Music: FY2003 Grants

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

Access | Creativity | Heritage/Preservation | Organizational Capacity

Panelists

Access

American Brass Chamber Music Association, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,000
To support a tour of performances and residency activities. The residencies will include up to seven performance and/or educational events culminating in a formal concert in each community.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support NewMusicBox.org and NewMusicJukeBox.org. NewMusicBox is a monthly Web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community, and NewMusicJukeBox is a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers.

American Symphony Orchestra League (consortium)
New York, NY
$90,000
To support a comprehensive analysis of first-time orchestra concertgoers. Introduced by a national television ad campaign and through Web sites, the project will survey participants attending one of 21 pre-selected concerts.

Bang on a Can, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Summer Institute of Music at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, a residency program for gifted composers and performers interested in experimental music. Bang on a Can All-Stars, guest composers, performers and students will present concerts and educational activities in schools and other venues throughout North Adams, Mass., and in the museum galleries.

Central Park Conservancy, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Harlem Meer Performance Festival. The free summer series will showcase African American and Latino music, featuring established and emerging artists from the area's African American and Latino community.

Charlotte Symphony Orchestra Society, Inc.
Charlotte, NC
$25,000
To support a community engagement initiative to reach new audiences. Activities will include community concerts, a Symphony 101 lecture series in neighborhood libraries, and a Web site that will serve as a promotional and educational tool.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$17,500
To support First Monday, a free noontime concert series at the Chicago Cultural Center, broadcast live on WFMT-FM radio. The 45-minute interactive concert format allows audiences to discuss the music with the chamber players.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$50,000
To support a series of outreach programs in communities throughout the Cincinnati metropolitan area, including areas of northern Kentucky. The three-part initiative will offer concerts at reduced prices or free of charge.

Da Capo Chamber Players, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support a performance tour and residency activities. The project will include public school concerts, open rehearsals, programs for retirement communities and radio interviews with composers in-residence in four states.

Delaware Symphony Association
Wilmington, DE
$20,000
To support educational outreach activities for adults and children in rural and underserved areas of the state. The project will include youth and family concerts as well as an in-school ensemble program serving 16 schools across the state.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$18,000
To support Sirens & Harpies: Medieval Women as Performers, Subjects and Composers, a national tour of early music performances. The program will feature 12th- to 14th-century European music performed according to historical practices by female guest artists.

Fargo-Moorhead Orchestral Association
Fargo, ND
$10,000
To support an outreach and intergenerational education program. Activities will include Pizza Pop Concerts for high school students and Young People's/Family Concerts for elementary school students and their families.

Fischoff Chamber Music Association, Inc.
(aka Fischoff National Chamber Music Association)
Notre Dame, IN
$10,000
To support the Arts-in-Education Residency Program. Three weeklong residencies with Imani Winds, Manhattan Brass Quintet and the prize-winning ensemble of the 2003 Fischoff Competition will celebrate the community's African-American and Latino cultures.

Fish Middleton Jazz Scholarship Fund, Inc.
Silver Spring, MD
$15,000
To support the Jazz Heritage Artist project at the East Coast Jazz Festival. Annually, a jazz artist of distinction will be honored and presented at the festival.

Flynn Theatre for the Performing Arts, Ltd.
(on behalf of Burlington Discover Jazz Festival)
Burlington, VT $20,000
To support artist residencies and performances at the Burlington Discover Jazz Festival. Educational activities will include a jazz scholar-in-residence, pre-performance lectures and dialogues with the performing artists.

Fort Worth Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Fort Worth, TX
$15,000
To support the Neighborhood Arts Program in Fort Worth and rural communities throughout Texas. In partnership with the Arts Council Fort Worth and Tarrant County, the program will provide free orchestral performances in more than 20 neighborhood churches, schools and community centers.

Henry Mancini Institute
Culver City, CA
$15,000
To support the Summer Concert Series and Community Combos. The Summer Concert Series will take place at Royce Hall, University of California/Los Angeles and Community Combos performances will take place in museums, parks, senior centers and other public places in Los Angeles.

International Choral Festival
Missoula, MT
$15,000
To support an international choral festival. Up to 15 choirs from around the world will be selected to participate in performances and workshops that will take place for five days in July 2003 in Missoula.

International Double Reed Society
Finksburg, MD
$9,500
To support the improvement of Internet equipment for the society's Web site, www.idrs.org. With an upgraded Web server, computer peripherals and software, the site will increase distribution of sound files, printed music, research materials and other sources of information on double reed instruments.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$27,500
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 90 classical and jazz concerts, master classes, lectures and public education programs throughout western Michigan will take place during two weeks in spring 2004.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. The program provides an opportunity for thousands of students to study and perform Duke Ellington's music.

Jazz Institute of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$30,000
To support the continued expansion of the Chicago Jazz and Heritage Program. The program seeks to explore ways to connect youth and families with the cultural heritage of the city's diverse communities.

Long Beach Symphony Association (aka Long Beach Symphony Orchestra)
Long Beach, CA
$17,500
To support Musical Bridges, an outreach program. Proposed activities include community concerts that will link traditional and classical music in local venues, a chamber orchestra concert and specially designed family concerts.

