2010 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 12, 2009 deadline ]

Artists Communities | Dance | Design | Folk & Traditional Arts | Literature
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Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Music

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc. (Consortium)
Birmingham, AL
$12,500
To support Reflect and Rejoice: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. In partnership with the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the tribute will include performances, spoken word, education, and outreach.

Alabama Symphonic Association, Inc.
Birmingham, AL
$12,500
To support a residency by composer Paul Lansky. Three multiple-day visits are planned that will include master classes and lectures for university music students, pre-concert Composer Conversations, performances curated by Lansky, and the commission and state-wide tour performances of a new work by the composer.

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support the American Music Festival, Beyond Our Borders. Through numerous commissions, performances, and educational activities, the month-long festival will explore music and musicians from different traditions and cultures.

Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival, Inc
Fernandina Beach, FL
$10,000
To support the Amelia Island Chamber Music Festival. The three-week festival will present 50 nationally and internationally known chamber musicians performing in 18 concerts with related educational activities.

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$27,500
To support a commission for the educational program BandQuest and website expansion. Composer Alex Shapiro will create a new work for middle school level band to be included in the BandQuest series.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$32,500
To support the Playing It Unsafe initiative. Through a series of activities designed to help composers develop new ideas that stretch their artistic vision, the initiative will be a season-long research and developmental laboratory for the creation of risk-taking new orchestral music.

American Guild of Organists
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the biennial national convention. Plans for the 50th national convention in Washington, D.C. include performances, workshops, and lectures for both professional and amateur organists as well as choral conductors.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$33,000
To support online services for new American music. Services will include www.NewMusicBox.org, a monthly web magazine about artists and issues in the new music community; the American Music Center Online Library, a searchable, encyclopedic database of contemporary American composers; and Counterstream Radio, an online radio station.

American Symphony Orchestra League (aka League of American Orchestras)
New York, NY
$160,000
To support services designed to strengthen orchestras through learning and leadership development, research, and communications within the orchestra field. The League of American Orchestras will assist nearly 1,000 member orchestras of every size and type in all 50 states.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the presentation of rarely performed works by established composers and Classics Declassified, an audience education series. Plans include performances of works by composers Henry Cowell, Boris Tchaikovsky, Boris Tishchenko, Robert Schumann, Gustav Holst, Arthur Bliss, Luigi Dallapiccola, Hans Werner Henze, and Albert Roussel.

Apollo's Fire, The Cleveland Baroque Orchestra
Cleveland Height, OH
$15,000
To support The Monteverdi Experience, celebrating the 400th anniversary of the Vespers of 1610. The weekend-long festival will include performances, a national tour, a radio broadcast, podcasts, and symposia that will explore the artistic, cultural, and sociopolitical context of the Italian Renaissance composer Claudio Monteverdi.

Association of California Symphony Orchestras
Sacramento, CA
$27,500
To support professional and leadership development and technical assistance programs for California orchestras. Plans include an annual statewide conference and workshops for artistic and administrative staff, trustees, and volunteers from more than 150 orchestras.

Astral Artistic Services
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support solo recitals and orchestral concerts with roster artists as soloists in Philadelphia and New York City. Plans include solo recitals, concerts of piano trios, and orchestral performances with roster artists as soloists.

Bang on a Can, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$20,000
To support performances by the Bang on a Can All-Stars ensemble in venues around the country. Concerts will take place in New York City, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Iowa City (IA), Eugene (OR), and in Lincoln (NE).

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$15,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the world and music of Austrian composer Alban Berg and his contemporaries by presenting a range of musical forms including symphonic, orchestral, and choral concerts.

Bargemusic, Ltd.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support a residency with the Flux String Quartet. Concerts will take place on a floating barge at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge and will feature performances by the quartet including one with guest artist and saxophonist Oliver Lake and related educational activities.

Berkeley Society for the Preservation of Traditional Music, Inc. (aka Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse)
Berkeley, CA
$10,000
To support the Chamber Folk Series at the Freight & Salvage Coffeehouse. Concerts are planned that will feature a classical approach to the folk and traditional repertoire.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra
Berkeley, CA
$12,500
To support residencies by California composers. Composer Gabriela Lena Frank will serve as the season-long composer-in-residence where she will collaborate with music director Joana Carneiro, create a new work for orchestra, take part in school programs, and mentor emerging Bay Area composers selected for residencies in the Under Construction concert series.

Berklee College of Music, Inc. (Consortium)
Boston, MA
$17,500
To support the Berklee BeanTown Jazz Festival in Boston. In collaboration with Jazz Boston, Inc., the festival programming will highlight New Orleans' role as the incubator of jazz and celebrate the city's diversity as reflected in music, foods and crafts, and through the participants.

