2013 Grant Awards: Art Works

[ March 8, 2012 deadline ]

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

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

Music

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc. (aka Alabama Symphony Orchestra)
Birmingham, AL
$20,000
To support Sound Investment, a residency and commissioning project. Plans include two week-long visits by composer Judd Greenstein, master classes for university music students, open rehearsals for school students, a lecture program for adults, and the commissioning and performance of a new work by Greenstein.

Alarm Will Sound, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support chamber music residencies. Plans include residencies at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and at the Mizzou New Music Summer Festival in Columbia, Missouri, which will include concerts of music by established contemporary composers as well as new works written for the ensemble by student composers; recording sessions of student works; an educational workshop for student composers and performers; a master class on contemporary music repertoire; and a program on entrepreneurship in music and the performing arts.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$20,000
To support the American Music Festival: Indigenous Americana. The five-day festival focusing on indigenous arts, folk culture, and roots movements in North America will include a concert featuring recent works; an "Urban Poetry" concert featuring the orchestra's new music ensemble, Dogs of Desire; a "Shaker Heritage" concert of commissions; a roots music performance by the festival's resident performing ensemble, Time for Three; and related educational activities.

American Composers Forum
Saint Paul, MN
$25,000
To support a commission and middle school residency for the BandQuest® series of educational compositions. Composer Hankus Netsky will develop the new work in residence at the Day Middle School in Newton, Massachusetts, where it will be premiered by the school band and then later recorded by the University of Minnesota Symphonic Wind Ensemble.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc. (aka ACO)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute. In partnership with the Center for Jazz Studies at Columbia University in New York and the University of California, Los Angeles's Herb Alpert School of Music, the institute's New Music Readings will allow up to 20 jazz composers to create up to 20 works for reading-performances by the ACO in New York City, the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra (NY), and the Stockton Symphony and the La Jolla Symphony (CA).

American Symphony Orchestra League (aka League of American Orchestras)
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the League of American Orchestra's strategic services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the field. The league will focus on best-practices and host an annual national conference for more than 1,000 participants.

Arts for Art, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Vision Festival. More than 150 creative jazz artists will perform in 32 concerts during the seven-day festival that will feature jazz, poetry, visual arts, panel discussions, and a free performance at the New York City Housing Authority public housing development at Campos Plaza.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
SACRAMENTO, CA
$30,000
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.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support Spiritual Voyages, a concert of newly commissioned works by African American composers including educational and outreach activities. The concert will feature three new works by composers Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Evelyn Simpson Curenton, each based on an existing spiritual and performed by roster artists (jury-selected young artists) and guest artists.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$10,000
To support Poetry in Song, a choral program pairing different musical settings of the same poems or Biblical texts written by two different composers with related educational activities. The program will include Langston Hughes' I Dream a World set to music by NEA Jazz Master Dave Brubeck and Rosephanye Dunn Powell; settings of James Agee's Sure on This Shining Night by Renee Claussen and Samuel Barber; Frank Ticheli's and Dale Warland's treatment of Sara Teasdale's There Will Be Rest, among others.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$50,000
To support the Summer Festival of Music, a performance series and resident teaching facility for emerging composers and performers. Hosted by the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art in North Adams, the three-week festival will feature more than 40 concerts by the Bang on a Can All-Stars, faculty, and students in galleries and in community venues.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$20,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. Led by American Symphony Orchestra, the resident ensemble, the festival will explore the world and music of composer Igor Stravinsky by presenting a range of musical forms including chamber, choral, and orchestral concerts and will feature the centennial celebration performance of Le Sacre du Printemps (The Rite of Spring) along with associated educational activities.

Bellingham Festival of Music
Bellingham, WA
$10,000
To support the Bellingham Festival of Music, a two-week summer festival featuring orchestral and chamber music concerts throughout the community. Plans include five orchestra performances conducted by Artistic Director Michael Palmer; guest artist appearances by pianist Garrick Ohlsson, cellist Joshua Roman, and soprano Heidi Grant Murphy; free chamber concerts at Whatcom Museum of History and Art; and educational activities such as master classes, open rehearsals, and pre-concert lectures.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Inc. (aka Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse)
Berkeley, CA
$12,000
To support the Genre Bending Innovators series. More than 24 concerts and 12 workshops at Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse will feature local and touring musicians such as mandolinist Mike Marshall, jazz clarinetist Don Byron, and composer/vocalist Amy X. Neuburg & the Cello ChiXtet, who will perform music that seeks to create new forms within traditional genres.

Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support Women of Note: A Celebration of Women Composers, a concert and radio broadcast. The project will showcase emerging women soloists, including African American flutist Julietta Curenton and Korean American violinist Kristin Lee, and will feature a work by Florence Price along with works by living women composers such as Kaija Saariaho, Tania Leon, and Melinda Wagner.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Lost Jazz Shrines program. The series will encompass three themed events titled "Bird: A World's Eye View" in celebration and commemoration of the famed Birdland jazz club in Manhattan and the legendary alto saxophonist, Charlie "Bird" Parker, after whom it was named.