Los Angeles Chamber Singers, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support a residency at the University of California at Riverside. Activities will include four full-length concerts for the public, open rehearsals, joint rehearsals with student ensembles and master classes in performance, repertoire, period practice and composition.

Magnificat
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support a series of regional touring performances and events in communities across the United States. Programming for the nine-state tour will center around the neglected works of a 17th-century Italian composer and cloistered nun, Chiara Margarita Cozzolani.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the Meet the Composer Fund. The program allows composers to attend performances of their own music and take part in pre- or post-concert discussions, open rehearsals, workshops, lecture demonstrations and interviews.

Minnesota Chorale
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the annual Bridges outreach program. The project will present Musical Chi: East-West Convergences, a weeklong residency by t'ai chi master and author Chungliang Al Huang, in partnership with the Minnesota Chorale and pipa virtuosa Gao Hong.

Minnesota Orchestral Association (consortium)
Minneapolis, MN
$40,000
To support Discovering Great Music, a music education project with Minneapolis public schools. Activities will include youth concerts, teacher workshops, development of curriculum guides and classroom visits to students.

Moab Music Festival, Inc.
Moab, UT
$10,000
To support the September season of the Moab Music Festival. The 2003 festival will present 11 chamber music concerts by world-class musicians and will take place in the remote town of Moab in southeastern Utah.

Nashville Symphony Association
Nashville, TN
$20,000
To support outreach concerts to rural areas of middle Tennessee and southern Kentucky. The Nashville Symphony, in partnership with local community organizations, will tour to 10 diverse and underserved communities.

New Jersey Performing Arts Center
Newark, NJ
$40,000
To support Sounds of the City, a presentation of 12 weekly, free, outdoor summer concerts in the center's downtown plaza. In 2003, the concerts will feature diverse musical styles ranging from jazz, swing and salsa to Cajun and Celtic.

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra (aka Albuquerque Symphony Orchestra)
Albuquerque, NM
$25,000
To support a statewide tour to small, rural and underserved communities of New Mexico. The project will also offer educational activities in Albuquerque area schools.

New Performing Arts, Inc.
Louisville, KY
$25,000
To support a national conference that will address model frameworks for developing and sustaining music presenting and programming in rural and underserved communities. The project will include dissemination via Internet of the conference results, as well as artist residencies in rural Minnesota, New York and Texas.

Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support concerts in diverse, underserved neighborhoods of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. The orchestra will perform in churches, schools and assisted-living residences.

Philomel Concerts, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$5,000
To support expansion of Imagination Workshops, Kids' Concerts, and Concerts & Conversations. The outreach, educational programs and family concerts will provide access to and build long-term audience involvement in early music.

Phoenix Symphony Association (consortium)
Phoenix, AZ
$40,000
To support One Nation, a series of education programs for the local Native American community. The project will include master classes for grades seven to 12, a classroom concert for elementary students and a free family community concert.

Pittsburgh Chamber Music Society, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support a chamber ensemble residency by the Talich Quartet at City Music Center on the campus of Duquesne University. Activities will include performances, coaching and community activities.

Queens Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Glendale, NY
$22,500
To support an audience development project presenting subscription concerts throughout the borough. The decentralization plan will mirror the enclaves of Queens, one of the most ethnically diverse counties in the nation.

Red Cedar Chamber Music
Marion, IA
$10,000
To support Reaching Out: Rural Outreach Concerts, a series of chamber music concerts and educational events in small rural Iowa communities. Founded in 1997, the ensemble performs a range of early to contemporary music.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
Atlanta, GA (consortium)
$60,000
To support ASO Around Georgia, a community partnership initiative. The tour by the Atlanta Symphony will include performances and outreach activities as a means to cultivate meaningful partnerships with communities across the state.

Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Rochester, NY
$40,000
To support Symphony 101, an outreach project of concerts for underserved and low-income residents. Host and music director Christopher Seaman and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra will offer a symphonic repertoire and informal lectures for first-time concertgoers at Roberts Wesleyan College.

Saint Louis Symphony Society
St. Louis, MO
$50,000
To support regional concerts in underserved communities. The symphony will perform free ensemble performances and low-cost orchestral concerts in Missouri and Illinois.

Santa Cecilia Opera and Orchestra Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support Discovering Music, an educational outreach program in underserved communities of Los Angeles. The project, led by artistic director Sonia Marie De Leon, will provide orchestral performances and educational activities in venues ranging from elementary schools to community centers.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$20,000
To support the completion of a documentary film that captures the year-long process and results of a community outreach project. The video will be disseminated nationwide to schools and symphony orchestras as a template for community collaborations, as well as an educational tool to bring meaning to present-day conflicts.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (consortium)
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support outreach performances and educational events for underserved communities. The orchestra with the Texaco-Sphinx competition winner as guest soloist will perform concerts in the Langston Hughes Performing Arts Center, New Hope Baptist Church and Benaroya Hall.