Boise Philharmonic Association Inc. (aka the Philharmonic)
Boise, ID
$7,500
To support the Classic Collaborations, a series of concerts with related educational activities. Each concert in the series will integrate symphonic music with vocal music, theater, or dance along with participating area opera, theater, and dance companies.

Borough of Manhattan Community College Performing Arts Center, Inc. (aka Tribeca Performing Arts Center)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support the Tribeca Performing Arts Center's Lost Jazz Shrines. The performance series will honor three musician-run venues of the 1970s and '80s: the late drummer Rashid Ali's Ali's Alley; pianist and NEA Jazz Master Barry Harris' Jazz Cultural Theatre; and saxophonist-composer Sam Rivers' Studio Rivbea.

Boston Musica Viva, Inc.
Somerville, MA
$10,000
To support commissions, premiere performances, performances of 20th-century works, and related educational activities. Three commissions of new works by composers Richard Cornell, Lei Liang, and Curtis Hughes will be premiered, one in each of three concerts along with other contemporary works.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (on behalf of Tanglewood Music Center)
Boston, MA
$54,000
To support the Festival of Contemporary Music at the Tanglewood Music Center. The 70th anniversary festival will honor the resident composers who have led composition activities for the festival over the past seven decades.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support premiere performances of orchestral works and related educational activities. Three works by composers Elliott Carter, John Harbison, and Peter Lieberson will be premiered in three programs under the direction of Music Director James Levine.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek
Vail, CO
$12,500
To support the 23rd annual Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. The summer festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, open rehearsals, public workshops, the Young Artists Program, and educational outreach concerts.

Brevard Music Center, Inc.
Brevard, NC
$7,500
To support the Quartet-in-Residence Program. The Harlem String Quartet will offer coaching sessions and master classes and will perform concerts for resident students (high school through post-graduate level) in a seven-week summer program.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc.
Buffalo, NY
$22,500
To support the premiere of a percussion concerto by composer Eric Ewazen and related educational activities. Titled Drums over the Niagara, the new work will be performed with Scottish percussionist Dame Evelyn Glennie.

Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Santa Cruz, CA
$13,500
To support a professional development program for conductors and composers. The training program, led by conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier, will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

Cantata Singers, Inc.
Cambridge, MA
$12,500
To support an exploration of the choral music of German Baroque composer Heinrich Schutz with related educational activities. His music will be juxtaposed with works by Bach, Harbison, Stravinsky, Durufle, Distler, Schoenberg, and Poulenc.

Canton Symphony Orchestra Association
Canton, OH
$11,000
To support a performance of composer Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs and related educational activities. The soloist will be mezzo-soprano Kelley O'Connor.

Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
$25,000
To support the International Music Festival. The six-week summer festival will feature a music and nature theme throughout the programming.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$96,000
To support the Japan Festival. Maestro Seiji Ozawa will serve as artistic director of a festival of presentations showcasing Japan's cultural traditions alongside its openness to cutting-edge technologies and ideas.

Chamber Music Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the Chamber Music X series. Focusing on programming that will appeal to younger audiences, the series will include presentations of Brooklyn Rider, a string quartet; Trio Mediaeval; and the Parker String Quartet.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$114,000
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 Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York City, NY
$15,000
To support Chamber Music Society Two, a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists.

Chicago Chamber Musicians (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$15,000
To support the First Monday Concert Series. Presented monthly at the Chicago Cultural Center and broadcast live on WFMT-FM, the free noontime concert series is a partnership with the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs.

Chicago Sinfonietta, Inc. (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support chamber music concerts with dancers. In partnership with the Joffrey Ballet, a series of three concerts using four to eight musicians and one or two dancers will take place at the ballet's new facility in downtown Chicago.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$80,000
To support the Pierre Boulez 85th Birthday Tribute. Plans include a month-long series of concerts and related educational activities featuring works by French composer and conductor Boulez along with composers who influenced his creative development, and artists he has mentored.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$45,000
To support stipends and training for musicians in the Civic Orchestra of Chicago. Through a rigorous rehearsal and performance schedule, pre-professional musicians will be trained by orchestra musicians and guest conductors.

Choral Arts Society of Washington
Washington, DC
$15,000
To support the presentation and national radio broadcast of the 22nd annual Choral Tribute to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. The Choral Arts Society and singers from regional gospel choirs will combine forces for performances conducted by music director Norman Scribner.

Chorus America Association
Washington, DC
$102,000
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference; publications; leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers; and a chorus impact study.

Chorus America Association (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$68,000
To support a conference collaboration for choruses and orchestras. Holding annual conferences simultaneously in Atlanta in June 2010, Chorus America and the League of American Orchestras will program cross-disciplinary events with content important to both groups.

Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra
Cincinnati, OH
$30,000
To support Main Stage to Your Stage, a series of performances and educational activities. Plans include programs that will pair classical masterworks with 20th-century works on subscription concerts as well as performances and residency activities in schools.

