous American composers including Aaron J. Kernis, Joan Tower, Zhou Long, and Michael Daugherty who will each mentor a group of emerging composers who also will be commissioned to create new works.

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support a commission for the educational program BandQuest and website expansion. Composer Christopher Theofanidis will create a new work for middle school bands to be included in the BandQuest series.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the So Far...Festival of 21st Century American Music. The nine-day festival will feature works by 50 young composers; 15 ensembles including the orchestra and other ensembles such as Either/Or and eighth blackbird, 10 or more concerts; outreach programs; broadcasts and other media events; and professional meetings.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$35,000
To support online services for new American music. Services for composers and contemporary musicians and enthusiasts will include www.NewMusicBox.org, a monthly Web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community; the American Music Center Online Library, a searchable encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers; and Counterstream Radio, an online radio station.

American Symphony Orchestra League (aka League of American Orchestras)
New York, NY
$140,000
To support the League's strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the orchestra field. The League will focus attention on best-practice models through a series of field-wide forums and an annual national conference for more than 1,200 participants.

Apollo Theater Foundation (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the inaugural Harlem Jazz Shrines Annual Festival. In partnership with Harlem Stage (Aaron Davis Hall), the festival will include programming in various Harlem locations and will celebrate the legacy of jazz in the community with musical performances, symposia, panels, films, and educational offerings.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Height, OH
$30,000
To support Handel and Vivaldi Fireworks, a series of baroque musical performances on tour in various U.S. cities. Music director Jeannette Sorrel and French countertenor Philippe Jaroussky will collaborate on these engagements, each complemented by master classes at major conservatories; pre-concert lectures; and outreach activities.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$25,000
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include webinars and "Ask the Expert" conference calls; an annual statewide conference; and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support performances of contemporary music in venues around the country.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$25,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. Led by resident ensemble the American Symphony Orchestra, the festival will explore the world and music of Finnish composer Jean Sibelius by presenting a range of musical forms including orchestral, chamber, and choral concerts with associated educational activities.

Berklee College of Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival in the City's South End. In a partnership with JazzBoston, the festival will be programmed around the theme "Celebrate Global Music and Nature" and will include jazz and world music artists in performances, educational events, entertainment activities for families, and an interactive jazz-related installation.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Somerville, MA
$15,000
To support commissions, premiere performances, performances of 20th-century works, and related educational activities. Two commissions of new works by composers David Rakowski, and Bernard Hoffer will be premiered.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$55,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The four-day festival, directed by composer Charles Wuorinen, will feature chamber music and orchestral performances by resident musicians and guest artists of works by 15 to 20 contemporary composers including the premiere of a commissioned work by Wuorinen.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support performances featuring guest conductors with related educational activities. Conductors Sir Mark Elder, Susanna Mälkki, and Thomas Adès will conduct Friday evening concerts in an informal format designed to attract a younger audience and will be broadcast on WGBH-FM radio.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (aka Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival)
Vail, CO
$12,500
To support the 24th annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, open rehearsals, public workshops, the Young Artists Program, and educational outreach concerts.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$10,000
To support a composition program for young musicians participating in the summer institute during the Brevard Music Festival. Plans include instruction for 10 college students and four high school students by faculty composers, composition seminars, readings, and concerts of works by student composers.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support world premiere performances of a new work for violin and orchestra by composer Daron Hagen. Violinist Michael Ludwig will be the featured soloist of the work that is tentatively titled Songbook (Concerto for violin and orchestra).

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$25,000
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer 20 emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and a public performance, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

California Summer Music, Incorporated
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Composition Program. The project will comprise residencies for emerging composers, the creation and premiere of new chamber works, a free public concert of works by established living composers, and residency activities with guest composer Judith Shatin.

Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, Inc. (aka none)
North Eastham, MA
$10,000
To support the 32nd season of the Cape Cod Chamber Music Festival. Concerts will take place in sites from the western part of Cape Cod to the outer Cape and will include master classes and pre-concert lectures by the principal artists of the festival and educational activities for high school students.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$25,000
To support the American Sounds Music Initiative. Concerts that explore the African and European foundation of American music, will be performed during the Caramoor International Music Festival and the fall festival and will range from early American music to bluegrass and folk to classical, gospel, and jazz.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the American Mavericks Festival. The centerpiece of the festival will be a five-concert residency by the San Francisco Symphony, conducted by Michael Tilson Thomas.  Live and online educational and community programs also will be featured.

Chamber Music America, Inc. (aka CMA)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support CMA's National Leadership Initiative. Designed to build leadership skills in the chamber music field, the project will provide professional services to members through consultancies, on-site technical assistance, special publications, a website, and a national conference in New York City.

Chamber Music Conference and Composers' Forum of the East
Valley Cottage, NY
$10,000
To support composer residencies, a commissioning program, and free public concerts as part of a summer chamber music conference. The annual conference at Bennington College in Vermont will include residencies by composers Susan Botti, Kenneth Frazelle, Harold Meltzer, and Donald Crockett.

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Farmington Hills, MI
$20,000
To support the Kalichstein-Laredo-Robinson International Trio Award performances. Plans include the tour concerts by the current winner, the Morgenstern Trio, presented by up to 20 presenters across the country.

Chicago Chamber Musicians (aka CCM)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the First Monday Concert Series. The free noontime concert series will be presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM radio station.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (aka CSO) (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support stipends and training for pre-professional musicians of the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Culminating in four full orchestra concerts, the musical training will include rehearsals, performances, and community engagement activities, under the direction of conductor Cliff Colnot, guest conductors, and members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$80,000
To support a residency with conductor Riccardo Muti. Performances in Chicago and at Carnegie Hall in New York City will include a concert version of Giuseppi Verdi's Otello and works by composers Anna Clyne, Edgar Varese, and Dmitri Shostakovich and will take place as part of Muti's inaugural season as music director.

Chorus America Association (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the Choral/Orchestral Conducting Master Class. In partnership with the Mannes College, a four-day conducting workshop for 40 to 50 early- to mid-career conductors will take place involving Mannes orchestra musicians and a professional chorus at the New School of Music in New York City.

Chorus America Association
Washington, DC
$100,000
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference; web-based services; publications; and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers.

Clayton State University (on behalf of Spivey Hall)
Morrow, GA
$10,000
To support Project Jupiter, a residency by the Jupiter String Quartet at Spivey Hall. During the two, one-week sessions, the quartet members will coach area high school students and perform in schools and at a culminating concert that will be recorded for future broadcast on WABE-FM.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theatre)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Composer Portraits Series, a performance and residency program presented at Miller Theatre.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements.

Crossing, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the third annual choral festival titled Month of Moderns. Three concerts of music written in the past 15 years are planned, featuring premieres of commissioned works by Latvian composer Ēriks Ešenvalds and American composer Kile Smith.

CSU Fullerton Auxiliary Services Corporation (aka California State University Fullerton)
Fullerton, CA
$12,500
To support a residency at California State University Fullerton with choral conductor Dale Warland. The five-day residency will include performances by the John Alexander Singers and high school and college student singers, workshops for choirs and choral directors, and open rehearsals.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation (on behalf of Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland)
Cleveland, OH
$17,500
To support the 32nd Annual Tri-C JazzFest, an educational jazz festival. Program components will include a showcase of jazz legends, a spotlight on new artists in different genres, school field trips, master classes, clinics, high school jazz ensemble adjudications, and student performances with artists-in-residence.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support chamber music concerts, the commissioning of a new work, a recording, radio broadcasts, and educational activities such as lectures, master classes, and in-school programs.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support world premiere performances of a new work for gamelan and orchestra by composer Stewart Copeland. Titled "Gamelan D'Drum," the performance will feature Dallas-based gamelan ensemble D'Drum and will be preceded by master classes with the composer and the Greater Dallas Youth Orchestras.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$20,000
To support a performance of composer Gustav Mahler's Symphony No. 8: Symphony of a Thousand and related educational activities.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support performances of a complete cycle of Beethoven symphonies and related educational activities. All nine Beethoven symphonies plus the three Leonore Overtures, the Fidelio Overture, and Creatures of Prometheus will be performed, conducted by Music Director Leonard Slatkin, over a three-week period.

Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series (aka Dolce Suono Ensemble)
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
To support the Mahler 100/Schoenberg 60 Project by the Dolce Suono Ensemble. In commemoration of the centennial of composer Gustav Mahler's death and the 60th anniversary of composer Arnold Schoenberg's death, a program of their chamber music along with the premieres of commissioned works by five composers: David Ludwig, Steven Mackey, Mandy Fang, Stratis Minakakis, and Steven Stucky.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$22,500
To support a national conference for the early music field and a Collegium Festival for college-age performers of early music. The three-day conference and festival in Boston will offer professional development sessions, coaching, and performance opportunities.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the Earshot Jazz Festival featuring concerts in clubs, concert halls, community centers, and other Seattle venues including the Seattle Art Museum and Kirkland Performance Center. Rare jazz film screenings, photo and art exhibits, literary readings, commissions, residencies, and educational programs will supplement musical performances.

Eighth Blackbird Performing Arts Association
Evanston, IL
$10,000
To support a concert of chamber music with related educational activities. The performance will pair Bach's Chaconne in a large ensemble arrangement with composer Steve Reich's Music for 18 Musicians and will include pre- and post-concert lectures.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$12,500
To support American Encounters: John Harbison. The week-long residency will include performances of his recent compositions, a radio broadcast, and educational activities led by the Harbison.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka DC Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support the DC Jazz Festival featuring world-renowned and local artists in venues including the National Mall, Kennedy Center, libraries, public schools, universities, and galleries.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$11,000
To support a residency with the Sō Percussion ensemble. The four-day residency will feature performances, a radio broadcast, outreach and education programs for underserved audiences, and master classes for college students.

Friends of Chamber Music (aka FCM or The Friends)
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support presentations of chamber music, solo piano, early music, and educational programs. Eight concerts and two What Makes It Great? educational programs will be presented.

Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia
Minneapolis, MN
$15,000
To support orchestral concerts. Free concerts featuring works by composers Henri Vieuxtemps, Antonín Dvořák, William Grant Still as well as works by living American composers including two recent commissions by Jay Fishman and Joseph Adams are planned in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$13,000
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program for chamber ensembles. Designed to bridge the gap between graduate school and a professional performing career, the program involves emerging, pre-professional ensembles participating in coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$17,500
To support performances of Handel's oratorio Israel in Egypt, a radio broadcast, and related educational activities.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$12,500
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. The six-week summer program held in Wolfeboro, NH, will train approximately 35 artists in the areas of voice, freedom of expression, public speaking, movement, and drama.

Indiana University
Bloomington, IN
$20,000
To support David Baker ― A Legacy in Music, a tribute concert and accompanying CD/print publication with recordings, a two-part radio series, and an online forum. NEA Jazz Master David Baker's impact as a pioneering jazz educator, composer, musician, and social activist will be analyzed in the development of this publication.

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support ICElab, a project of commissioning, residency workshops with six emerging American composers, and premiere performances in concerts across the country.

International Music Foundation
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the Dame Myra Hess Memorial Concert Series. Free, weekly lunchtime performances by young classical musicians will be presented at the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT-FM and streamed globally on their website.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the national Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival in New York City and the preceding regional Essentially Ellington Festival in partnership with the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The program serves high school students throughout the nation, Canada, and overseas, by bringing together jazz ensembles with clinicians, educators, and professional jazz musicians from the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$65,000
To support a series of Frederick P. Rose Hall performances by the resident Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra and guest artists, including NEA Jazz Masters. Program plans seek to extend audiences for jazz through pre-concert discussions and related events.  Audiences exceeding 14,000 are expected, with an additional one million radio listeners.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Jazz Gallery's Thursday Night Debut Series. The focus on innovative programming aims to serve as a laboratory for gifted emerging professional jazz artists, providing them training that will enable them to step forward as band leaders and offering them opportunities to premiere new works.