Sitka Summer Music Festival, Inc.
Sitka, AK
$13,000
To support concert tours of chamber music in cities and rural communities of Alaska. The concerts will serve communities in Anchorage, Dillingham, Juneau, Kotzebue, Nome, Pelican, Petersburg and Sitka.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$10,000
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute at the Bernhard Theater on the campus of the college. The two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily improvisational classes, private instruction and a mini-festival.

Sounds of Hope, Ltd.
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support a Mississippi River concert tour performed by local and international youth. Concerts on a floating barge along the river, from LaCrosse to Saint Paul, will coincide with the 150th-anniversary commemoration of the Grand Excursion of 1854.

Spokane Symphony Society
Spokane, WA
$10,000
To support regional concerts in underserved communities. The Spokane Symphony will perform orchestral concerts for rural and low-income residents in Washington and Idaho.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (aka San Antonio Symphony)
San Antonio, TX
$15,000
To support a residency at St. Philip's College, a historically black college in San Antonio. Activities will include master classes, open rehearsals, lectures, and concerts for primary and secondary school children.

Syracuse Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$20,000
To support a concert tour to New York's North Country. The orchestra, under the direction of Music Director Daniel Hege, will perform full orchestra concerts in rural and underserved communities.

Tucson Symphony Society (consortium)
Tucson, AZ
$20,000
To support the Southern Arizona Residency. The project consists of an educational component and a public concert in five rural communities in southern Arizona.

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Champaign, IL
$25,000
To support Jazz Threads, a year-long project of community jazz activities and a residency by Cecil Bridgewater at the Krannert Art Center. The project will include performances, educational activities and community participation.

Vermont Symphony Orchestra Association, Inc.
Burlington, VT
$22,500
To support the Made in Vermont Music Festival Tour, a series of educational activities and community concert programs in underserved rural communities. The project will tie community concerts to children's concerts in 10 communities.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support an outreach and education program. Activities include free concerts for the elderly, school choir workshops and distribution of free tickets to young people throughout the Washington area.

West Virginia Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Charleston, WV
$20,000
To support a statewide tour to underserved rural communities. The symphony will reach audiences in seven to 10 communities throughout West Virginia.

Women's Philharmonic
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Composing A Career, a symposium and an annual music festival at Yerba Buena Center for the Performing Arts. The symposium will include Music in the Making, new music reading sessions that will showcase emerging American women composers.

Creativity

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$19,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works by emerging composers. A total of 16 new works will be commissioned and performed by the orchestra and a smaller new music ensemble comprised of orchestral musicians.

Alpenglow Chamber Music Festivals, Inc.
Dillon, CO
$8,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Dan Coleman. A portion of the work will be composed prior to the August 2003 festival and the remaining portions will be composed with input from audiences at the festival.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Improvise!, a series of concerts, commissions and educational activities focused on improvisation and the symphony orchestra. Activities will occur in April 2004 at various venues in New York City including Carnegie Hall, Aaron Davis Hall, the Knitting Factory, and at Miller Theater at Columbia University.

Amherst Saxophone Society Inc.
Williamsville, NY
$10,000
To support presentations and radio broadcasts of music for saxophone quartets. Performances will take place during 2003 at a church, at the Ujima Theatre, and at WBFO-FM's Allen Hall on the campus of SUNY/Buffalo in front of a live studio audience for future broadcast.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Hts., OH
$12,500
To support the presentation, educational activities and national radio broadcast of the Saint Matthew's Passion by Bach, on period instruments. Under the direction of conductor Jeannette Sorrel, the two performances will be sung in English and will take place in March 2003 in Akron and at Severance Hall in Cleveland.

Aspen Music Festival
Aspen, CO
$35,000
To support the American Academy of Conducting, a professional development program for post conservatory musicians. Under the direction of music director David Zinman and conductor Murry Sidlin, the summer 2003 project will engage 24 participants in an extensive conducting institute.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$17,500
To support the presentation of an oratorio by Dave Brubeck, Beloved Son, including educational activities. Under the direction of Music Director Tom Hall, the performance will take place in March 2003 on the campus of Morgan State University.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the annual Bang on a Can Marathon and E-Festival. The day-long new music Marathon will be broadcast on WNYC-FM as well as live over the Internet, and will serve as the anchor presentation for the month-long Bang on a Can E-Festival.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$25,000
To support the creation and presentation of a secular oratorio by Kurt Rohde. The work, Bitter Harvest (a love story), scheduled to be premiered in the spring of 2004, will explore the psychological roots of racial prejudice among American farmers.

Boston Modern Orchestra Project, Inc.
Roslindale, MA
$10,000
To support the American Orchestra Music Initiative in the presentation and recording of works by American composers. Works by John Harbison and Augusta Read Thomas will receive their regional premieres in Boston during 2003 and will be recorded by Albany Records for the first time.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$50,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music. The Tanglewood Music Center will present the week long event featuring five to seven concerts by ensembles of Tanglewood fellows and guest artists.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek
Vail, CO
$12,500
To support the 16th annual Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer 2003 festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, open rehearsals, public workshops, educational-outreach concerts and young artist programs.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$10,000
To support guest-artist teachers and scholarships for the Advanced Chamber Music (ACM) Program. The 12 participants will receive professional development under the guidance of guest master teachers in residence through the summer 2003 session.