Clarion Music Society, Inc.
New York, NY
$7,500
To support a series of concerts featuring Baroque choral works with related educational activities. Performances of works by composers Claudio Monteverdi and J.S. Bach will take place in New York City churches.

Clayton State University (on behalf of Spivey Hall)
Morrow, GA
$9,000
To support Project Jupiter, a residency with the Jupiter String Quartet in Spivey Hall. Two week-long residencies will include workshops, master classes, school performances, and concerts.

Colorado Symphony Association
Denver, CO
$17,500
To support performances of John Adam's On the Transmigration of Souls with related educational activities. Three performances of the work are planned together with Beethoven's Symphony No. 9.

Columbia University in the City of New York (on behalf of Miller Theater)
New York, NY
$12,500
To support the Composer Portraits Series, a performance and residency program presented at Miller Theater. Plans include four concerts each focused on a single composer: Benet Casablancas, Sebastian Currier, Helmut Lachenmann, and Lou Reed; commissions; and composer discussions.

Columbus Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Consortium)
Columbus, OH
$15,000
To support the Contemporary Music Festival. In partnership with The Ohio State University, the five-day festival of new music will feature performances of works by composer-in-residence Augusta Read Thomas.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. In diverse venues across the country, 75 performance opportunities will enable 18 artists/ensembles on the Concert Artists Guild roster to polish their performance and communication skills.

Conductors Guild, Inc.
Richmond, VA
$15,000
To support conductor training workshops. Participants will receive instruction from experienced conductors and have the opportunity to conduct orchestral, opera, and wind ensembles at venues around the country.

Contemporary Arts Center (Consortium)
New Orleans, LA
$17,500
To support the new Jazz Journeys - A Collaborative Concert Series. The joint project with the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Foundation will showcase well-known jazz artists, chosen based on a history or connection with New Orleans, to perform collaboratively with local artists.

Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
$11,000
To support concerts exploring 150 years of American compositions. Performances will feature guest artists and the founding resident ensemble Music from Copland House.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation (on behalf of Tri-C JazzFest)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the 31th annual Tri-C JazzFest Cleveland. The festival will celebrate "America's Music" by presenting jazz legends, spotlighting new artists, and showcasing jazz avant-garde and other genres.

Cypress Performing Arts Association (aka Cypress String Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support Call and Response, a commissioning, performance, and educational program featuring composer Elena Ruehr and the Cypress String Quartet. The new work will be created using works of literature as inspiration.

Da Camera Society of Texas
Houston, TX
$16,000
To support a series of chamber music concerts. Seven concert presentations with related educational activities are planned by artists including the Brentano, Diotima, and St. Lawrence String Quartets; cellist Sonia Wieder-Atherton; and pianist and Artistic Director Sarah Rotherberg.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$22,500
To support the commissioning and premiere of a new work by Danish organist and composer Poul Ruders and a presentation of Jennifer Higdon's Violin Concerto with related educational activities. The new work by Ruders will be a concerto for organ and orchestra and will feature Mary Preston, the symphony's resident organist as soloist.

Detroit International Jazz Festival Foundation
Detroit, MI
$17,500
To support the 31st annual Detroit International Jazz Festival. The festival with the motto "Flamekeepers" will pay homage to seven jazz pioneers over the past 40 years: Art Blakey; Lester Bowie; and NEA Jazz Masters Ray Brown, Betty Carter, Miles Davis, Gil Evans, and Horace Silver.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall
Detroit, MI
$75,000
To support commissions, performances, and related educational activities. Composers whose works will be premiered include John Williams, Jennifer Higdon, Billy Childs, Roberto Sierra, John Corigliano, and Cindy McTee.

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a national conference for the early music field. The three-day conference will offer professional development sessions and an early music marketplace in connection with the Berkeley Festival and Exhibition.

Early Music Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support English and German Roots of the American Orchestra concerts. Two programs performed by the resident Orchestra of Original Instruments are planned of music from the 17th- through the early 19th-centuries with related educational activities.

Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Seattle, WA
$15,000
To support the 22nd annual Earshot Jazz Festival. The festival features more than 250 jazz musicians in more than 50 concerts in concert halls, community centers, and other venues across Seattle.

Eastern Music Festival, Inc.
Greensboro, NC
$10,000
To support the Eastern Music Festival including concerts, educational, and outreach activities. The festival will feature chamber and orchestral concerts for adults and children by resident faculty musicians and guest artists.

Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$12,500
To support Hollywood: Its Contributors & Influence on American Music, a series of concerts and educational activities. As part of the orchestra's multi-year Exploring our American Voice initiative, the series of events will explore American film music through concerts for adults and children.

