2012 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ March 10, 2011 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Arts Education | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature | Local Arts Agencies | Media Arts | Museums | Music | Musical Theater |
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Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Music

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$15,000
To support the American Music Festival: Christopher Rouse and his American Legacy.

American Composers Forum (Consortium)
Saint Paul, MN
$30,000

To support Choral Connections, a national conference for choral composers and conductors. In partnership with VocalEssence, the conference will include performances and sessions on creating choral works and recording/distribution in the digital age.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Co-LABoratory initiative. Through a series of activities -- including workshops, symposia, commissions, open rehearsals, premieres, and online streaming designed to help up to six composers develop new ideas that stretch their artistic vision -- the initiative will be a season-long research and developmental laboratory for the creation of new, risk-taking orchestral music.

American Guild of Organists
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the performance and workshop programming at the biennial national American Guild of Organists convention.

Apollo Theater Foundation (Consortium)
New York, NY
$45,000
To support the Harlem Jazz Shrines festival, to include premieres of commissions, new talent presentations, jam sessions, and educational panels. A partnership with Aaron Davis Hall and Jazzmobile, innovative programming will connect live performances to multimedia features and will engage the public in creating a more livable and vibrant urban community that celebrates its roots.

Artist Series of Tallahassee, Inc.
Tallahassee, FL
$11,000
To support a residency by the Carducci String Quartet. Plans for the five-day program will include master classes, workshops, and recitals for high school and college students in Tallahassee, Havana, and Quincy, Florida, as well as a culminating public performance.

Arts for Art, Inc. (aka The Vision Festival)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the seven-day Vision Festival which will feature jazz, poetry, visual arts, panel discussions, and a free performance in the New York City Housing Authority Campos Plaza. Headliner artists include Andrew Cyrille, Milford Graves, George Lewis, Nicole Mitchell, Wadada Leo Smith, and pioneers of Latin free music Antonio Panda Gianfratti (Brazil), and Ricardo Tejero (Spain).

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$20,000
To support the planning and implementation of the 44th Annual Conference and the "Ask the Expert" series.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support The Land of the Free, performances and educational activities in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the events leading to the creation of The Star-Spangled Banner. Plans include a public performance featuring composer Ysaye Barnwell's Fortune's Bones: The Manumission Requiem as well as two Community Sings events and a post-concert talk, both led by the composer.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$35,000
To support the Orchestra Fellows Program for musicians of color. Plans for the second year of the program will include mentorship activities, private coaching, audition preparation, and training for outreach and educational events.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support Field Recordings, a 25th anniversary commissioning and performance project. Twelve composers will be commissioned to create five-minute works based on something recorded from "the field," along with something with special meaning to the composer incorporated within the work.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. Led by the resident ensemble, American Symphony Orchestra, the festival will explore the world and music of French composer Camille Saint-Saëns by presenting a range of musical forms including orchestral, chamber, and choral concerts with associated educational activities.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Inc. (aka Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
To support the Genre Bending Innovators series at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse in Berkeley, California. Local and touring musicians -- such as jazz clarinetist Don Byron, mandolin virtuoso Mike Marshall, and the Fishtank Ensemble (Serbian and Transylvanian Gypsy music infused with Flamenco, rockabilly, and French jazz) -- will perform music that experiments with combining various styles within the roots music genre.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$15,000
To support commissions, premieres, a mentorship program, and residency activities with composers Paul Dresher and Steven Stucky. Plans include four one-week residencies plus a commission and premiere of a new work by Stucky; a commission and premiere of a new work by Dresher featuring two of his invented instruments, the Quadrachord and the Hurdy Grande; and participation by both composers in the Under Construction mentorship program for local emerging composers.

Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Inc
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support The Black Mozart: Joseph Boulogne, Chevalier de Saint George and his Contemporaries, a concert program with related educational activities and radio broadcast. Plans include a concert of works by Boulogne, a prominent musical figure of African descent in Paris in the second half of the 18th-century, along with works by Mozart and Haydn; an open rehearsal with mini-conducting lessons for area school children; and a radio broadcast on Philadelphia based WRTI-FM.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The five-day festival, directed by composers John Harbison and Oliver Knussen, will feature chamber music and orchestral performances by resident musicians and guest artists.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$60,000
To support performances of the world premiere of composer John Harbison's Symphony No. 6 and other new music performances with related educational activities. Works to be performed include the premiere of Harbison's new work conducted by David Zinman, Mark-Anthony Turnage's From the Wreckage (a trumpet concerto) conducted by Andris Nelsons, and Esa-Pekka Salonen's Violin Concerto conducted by the composer.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (aka Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival)
Vail, CO
$12,000
To support the 25th annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber music; orchestral concerts by the Dallas Symphony, Philadelphia Orchestra, and New York Philharmonic; open rehearsals; public workshops; the Young Artists Program; and educational outreach concerts.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support performances of American music with related educational activities. Plans include a concert of music by composers Aaron Copland (Four Dance Episodes from Rodeo), John Adams (Lollapalooza), Roy Harris (Symphony No. 3), and Mark O'Connor (Improvised Violin Concerto) with the composer as soloist.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$20,000
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, to program contemporary works, and to collaborate with composers.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka California Symphony)
Walnut Creek, CA
$10,000
To support the Young American Composer Residency. Plans for the residency with composer D. J. Sparr include the commissioning and premiere of a new work developed through reading sessions and feedback from the orchestra's musicians and conductor as well as taking part in educational activities with school children.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$10,000
To support the International Music Festival. The 67th annual six-week outdoor summer festival of classical, opera, jazz, and roots music will feature the Orchestra of St. Luke's as resident orchestra as well as the following proposed artists: NEA Jazz Masters Paquito D'Rivera (2005) and Ahmad Jamal (1994), ETHEL Quartet, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, Senegalese singer Youssou N'Dour, and the Linden String Quartet.

Carlsbad Music Festival
Carlsbad, CA
$7,500
To support the Carlsbad Music Festival. Plans for the five-day festival include more than 30 performances by percussion ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish, Calder Quartet, La Jolla Symphony with pipa player Wu Man, and related educational activities.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$75,000
To support a festival of Latin American music. Composer Osvaldo Golijov will serve as festival artistic director with performances on Carnegie Hall's three stages and throughout New York City by the Simon Bolivar National Orchestra of Venezuela with Gustavo Dudamel conducting, Brazilian musician (and former Minister of Culture) Gilberto Gil, and Afro-Cuban jazz pianist Chucho Valdes among others.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$85,000
To support the 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 Web site, and a national conference in New York City.

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Farmington Hills, MI
$20,000
To support an ensemble residency program. The Shanghai Quartet and the Windscape woodwind ensemble will present concerts, school performances, lecture-demonstrations, and master classes for elementary through high school students and at community organizations.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
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.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support commissions, performances, and related educational activities in celebration of the first season of music director Mei-Ann Chen. Plans include premieres of commissioned works and arrangements by composers Nicole Mitchell, and Randall Fleisher.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$50,000
To support training and stipends 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
$75,000
To support Keys to the City Piano Festival. The three-week festival, featuring pianist Emanuel Ax as curator, will offer free and ticketed concerts in a variety of programming, including solo recitals, piano duets, concertos, chamber music, and jazz events.

Chinese Fine Arts Society
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the Migratory Journeys Concert Series. Featuring performances by pipa player Yang Wei and violinists Yuan-Qing Yu and Rachel Barton Pine, three concerts are planned of the winning works of the 2011 International Music Composition Competition by composers Daniel Lo, Tonia Ko, Chen Yao, and Liu Hao and will be recorded for future radio broadcast on WFMT-FM.

Chorus America Association
Washington, DC
$90,000
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.

Christian Theological Seminary (Consortium)
Indianapolis, IN
$12,500
To support an artist residency by the Rose Ensemble. In partnership with the Society of Biblical Literature, a free public performance, workshops, and demonstrations will take place over five days and will focus on the important role of music in preserving vocal traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and Special Events
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz concert series.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Chicago Jazz Ensemble)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support The Brick and Motor Cities Project, a multidisciplinary work exploring the 1967 social unrests in Newark, Detroit, and Chicago. The project conceptualized by composer, ethnomusicologist, and jazz musician Dana Hall in partnership with the Chicago Jazz Ensemble and collaborating artists such as Amiri Baraka will include public education programs and workshops in each city that will examine race, class, and economic issues of the period in context of today's urban landscape.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theatre)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Composer Portraits and PopUp Concerts at Miller Theatre. Plans include programs by Georges Aperghis (performed by the International Contemporary Ensemble, Hilda Paredes (performed by Signal chamber orchestra), and Karin Rehnqvist (performed by Either/Or ensemble) and free, hour-long, casual concerts of chamber music.