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Boston, MA
$15,000
To support performances of Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 on period instruments with related educational activities. In celebration of the 40th anniversary season, plans include two first-time Boston Baroque performances of Beethoven's last symphony in Jordan Hall at the New England Conservatory, a free concert at the Strand Theatre, pre-concert lectures, school workshops, and a free open dress rehearsal.

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 pianist Pierre-Laurent Aimard, will feature chamber music and orchestral performances by resident musicians and guest artists.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$65,000
To support concerts of works by living composers with related educational activities. Plans include world premiere performances of Augusta Read Thomas's Cello Concerto No.3 with soloist Lynn Harrell and the symphony orchestra's first performances of two works by Oliver Knussen: Violin Concerto, Op. 30 and Whitman Settings for soprano and orchestra with the composer conducting.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (aka Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival)
Vail, CO
$15,000
To support the annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber music; orchestral concerts by the Dallas Symphony, New York Philharmonic, and the Philadelphia Orchestra; open rehearsals; public workshops; the Young Professionals-in-Residence Program; and educational outreach concerts.

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music (aka Brooklyn-Queens Conservatory of Music)
Brooklyn, NY
$17,500
To support the First Annual Brass Summit and a concert/interview event with saxophonist/composer/writer Fred Ho and the Afro Asian Music Ensemble. The three-day summit will offer educational activities such as workshops and clinics as well as concerts by brass players including NEA Jazz Master Jimmy Owens, Dave Douglas, Steve Turre, Dave Bargeron, Vincent Chancey, and Dave Taylor.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$25,000
To support the Bedford-Stuyvesant Music Series. Plans include a concert featuring orchestral arrangements of NEA Jazz Master Randy Weston's music, the commissioning and premiere of a new work by composer Ted Hearne titled But I Voted for Shirley Chisholm, a chamber concert at the Brooklyn Public Library, a family workshop, and in-school music education residencies.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$15,000
To support The Underground Railroad: An Evening of Spirituals with Kathleen Battle with related educational activities. The program, conducted by former assistant conductor Michael Morgan, will feature a local choir and dramatic readings of the words of Frederick Douglass. The event will mark important anniversaries including the founding of American Anti-Slavery Society and Abolitionist Movement (1833), the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation (1863), and the passing of Harriet Tubman (1913).

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
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 three early-career composers.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$10,000
To support the International Music Festival. The 68th annual seven-week outdoor summer festival of classical, opera, jazz, and roots music will feature the Orchestra of St. Luke's as resident orchestra. Proposed artists include cellist Yo-Yo Ma and the Silk Road Ensemble; NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Ahmad Jamal; pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard, Yefim Bronfman, Richard Goode, and András Schiff; the Punch Brothers; saxophonist Miguel Zenon; and violinists Julia Fischer and Leonidas Kavakos.

Carlsbad Music Festival
Carlsbad, CA
$10,000
To support the Carlsbad Music Festival. The five-day contemporary classical music festival will feature more than 30 performances by musicians including percussion ensemble Red Fish Blue Fish, the Calder Quartet, Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the La Jolla Symphony along with related educational activities.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the National Youth Orchestra (NYO) of the USA. Plans for the new tuition-free program include an intensive two-week residency for 120 young musicians at State University of New York at Purchase led by principal musicians from top U.S. orchestras; a public performance at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts featuring violinist Joshua Bell and conducted by Valery Gergiev; a commissioned work by composer Sean Shepherd; and a peer-to-peer exchange between NYO players and DC-area youth orchestra musicians.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$95,000
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 website, and a national conference in New York City.

Chamber Music Society of Detroit
Farmington Hills, MI
$20,000
To support chamber music presentations, a residency, and related educational activities. Plans include concerts by the American String Quartet at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Detroit which will be part of a two-week residency working in metropolitan Detroit schools; the Gryphon Trio at the Majestic Theatre which will combine chamber music with jazz and world music; and Piffaro the Renaissance Band at the Detroit Institute of Arts.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York City, NY
$25,000
To support the presentation of Shostakovich: The Complete Quartets. Plans include performances of all 15 string quartets by the Jerusalem Quartet over the course of four concerts, lectures and master classes streamed live over the Internet, and a microsite with information on the quartets.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
Saint Cloud, MN
$10,000
To support a concert and residency by the Borromeo String Quartet. The three-day residency will include a program for fourth-grade students using computer graphics to create videos to accompany the music they study with the quartet, a family concert, a lecture/demonstration at a senior center, and a session for high school and college music students.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the First Monday Concert Series. The free noon-time concert series will be presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc.
Chicago, IL
$12,000
To support the commissioning and performance of a new work by multiple composers using Chicago architecture as inspiration with related educational activities. Curated by composer Jennifer Higdon, the commissioned work, ChiScapes, will comprise four movements each by a different young composer (Armando Bayolo, Vivian Fung, Jonathan Bailey Holland, and Chris Rogerson), each celebrating a different building in Chicago.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (aka CSO) (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
$80,000
To support Rivers - Nature, Power, Culture. The three-week festival under the artistic direction of Music Director Riccardo Muti is the culmination of a season-long exploration of the power and role of rivers in ancient and modern civilizations. The festival will include performances of Mississippi River by Florence Price, a new work by Orbert Davis performed by the Chicago Jazz Philharmonic, and works by Toru Takemitsu and composer-in-residence Mason Bates, as well as symposia and lectures.