Jazz St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$20,000
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program in local elementary, middle, and high schools, and the after-school music education program.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$10,000
To support the 25th Anniversary Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. Programming includes free and ticketed concerts, workshops, and master classes, auditorium concerts for school children, lectures, and performances in outlying communities.

Keowee Chamber Music
Asheville, NC
$7,500
To support the 11th annual Keowee Chamber Music Festival. The summer festival will feature public chamber music concerts, radio broadcasts on WCQS-FM, open rehearsals, and family outreach events across western North Carolina and upstate South Carolina.

Kerrytown Concert House, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$12,500
To support Edgefest 2011: Blending in/Blending Out. National and international contemporary, classical, avant-garde, and improvisational jazz artists are scheduled to perform in free and tickets concerts, conduct public master classes, participate in school residency activities, and engage in public discussions and seminars.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka KRONOS QUARTET)
San Francisco, CA
$35,000
To support performances and residency activities by the Kronos Quartet and the commissioning and national tour performances of a new work by composer Bryce Dessner.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$17,500
To support three concerts featuring 2010 NEA Jazz Masters and pianists Kenny Barron and Cedar Walton and vibraphonist Bobby Hutcherson. Performances will be held at three Santa Cruz locations and supplemented by outreach activities, including master classes with the Kuumbwa High School Honor Jazz Band.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$17,500
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the festival will include commissions and premieres of new works by composers Joan Tower, Ellen Taaffe Zwilich, and Sean Shepherd as well as a variety of educational activities.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$17,500
To support the 2011-12 Jazz Masters Series at the Williams Center for the Arts. All five performances of internationally acclaimed jazz musicians and two orchestras are preceded by pre-concert talks with the visiting artists and supplemented by educational programs and residency work, in connection with the Lafayette College Music Department.

Lawrence University of Wisconsin (consortium)
Appleton, WI
$7,500
To support a Latin American Chamber Music Festival, a commission, and recording. In partnership with James Madison University, the festival will feature concerts by the Arcos Trio of chamber music by contemporary American and Latin American composers including the premiere and subsequent recording of a commissioned work by composer Roberto Sierra, followed by tour concerts, workshops, and outreach activities in Wisconsin, Michigan, and Virginia.

Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. (aka The Litchfield Jazz Festival & Litchfield Jaz)
Litchfield, CT
$12,500
To support the 16th anniversary Litchfield Jazz Festival, showcasing avant-garde, straight-ahead, Latin, Dixieland and other genres of jazz.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support concerts and radio broadcasts featuring young guest artists. French pianist Lise de la Salle and American mezzo-soprano Sasha Cooke will be featured on two concert programs each performed at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, CA, and the Royce Hall on the campus of University of California, Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$50,000
To support the world premiere and radio broadcast of Mugunghwa: Rose of Sharon by composer Mark Grey with related educational activities.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the presentation of Aspects of Adés, a festival celebrating the life and work of composer/conductor/pianist Thomas Adés. As curator for the events, Adés will conduct and perform on the programs, each featuring one of his commissioned works or music never performed in Los Angeles.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$15,000

To support American Masters, a concert featuring the premiere of a commissioned work by Terence Blanchard with related educational activities.

Manchester Craftsmen\'s Guild (aka Youth and Arts)
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
To support the New Rhythms mini-concert series. Jazz artists Vijay Iyer, Jane Monheit, The Caribbean Jazz Project, and Hiromi will perform as well as participate in pre-concert engagements, educational outreach activities, and two interactive webcast events.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the presentation of the Philadelphia Orchestra at the outdoor summer festival in Fairmont Park, located near the center of Philadelphia. Programming will feature full orchestral repertoire, as well as lecture-demonstrations with guest artists and students from the Curtis Institute of Music.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$35,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. Student musicians will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals and concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of concert artists, composers, and scholars during the Marlboro Music Festival.