Conductors Guild, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$12,500
To support Conductor Training Workshops. Seven workshops will take place in Chicago, Cleveland, Los Angeles, Santa Cruz, Ann Arbor, and Rochester featuring conductors Marin Alsop, Cliff Colnot, Allan Dennis, David Effron, Gustav Meier, Patrick Pearson, Carl Topilow, Joel Smirnoff, and Lawrence Leighton Smith as instructors.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$10,000
To support performances of new and recent American music performed by the Music from Copland House ensemble with related educational activities. Programs featuring music by composers Sebastian Currier, Jennifer Higdon, Philip Glass, Derek Bermel, Paul Schoenfield, John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, and Aaron Copland, will take place at Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor, New York, and in a satellite venue at Merestead estate in Westchester County, New York.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 33rd 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; student performances with artists-in-residence; and the following events: Jazz for Kids, Women in Jazz, and Jazz Meets Hip Hop.

Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation
Detroit, MI
$45,000
To support the 33rd annual Detroit International Jazz Festival Delta to Detroit. Free performances will be offered by Willie Nelson, Buddy Guy, Wynton Marsalis, Bettye LaVette, Harry Connick Jr., Lyle Lovett, artist-in-residence Terence Blanchard and others.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the Earshot Jazz Festival. Performances of more than 250 artists in approximately 60 concerts in various Seattle venues including the Seattle Art Museum, Kirkland Performance Center, and Cornish College of the Arts, will occur along with rare jazz film screenings, photo exhibits, multimedia art installations, artists' panels, residencies, and educational programs.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music and Dance (on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Ecstatic Music Festival at Merkin Concert Hall. Programs in the two-month winter festival will focus on collaborations between two or more performers, ensembles and/or composers, each working in a different musical genre.

Ethel's Foundation for the Arts
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Documerica, a program of newly commissioned works inspired by photographs commissioned by the Environmental Protection Agency's project of the same name in 1972. Four commissioned works by composers James "Kimo" Williams, Ulysses Owens, Jerod Impichchaachaaha' Tate, and Dick Connette will be performed with projected photographs in New York City.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$10,000
To support the Laura Avery Visiting Masters Program, an artistic development program for student musicians. Launched in the symphony's 2005-06 season, the program is an annual series of artistic development activities for student musicians in Eugene, Springfield, and Roseburg, Oregon, offering master classes, coaching sessions, lectures, and workshops by guest artists such as pianist Emanuel Ax and violinist Midori who will be featured in 2012.

Festivals DC (aka DC Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support the 2012 DC Jazz Festival. World renowned and DC-based musicians will perform for the public in free and ticketed events in venues around the city including the National Mall, the Kennedy Center, libraries, theaters, and museums and participate in master classes and student concerts at schools and universities.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$12,500
To support the Summer Music Festival featuring chamber music, new music, and jazz presentations with related educational activities. Artists will include the Hagen Quartet, Alarm Will Sound chamber ensemble, pianist Jeffrey Kahane with members of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, the Bad Plus jazz trio, Enso String Quartet, early music specialist Jordi Savall, the International Contemporary Ensemble, the Hilliard Ensemble with saxophonist Jan Gabarek, and Imani Winds.

GALA Choruses
Pittsburgh, PA
$15,000
To support the GALA Choruses Festival. Held every four years, the GLBT (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender) festival will bring together 140 choirs and ensembles from around the world for performances and workshops.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival
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
$10,000
To support performances of J.S. Bach's St. Matthew Passion and related educational activities.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$15,000
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. The six-week summer program held in Staunton, Virginia, will train approximately 66 artists in the areas of voice, freedom of expression, public speaking, movement, and drama.