Chinese Fine Arts Society
Chicago, IL
$17,500
To support the Five Elements Project. The project will include commissions, premieres, a residency, and a radio broadcast. Plans include concerts and workshops by violinist Rachel Barton Pine, ensemble-in-residence Civitas, and traditional Chinese musicians performing works including a commission by composer Huang Ruo, a re-orchestration of a work exploring the five traditional Chinese elements by Zhou Long, and the winning compositions of the Barbara Tiao Composition Competition for young composers.

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; conducting master classes at Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and at the Seattle Symphony Orchestra and Chorale; and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers.

Clarion Music Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support a semi-staged concert opera production. The 1787 opera Le Fils Rival (The Rival Sons) by Russian composer Dmitry Bortniansky was thought to be lost but was recently discovered by Artistic Director Steven Fox. The American premiere will be presented in partnership with Russian period instrument orchestra Musica Antiqua St. Petersburg under the direction of Fox.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theatre)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Composer Portraits and Pop-Up Concerts at Miller Theatre. Plans include five Portrait programs by composers Julio Estrada (which will feature a commission), Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Enno Poppe, and Rebecca Saunders; and four Pop-Up concerts which are free, hour-long chamber music concerts held after the workday.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support touring engagements of roster artists and the commissioning of new works. In diverse venues across the country, 75 performance opportunities will enable 18 artists/ensembles on the guild's roster to polish their performance and communication skills and will feature the premieres of four commissioned works by composers Sebastian Baverstam, Michael Brown, NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera, and Yevgeniy Sharlat.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$10,000
To support performances of American music performed by the Music from Copland House ensemble with related educational activities. Programs will take place at Aaron Copland's former home in Cortlandt Manor and in a satellite venue at Merestead estate in Westchester County and will feature music by composers Tom Cipullo, Aaron Copland, Jennifer Higdon, Aaron Jay Kernis, Henry Mollicone, Paul Moravec, John Musto, Mark O'Connor, Russell Platt, Robert Xavier Rodriguez, Leonard Rosenman, Alvin Singleton, William Grant Still, Augusta Read Thomas, and Kurt Weill.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation (on behalf of Tri-C JazzFest)
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 34th annual Tri-C JazzFest, an educational jazz festival. Free and ticketed concerts will feature headliner ensembles including the Overtone Quartet (with Dave Holland and Jason Moran), the 3 Cohens, and Sean Jones with Dominick Farinacci.

Cypress Performing Arts Association (aka Cypress String Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support Call and Response, a concert program featuring a new work by composer Jennifer Higdon with related educational activities. The work will be performed by the Cypress String Quartet and soprano Christine Brandes and based on the poetry of former U.S. Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$22,500
To support chamber music concerts, the premiere of a new work, radio broadcasts, and educational activities. Plans include a series of concerts of music created late in an artist's career including Beethoven's late string quartets and piano sonatas, the last quartets of Shostakovich, and a 50th anniversary tribute to John Coltrane's Love Supreme; a premiere and residency by composer Lei Liang; and master classes and panel discussions.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$25,000
To support the commissioning, premiere, and broadcast of a new work by 17-year-old composer Conrad Tao in observance of the 50th anniversary of the assassination of John F. Kennedy with related educational activities. Plans include four performances of the work, master classes by the composer with high school students, a radio broadcast, and collaborative events with the Sixth Floor Museum, the Mayor's Office, and the Dallas Office of Cultural Affairs.

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

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support the Young Performers Festival. Plans include 10 concerts held in conjunction with the Boston Early Music Festival by selected college and university early music ensembles; a concert by the Festival Ensemble, a group of 25 to 30 students selected through a juried process from colleges and universities throughout North America; and career development workshops.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$30,000
To support the 2013 Earshot Jazz Festival. Performances of more than 250 artists such as NEA Jazz Master Cecil Taylor, Roscoe Mitchell, Vijay Iyer, and Robert Glasper are slated to perform in more than 60 events in a dozen venues across Seattle.

East Bay Performing Arts (on behalf of Oakland East Bay Symphony)
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support a concert of works by American composers performed by the Oakland East Bay Symphony with related educational activities including an open dress rehearsal for middle and high school students. Works will include A Woman's Life Song Cycle by Richard Danielpour with text by poet Maya Angelou and featuring soprano Angela Brown; Symphony No. 3 by Florence Price; and Come Sunday by Duke Ellington.