Maverick Concerts, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$12,500
To support the 96th annual summer chamber music festival, The Virtuoso Composer: Liszt, Mahler, Bernstein and Friends. The festival will feature a chamber orchestra setting of Leonard Bernstein's Songfest adapted by music director Alexander Platt, as well as performances by pianists Andrew Armstrong and Babett Hierholzer; Brooklyn Rider string quartet; soprano Nancy Allen Lundy; baritone Philip Cutlip; and the Maverick Chamber Players.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support the Creative Ventures initiative. The project will offer composers networking opportunities through regional workshops and meetings and new web content, provide technical assistance to composers and presenters involved in artist residencies, and enable organizations to present programs at national and regional music service organizations' conferences.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, a professional development project. As many as eight composers, selected competitively, will participate in the week-long institute, which will enable them to hear first-hand their work performed by a full orchestra.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$15,000
To support Sound Unbound, free community concerts in rural southwestern New Hampshire towns. Each week during the two-month festival, a composer and a poet will be in residence at the festival.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$50,000
To support artists fees and travel costs for the 54th Monterey Jazz Festival. Renowned and emerging artists will perform at the festival, including the 2011 artist-in-residence and the annually selected Commission and Showcase Artists.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$22,500
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The chamber music concerts and outreach activities (with artists such as American Bach Soloists, Casals Quartet, and Jack Quartet) will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA
$15,000
To support a guest conductor residency program. Professional conductors, including Larry Rachleff, Leonard Slatkin, and James Gaffigan, will conduct young instrumentalists in orchestral and chamber music repertoire as part of their professional training during the summer festival. summer festival.

Music Associates of Aspen, Inc. (aka Aspen Music Festival and School)
Aspen, CO
$20,000
To support the Aspen Music Festival and School's Shakespeare Festival. Programming will explore the influence of William Shakespeare's literary works on classical and contemporary music through performances of works such as Hamlet by Dmitri Shostakovich and Benjamin Britten's opera A Midsummer Night's Dream.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc. (aka Music from Angel Fire)
Angel Fire, NM
$25,000
To support Music from Angel Fire's 28th Anniversary Chamber Music Festival. Activities will include classroom performances and touring to rural New Mexico communities, along with a national radio broadcast.

Music at the Anthology, Inc. (aka MATA)
Brooklyn, NY
$12,500
To support the 13th annual festival of new music at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Manhattan. Founded in 1996 by composers Philip Glass, Eleanor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, the festival will present ensembles-in-residence and international groups.

Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Music of Young Chinese Composers, including the commission and premiere of new works by composers Huong Ruo, Xi Wang, Fang Man, and Li Xinyan for an ensemble of Western and traditional Chinese instruments.

Musical Arts Association (aka Cleveland Orchestra)
Cleveland, OH
$80,000
To support the Contemporary Soloists project of the Cleveland Orchestra with guest artist eighth blackbird. Approximately 19,000 people will attend performances and 60,000 listeners will hear radio broadcasts on WCLV-FM.

National Repertory Orchestra, Inc.
Breckenridge, CO
$10,000
To support Riverwalk Center Concerts, professional development for emerging orchestral musicians. Under the direction of music director Carl Topilow and guest conductor JoAnn Falletta, the project will include master classes, a summer seminar program, and performances.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support presentations commemorating the 50th anniversary of President John F. Kennedy's 1961 inauguration and the historic concert performed at Constitution Hall.

Network for New Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support Trade Winds from China: New Music Explores Asia, the commissioning and performance of a new work by composer Shih-Hui Chen.

New Century Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support the Featured Composer Residency by American composer Mark O'Connor.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the New School Concerts' New York String Seminar Program, a ten-day extensive training scholarship program for 64 high school and college-age string players, selected through national live auditions.

New Sounds Music, Inc. (aka PRISM Saxophone Quartet)
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support the commissioning and presentation of new works by Fang Man and Lei Liang for the PRISM Saxophone Quartet. Composed for saxophone quartet, traditional Chinese instruments, and both Chinese and Western percussion, the works will be premiered by the quartet and Music From China.