Hesston College
Hesston, KS
$10,000
To support a residency by the Rose Ensemble. The three-day residency will feature outreach performances, lectures, school visits, and master classes culminating in a concert titled Cantigas from the Land of Three Faiths: Voices of Ancient Mediterranean Christians, Jews, and Muslims.

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$15,000
To support the ICElab, a project of commissioning, incubation, and performances of new work and associated educational activities. Collaborations with six emerging American composers are planned to include commissions, residency workshops with each composer and the ensemble, and premiere performances in concerts across the country.

International Music Foundation
Chicago, IL
$10,000
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 Web site.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival (aka The Gilmore)
Kalamazoo, MI
$20,000
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 100 events are planned including concerts, master classes, lectures, premieres of new works by composers Fred Hersch and Brad Mehldau, and public educational programs.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support eight performances during the 25th anniversary season of Jazz at Lincoln Center. Programming includes the resident Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra performing commissioned pieces and seminal works as well as two series exploring the innovation and cross-pollination between jazz and other musical forms: Blues Series features John Hammond, John Mayall, and Taj Mahal; and the Jazz and Popular Song Series, curated by Michael Feinstein.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Jazz Gallery's Thursday Night Debut Series. The focus on innovative programming aims to serve as a laboratory for gifted professional emerging jazz artists providing them a platform to step forward as band leaders and offering opportunities to premiere new works.

Jazz St. Louis (aka Jazz at the Bistro)
St. Louis, MO
$17,500
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program in local elementary, middle, and high schools, and an after-school music education program. Matt Wilson's Arts and Crafts, Orbert Davis, and the Clayton Brothers Quintet will each perform, conduct master classes, provide private lessons for exceptional student musicians, coach public schools' big band programs, and work with students involved in other educational activities.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$10,000
To support the 26th annual Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. Programming includes free and ticketed concerts-- with artists such as Ingrid Jensen, Robert Dick & Ursel Schlicht, and the Jasper String Quartet-- back-to-back performances in an outdoor setting workshops, master classes, auditorium concerts for school children, lectures, and performances in outlying communities.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the world premiere of new works by composers Stephen Hartke and Daniel Kellogg and related educational activities. The premiere of the new works, part of a series of events celebrating the fountains of Kansas City, will commemorate the inaugural performance season performing in Helzberg Hall at the new Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts.

Kerrytown Concert House, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$12,500
To support Edgefest 2012 Worldly Measures, a four-day music festival with free and ticketed events featuring ground-breaking improvisers and composers and their original music stemming from multi-cultural/ethnic roots. This music is reflective of the cultural complexity of America today.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support the creation, planning, production, and rehearsal costs for 12 Stories, a collaboration with composer/performer Laurie Anderson and Kronos Quartet. The evening-length work will comprise 12 short songs for processed (electronic) violin written by Anderson and arranged for string quartet interwoven with 12 stories written and spoken by Anderson.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$17,500
To support the Kuumbwa Jazz Presents NEA Jazz Masters in Concert and Conversation series. Three concerts will feature NEA Jazz Masters Toshiko Akiyoshi (2007), Kenny Barron (2010), Branford Marsalis (2011); and Orrin Keepnews (2011) will be showcased in an in-depth conversation about his 60-year career in jazz.

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 Aaron Jay Kernis, Matthias Pintscher, and Steven Stucky as well as a variety of educational activities.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$12,500
To support the 2012-13 Jazz Masters Series at the Williams Center for the Arts. Four performances of internationally acclaimed jazz musicians including NEA Jazz Master Dave Liebman (2011) with his Quartet, Miguel Zenon's ensemble, the Stefon Harris with David Sanchez and Nicholas Payton, and Joe Lovano with Randy Brecker, will be complemented by educational programs and residency work in connection with the Lafayette College Music Department.

Laguna Beach Live!
Laguna Beach, CA
$10,000
To support the Laguna Beach Music Festival of chamber music concerts and educational activities. Violinist Joshua Bell will be guest artistic director for the festival with performances by cellist Steven Isserlis, pianist Jeremy Denk, and emerging artists accompanied by a variety of outreach concerts, workshops, and educational programs.