Emmanuel Music, Inc.
Boston, MA
$10,000
To support presentations of the works of composers Joseph Haydn and Arnold Schoenberg with related educational activities. Solo piano and orchestral music will be presented highlighting the two Viennese composers.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$12,500
To support American Encounters: Steven Stucky. The series will include performances of Stucky's recent compositions, a radio broadcast, and educational activities by the composer.

Festivals DC, Ltd. (aka Duke Ellington Jazz Festival)
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the sixth annual Duke Ellington Jazz Festival. The event will feature world-renowned musicians, along with more than 150 DC-based artists, and take place in 40 venues across Washington, DC, including the National Mall, the Kennedy Center, libraries, schools and universities, and galleries.

Fontana Chamber Arts
Kalamazoo, MI
$10,000
To support Get Jazzed: Ben Allison Performance and Residency for Youth. Focused on underserved audiences, the outreach and educational program will feature composer-arranger, bassist, and producer Ben Allison with his group Man Size Safe.

French Quarter Festivals, Inc.
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support the French Quarter Festival, the Southeast's largest free music festival. The event celebrates Louisiana and New Orleans's musical heritage with live music.

Friends of Chamber Music (aka FCM or The Friends)
Kansas City, MO
$12,500
To support presentations of chamber music, solo piano, early music, and educational programs. Six concerts and two What Makes It Great? educational programs will be presented.

Fulcrum Point New Music Project
Chicago, IL
$7,500
To support Movies, Myths, and Machines, a series of concerts, a commission by composer Kevin James, and educational activities. Three concerts are planned, each using one of the themes as inspiration.

Future of Music Coalition
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support the annual Policy Summit. The three-day conference will engage speakers and panelists to discuss key issues impacting independent professional musicians such as digital technology, artists' rights, and the current state of the music industry.

Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival Operating Corporation
Southfield, MI
$12,500
To support the Shouse Institute, a professional training program for chamber ensembles. Designed to bridge the gap between graduate school and a professional performing career, the program involves emerging, pre-professional ensembles participating in coaching sessions, master classes, and performances.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$12,500
To support Mozart in Vienna, a concert program with related educational activities. The program will combine Mozart's Mass in C Minor with works by other Viennese composers including Caldara and Gluck.

Healdsburg Jazz Festival, Inc.
Healdsburg, CA
$7,500
To support the 12th annual Healdsburg Jazz Festival. The event will feature internationally acclaimed masters of jazz and emerging artists in a series of concerts and related activities in various rural Sonoma County venues, including free events in the Healdsburg Town Square, local cafes, and galleries.

Heart of Brooklyn Cultural Institutions, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support Jazz: Brooklyn's Beat, a multiple presenting organization collaborative. Jazz concerts for borough residents and visitors will take place at the Brooklyn Museum, Botanic Gardens, Prospect Park and Zoo, Brooklyn Public Library, and Children's Museum.

Heifetz International Music Institute, Inc.
Ellicott City, MD
$11,000
To support performance and communication training for young musicians. Activities will take place during the summer institute held in Wolfeboro, New Hampshire.

Houston Symphony Society
Houston, TX
$17,500
To support The Planets: An HD Odyssey. With recent high definition photography from the Hubble Space Telescope and NASA's fleet of planetary space probes projected above the stage, Holst's The Planets will be performed.

Indiana Symphony Society, Inc.
Indianapolis, IN
$22,500
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new work by composer William Bolcom, performed by the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra, with related educational activities. The new work titled The Green Concerto will be scored for string trio and orchestra and will have multimedia elements created by Wendall Harrington.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$25,000
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. Numerous classical concerts, master classes, lectures, a commissioned work by composer Nico Muhly, and public educational programs will be presented throughout southwestern Michigan.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Festival. In addition to activities in New York City, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will host a regional one-day Essentially Ellington Festival; provide performance, clinic/workshop, and rehearsal space; and identify high school jazz bands from across the state as participants.

Jazz at Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$60,000
To support a concert series by the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra. The orchestra, under the direction of trumpeter Wynton Marsalis, and guest artists will perform works to inspire and extend audiences for jazz and encourage the continued development of the art form.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
To support the 2010 Jazz Forum Arts Free Summer Concerts series. More than 50 live performances will take place in community parks and other public venues in 13 ethnically and economically diverse New York State communities with limited access to live music.

Jazz Gallery
New York, NY
$10,000
To support Jazz Troubadours: Taking Music to the Neighborhood, an outreach initiative. Created to present jazz in the Lower Manhattan South Village (Hudson Square), concerts/performances by ensembles ranging from solo guitar to 19-piece big band will take place in cafes and restaurants, hotels, parks, and playgrounds.

Jazz St. Louis
St. Louis, MO
$10,000
To support the Jazz St. Louis Artist Residency Program. Jazz performers Jeff, John, and Gerald Clayton (The Clayton Brothers) and the JazzReach organization's Metta Quintet will participate in two separate residencies.