New World Symphony, Inc. (aka New World Symphony)
Miami Beach, FL
$65,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. Under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the program will use performances, coaching, and community outreach activities to prepare more than 80 gifted young musicians for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Night & Day/USA, a concert program of songs about the American worker with performances at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York and at the Clarice Performing Arts Center in Maryland.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$17,500
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 65th annual music festival will be curated by soprano Dawn Upshaw, who will serve as the 2011 festival music director and featured vocalist in performance, as well as the Australian Chamber Orchestra and the Maria Schneider Orchestra.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$20,000
To support Music in the Time of War, performances of 20th century compositions created under the influence of war, including Unanswered Question by Charles Ives and The Wound-Dresser by John Adams.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Living Music Initiative, which includes the commissioning and performance of a new song cycle by Augusta Read Thomas, premiere performances of new works by emerging composers, and revival performances of a previously commissioned work by Fred Lerdahl.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support OM16, the 16th annual new music festival, including composer residencies, a panel discussion, free workshop, and lecture-demonstration session. Participating composers include Jason Moran, Janice Giteck, Han Bennink, and Agata Zubel.

Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$12,500
To support the 5th Annual Creative Soundspace Festival. Established and emerging touring and resident artists of improvised "creative music" (e.g., avant-garde, free jazz, world music) will perform and participate in educational presentations and workshops with local artists.

Pacific Symphony
Santa Ana, CA
$50,000
To support The Passion of Philip Glass, a festival celebrating the composer's musical legacy. The festival will be directed by music director Carl St. Clair and artistic adviser Joseph Horowitz and will showcase The Passion of Ramakrishna, Glass's work for orchestra and chorus commissioned in 2006.

Partners Achieving Success CDC, Inc.
Mitchellville, MD
$25,000
To support the annual Conductors National Summit and 105 Voices of History Concert at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC. The national initiative will provide talented students from 105 Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) the opportunity to participate in advanced artistic training with HBCU choral conductors in repertoire ranging from traditional spirituals, works by African American composers, to jazz and gospel.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$14,000
To support the Next Generation Project of Philadelphia premiere performances. Works by Adam Wernick, Jan Krzywicki, Ingrid Arauco, and other composers will be performed by the Juilliard, St. Lawrence, Daedalus, and Belcea Quartets, among others.

Philadelphia Classical Symphony, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the American Mosaics project, a new orchestral work based on the culture of the Lenni-Lenape Indians of Delaware by composer Brent Michael Davids of the Mohican (Nenape) nation. Its premiere will be complemented by a screening of the 1920 silent film The Last of the Mohicans with a live performance of the composer's film score, directed by music director Karl Middleman. and the composer, and will include a number of performances and school concerts.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support The Living Composers Collection: New Sounds for Philadelphia Audiences. The orchestra will perform new works by composers Osvaldo Golijov, Jimmy Lopez, Magnus Lindberg, Christopher Rouse, James MacMillan, and Jonathan Leshnoff at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Irvine, CA
$15,000
To support the JapanOC Festival, featuring performances by NEA Jazz Master Toshiko Akiyoshi, violinist Midori, Tokyo String Quartet, the Ukelele Orchestra of the United Kingdom, and Wind Up Bird Chronicle.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's commissioning and performance of a new work by composer John Corigliano to commemorate the 10th anniversary of September 11, 2001. The work for mezzo-soprano and full orchestra will use text from "One Sweet Morning," a poem by E. Y. "Yip" Harburg.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society (aka Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra)
Pittsburgh, PA
$70,000

To support the Composer of the Year, an artist residency with composer Joan Tower. In addition to a performance of her work  Tambor, Tower will host a reading session and symposium for young composers and visit local universities.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc. (aka Post-Classical Ensemble)
Washington, DC
$17,500
To support Celebrating Ives, a festival honoring the American composer Charles Ives (1874-1954). Through scripted, inter-disciplinary presentations of readings, chamber works, songs, and connecting commentary developed by artistic director Joseph Horowitz, the programs will bring to life the composer's work and his time and place.