League of American Orchestras
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the League of American Orchestras' strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the field. The league will focus on best-practice models and host an annual national conference for more than 1,200 participants. Training and development opportunities will be provided to expand leadership skills.

Let My Children Hear Music, Inc. (aka Charles Mingus Institute)
New York, NY
$7,500
To support the Charles Mingus High School Band Competition and Festival. The weekend-long festival includes public concerts, master classes for music students and band directors, clinics, lecture-demonstrations, and film screenings.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$40,000
To support Andes to the Sea, a concert program of choral music featuring the premiere of a commissioned work by composer Gabriela Lena Frank and related educational activities. The program will include the new work performed with Latin American folk jazz ensemble Huayucaltia, along with works by Venezuelan composers Maria Guinand, Alberto Grau, and Oscar Galian.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$70,000
To support the Mahler Project. Plans include performances of all nine symphonies by Gustav Mahler performed with the Simon Bolivar Symphony Orchestra of Venezuela along with chamber music, family and community concerts, and educational programs.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$22,500
To support Louisiana Musical Treasures, a concert celebrating 200 years of Louisiana statehood and related educational activities. The concert will examine the polyphonic classical music tradition of New Orleans from the early 19th-century to the 1930s in works by composers Andre Ernest Modeste Gretry, Vincente Martin y Soler, and Georg Schmitt, and will culminate with a big band-style performance of Ferdinand "Jelly Roll" Morton's GanJam.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild (aka MCG Jazz)
Pittsburgh, PA
$20,000
To support the MCG Jazz 25th anniversary Once In A Lifetime concerts. Showcased artists will be the Jon Faddis Quintet, Don Sebesky with a retrospective of his work, and the 21st Century Swing Band premiering a new work by a team of MCG Jazz composers and arrangers commissioned by the Carnegie Museum of Art to write a work capturing the essence of the "Pittsburgh sound."

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, 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
$10,000
To support the 97th annual Maverick Concerts 2012 Festival, with programming celebrating the connection between France and America. The festival will be curated by music director Alexander Platt and will feature the Paris-based chamber ensemble Quatuor Ebene, as well as Imani Winds, Trio Solisti, St. Lawrence Quartet, and the Maverick Chamber Players.

Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$25,000
To support Run Up to Carnegie, a performance project in Milwaukee and in New York City as part of the Spring for Music Festival at Carnegie Hall. Programming will feature works by three generations of French composers--Claude Debussy, Olivier Messiaen, and Qigang Chen--as well as related educational activities.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$50,000
To support the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute, a professional development project directed by the institute's composer and new music adviser Aaron Jay Kernis. As many as eight composers, selected competitively from a pool of 150, 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
$12,500
To support A Landscape Filled with Music, a festival of 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, introducing the free concerts and offering an informed and compelling personal view about the music.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$50,000
To support artists fees and travel costs for the 55th annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Artists that will perform include the festival's 2012 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
$20,000
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The concerts and outreach activities (with artists such as American Bach Soloists, and the Sphinx Symphony with the Catalyst Quartet) will match musical programming from various cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Museum of Contemporary Art (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a collaborative artist residency project with the International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE), with audience engagement activities exploring the creative process through innovative programming of experimental and improvisational music with participating composers. The MCA-ICE residency is the first long-term ensemble-in-residence project at the museum and will feature performances of new works by composers such as Georges Aperghis, Julio Estrada, George Lewis, and Pulitzer Prize-winning composer David Lang.

Music Academy of the West
Santa Barbara, CA
$10,000
To support the Orchestral Leadership Program, a guest conductor residency program. Professional conductors, including James Gaffigan, Nicholas McGegan, and Larry Rachleff, will conduct young instrumentalists in orchestral and chamber music repertoire as part of their professional training during the Academy's 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 summer festival The Americans, directed by artistic director Robert Spano. Programming will explore American music from the 1800s to today, featuring works by composers such as Edward MacDowell, Charles Ives, Harry Partch, Paul Hindemith, John Harbison, Leonard Bernstein, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Philip Glass, and Steve Reich.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$10,000
To support Music from Angel Fire's 29th Anniversary Chamber Music Festival. Presentations will include artists such as the Miami String Quartet and violinists Daniel Phillips, Benny Kim, Ani and Ida Kavafian.