Brooklyn Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$40,000
To support The American Lollapalooza Project, a series of concerts, a commission and education outreach activities. The works of seven American composers, both established and emerging, will be presented in a pair of concerts with accompanying community and education events in February 2003.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$30,000
To support Intimate Portraits, a series of concerts for chamber orchestra. Each of the three concerts planned during the 2002-03 season will showcase different sections of the orchestra: winds, brass, percussion and strings.

Cabrillo Music Festival
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support a new music conductor training program. The summer 2003 professional development program will partner with the Conductors Guild to provide 20 conductors with training opportunities.

California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation
(on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$15,000
To support the Festival of New American Music that will focus on many facets of new American music. The annual festival will be held on the California State University Sacramento campus and at various community venues.

California Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Pleasant Hill, CA
$10,000
To support the Young American Composer-in-Residence Program (YACR). The 18-month residency program in 2003 and 2004 will include recorded reading sessions, commissions and premieres of three new works, and pre-concert discussions.

Cape & Islands Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
North Chatham, MA
$10,000
To support the 2003 Cape & Island Chamber Music Festival. The 17 chamber music concerts and special programs will use the ocean as a programming theme during the three-week August festival held in venues across Cape Cod.

Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
$100,00O
To support the Perspectives series, including performances, premieres of commissioned pieces and training workshops. Developed by pianists Mitsuko Uchida and Emanuel Ax, soprano Dawn Upshaw and conductor Michael Tilson Thomas, the series will include 23 self-curated performances in 2003 04.

Center for International Performance and Exhibition
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support Explorations in Sound: The Innovative Composers Project. Jim Baker, Edward Wilkerson, Jr., and Michael Zerang will be offered year-long residencies to create new work and collaborate with other artists during 2003.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support Chamber Music Society Two (CMS2), a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the two-year residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center.

Chatham Baroque, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$10,000
To support the production of early English operas in concert version. Chatham Baroque will collaborate with other area choral and instrumental ensembles to present John Blow's Venus and Adonis and Henry Purcell's Dido and Aeneas.

Chicago Chamber Musicians
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new work by Bruce Adolphe for children and adults based on a Shakespearean theme. Witches, Wizards, Spells and Elves: The Magic of Shakespeare will be premiered during February 2003 at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$90,000
To support MusicNOW, a series of concerts of the music of living composers, recorded for radio broadcast. The 13 concerts scheduled in the spring of 2003 will include works by eight composers including world premieres of two commissions.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$35,000
To support a professional development program for pre-professional musicians. The program prepares the 96 musicians of the Civic Orchestra to compete for positions in leading professional orchestras by offering coaching, mock audition seminars and master classes.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$25,000
To support the presentation and national radio broadcast of the 15th annual Choral Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. Choral Arts Society, Howard University Choir, a children's choir and a gospel choir will combine forces for performances conducted by Norman Scribner.

Cleveland Orchestra
Cleveland, OH
$90,000
To support a performance project titled A Sound Beginning. The project will introduce new works to the Cleveland Orchestra's repertoire and celebrate the new leadership of music director Franz Welser Most.

Colorado Music Festival
Boulder, CO
$10,000
To support the artist-in-residence program. Two-week residencies for each of three guest artists engaged for the 2003 Festival will include performances, community outreach and education activities.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra
Columbus, OH
$15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. In a consortium with Ohio State University, the performances by the Columbus Symphony Orchestra will include student and faculty ensembles, local artists and music scholars.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 100 performance opportunities will allow artists on the Concert Artists Guild (CAG) roster to hone performance skills and improve powers of communication.

Coro de Ninos de San Juan, Inc.
San Juan, PR
$12,500
To support the presentation of an annual Christmas concert. Two choral performances will take place in the Antonio Paoli Festival Hall at the Luis A. Ferre Performing Arts Center in San Juan, Puerto Rico, in December 2003.

Cuyahoga Community College
Cleveland, OH
$20,000
To support the 24rd annual Tri-C JazzFest. The 2003 festival will focus on the impact that electronics, rock, hip-hop, fusion and the guitar have had on jazz through concerts, educational activities and radio broadcasts.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc.
Houston, TX
$15,000
To support the presentation of concerts and related panel discussions exploring modernism through music. Three new productions are planned to accompany the Masterworks of the Museum of Modern Art exhibit at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston in 2003-04.

Dale Warland Singers
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support the creation, performance and radio broadcast of new choral works. Two 10-12 minute works will be commissioned and premiered as part of the 30th anniversary celebration: one each by Aaron Jay Kernis and Dale Warland.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$50,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new composition by Michael Daugherty and related residency activities. The new work, a violin concerto, will be premiered by violinist Pamela Frank and recorded for broadcast in May 2003.

Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center/Lucy Moses School for Music & Dance
(on behalf of Merkin Concert Hall)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works for beginning piano students. A total of 20 composers will write new piano works that are suitable for beginners in the first two years of the five year 50th anniversary celebration of Merkin Concert Hall.

Emmanuel Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support Harbison and His World, a retrospective of concerts and lectures on the chamber music of John Harbison. A series of ten concerts, including a world premiere to take place at the Walsh Theater at Suffolk University in Boston, will examine the composer's works and influences on his music.

Eos Orchestra
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Mass en Masse, a concert that will examine the mass as a musical art form. This celebration of the mass form will explore how three composers of diverse styles have adapted it.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$10,000
To support the 10th anniversary performance of John Adams' Violin Concerto and educational activities associated with the project. The concert will feature the violinist for whom the work was written, Jorja Fleezanis, and will include string and composition workshops, a new music recital and a lecture.

Fort Wayne Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Fort Wayne, IN
$17,500
To support Unplugged, Fort Wayne Philharmonic's informal classical concert series. During 2002-03, Unplugged concerts will be hosted by a local celebrity and feature casually dressed orchestra members under live video images projected on a large screen.

Friends of Chamber Music
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the International Chamber Music Series. The four presentations will take place in the spring of 2003 in the Folly Theater in St. Louis or the Carlsen Center at Johnson County Community College.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society
Grand Rapids, MI
$10,000
To support the creation, presentation and recording of works by Adolphus Hailstork for the 75th anniversary season. The recording will couple Mr. Hailstork's newly commissioned work, Symphony #3, with his never-recorded Symphony #2.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$27,500
To support Exploring the Italian Baroque, a series of concerts for chorus and orchestra. Three concerts, all under the direction of Music Director Grant Llewellyn, are planned during 2003-04 that will be enhanced by lectures, discussions and articles by Baroque scholars.

Highlights In Jazz
New York, NY
$7,500
To support jazz concerts. Two concerts are planned in the spring of 2004 that celebrate Highlights In Jazz's 31st anniversary season.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$40,000
To support the Concerto Commissioning Project--the creation and presentation of a new concerto for a principal player in the orchestra. Samuel Adler will compose a concerto for French horn, with William Ver Meulen, Principal Horn of the Houston Symphony, as soloist.

Indiana State University
Terre Haute, IN
$10,000
To support the 37th annual Contemporary Music Festival. The two-day festival will take place on the campus of Indiana State University in Terre Haute during the fall of 2003.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support the U.S. tour of the Lincoln Center Jazz Orchestra and the establishment of a new resident ensemble, the Afro-Cuban Jazz Orchestra. The tour will reach 17 cities and 12 states, including Hawaii, and locations throughout the Midwest and the South.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
To support the Berkshire Jazz Festival. The two-day outdoor festival staged during August 2003 in Great Barrington, Massachusetts will include concerts and workshops.

Jazz In Flight
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support the Eddie Moore Jazz Festival. The 14th annual Festival will be held over two weekends in August 2003 at various venues in Oakland and Emeryville, California.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$15,000
To support the Strategic Programming Initiative, a series of concerts and educational activities. The four concert programs will each be performed three times during the spring of 2003.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$10,000
To support faculty artists' fees for professional development of advanced music students at the Kent/Blossom Music program. A total of 44 nationally selected, post-secondary music students will spend six summer weeks under the instruction of Cleveland Orchestra musicians, the Miro Quartet and other artists.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$40,000
To support the development, recording, songbook publication, presentation and national tour of a holiday concert. Wintersongs is a collection of rarely performed traditional, contemporary and original seasonal vocal music from a variety of Eastern European ethnic and spiritual traditions.

Kronos Performing Arts Association
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support commissioning and residency activities in celebration of Kronos Quartet's 30th anniversary season. Activities include a call for scores from composers under the age of 30, the commissioning of a new work and a collaboration with the Merce Cunningham Dance Company.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$10,000
To support creation and presentation of a new work by pianist/composer Rebeca Mauleon including residency activities. The new work, performed with her five-piece Afro-Caribbean ensemble and special guests, will be premiered in the fall of 2003.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$12,500
To support performances, two commissions and a jazz ensemble residency. Jazz at Lafayette will celebrate the college's 20th anniversary of jazz presenting and feature jazz artists Dave Holland, Stefon Harris, David Sanchez, Victor Lewis and Mulgrew Miller.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$22,500
To support a commission and premiere of a work for chamber orchestra by composer-in-residence designate Pierre Jalbert. The Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra will perform the work at the Alex Theatre in Glendale and Royce Hall on the campus of the University of California-Los Angeles.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$10,000
To support performances of Handel's Messiah by the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra. The collaborative project will be directed by music director Grant Gershon and presented at UCLA's Royce Hall and the Alex Theatre in Glendale.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$18,000
To support three final concerts by the Los Angeles Master Chorale at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion prior to its move to the Walt Disney Hall. Performances will include an early American a cappella work by William Billings, Rezos by Tania Leon, Tangos by Astor Piazzola and The Desert Music by Steven Reich.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$90,000
To support world premieres of commissioned works by John Adams, Tan Dun, Liza Lim, Magnus Lindberg, Esa-Pekka Salonen and Steven Stucky. The project will include educational and outreach activities focusing on the project's programming themes.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. The multifaceted summer 2003 project will provide young musicians with enhanced experiences and the opportunity to study with master concert artists.