East Bay Performing Arts (on behalf of Oakland Youth Orchestra)
Oakland, CA
$15,000
To support a residency and commission by composer Jack Perla performed by the Oakland Youth Orchestra (OYO). Preceded by school visits by the composer and Music Director Michael Morgan, the premiere will be free to the public and include student performers in grades three through five of the Oakland Unified School District performing side-by-side with OYO players.

Eighth Blackbird Performing Arts Association
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of Never My Heart by composer and poet Amy Beth Kirsten with related outreach activities. To be created in the commedia dell'arte tradition, the work will feature costumed musicians performing all roles from memory under the direction of Martha Clarke.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka DC Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the 2013 DC Jazz Festival. More than 120 DC-based jazz artists and other national and international musicians such as NEA Jazz Masters Paquito D'Rivera, Hubert Laws, and Randy Weston will be presented during the 10-day festival at DC-area venues including libraries, theaters, and museums.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$15,000
To support Acts of Creation, a series of concerts and broadcasts celebrating the 100th birthday of composer Benjamin Britten with related educational and ancillary activities. Plans include presentations by the viol consort Fretwork, tenor Nicholas Phan, the St. Lawrence String Quartet; a screening of the new film by British director Tony Palmer about the recording of Britten's opera The Burning Fiery Furnace; and a reading and discussion of Letters from a Life: the Selected Letters and Diaries of Benjamin Britten, 1913-1976 by Britten (ed. Donald Mitchell and Philip Reed) at a public library.

Friends of the Minnesota Sinfonia
Minneapolis, MN
$10,000
To support orchestral concerts. Free concerts featuring works by living composers including Randall Davidson, Rhonda Larson, Sara Miller, Paul Schulz, and Ted Unseth as well as works in the standard orchestral repertoire are planned in Minneapolis and St. Paul.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a concert celebrating the 75th birthday of composer John Corigliano with related educational activities. The musical score to the 1980 Ken Russell science fiction film Altered States will be performed live with the movie projected on a screen above the orchestra using a specially licensed and produced version of the film by Warner Brothers Pictures with the dialogues and sound effects, but minus the music.

Gateways Music Festival, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$15,000
To support the biennial Gateways Music Festival. The five-day festival, celebrating the participation and contributions of classically-trained musicians of African descent, will feature solo, chamber, and orchestral performances as well as a youth showcase.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$12,500
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program for chamber ensembles, and a 20th anniversary alumni concert. 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.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc.
Healdsburg, CA
$20,000
To support a Healdsburg Jazz Festival tribute to NEA Jazz Master Charlie Haden. More than 25 performers representing various phases of the bassist-composer-bandleader's career are slated to participate in this two-day celebration of his music and legacy which also features workshops, master classes, a film screening, and a culminating concert by the 12-piece Liberation Jazz Orchestra.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Staunton, VA
$25,000
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. Under the artistic direction of founder Daniel Heifetz, the six-week tuition-free summer program held in Staunton, Virginia, will train more than 60 artists in the areas of voice, freedom of expression, public speaking, movement, and drama.

Homowo African Arts & Cultures (aka Obo Addy Legacy Project)
Portland, OR
$12,500
To support The Masters Project, a tribute concert for NEA National Heritage Fellow Obo Addy. The focus of the project is to honor the life and legacy of Ghanaian drummer Obo Addy, who passed away on September 13, 2012.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$35,000
To support concert presentations and a radio broadcast of composer Alban Berg's opera Wozzeck. With baritone Roman Trekel in the title role, the performances will be conducted by Music Director Hans Graf and will use unusual orchestra placement, movement, supertitles and dramatic lighting.

International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation, Inc. (aka ICE)
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support the ICElab, a project of commissioning, incubation, and performances of new work and associated educational activities. Collaborations with six emerging American composers (Daniel Dehaan, Martin Hiendl, Felipe Lara, Sasha Siem, Maria Stankova, and Anna Thorvaldsdottir) are planned and will include commissions, residency workshops with each composer and the ensemble, and premiere performances in concerts across the country.

International Music Foundation
Chicago, IL
$11,500
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 online.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support concerts in Jazz at Lincoln Center's 25th anniversary season. The Music of the NEA Jazz Masters mini-festivals will include Chick Corea, Pacquito D'Rivera, and Frank Wess; the Jazz and Popular Song Series curated by pianist and vocalist Michael Feinstein will explore the common musical bonds between jazz and the Great American Songbook; and the Blues Series concert will feature Charlie Musselwhite.

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Foundation's Monday Night Jams, its Musicians' Council; and the Musicians' Legacy Program. The weekly Monday Night Jams feature 10 bands on a rotating basis throughout the year; the Musicians' Council professional development workshops focus on topics of interest for aging jazz musicians; and students who are matched up with elder mentors participating in the Musicians' Legacy Program will receive biweekly lessons for nine months.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$30,000
To support The Jazz Gallery Debut Series. The innovative programming serves as a laboratory for gifted professional emerging jazz artists, providing them with a platform to step forward as band leaders and offering opportunities to premiere new works as well as repeat performance opportunities.