Music of Remembrance
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the commission and premiere performance of a new chamber music work by American composer Jake Heggie and librettist Gene Scheer and the Sparks of Glory concert series tour.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC
Arlington, VA
$40,000
To support The Music of Budapest, Prague, and Vienna, a month-long tribute to that region's impact on the history of Western music, directed by music director Christoph Eschenbach. Programming will include orchestral and chamber works by Bela Bartok, Antonin Dvorak, Franz Liszt, Zoltan Kodaly, and the Strauss family, and will feature guest artists Anne Schwanewilms, Nathalie Stutzman, Steve Davislim, Rogert Holl, and the Washington Chorus.

Network for New Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the commissioning and performance of The Sleepers, a new chamber music work by composer Sebastian Currier and poet Sarah Manguso. The project will be part of American Poets/American Composers, a season-long series that will explore connections between narrative poetry and contemporary music, and will include educational outreach events.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$10,000
To support the commissioning and world premiere performances of new works by composers Richard Danielpour and George Walker. The works will be conducted by music director Jacques Lacombe on two different concert programs during the year, and the Danielpour violin concerto premiere will feature guest artist violinist Gil Shaham.

New Music USA
New York, NY
$30,000
To support online services for new American music. Services for composers and contemporary musicians and enthusiasts will include www.NewMusicBox.org, the central hub of information through which one can access 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, audio streaming of contemporary music.

New Music USA
New York, NY
$60,000
To support the Creative Ventures initiative. The project will offer composers professional development through regional workshops, 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.

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 for emerging young musicians, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo and culminating in concerts at Carnegie Hall. The 10-day extensive training experience will be offered with full scholarships to 64 talented high school and college-age string players, selected through national live auditions.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$60,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. Under the artistic direction of Michael Tilson Thomas, the program will utilize performances, coaching, and community outreach activities to prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support A Modern Person's Guide to Hooking Up & Breaking Up, a concert program of American love songs with performances at Merkin Concert Hall at the Kaufman Center in New York City and at the Gardner Museum in Boston. American composers whose works will be featured include Frank Loesser, Leonard Bernstein, Bruce Springsteen, Paul Moravec, and Jerome Kern.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Patti Austin Sings Ella Fitzgerald's Gershwin Songbook, a concert performance at Carnegie Hall in tribute to Ella Fitzgerald's 1959 Grammy Award-winning five-volume recording of Gershwin standards. Under the direction of music director Steven Reineke, the orchestra will collaborate with the Library of Congress, the Ella Fitzgerald Charitable Foundation, and the Nelson Riddle Trust to present singer Patti Austin in the concert program.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the Growing Music initiative. The youth orchestra musicians will participate in composition workshops, score reading, orchestration, as well as public performances of student compositions at Carnegie Hall, Symphony Space, and Lincoln Center.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support All That Jazz, a performance project featuring guest artists including jazz composer and pianist Taylor Eigsti, vocalist Paula West, and violinist and composer Daniel Bernard Roumain. The orchestra, under the direction of music director Michael Morgan, will perform recent works by Eigsti, a Bay Area native, and the west coast premiere of Romain's Voodoo Violin Concerto, featuring the composer in performance with the orchestra.

Ojai Festivals
Ojai, CA
$15,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 66th annual music festival will be curated by Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes, also serving as the 2012 festival music director and guest artist in performance.

Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the Creative Soundspace Festival. Established and emerging touring and resident artists specializing in improvised creative music (e.g., avant-garde, free jazz, world music) will perform and participate in educational presentations and workshops with local artists.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$42,500
To support the commissioning, premiere performance, and recording of a new choral and orchestral work by Frank Ticheli. Featuring the 140-voice Pacific Chorale and the 66-member Pacific Symphony, the world premiere will take place in the spring of 2013 at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts and the resulting recording will be released worldwide by the record label Delos through Naxos of America, Inc.