Marilyn Horne Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$12,500
To support performances by young artists in four vocal recitals. The foundation will present the artists at the 125-seat Kosciuszko Foundation and 457-seat Merkin Hall as part of its On Wings of Song series which will be later broadcast on WQXR-FM radio.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$7,500
To support the presentation of four concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music. Guest composers/performers Mark Trayle and Myra Melford, and composers Lois Vierk and James Tenney, will participate in performances of their work.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$70,000
To support the creation and presentation of three new works by American composers John Corigliano, Aaron Jay Kernis and Stephen Paulus. The project will be part of Minnesota Orchestra's Centennial Commissioning Project, a ten-year effort that began in 1999.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$10,000
To support free concerts by soloists, ensembles and chamber orchestras presented in 18 rural towns. During July and August of 2003, Monadnack Music, under the direction of Music Director James Bolle, will present three free concerts per week.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$25,000
To support the 2003 Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Three key components of the festival are a commissioned work to be premiered at the festival, artists in residence and performances by emerging jazz musicians.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
To support Chamber Music in Historic Sites, a series of chamber music concerts to be presented by the Da Camera Society. Taking place during 2003-04, the concerts match musical programs from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music from Angel Fire
Angel Fire, NM
$12,500
To support Music at Angel Fire's 20th Anniversary Festival. The festival will tour the rural, northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas and Taos.

Music From China
New York, NY
$10,000
To support one-week residencies by Music From China at Indiana State University and Indiana University. The ensemble will perform a repertoire of traditional Chinese music and new compositions, as well as lectures and demonstrations, composers' seminars, and community outreach concerts.

Musical Traditions, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a collaborative commissioning and performance project with the Russian ensemble Opus Posth. The Paul Dresher Ensemble and Opus Posth will participate in a 2003 mini-festival featuring the premiere of new works.

Nashville Chamber Orchestra
Nashville, TN
$10,000
To support the American Song Festival, a six-concert project celebrating the American art song. The festival, directed by music director Paul Gambill, will include the commission and premiere of a new work by Dr. J. Mark Scearce based on a text by Nobel Laureate Toni Morrison.

National Symphony Orchestra Association
Washington, DC
$65,000
To support Soundtracks: Music and Film, a festival examining the history of music in film. Music director Leonard Slatkin and guest conductor John Williams will conduct the National Symphony Orchestra in performances, and will lead discussions and demonstrations.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra
Newark, NJ
$30,000
To support a three-week Winter Festival, an exploration of American roots in works at the turn of the 20th century. The orchestra will perform works by Chadwick, MacDowell, Ives, Gottschalk and Still.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the New York String Seminar Program for emerging young musicians. The professional development program, directed by violinist and conductor Jaime Laredo, will culminate in two concerts at Carnegie Hall in December 2003.

New Sounds Music, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Eight Premieres featuring the PRISM Quartet. The new works of James Primosch, Brian Fennelly, Ronald Caltabiano, Matt Levy and two student commissioning award winners will be performed in New York and Philadelphia.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. The program will prepare young artists for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field through performance, multidisciplinary coaching and community outreach.

New York Philharmonic
New York, NY
$100,000
To support Ives in Perspective, a three-week festival featuring the music of composer Charles Ives (1874-1954) and his contemporaries. This 50th-anniversary commemoration of Ives's death will include chamber music, song recitals, scholarly seminars, an exhibition and other activities.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$10,000
To support commissions and premieres of new works by American composers. The Oakland East Bay Symphony will perform commissioned works by Jake Heggie, Omar Sosa and Michael Kaulkin, as well as new works by Joshua Feltman and Noah Schwartz.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$22,500
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The festival will explore the influence of Pierre Boulez on the music of the 20th century.

OK MOZART, Inc.
Bartlesville, OK
$12,500
To support the OK Mozart Festival. Performances will be held throughout the Bartlesville community and will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble and chorus.

Orange County Philharmonic Society
Irvine, CA
$12,500
To support the co-commission and performance of Terry Riley's Sun Rings, with sound and images from NASA's Voyager missions. Offered as part of the fifth annual Eclectic Orange Festival, the Southern California premiere will be performed by the Kronos Quartet and the Pacific Chorale.

Oregon Symphony Association
Portland, OR
$15,000
To support the performance and recording of orchestral works by American composers. The Oregon Symphony will premiere a commission by composer John Peel and record John La Montaine's Wilderness Journal and Andre Previn's Piano Concerto.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the commissions of new work by composers Gunther Schuller and Olly Wilson. The two chamber orchestral works will be performed during the 2003-04 season.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of two new works by Rova: Arts Saxophone Quartet members, Jon Raskin and Bruce Ackley. The works will be premiered by the quartet and an ensemble of virtuoso musicians at the Other Minds Festival in San Francisco.