Present Music, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support "Buffalo Nation (Bison bison)," the commissioning and performance of a new work by composer Jerome Kitzke and librettist Kathleen Masterson that will explore the story of the American bison. Both artists will participate in residency activities, such as a master class and open rehearsal as well as outreach to area colleges and high schools.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the Atlanta Symphony's A King Celebration project. In partnership with Morehouse College, the project will highlight the legacy of the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. through performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc. (aka Roulette)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Concert Series of Experimental and Adventurous Music, curated by Director Jim Staley. The series will feature a wide variety of musical styles by composers who perform their own work in solo or in ensemble and music performed on uniquely built instruments.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$65,000
To support the Living Composers Project featuring performances of a new work by American composer Gabriela Frank, as well as works by John Adams, Elliott Carter, and Matthias Pintscher.

San Francisco Classical Voice
San Rafael, CA
$10,000
To support technical enhancements of the organization's website through the addition of podcasting and videocasting features. The project will promote deeper knowledge and experience of listeners through the online music resource beyond the Bay Area.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the 2011 SFJazz Collective Residency and Tour, a residency and touring ensemble of all-star musicians. Project components include the creation of eight new works and eight new arrangements by each collective member, residency activities, and a public performance in San Francisco followed by a tour to several states. 

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support an artist residency by pianist Yuja Wang. Under the direction of music director Michael Tilson Thomas, the 23-year old Wang and the orchestra musicians will be engaged in chamber and orchestral performances, open rehearsals, master classes, and related community engagement events, including national public radio broadcasts of performances.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
To support the 39th annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival featuring a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts. Key artists include artistic director Marc Neikrug, pianists Kuok-Wai Lio, Gilbert Kalish, and Anne Marie McDermott.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$50,000
To support the annual Savannah Music Festival presenting artists of different genres including world music, music and dance traditions of Latin America, traditional songs from coastal Georgia, chamber music masterworks from Europe, and American jazz musicians performing in the jazz tradition. The 18-day, 100-program strong festival will take place in Savannah's Historic District.

Seattle Chamber Music Festival
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support summer chamber music festivals at Benaroya Hall in Seattle and the Overlake School in Redmond. The concerts will be curated by artistic director Toby Saks and associate artistic director James Ehnes and will feature artists such as pianists Anton Nel, Jeremy Denk, and Anna Polonsky.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the Alan Hovhaness Festival and other performances of contemporary musical works, including the world premiere of Symphonic Poem by composer-in-residence Samuel Jones.

Silk Road Project, Inc.
Providence, RI
$60,000
To support an artist residency at Harvard University by the Silk Road Ensemble, under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma. Programming will juxtapose tradition and innovation with music that draws on a variety of cultures, including East Asia, India, Central Asia, and the Middle East.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$15,000
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute an intensive two-week summer program designed to educate national and international students in the art and history of jazz. Students attend concerts, master classes, one-on-one instruction with educators and performers including NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller (2007).

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by composer Gregory Wanamaker. The new work will be written for flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass, violin, cello, piano, and percussion and a collaboratively created video by Carrie Mae Weems. The composer, will conduct free workshops at area universities and education centers. 

Sonny Boy Blues Society
Helena-West Hele, AR
$25,000
To support the King Biscuit Blues Festival.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$55,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra, an ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of new music. Directed by composer and educator Laura Kaminsky, the performances will be presented through monthly Salon concerts, a week-long Composers Now festival, and Sonidos, concerts highlighting works by Latino artists, both composers and performers, with artistic advisors Tania León and Arturo O'Farrill.

Toledo Orchestra Association, Inc.
Toledo, OH
$20,000
To support Road to Carnegie Hall, a touring project featuring the orchestra's performances at Carnegie Hall in New York. As one of seven orchestras invited to perform at Carnegie Hall's inaugural "Spring For Music Festival," the ensemble is part of the new initiative to present mid-sized symphony orchestras devoted to performing music of our time.