Jazz St. Louis (aka Jazz at the Bistro)
St. Louis, MO
$17,500
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program. Jazz artists including Wycliffe Gordon, John Faddis, and the Clayton Brothers participate in week-long residencies that comprise performances at schools, master classes, private lessons, and coaching public school big bands.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$11,000
To support the 2013 annual Juneau Jazz & Classics Music Festival. More than 30 professional jazz, classical, and blues musicians such as Poncho Sanchez and The Jasper String Quartet are expected to be featured in free and ticketed concerts in and around Juneau and participate in workshops, master classes, auditorium concerts for school children, lectures, and performances in outlying communities.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$17,500
To support the premiere performance of a new work by composer-in-residence Adam Schoenberg with related educational activities. Paying homage to Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, the new work will be created using as inspiration works of art at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art.

Kerrytown Concert House, Inc.
Ann Arbor, MI
$12,500
To support the Edgefest 2013 Keys to the Edgedom. A four-day avant-garde jazz festival in locations around Ann Arbor will showcase ground-breaking pianists and their new music including NEA Jazz Master Muhal Richard Abrams, Myra Melford, and Geri Allen in free and ticketed events.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support the commissioning, premiere, and recording of a new choral work by composer Eric Banks with related educational activities. Plans include the creation and premiere of a new work titled Just Between Us for women's vocal ensemble and string quartet based on an early 20th-century love affair between Russian poets Marina Tsvetaeva and Sophia Parnok; vocal workshops; online video documentation of the creation process; and an audio recording on the ensemble's in-house Diaphonica label available for digital release.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support the commission, development, and rehearsal of a new work as part of Kronos Quartet's 40th anniversary season. The commissioned piece by Serbian American composer Aleksandra Vrebalov will mark the centennial of World War I and will be scored for string quartet, pre-recorded audio track, and video by Croatian filmmaker Ivan Faktor.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$25,000
To support the Kuumbwa Jazz series NEA Jazz Masters in Concert. Six concerts will feature Jack DeJohnette, Sheila Jordan, Branford Marsalis, and Herbie Hancock who will collaborate with the Kuumbwa Jazz Honor Band, an all-star group of local high school musicians.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$18,000
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin, the festival will feature performances by artists including cellist Carter Brey; clarinetist David Schifrin; pianists Yefim Bronfman, Gabriela Montera, and Jon Kimura Parker; Brazilian guitarists Sérgio and Odair Assad; and Argentinean tango-infused jazz bass player Pablo Aslan; a commission and premiere of a new work by composer John Harbison; and a variety of educational activities.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$15,000
To support Jazz at Lafayette: Decoding the Cuban Jazz Genome. A series of up to five performance residencies will be offered with educational outreach activities by proposed artists NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo O'Farrill and the Afro-Caribbean Jazz Orchestra, Dafnis Prieto, Tiempo Libre, Fabian Almazan, and Gonzalo Rubalcaba.

Laguna Beach Live!
Laguna Beach, CA
$11,500
To support the Laguna Beach Music Festival of chamber music concerts and educational activities. With a focus on the music of Argentina, Pablo Ziegler will be guest artistic director for the festival and performances of Ziegler's Trio for Nuevo Tango and emerging artists accompanied by a variety of outreach concerts, workshops, and educational programs.

Lake Eden Arts Festival (aka LEAF)
Black Mountain, NC
$15,000
To support the LEAF Vocal Traditions Series. The LEAF Festival and LEAF in Schools & Streets educational outreach program will present vocalists Lizz Wright, Oumou Sangare, Mycale, Aisha Khalil, and others in public performances and community outreach concerts.

Lexington Philharmonic Society, Inc.
Lexington, KY
$16,000
To support a residency by the chamber sextet Eighth Blackbird. Culminating in a performance of composer Jennifer Higdon's concerto for sextet, On a Wire, the three-day residency will feature the ensemble in a Kicked Back Classics Concert of chamber music, a pre-concert Inside the Score lecture, open rehearsals for middle and high school students, school concerts, and a new music reading session for high school and college students and amateur musicians.

Litchfield Performing Arts, Inc. (aka Litchfield Jazz Festival)
Litchfield, CT
$10,000
To support the Litchfield Jazz Camp & Festival. The five-week residential program for students of all ages and technical levels offers instruction by professional musicians including Junior Mance, Charli Persip, Matt Wilson, Claudio Roditi, Avery Sharpe, and Don Braden.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
To support In Residence/On the Road, a residency and commissioning project. Plans include a three-week residency by composer Andrew Norman, workshops in local schools, pre-concert discussions, a commission for a new work, performances in Los Angeles and at the newly opened Green Music Center at Sonoma State University, and a radio broadcast.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$32,500
To support performances of choral music and related educational activities. Two programs are planned at Disney Concert Hall, each preceded by pre-concert ListenUp! discussions, including a pairing of Ein Deutsches Requiem by Johannes Brahms and the west coast premiere of The World in Flower by Peter Lieberson, and a concert of American music featuring works by Samuel Barber, Elliot Carter, Ricky Ian Gordon, and Eric Whitacre.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support a staged version of composer John Adams's oratorio The Gospel According to the Other Mary directed by Peter Sellars with related educational activities. Created as a companion piece to El Nino from 2000, the new work will explore the New Testament stories of Lazarus and Jesus's Passion in combination with the poetry of Rosario Castellanos and Louise Erdrich.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$20,000
To support Envisioning Louisiana: Viewing the Natural Environment through Music, a performance and education project. Plans include a free concert of music that will explore how composers have envisioned Louisiana's natural environment, a composer competition, chamber performances, a symposium and art exhibition in collaboration with the Historic New Orleans Collection, and educational materials on CD and DVD.

Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the Mann Summer Festival's Orchestral Concert Series, featuring the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, and the Curtis Symphony Orchestra. Taking place in Fairmont Park, located near the center of Philadelphia, programming for the outdoor summer festival 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
$32,500
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
$11,500
To support Britten at Woodstock, the 98th annual Maverick Concerts Festival, with programming celebrating the connection between composer Benjamin Britten and Woodstock. The festival will be curated by music director Alexander Platt and will feature Britten's works for string quartet, as well as a chamber orchestra performance of his song cycle Les Illuminations, written in Woodstock during the summer of 1939.

Mendelssohn Club Of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
$12,000
To support BIG SING//Julia Wolfe, a commissioning and performance project of a new work for chorus and ensemble, with guest artist ensemble Bang On a Can All-Stars. The 45-minute work will explore the folk legends and songs of mining communities in Pennsylvania.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$40,000
To support artists fees and travel costs for the 56th annual Monterey Jazz Festival. Performing artists include the festival's artist-in-residence and the annually selected Commission and Showcase Artists---designations previously held by trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire, composer and bandleader Maria Schneider, and pianist Robert Glasper.

Mount Saint Mary's College
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 Cuarteto Quiroga, Da Camera Players, and the Sphinx Virtuosi Orchestra 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.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$20,000
To support Music from Angel Fire's 30th Anniversary Chamber Music Festival. Activities include the world premiere of a commission by composer-in-residence NEA Jazz Master Chick Corea; a Young Artists Series; classroom concerts under the Music in Our Schools program for local area youth in the rural Northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas, Raton, and Taos; chamber music concerts and free family/youth concerts; open rehearsals; and lecture-discussion presentations.

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 15th annual MATA Festival of new music. Founded in 1996 by composers Philip Glass, Eleanor Sandresky, and Lisa Bielawa, the four-day festival will present the ensembles-in-residence BLINDMAN (five diverse instrumental quartets that grew from the original saxophone quartet founded by Eric Sleichim in 1988) and new works by emerging composers.

Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support Heritage Concerts performed on Western and traditional Chinese instruments. Programming will be directed by artistic director and erhu player Wang Guowei and will feature Chinese and Western repertoire, choral arrangements of Chinese folk songs, as well as a concert by the Music From China Youth Orchestra.

Musical Arts Association (aka The Cleveland Orchestra)
Cleveland, OH
$50,000
To support the world premiere performances by The Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Most of a newly-commissioned orchestral work by composer Sean Shepherd. The project will include pre-concert lectures, composition seminars, school visits, and master classes with the award-winning composer, who will be completing a two-year residency with the orchestra as its Daniel R. Lewis Young Composer Fellow.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC (aka NSO)
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support the NSO In Your Neighborhood: Howard University/Shaw/U Street project. The orchestra will participate in a week-long residency, which will include two full-orchestra concerts, one led by Music Director Christoph Eschenbach and the other by NSO Pops principal conductor Steven Reineke; small ensemble concerts; and education and outreach activities in community venues of the Shaw neighborhood of DC.

Network for New Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support Electronic.NNM: The Mini-Festival, featuring the commissioning and performance of a new chamber work for violin, viola, cello, and fixed media by composer Eric Chasalow. The new work will be presented as part of the four-concert mini-festival exploring electroacoustic music.

New Music USA, Inc
New York, NY
$70,000
To support new music through online resources at NewMusicBox.org and newmusicusa.org, as well as professional development, technical assistance, and editorial coverage of composers and artist residencies nationwide. New Music USA, a merging of two longstanding organizations of services to the field of new music (American Music Center and Meet The Composer), is committed to increasing opportunities for composers, performers, and audiences by fostering vibrant American contemporary music.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$16,000
To support the New School Concerts' New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The 10-day extensive training experience, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will offer full scholarships to 64 talented high school and college-age string players selected through national live auditions and will culminate in concerts at Carnegie Hall.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
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 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, Lincoln Center, and Queens College.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$15,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. Curated by choreographer Mark Morris, guest music director for the 67th annual festival, programming will be focused on American artists and music, including the works of Lou Harrison, John Cage, Henry Cowell, Charles Ives, and John Luther Adams, and will feature the Mark Morris Music Ensemble, the Mark Morris Dance Group, pianist Emanuel Ax, the American String Quartet, and jazz trio The Bad Plus with Ethan Iverson.

Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$22,500
To support the 8th annual New Mexico Jazz Festival. A partnership with the Lensic Performing Arts Center and the Santa Fe Jazz Foundation, the 17-day festival will feature free and ticketed concerts with artists such as NEA Jazz Masters Herbie Hancock and Branford Marsalis; workshops; open rehearsals; Meet the Artist sessions; a visual arts exhibit; and a spoken-word component.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$43,000
To support the commissioning, performance, and recording of a new Jake Heggie choral work, Acts of Creation. Featuring the 24-voice John Alexander Singers, the 140-voice Pacific Chorale, and the eight instrumentalists, the world premiere will take place in the spring of 2014 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.

Partners Achieving Success CDC, Inc. (aka PAS)
Bowie, MD
$25,000
To support the annual Conductors National Summit in Nashville 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
$15,000
To support the Vocal Music Project. The art song recitals will feature soprano Susanna Phillips, mezzo-soprano Angelika Kirchschlager, tenor Ian Bostridge, and the Philadelphia Singers Chorus in repertoire ranging from the Renaissance to contemporary vocal music.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support the concert presentation of Handel's opera Teseo. Under the direction of Music Director Nicholas McGegan, the project will include guest artists sopranos Dominique Labelle, Amanda Forsythe, Amy Freston, and Celine Ricci, and countertenors Robin Blaze and Drew Minter.

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support New Works: Ted Hearne and Mathew Rosenblum, a commissioning and performance project. The Hearne work will be scored for flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano, and percussion, while the Rosenblum work, titled Falling (based on a James Dickey poem), will be scored for amplified ensemble of bass-baritone voice, flute, clarinet, violin, cello, piano/sampler, and percussion.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
To support the Composer of the Year project, an artist residency with composer Mason Bates. The orchestra will perform the composer's The B-Sides with principal guest conductor Leonard Slatkin and Desert Transport, a work inspired by a helicopter flight over the Arizona landscape, to be conducted by Juanjo Mena.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support Dvořák and America, a week-long festival of performances and related activities. Performances conducted by Music Director Angel Gil-Ordoñez will include the world premiere of a "Hiawatha Melodrama" by author Michael Beckerman and artistic director Joseph Horowitz that will be recorded by Naxos; as well as scripted, interdisciplinary presentations of readings and connecting commentary developed by Horowitz, bringing to life the composer's work and his time and place.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support the commissioning and performance of a new work for chamber orchestra and cello by composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Featuring cellist Joshua Roman and Music Director Dr. Timothy Russell, the project will include open rehearsals for older adults, post-concert discussions with the composer, and a master class for local conservatory students.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA
$35,000
To support the Atlanta School of Composers Commissions, a commissioning and performance project of new works. Jazz pianist and composer Marcus Roberts and Atlanta Symphony Orchestra bassist Michael Kurth will premiere their new works conducted by Music Director Robert Spano on a concert program that will include Leonard Bernstein's Symphonic Dances and Christopher Theofanidis's Rainbow Body.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$12,500
To support the commissioning and premieres of new works by Douglas Lowry and Karen Tanaka. The project will include a composer residency by Tanaka and workshops with high school and college-level composers as well as with musicians of the Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra and the Eastman School of Music.

Rose Ensemble
Saint Paul, MN
$12,500
To support the Trujillo del Peru: The Musical Journeys of Bishop Martinez Compañon project featuring Peruvian music from the 17th and 18th centuries. The ensemble, with Artistic Director Jordan Sramek and early music performer and scholar Tom Zajac, will present lecture-demonstrations, master classes, and performances exploring the repertoire of the Trujillo nine-volume manuscript.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
BROOKLYN, NY
$25,000
To support New and Adventurous Music: Roulette's Contemporary Music Program. Curated by Director Jim Staley, the concerts will feature a wide variety of musical styles by composers who perform their own work in solo or in ensemble, ranging from jazz, world music, experimental, improvisational, multimedia, and interdisciplinary work to computer music and new technologies, and music performed on uniquely built instruments.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$50,000
To support the Living Composers Project. The program will feature premiere performances of new works by composers John Luther Adams, Shawn Jaeger, and Matthias Pintscher, as well as works by John Adams, John Corigliano, George Crumb, Sofia Gubaidulina, Oliver Knussen, Andrew Norman, and Charles Wuorinen.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$20,000
To support commissioning and performance of Webern Point, a new chamber work by intermedia composer Jaroslaw Kapuscinski. Inspired by Anton Webern's Concerto for Nine Instruments, Opus 24, the composition will integrate music with animation and documentary film footage by filmmaker Jason Sussberg.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$51,000
To support the 2013 SFJAZZ Collective Tour and Outreach Project, a residency and touring ensemble. Components include the creation and public presentation of new and re-interpreted works by Collective members, residencies, workshops and master classes for young musicians, open rehearsals, and pre-concert talks.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$75,000
To support A Beethoven Exploration festival, directed by Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas. Programming will include performances of Beethoven's first major work, Cantata on the Death of Emperor Joseph II, and one of his final masterpieces, Missa Solemnis, and will feature guest artists sopranos Sally Matthews and Laura Claycomb, mezzo-sopranos Tamara Mumford and Sasha Cooke, tenors Barry Banks and Michael Fabiano, bass-baritone Andrew Foster-Williams, bass Shenyang, and the St. Lawrence String Quartet.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival, Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
$42,500
To support the 41st 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, and national radio broadcasts. Key artists will include Artistic Director Marc Neikrug; the Orion, Shanghai, Johannes, Miami, and Flux Quartets; as well as pianist Garrick Ohlson, the festival's 2013 artist-in-residence.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$50,000
To support the annual Savannah Music Festival, featuring the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra and other artists in diverse programming, including world music, gospel, classical, blues, and jazz. The 17-day, 100-program festival with more than 500 artists will take place in numerous venues in Savannah's Historic Landmark District.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$25,000
To support the American Commissions and Premieres project featuring new works by Elliott Carter and John Luther Adams. The programming will feature the world premieres of the two new American works along with works by Johannes Brahms, Robert Schumann, Gioachino Rossini, and Dmitri Shostakovich.