Pacific Chorale
Santa Ana, CA
$10,000
To support a performance of Antonin Dvorak's Stabat Mater with four vocal soloists and the Pacific Symphony. This large-scale work, to be conducted by the Chorale's music director John Alexander, will be presented at the 3,000-seat Orange County Performing Arts Center.

Pacific Symphony Association
Santa Ana, CA
$50,000
To support The American Composers Festival: Beyond Category, a performance project showcasing American composer William Bolcolm. Repertoire for the 2003 spring festival will include Bolcolm's Songs of Innocence and Experience.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support the presentation of vocal music concerts. During 2002-03, a series of performances of art songs, cabaret songs, vocal chamber music and choral concerts will be presented.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$90,000
To support Robert Schumann: Poet and Romantic, a five-week festival exploring the music of Schumann and composers linked to him. Wolfgang Sawallisch, in his final season as music director, will conduct the Philadelphia Orchestra in Philadelphia and New York City.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the presentation of Handel's oratorio Jephtha in September 2003. The Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, will give five performances at venues throughout the Bay Area.

Pittsburgh Symphony, Inc.
Pittsburgh, PA
$30,000
To support Reflections on Shostakovich, a thematic project exploring Dmitri Shostakovich's music and his influence on other composers. The 2003 project, directed by music director Mariss Jansons, will include the commission and premiere of a new work by Michael Hersch.

Plymouth Music Series
Minneapolis, MN
$25,000
To support the Witness program, an annual celebration of musical contributions by African-American composers. The program will include educational events, a young people's concert, a school residency program and radio broadcasts.

Portland Maine Symphony Orchestra
Portland, ME
$15,000
To support the recording, editing and mastering of concerts for statewide radio broadcasts. The Portland Symphony Orchestra performances will reach more than 52,500 people via Maine Public Radio stations during 2003.

Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$10,000
To support the scoring of New Morning for the World: Daybreak of Freedom by Joseph Schwantner. The work, originally written for narrator and full orchestra in 1982, is a memorial to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support a commission of a new work by composer Michael Daugherty. The ProMusica Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of music director Timothy Russell, will premiere the work as part of its 25th-anniversary celebration.

Relache, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the commissioning of new chamber work by composers Fred Frith, Cynthia Folio and Leroy Jenkins. Relache will premiere the compositions as part of its Future Sounds series.

Rhode Island Philharmonic Orchestra, Inc.
Providence, RI
$10,000
To support the commission and premiere of a piano concerto by Richard Cumming. The work will be written for pianist John Browning on the occasion of his 70th birthday in 2003.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc.
(on behalf of the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra)
$65,000
To support A King Celebration, a project in tribute to the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The project will be comprised of performances, educational outreach activities and a national radio broadcast.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
To support the commissioning and premiere of new works by Americans Dominick Argento and George Tsontakis and Brazilian Sergio Assad. Performances will be held at St. Paul's Ordway Center for the Performing Arts and the Ted Mann Concert Hall on the campus of University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the New Music Advisor project. During 2003, composer Jeeyoung Kim will create new work and collaborate with Chanticleer's artistic staff.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support world premieres of six commissioned works. The chamber works- by composers Kui Dong, Ellen Harrison, Wendell Logan, Betty Olivero, Shulamit Ran and David Soley- will be performed in California and New England.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$100,000
To support Wagner, Weill, and the Weimar Republic, a project that will explore the music of Germanic composers. Music Director Michael Tilson Thomas will direct the San Francisco Symphony, the San Francisco Symphony Chorus and guest artists in concerts during the two-week festival.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$15,000
To support the 31st Annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The 2003 summer festival will include a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support a commission and performances of a new work by American composer Morton Subotnick. The Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival will premiere the work, which will have subsequent performances by Ensemble Sospeso and the Southwest Chamber Music Society.

Seattle Chamber Players
Seattle, WA
$10,000
To support the creation and presentation of a new theatrical chamber music work by composer Paul Dresher. The premiere will take place at Benaroya Hall and will be sung by tenor John Duykers.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$65,000
To support Then and Now, a performance project that will feature music from the last 100 years. It will include a May festival, The World Looks West, and a number of educational and outreach activities.

SFJAZZ (San Francisco Jazz Organization)
San Francisco, CA
$27,500
To support the 21st Annual San Francisco Jazz Festival in 2003. Executive Director Randall Kline will direct the programming of more than 24 events during the two-week festival.

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support winter concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by Marc Mellits. The winter season includes seven concerts with eight repeat performances in venues such as colleges, universities and libraries.

Sospeso Ltd.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Sound on Film, a concert that will combine live instrumental performance with film. The project represents Ensemble Sospeso's continued exploration of expressive possibilities of using recent technology and new media.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Dearborn, MI
$60,000
To support a professional development project for emerging young string instrumentalists. The Sphinx Symphony Concert and Sphinx Honors Concert will present young musicians in concert at Orchestra Hall in Detroit.