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support The Soviet Experience, performances of works created by composers working behind the Iron Curtain. The concerts, a component of a larger citywide multidisciplinary festival, will include works by Dmitri Shostakovich and Sergei Prokofiev, as well as contemporary composers Lera Auerbach and Sofia Gubaidulina.

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO
$10,000
To support the 41st Annual UNC Greeley Jazz Festival. The jazz educational event includes 275 non-competitive student group performances, educational workshops, free after-hours jazz sessions, and ticketed evening concerts with artists such as NEA Jazz Master Phil Woods (2007) and the Maria Schneider Orchestra.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Bach Festival)
Eugene, OR
$10,000
To support the Oregon Bach Festival's Joan of Arc Project, a commemoration of the 600th anniversary of the Catholic saint's death, at the Hult Center in Eugene. The performance project, featuring the festival chorus and orchestra in performances of Arthur Honegger's oratorio Jean d'Arc au Bûcher, will be directed by conductor Marin Alsop and semi-staged by James Robinson, artistic director of the Opera Theater of St. Louis.

Virtuosi of Houston
Houston, TX
$10,000
To support chamber music concerts performed by young, emerging artists in Zilkha Hall of the Hobby Center for the Performing Arts in Houston. Founding directors Franz Anton Krager and Andrzej Grabiec will provide coaching, conducting, and artistic direction for the participating young musicians who will be selected through an audition process.

Vocal Arts Society (aka Vocal Arts DC)
Washington, DC
$14,000
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitalists in performances in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Embassy of Austria, and other venues in Washington, DC. Accomplished singers, often in the early stages of their careers, perform a full range of repertoire.

VocalEssence (Consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$45,000
To support ¡Cantaré!, a community engagement and composer residency program featuring premieres of new works by Mexican composers Diana Syrse and Jorge Cózatl at the Ted Mann Concert Hall.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000

To support the Witness program, a weeklong festival celebrating contributions by African Americans, featuring guest conductor and composer André Thomas, the St. Olaf Choir, and three Minnesota high school choirs.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support New Music for a New Age, a performance project featuring Washington premieres of works by American composer Elena Ruehr. Included in the programming will be a world premiere of her cantata Averno, based on the book by Poet Laureate Louise Gluck, and a related symposium on the composer's choral works, directed by music director Julian Wachner.

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support music presentations featuring soloists and ensembles. Presented at the Kennedy Center, Strathmore Hall, and the Sixth & I Historic Synagogue, the concerts will feature soprano Renee Fleming; violinists Joshua Bell, Hilary Hahn, and Itzhak Perlman; pianists Maurizio Pollini and Simone Dinnerstein; as well as the Boston Symphony, the Saint Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra (Russia), and NHK Symphony Orchestra (Japan).

William Jewell College (on behalf of Harriman-Jewell Series)
Liberty, MO
$7,500
To support Discovery Concerts, recital performances by emerging musicians in the Harriman-Jewell Series. Master classes, lectures, conversations with artists and performances by artists such as Pianist Natasha Paremski, violinist Caroline Goulding, and tenor Alek Shrader will be presented free at the Folly Theater in downtown Kansas City.

Yellow Barn, Inc.
Putney, VT
$10,000
To support the professional development of approximately 40 emerging musicians selected through a nationwide audition process. During the annual summer chamber music festival, musicians will participate in rehearsals, coaching sessions, master classes, and performances with previous faculty and guest artists such as members of the Cleveland String Quartet, pianist Gilbert Kalish, and composer Mario Davidovsky.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Young Concert Artists Series, the professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC. Also included is the commissioning of a new work by a young composer, career management for emerging classical performers and composers, and residencies in schools and community centers while the artists are on tour.

Youth Choral Theater of Chicago
Evanston, IL
$7,500
To support the commissioning and performance of a new choral work titled Chante Avem Haiti (Sing with Me, Haiti) by collaborating composers Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory. The chorus will be accompanied by an ensemble of orchestral players and  percussionists.

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