Pacific Symphony (aka Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$45,000
To support A Nowruz Celebration festival celebrating the ancient Persian New Year and exploring Persian music influences on American composers. The festival, directed by music director Carl St. Clair and artistic adviser Joseph Horowitz, will showcase A Peace Oratorio, a new work by Richard Danielpour, an American composer of Persian descent.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support the Community Engagement Project of performances and educational workshops at community venues in Philadelphia. The chamber concerts and recitals will feature national and international artists such as pianists Lydia Artymiw, Robert Levin, Peter Orth, and Anna Polonsky; violinist Benjamin Beilman; violist Kim Kashkashian; cellist Sophie Shao; and the Johannes Quartet.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support performances of George Frideric Handel's oratorio Alexander's Feast, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan. The project will include guest artists soprano Dominique Labelle, tenor James Taylor, and baritone Philip Cutlip, as well as the Philharmonia Chorale with chorale director Bruce Lamott.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County (aka Philharmonic Society)
Irvine, CA
$25,000
To support the Festival of American Orchestras, featuring the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, The Cleveland Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, and the New York Philharmonic in performances and artist residency activities. The concerts will be held at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall of the Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$60,000
To support an artist residency by pianist Emanuel Ax. During the residency, the artist will collaborate with the orchestra's artistic leadership on programming and participate in orchestral and chamber music performances and educational and audience engagement activities.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$70,000
To support the Composer of the Year project, an artist residency with composer Steven Stucky. The orchestra will perform the composer's Spirit Voices with percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie, Son et Lumiere (Sound and Light), and a new commissioned work celebrating the 50th anniversary of the publication of Rachel Carson's Silent Spring.

Princeton Symphony Orchestra
Princeton, NJ
$10,000
To support the world premiere of Eugene Onegin by Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev created for Alexander Pushkin's novel in verse. The performances will feature script by modernist playwright Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky and music written by Prokofiev. Both works were created for the 1936 centennial of Pushkin's death and banned during the Stalinist era.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the commissioning and premiere performance of a new work for chamber music and two guitars by composer Clarice Assad. The premiere will feature guest artists The Assad Brothers (Sergio and Odair) in performance at the historic Southern Theatre in Columbus.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$10,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of a new work, including a composer residency, by American composer Margaret Brouwer. The project will include workshops with high school and college-level composers, a presentation at the International Viola Congress in Rochester, and a performance of the composer's Viola Concerto with a guest violist from the Eastman School of Music.

Rose Ensemble
Saint Paul, MN
$10,000
To support a performance project of 16th and 17th-century works for wind band and voices in collaboration with Piffaro, the Philadelphia-based Renaissance wind ensemble. Programming will be based on manuscripts from Bolivia, Guatemala, Mexico, and Peru.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$50,000
To support the Living Composers Project featuring premiere performances of new works by composers Gerald Barry, Giorgio Battistelli, and Donnacha Dennehy, as well as works by Du Yun, John Harbison, Steve Mackey and Betty Olivero. Concert venues will include the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts, Ted Mann Concert Hall, Temple Israel, Wooddale Church, and St. Paul's United Church of Christ in the Twin Cities area, as well as Trinity Lutheran Church in Stillwater and Benson Great Hall in Arden Hills.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support the 2012 SFJazz Collective Tour and Outreach Project, a residency and touring ensemble of all-star musicians. Project components include the creation and public presentation of new works by collective members and reinterpreted masterworks by Stevie Wonder as well as residencies for high school and college students.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$60,000
To support the American Mavericks Festival, featuring world premieres of works by John Adams, Mason Bates, and Meredith Monk. Directed by music director Michael Tilson Thomas, programming will include performances of works by John Cage, Aaron Copland, Lukas Foss, Lou Harrison, and will feature guest artists composer Meredith Monk, vocalist Joan LaBarbara, soprano Jessye Norman, pianists Emanuel Ax and Jeremy Denk, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$40,000
To support the 40th 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 will include artistic director Marc Neikrug and 2012 Festival artist-in-residence Alan Gilbert, music director of the New York Philharmonic.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$50,000
To support the annual Savannah Music Festival presenting artists in diverse programming, including world music, gospel, classical, blues, and jazz. The 18-day, 100-program festival with more than 500 artists 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. The concerts will be curated by new artistic director James Ehnes and associate artistic director Toby Saks and will feature artists such as pianists Anton Nel, Jeremy Denk, and Anna Polonsky; violinists James Ehnes, Stefan Jackiw, and Amy Schwartz Moretti; violists Richard O'Neill and Cynthia Phelps; and cellists Robert deMaine and Ronald Thomas.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the American Composers Project: Commissions and Premieres and Made in America Festival: Part 3. The programming will feature premieres of new works by Daron Aric Hagen, David Diamond, Michael Hersch, and Nico Muhly, as well as performances of works by John Adams, Leonard Bernstein, Charles Ives, William Bolcom, Howard Hanson, Augusta Read Thomas, Bernard Rands, Samuel Jones, Ellen Taafe Zwilich, and W. Schuman.