John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts
Washington, DC
$50,000
To support Gospel Across America, a festival that will showcase and explore the impact of American gospel music. Artists will include Richard Smallwood with Vision; NEA National Heritage Fellowship recipients Shirley Caesar and Mavis Staples; Kirk Franklin; the Fisk University Jubilee Singers, the National Symphony Orchestra; and Take Six, an a cappella ensemble.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$9,000
To support the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. Approximately 30 jazz, classical, and blues musicians will be presented during the nine-day festival.

Kent State University Main Campus
Kent, OH
$12,500
To support the professional development of advanced chamber music students at the Kent/Blossom Music program. Nationally selected, post-secondary music students will spend summer weeks under the mentorship and instruction of Cleveland Orchestra musicians, the Miami Quartet, and other prominent faculty members.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$20,000
To support Kitka Sings Monk: I, a residency and performance project with composer Meredith Monk. The women's vocal ensemble will host two, week-long residencies with the composer that will culminate in an evening-length program of Monk's work.

Kronos Performing Arts Association (aka Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support a collaboration, commission, and performances by the Kronos Quartet. Plans include a collaboration with folk singer, musician, and storyteller Lee Knight and the commissioning and performances of a new work by composer J.G. Thirlwell for string quartet and audio tape.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
To support Kuumbwa Jazz Presents Concerts and Conversations with NEA Jazz Masters. Programming includes concerts featuring Toshiko Akiyoshi, Kenny Burrell, and James Moody and a Conversation with Good Friends, Music Collaborators, and NEA Jazz Masters Kenny Burrell, Gerald Wilson, and Snooky Young.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$17,500
To support SummerFest, presentations of chamber music and jazz. Under the direction of music director and violinist Cho-Liang Lin and composer-in-residence Christopher Rouse, the festival will include premieres of commissioned works and educational activities.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$17,500
To support Jazz at Lafayette: A Launch for the Second Quarter Century, concert residencies at the Williams Center for the Arts. Featured ensembles, representing diverse musical styles, will be the Patricia Barber Quartet, Dave Liebman Big Band, SF Jazz Collective, Dafnis Prieto Sextet, and Kenny Werner Quartet.

Lenawee Symphony Orchestra Society (aka Adrian Symphony Orchestra)
Adrian, MI
$10,000
To support the premiere of Divinum Mysterium for viola and orchestra by composer Kenneth Fuchs performed by the Adrian Symphony Orchestra and related educational activities. Soloist for the premiere will be London Symphony Orchestra Principal Violist Paul Silverthrone, for whom the work was written.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc.
Los Angeles, CA
$16,000
To support a series of performances of new and rarely heard works and related educational activities. The two programs will be conducted by Music Director Jeffrey Kahane at the Alex Theatre in Glendale, California, and at Royce Hall on the University of California/Los Angeles campus in Westwood.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support a concert of the music of composers Meredith Monk and Arvo Part and another comprising Americana music and spirituals with related educational activities. The performances in Walt Disney Concert Hall will be conducted by Music Director Grant Gershon.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the Americas and Americans Festival with related educational activities. The six-week festival of orchestral, folk, and popular music concerts will be directed by incoming Music Director Gustavo Dudamel.

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra
New Orleans, LA
$10,000
To support Made in Louisiana: A Musical Quilt. The concert will examine the ethnically diverse musical repertoire of New Orleans as experienced by the composer Louis Moreau Gottschalks.

Marilyn Horne Foundation
New York, NY
$13,500
To support the On Wings of Song Recital Series. Recitals will be presented in New York, Santa Barbara, and Santa Monica as part of the On Wings of Song series and recorded for later broadcast on WQXR-FM.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$30,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. Student musicians will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals and concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of world-class concert artists, composers, and scholars.

Maverick Concerts, Inc.
Woodstock, NY
$10,000
To support the 95th annual summer chamber music festival. Programming will include the world premiere of a new work by composer Daren Hagen-a chamber orchestra version of his 2001 composition Seven Last Words-and a regional premiere of Libby Larsen's Sonnets from the Portuguese.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the Creative Frontiers initiative. The program is designed to expand the service organization's reach by utilizing regional, virtual, and networking opportunities.

Mills College
Oakland, CA
$8,000
To support the presentation of concerts by the Center for Contemporary Music.

Minnesota Orchestral Association
Minneapolis, MN
$42,500
To support the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute. The professional development project will be co-directed by the institute's composer and new music adviser Aaron Jay Kernis and artistic planning associate Beth Cowart.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$15,000
To support free community concerts in rural southwestern New Hampshire towns in the Monadnock region. Summer concerts, performed by musicians in residence, will take place in churches and meeting houses during the two-month festival.