St. Louis African Chorus
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support programs V and VII of the African Choral Odyssey series. During 2003, the St. Louis African Chorus will perform music of southern and eastern Africa in St. Louis and New York.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$22,500
To support the 2003 Stanford Jazz Festival. The summer festival will feature such artists as Elvin Jones, Ray Brown, Andrew Hill, Harold Mabern Regina Carter, Geri Allen and Branford Marsalis.

Virginia Arts Festival, Inc.
Norfolk, VA
$12,500
To support the 2003 Virginia Arts Festival. Performances range from jazz and gospel to contemporary chamber music.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$20,000
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitals. Performances will be held at the Terrace Theater in the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. and will feature eight singers.

Voices of Change
Dallas, TX
$10,000
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by composer Robert Xavier Rodriguez. Based on Nortan Juster's classic 1963 children's book, The Dot and The Line, the composition will feature a narrator and chamber ensemble.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$22,500
To support the presentation of the Young Concert Artists Series of recitals and concerto debuts by young musicians. The 2003 project will feature nine concerts in New York City and five in Washington, D.C.

Heritage/Preservation

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Lost Jazz Shrines, an annual concert series featuring music performed at historic, lower Manhattan jazz venues. During 2004, the series will highlight the various styles of jazz heard from 1957 to 1994 at the seminal Greenwich Village club, the Village Gate.

Center for Cultural Exchange (consortium)
Portland, ME
$22,500
To support Sweet Sounds of Praise, a series of artist residencies, performances and a compact disc recording. Three week-long residencies are planned with noted artists in African-American music.

Columbia College Chicago (on behalf of Center for Black Music Research)
Chicago, IL
$25,000
To support a symposium and performance celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Center for Black Music Research. Artistic Director Coleridge-Taylor Perkinson will moderate an open panel discussion with five composers of African descent and conduct a performance by the New Black Music Repertory Ensemble.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (aka Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall)
Detroit, MI (consortium)
$75,000
To support workshops and performances during the National Association of Negro Musicians' (NANM) 2004 convention. The Detroit Symphony Orchestra (DSO) and NANM will host the six-day national convention and present youth sessions, panel discussions, a scholarship competition, and concerts of jazz, gospel, choral and orchestral music.

Eclipse Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
Alexandria, VA
$10,000
To support the compact disc recording of works by composer Mark Adamo. The compact disc will feature music commissioned during the composer's tenure as composer-in-residence with the chamber orchestra and will be recorded on the Naxos label.

Instituto Pro Musica de California
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the annual Dia de los Reyes (Epiphany) celebratory concerts of 18th century Mexican music performed throughout Northern California and recorded for subsequent release. The project will involve the restoration to modern performance repertory and give present-day premieres of eight works by Mexican composers.

Jazz Foundation of America, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support a mentorship program provided by older jazz musicians. Performances and discussions for New York City school students will offer senior jazz musicians the opportunity to relate their life stories and share their artistry.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$25,000
To support a concert program exploring the connection between the city of New Orleans and the Harlem Renaissance. Through a collaboration with the New Orleans Museum of Art and Tulane University's Amistad Research Center, three concert performances will include an exhibition of works by Harlem artists and educational activities.

Manchester Craftsmen's Guild
Pittsburgh, PA
$50,000
To support an archival recording project to preserve the 16th anniversary MCGJazz series and the cataloging and preservation of the Stanley Turrentine Archive. Artists whose performances will be recorded live during the eight-concert season include Herbie Hancock, Cassandra Wilson, the Joshua Redman Quartet and the George Shearing Trio.

Other Minds (consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$50,000
To support New Music in America, a project preserving more than 3,500 hours of original live conversations, interviews and performances by leading American composers and artists of the 20th and early 21st centuries. The San Francisco Performing Arts Library and Museum will collaborate on the project to convert the aging analog archive into a digital medium.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 20th Century Consort)
Takoma Park, MD
$13,500
To support an archival project preserving recorded works by 20th- and 21st-century composers. The digital archive will be housed in the Michelle Smith Performing Arts Library at the University of Maryland at College Park.

Washington Men's Camerata, Inc.
Washington, DC
$9,000
To support the National Library of Men's Choral Music. The project is a continuation of a multi-year initiative to establish an operational lending library and searchable database to safeguard collections of men's choral music and make the repertoire widely available for study.

Organizational Capacity

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$40,000
To support professional development for the chapters of American Composers Forum. During 2003 04, conferences and sessions on board development, unearned income and legal counsel for individual chapter directors and local board members will be available to assist 10 chapters located in cities around the country.

International Association for Jazz Education
Manhattan, KS
$40,000
To support workshops, master classes, panel sessions, artists' fees and production costs during the 30th annual International Association of Jazz Education (IAJE) Conference and Music Festival. The January 2004 conference will be held in New York City.

University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth
Fort Worth, TX
$20,000
To support a national conference on occupational safety and injury prevention for musicians, to be hosted jointly by the University of North Texas at Denton and the University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth. The goal of the project, using consensus-building methodology, will be the development of an educational module and recommendations for National Association of Schools of Music (NASM) member organizations.

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