Seventh Regiment Armory Conservancy, Inc. (aka Park Avenue Armory)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Park Avenue Armory's Tune-In Festival featuring the work of American composer Philip Glass and exploring how his life's work has influenced other composers' creative output. Performances and educational activities, including a one-day marathon of performances, will take place over four days in the Armory's 55,000 square foot drill hall.

Silk Road Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the Workshop for New Silk Road Project Commissions, under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma. The new works, written for both Western and non-Western instrumentation, will be developed during workshops with composers David Bruce, Vijay Iyer, Glenn Kotche, and Kojiro Umezaki.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$12,500
To support the Skidmore College Summer Jazz Institute, an intensive two-week summer program designed to educate national and international students in the art and history of jazz. Students take part in combos and master classes; receive one-on-one instruction with educators and recognized performers including NEA Jazz Master Curtis Fuller (2007); and attend evening concerts.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$55,000
To support the Sphinx Symphony Residency Project. The Sphinx Organization collaborates with national organizations to attract and target talented high school and college-level students of color from across the nation.

Stecher and Horowitz Foundation
New York, NY
$7,500
To support Young Artists Recitals by emerging young pianists in the tri-state region of New York, Connecticut, and Washington, DC. The project will include performance, coaching, ensemble playing, and educational seminars at the Manhattan School of Music.

Symphony Space, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support The Music of Now, the presentation of new music. Directed by composer and educator Laura Kaminsky, the performances will be presented through three types of presentations: The Music of Now Marathon during the month of February, intimate monthly Salon concerts, and Underscore events and concerts with the participation of composers and performers.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support Art of the Prophets, a performance project featuring vocal and instrumental music of 17th-century Germany. The orchestra will perform works by four major composers: Johann Christoph Bach, Nicolaus Bruhns, Philipp Heinrich Erlebach, and Johann Christoph Pez.

University Enterprises Inc. (aka Cal State University Sacramento) (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support the 2012 Festival of New American Music. The annual festival is held on the campus of California State University Sacramento and at community venues, featuring concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals.

Vocal Arts Society (aka Vocal Arts DC)
Washington, DC
$14,000
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitalists in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Embassy of Austria, and other venues in Washington, DC. Founded in 1990 by Dr. Gerald Perman, Vocal Arts Society presents accomplished singers, often in the early stages of their careers, in a full range of repertoire.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support Witness: In the Spirit of Being, an annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, featuring American jazz trumpeter and composer Hannibal Lokumbe. The week-long festival, following two months of outreach presentations by Lokumbe and members of the chorus, will include a public concert held in the Ordway Center for the Performing Arts in St. Paul, highlighting the composer's new work, In the Spirit of Being.

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the Jazz/World Music Series. Seven soloists and ensembles will be presented: NEA Jazz Masters Dave Brubeck (1999), Herbie Hancock (2004), Wynton Marsalis (2011) with the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Sonny Rollins (1983); Chris Botti, Anoushka Shankar, and The Chieftains.

William Jewell College (on behalf of Harriman-Jewell Series)
Liberty, MO
$7,500
To support Discovery Concerts, free recital performances by emerging musicians in the Harriman-Jewell Series. Pianist Freddy Kempf, violinist Ray Chen, pianist Conrad Tao, and pianists Christina and Michelle Naughton in a dual recital will be presented free at the Folly Theater and the Kauffman Concert Hall in downtown Kansas City.

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. The program also includes 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.

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