Monday Evening Concerts
Culver City, CA
$5,000
To support Shattered Shadows: An Introduction to the Music of Frank Denyer. The concert performance and a pre-concert lecture with the British composer Frank Denyer (b. 1943) will be presented at the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$30,000
To support the 53rd Annual Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Programming will include concerts with renowned and emerging jazz artists and will showcase performances of an artist-in-residence and a commissioned artist.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$20,000
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites by the Da Camera Society. The series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc.
Angel Fire, NM
$25,000
To support Music at Angel Fire's 27th Anniversary Festival. Activities will include Music in Our Schools classroom performances and touring to rural northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas, Raton, and Taos, offering specific programs for each community.

Music at the Anthology, Inc.
Brooklyn, NY
$10,000
To support the 12th annual festival of new music at (Le) Poisson Rouge in Manhattan. The festival will include new works by young composers.

Music of Remembrance
Seattle, WA
$7,500
To support Artistic Resistance: Lessons from the Holocaust, a series of music concerts and lectures. Free programs will feature repertoire from the period of the Holocaust and the commissioning and premiere of a new work by American composer Lori Laitman.

Musical Arts Association (aka The Cleveland Orchestra)
Cleveland, OH
$63,000
To support the Contemporary Masterworks project of The Cleveland Orchestra. Emerging international composers will be featured in concert, including Cleveland native Susan Botti, Marc-Andre Dalbavic (France), Johannes Maria Staud (Austria), Julian Anderson (Britain), and Matthias Pintscher (German-born).

National Public Radio, Inc.
Washington, DC
$35,000
To support an artists-in-residence initiative. Directed by NPR Music's executive producer Anya Grundmann, the project will explore the work of selected artists in a two-week residency broadcast across national radio stations and the Internet, including NPR's national newsmagazine, podcasts, live performances and web chats.

National Symphony Orchestra Association of Washington, DC
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support Perspectives, an artist residency with American composer John Adams. The residency will feature the Washington premieres of his orchestral works The Wound-Dresser, featuring baritone Eric Owens; City Noir; and Dharma at Big Sur with violinist Leila Josefowicz performing on a six-string electronic guitar.

New Century Chamber Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support the Featured Composer Residency by American composer William Bolcom. Activities will include the commissioning of a new work for the chamber orchestra and its premiere performances in San Francisco, Palo Alto, and San Rafael.

New Haven Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New Haven, CT
$10,000
To support Shifting Patterns: Eastern and Western Cultural Influences in Contemporary American Music. Composers-in-residence Jin Hi Kim and Augusta Read Thomas will be involved with school residencies, chamber music concerts, and performances of commissioned chamber works.

New School University (on behalf of New School Concerts)
New York, NY
$11,000
To support the New School Concerts' 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 New York City.

New York Festival of Song, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support New American Works, a performance project featuring the premiere of a new song cycle by Harold Meltzer and new works by John Corigliano and Mark Adamo. The program will be presented at Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City.

New York Pops, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support The Best of Lerner and Loewe, a concert program celebrating the collaborations between librettist and lyricist Alan Jay Lerner and composer Frederick Loewe. Music director conductor Steven Reineke will direct the program at Carnegie Hall in New York City.

Oakland East Bay Symphony
Oakland, CA
$16,000
To support a performance project celebrating music director Michael Morgan's 20th anniversary with the orchestra. The project will include world premieres of new work by composers Rebecca Mauleon and Benedikt Brydern.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd.
Ojai, CA
$16,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 64th annual music festival will feature the premiere of Little Hill, a new work by composer and conductor George Benjamin, who will serve as this year's festival music director.

OK MOZART, Inc. (aka OK Mozart International Festival)
Bartlesville, OK
$12,500
To support the 26th annual OK Mozart International Festival. Performances will be held throughout the Bartlesville community and will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and chorus.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$21,000
To support multi-state touring on the East Coast. The orchestra will perform concerts in multiple venues in New York, Pennsylvania, Virginia, North Carolina, and Georgia.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$12,500
To support OM15, the 15th annual new music festival. Activities will be held at the Jewish Community Center in San Francisco, with guest composers participating in a four-day residency that will include a panel discussion, free workshop, and lecture-demonstration session.

Outpost Productions, Inc.
Albuquerque, NM
$12,500
To support the 4th Annual Creative Soundspace Festival. Emerging and established resident and touring artists will be showcased during two weekends dedicated to creative improvised music.

Pacific Symphony (aka Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$47,500
To support The Greatest Generation, an American composers festival. Programming will feature music composed during, and in response to, the Great Depression and World War II, as well as the premiere of a commissioned work echoing this theme by American composer Michael Daugherty.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$12,500
To support Engage 2.0 Premiere Project, a number of world and regional premiere performances of new chamber music. Guests artists will include the Brentano, Orion, St. Lawrence and Takacs string quartets, pianists Simone Dinnerstein, Jeremy Denk, and Marcantonio Barone; and composer John Adams.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$72,000
To support Philadelphia Firsts, the orchestra's first performances of works by composers Kalevi Aho, Richard Danielpour, and Bright Sheng. The concerts will be performed at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support the concert presentation of George Frideric Handel's opera Orlando (1733). Under the direction of music director Nicholas McGegan, the performances on period instruments will be presented in San Francisco, Berkeley, and Palo Alto.