Silk Road Project, Inc.
Boston, MA
$45,000
To support the Silk Road Project US Tour: Premieres of Commissioned Works under the artistic direction of Yo-Yo Ma. New works, written for both Western and non-Western instrumentation, were developed during workshops with composers David Bruce, Glenn Kotche, and Kojiro Umezaki held at Harvard University.

Southwest Chamber Music Society
Pasadena, CA
$25,000
To support the Los Angeles International New Music Festival. Musicians of Southwest Chamber Music and guest artists from around the world will perform the chamber works by composers such as Alexandra du Bois, Helen Grimes, Lei Liang, Kurt Rohde, Augusta Read Thomas, and Charles Wuorinen at the Colburn School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Stanford University
Stanford, CA
$32,500
To support the Bing Concert Hall inaugural season celebration with the commissioning and performances of chamber works by composer Jonathan Berger, composer and performer Laurie Anderson with Kronos Quartet, and composer Steve Reich with Alarm Will Sound. The project will include the commissioning and premieres of two new chamber opera works (Anaphora and Magnificat) by Jonathan Berger and librettist Dan O'Brien, which will feature digital processing to create electroacoustic interludes and illusory aural spaces.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support performances of See Famed Apollo!, William Boyce's 1739 ode to Saint Cecilia, patron saint of music, written for soloists, chorus, and orchestra. The orchestra will perform the work in collaboration with Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra, and the Westminster Kantorei of Princeton, New Jersey.

University Enterprises Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support the annual Festival of New American Music featuring concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals at California State University, Sacramento. Artists to be engaged include Calliope Duo, NewSpeak, Percussion Group Cincinnati, Plural Ensemble, TwoSense, Yarn/Wire, saxophonist Tim McAllister, and composers Ryan Brown, Paul Dresher, Amy Kirsten, and Steven Stucky.

University of Oregon (on behalf of Oregon Bach Festival)
Eugene, OR
$25,000
To support the commissioning of a new work for chorus and orchestra by James MacMillan for the Oregon Bach Festival. The commissioned work will be a cantata scored for chorus, orchestra, and soloists, 30-40 minutes in length.

Van Cliburn Foundation, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$20,000
To support the commissioning of a solo piano work by Christopher Theofanidis, and performances featuring the Brentano String Quartet and conductor Leonard Slatkin. Founded in 1961, the foundation's mission is to identify and promote the finest talent in classical music worldwide through piano competitions, concerts, and education programs in Fort Worth and Dallas schools.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support Witness: Marian Anderson, an annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, featuring soprano Marlissa Hudson. Following two months of outreach presentations by members of the chorush, the 23rd annual week-long festival will include a public concert held in the Ordway in St. Paul, highlighting Marian Anderson's best known repertoire, including art songs, arias, and traditional American songs and spirituals.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the New Music for a New Age performance project, featuring the works of composer Tarik O'Regan. The fifth annual event directed by Music Director Julian Wachner will focus on the choral works of O'Regan and will occur at the Atlas Performing Arts Center in the District of Columbia's newly revitalized H Street Corridor.

William Jewell College (on behalf of Harriman-Jewell Series)
Liberty, MO
$10,000
To support Discovery Concerts, free recital performances by emerging musicians in the Harriman-Jewell Series. Musicians include pianist Jan Lisiecki; violinist Elena Urioste and pianist Gabriela Martinez in a dual recital; violinist Vilde Frang; and pianist George Li. They will be presented free at the Folly Theater and the Kauffman Concert Hall in downtown Kansas City.

Yellow Barn, Inc.
Putney, VT
$10,000
To support the professional development of emerging musicians through the summer program and artist residencies. 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 Juilliard and Cleveland String Quartets; pianist Gilbert Kalish; cellist Joel Krosnick; and composers Mario Davidovsky, Osvaldo Golijov, and Steven Mackey.

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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