Philharmonic Society of Orange County
Irvine, CA
$12,500
To support an artist residency, Steve Reich: A 75th Birthday Celebration. The project will feature a new work commissioned work by Reich composed for string quartet, premiered by the Kronos Quartet at the Renee and Henry Segerstrom Concert Hall.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$70,000
To support an artist residency by violinist Anne-Sophie Mutter at the New York Philharmonic. The residency will include performances of violin concerti written specifically for her by composers Wolfgang Rihm, Sofia Gubaidulina, and Sebastian Currier.

Piano Spheres
Los Angeles, CA
$12,500
To support the commissioning and presentation of a new solo piano work. American composer Steven Stucky will create a new work that will be performed multiple times by several pianists in recital at Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School in Los Angeles and at a number of institutions of higher education.

Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Philadelphia, PA
$7,500
To support performances of music by 17th-century Spanish composer and harpist Juan Hidalgo de Polanco (1614-1685). Concerts will be performed in Philadelphia and in Wilmington, Delaware.

Pittsburgh Symphony Society
Pittsburgh, PA
$60,000
To support the Composer of the Year, an artist residency with composer Richard Danielpour. The orchestra, with guest conductor Leonard Slatkin, will perform the composer's Pastime, a co-commissioned work with the Atlanta Symphony and Brooklyn Philharmonic which was premiered in 2006, and Rocking the Cradle (2007), which will be conducted by music director Manfred Honeck.

Post-Classical Ensemble, Inc. (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$13,500
To support Interpreting Liszt, a four-day music festival. In partnership with Georgetown University, the orchestra will provide lectures and performances of works by composer and virtuoso pianist Franz Liszt (1811-1886) on campus at the university and at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception.

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

Rose Ensemble
St. Paul, MN
$10,000
To support Voices of Venice and Rome: The Glory of Italian Renaissance Music. Under the artistic direction of Jordan Sramek, the British a cappella choral group Voces8 will collaborate with the ensemble in performances, workshops, and master classes in Minnesota and Wisconsin.

Roulette Intermedium, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Concert Series of Experimental and Adventurous Music. Director Jim Staley will curate the programming of diverse musical works.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc.
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support a community performance project featuring works by Chevalier de Saint Georges, Pastor Alonzo Morris, William Grant Still, Sergei Prokofiev, and George Gershwin. Under the direction of music director Michael Morgan, the orchestra will perform with the Paradise Baptist Church Choir at the Guild Theater and the Community Center Theater in Sacramento.

Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra
St. Louis, MO
$33,000
To support the Living Composers Series. Performances will take place at Powell Hall in St. Louis and during a California tour and will comprise programs of contemporary composers' works juxtaposed with other masterpieces which demonstrate thematic or compositional links in the music or between composers.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society
Saint Paul, MN
$40,000
To support the Living Composers Project. The orchestra will perform new works by American composer Steven Stucky and Italian composer Michele Dall'Ongaro, as well as works by John Adams, Thomas Ades, Louis Andressen, and Gyorgy Kurtag.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$32,500
To support a residency project of choral workshops, youth choral festivals, and a symposium. In partnership with the American Choral Directors Association-Western Division (Tucson) and other national educational residency collaborators, Chanticleer will present a series of day-long workshops and festivals for high school choruses and adult singers.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$8,000
To support world premieres of chamber works by composers Brian Current, Manolis Manousakis, Ronald Bruce Smith, and Olly Wilson. The concerts will take place at the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (aka SF JAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$25,000
To support the residency and touring of the SF JAZZ Collective ensemble. Activities will encompass open rehearsals, world premieres of new work, educational outreach activities, and a national tour.

San Francisco Symphony
San Francisco, CA
$70,000
To support a composer residency by British composer George Benjamin. As part of the orchestra's Project San Francisco, the composer will conduct concerts of his works and participate in education programs during his two-week residency.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival Ltd.
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support the 38th annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. A diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts are planned.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$17,500
To support the 2010 Savannah Music Festival. The programs will introduce artists of different genres including world music, music and dance tradition of Latin America, traditional songs from coastal Georgia, chamber music masterworks from Europe, and American jazz musicians performing in the jazz tradition.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$21,000
To support American Composers Project, featuring works by John Adams, Samuel Barber, and Leonard Bernstein. Music director Gerard Schwarz and guest conductor Robert Spano will lead orchestral performances, public lectures, and discussions at Benaroya Hall.

Skaneateles Festival, Inc.
Skaneateles, NY
$10,000
To support the annual summer chamber music festival. Concerts will be presented in varied venues in the lakeside village of Skaneateles, New York.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$10,000
To support the Skidmore College Summer Jazz Institute. Hosted by the college's Bernhard Theater, the two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily classes on improvisational techniques, private instruction, and a mini-jazz festival.

South Bend Symphony Orchestra Association Inc.
South Bend, IN
$10,000
To support Remembered in Music: A Tribute to Martin Luther King, Jr. The concert, for a full orchestra and chorus, will perform a program illustrating the ideals of Dr. King's philosophy of a unified and collaborative community.

South Carolina Philharmonic, Inc.
Columbia, SC
$10,000
To support the commissioning, premiere, and recording of a new double piano concerto by American composer John Fitz Rogers. Music director Morihiko Nakahara will conduct the premiere performance featuring duo pianists Marina Lomazov and Joseph Rackers at the Koger Center for the Arts.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$50,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony Orchestra. The ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country will perform concerts in Ann Arbor and at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, featuring talented, young soloists in each of the concerts.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$18,000
To support the 2010 Stanford Jazz Festival. Programming will feature faculty and master teachers, emerging jazz artists, free events such as noontime jazz concerts and nightly jam sessions, and performances by students participating in the Jazz Camp and Jazz Residency Programs.

Stecher and Horowitz Foundation
New York, NY
$7,500
To support Young Artists Recitals. The project will include performance, coaching, ensemble playing, and educational seminars at the Manhattan School of Music.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc. (Consortium)
Philadelphia, PA
$8,000
To support Learning from Maestro Vivaldi. In partnership with Pro Musica Rara, performances will take place at two churches in Philadelphia and at Towson University Center for the Arts in Baltimore.

Tennessee State University (Consortium)
Nashville, TN
$25,000
To support 105 Voices of History (VOH)/HBCU Conductors Institute for choral conductors. Administered in partnership with Partners Achieving Success CDC, Inc., the professional training activity will include a performance by the 105 Voices of History National Choir held at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

Twentieth Century Consort (aka 21st Century Consort)
Round Hill, VA
$10,000
To support the 21st Century Consort's commissioning and performance of Characters, a new work by composer Thomas Albert, based on poetry by Amy A. Young. Characters will be premiered at the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington, DC.

University Enterprises Inc. (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support the Festival of New American Music. The annual two-week festival, held on the campus of California State University, Sacramento, and at various community venues, will feature concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals.

University Musical Society
Ann Arbor, MI
$40,000
To support the Africa Series, a performance project exploring the music from various regions of the African continent. Artists and ensembles from Algeria, South Africa, Mali, Madagascar, Senegal, and the United States will perform concerts at Hill Auditorium and the Michigan Theater in Ann Arbor.

University of Chicago
Chicago, IL
$13,500
To support an artist residency by the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra. The orchestra and faculty musicians will present concerts, composition readings, chamber music coaching and master classes, as well as community-based educational events for elementary schoolchildren and their families.

University of Northern Colorado
Greeley, CO
$20,000
To support the 40th Annual UNC/Greeley Jazz Festival. Proposed performers include NEA Jazz Master Snooky Young with the Clayton-Hamilton Jazz Orchestra; The Idea of North, an Australian a cappella vocal quartet; and drummers Jeff Hamilton, Jake Hanna, and John Von Ohlen in a concert tribute to bandleader Woody Herman.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$13,500
To support the presentation of solo vocal recitalists. Performances will be held in the Terrace Theater at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, the Embassy of Austria, and other venues in Washington, DC.

VocalEssence
Minneapolis, MN
$32,500
To support the Witness program. An annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, the program will feature the a cappella all-female ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock.

Washington Chorus, Inc.
Washington, DC
$36,000
To support the Washington premiere of American composer Steven Stucky's oratorio August 4, 1964, written for orchestra, chorus, and four soloists. The performance, directed by music director Julian Wachner, will take place at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Washington Performing Arts Society
Washington, DC
$30,000
To support the presentation of orchestral concerts featuring the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam, the San Francisco Symphony, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. All concerts will be performed at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.

Yellow Barn, Inc.
Putney, VT
$8,000
To support professional development for chamber musicians. Young emerging musicians will participate in rehearsals, coaching sessions, master classes, and performances during the annual summer chamber music festival.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$30,000
To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC, will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and career management for emerging classical performers and composers.

Youth Choral Theater of Chicago
Lake Forest, IL
$7,500
To support the commissioning and performance of a multi-movement work titled Witness by collaborating composers Paul Caldwell and Sean Ivory. Inspired by the journey of Clemantine Wamariya, a child survivor of the 1994 Rwandan genocide, the choral work will be premiered at Divine Word Chapel in Northbrook, Illinois.

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