4 Wheel City empowers individuals with disabilities through innovative music programs, blending hip-hop and disability culture to create powerful and engaging artistic expressions. Our initiatives include virtual concert series, in-person workshops, and artist development programs that provide inclusive platforms for artists to showcase their talents and share their stories. By integrating adaptive technology and fostering collaboration, we enable artists to overcome barriers and reach their full creative potential. Our commitment to advocacy for disability rights is central to our mission, as we strive to raise awareness and promote inclusivity within the music industry. Through our efforts, we foster a diverse and equitable music community where every voice is heard and celebrated.

Celebrating their 16th season as “a sonically daring ensemble who specializes in performing new works with charisma and integrity” (BBC Music Magazine), the Akropolis Reed Quintet comprises five reed players and entrepreneurs unbounded by limits or categorization. Described by The Wire as a “collective voice driven by real excitement and a sense of adventure,” Akropolis has graced the Classical Billboard Charts with each of their last three albums of contemporary works, reaching #2 in April, 2024.

American Composers Orchestra (ACO), founded in 1977, is dedicated to the creation, celebration, performance, and promotion of orchestral music by American composers. With a commitment to artistry, creativity, community, and equity, ACO produces concerts, middle school through college composer education programs, and composer advancement programs to foster a community of creators, audiences, performers, collaborators, and funders.

Bodies of Culture is dedicated to evolving the local music ecosystem to create a more equitable future for young artists and our peers by identifying and closing EID gaps and establishing a culture of belonging and solidarity. We are committed to supporting BIPOC youth in music participation and community programs that celebrate cultural identity and self-expression, understand the healing power of music, and empower musical self-discovery and exploration.

The Hip Hop Transformation (THHT) at Cambridge Community Center empowers under-resourced youth aged 12-25 through immersive programs centered around hip-hop culture, music production, and the arts. By offering a platform for creative expression, skill development, and community engagement, we foster personal growth, cultural awareness, and leadership skills. Our programs are designed to connect young people with their community, encouraging collaboration and mutual respect.

Castle of our Skins is a Boston-based Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music. In classrooms, concert halls, and beyond, Castle of our Skins invites Black heritage and culture exploration, spotlighting both unsung and celebrated figures of past and present. We are a leading organization entering our 12th season of programming dedicated to showcasing works by composers from the African diaspora in collaboration with other artistic disciplines – spoken word, visual arts, dance, multimedia, crafts, and more.

Chatterbird is a Nashville-based chamber music ensemble founded in 2014 with a mission to explore alternative instrumentation and stylistic diversity in order to create thoughtful and inventive musical experiences. Now entering our 11th season, chatterbird expands classical music through thoughtful collaboration, strategic commissioning, and creative educational/community partnerships, with a focus on promoting the work of women and BIPOC creators and composers; nurturing our own musicians' creativity through commissioned projects and creative residencies that stretch our imaginations and skill sets; highlighting current-day issues through community-rooted partnerships; and presenting interdisciplinary collaborative performances that celebrate the vibrancy of our arts partners.

Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles (CRSELA) amplifies the voices of trans and gender expansive youth, girls, and artists from communities of color through music, mentorship and social justice to empower themselves and their communities. CRSELA envisions a transformative movement by communities of color where trans and gender-expansive youth, girls, and women of all ages are leaders in artistic creation, decision-making and socially conscious change.

Composers Now empowers all living composers, celebrates the diversity of their voices and honors the significance of their artistic contributions to the cultural fabric of society. Founder and artistic director Tania León has led the organization since 2010. We feature a broad spectrum of performances in concert halls, jazz mobiles, opera stages, experimental spaces, conservatories, museums and other musical venues.

Long a destination for gifted, early-career creators of all backgrounds and identities, the acclaimed CULTIVATE institute links Copland House’s three core program components – multi-faceted composer support, live and recorded performances, and education – and guides Fellows on all-embracing, exhilarating journeys through the entire artistic process – from creation and development through study, performance, and recording.

Ensemble Decipher is a modular, experimental music group that performs with vintage, contemporary, and emerging technologies. The ensemble strives to redefine performer virtuosity by drawing on the technological advancements of our time to highlight new voices and ways of listening. Current members include Joseph Bohigian, Robert Cosgrove, Eric Lemmon, Chelsea Loew, Taylor Long, and Niloufar Nourbakhsh.

Described as “classical turned loose in the toy store,” “top-flight,” and “imaginative,” fivebyfive is an award-winning, artist-led ensemble known for its impeccable musicianship and adventurous spirit that permeates innovative, cross-genre programming and community engagement. fivebyfive’s mission is to engage and inspire audiences in the collaborative spirit and creativity of today’s chamber music. To realize its mission, fivebyfive performs music by the most exciting living composers with unforgettable musical experiences, advocating for creators who are underrepresented in the field and collaborating with partners across a wide array of disciplines.

FREER Records (formerly Die Jim Crow Records) is the first record label in the United States for prison-impacted musicians. Our mission is to build the careers of our artists so their work is widely heard, uncensored, and upholding of their humanity. These funds will be used to expand our live programming and experiment with innovative ways of bringing incarcerated artists’ music to a live audience.

Founded in 1999, Golden Hornet seeks to reimagine classical music through collaborative creations and adventurous programming with commitments to justice and innovation. We are rooted in both classical music and rock band traditions, drawing valuable lessons from each and welcoming the influences of other traditions, practices, and ways of thinking.

Guerilla Opera presents new experimental works of opera theater and embodies art that emerges from those who challenge the status quo. The Guerillas engage in rebellious works of opera theater that question the established norms and call for radical change with Opera News raving that “Guerilla Opera redefines the Opera experience.”

Hallwalls mission is twofold: 1) To provide a center for contemporary art. 2) To recognize and serve a vital community artistic presence which is global in its outlook, challenging in its ideas, pluralistic in its concerns, and diverse in its expression. Hallwalls' twofold mission is to serve artists by supporting the creation and presentation of new work in the visual, media, performing, and literary arts, and to serve the public by making these works available to audiences.

Founded as a not-for-profit organization by artists in 1977, Harvestworks’ mission is to support the creation and presentation of experimental sound and media art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies. We create an environment where artists can make work inspired and achieved by electronic media; provide a public context for the appreciation of new music and art; and bring together innovative practitioners from all branches of the arts collaborating in the use of electronic media. We assist with commissions and residencies, production services, education and information programs, and the presentation and distribution of their work.

HiiiWAV is an award winning black music entrepreneurship incubator. Our mission is to help grow profitable, culturally rich, and socially impactful artist-led companies that create generational wealth and timeless music in the black community. Our space in Downtown Oakland serves as a creative home for a community of over 200 artists, where we provide community cultural events, entrepreneurship training, direct monetary grants, recording studios, mentorship, and training in cutting edge technologies like AI and VR creation in our transformative hybrid accelerator.

The Hyde Park Jazz Festival is a collaborative platform dedicated to supporting the presentation and ongoing development of jazz, particularly on the South Side of Chicago. We do this by creating opportunities for a diverse community of listeners to engage with the music and its creators, and by working with artists, organizational partners, and networks to celebrate the rich tradition of jazz and to support the development of new work and ideas.

The International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) strives to cultivate a mosaic musical ecosystem that honors the diversity of human experience and expression by commissioning, developing, and performing the works of living artists. Now in its third decade, the Ensemble continues to build new digital and live collaborative environments that strengthen artist agency and musical connections around the world.

JACK Quartet champions new string quartet music and the transformative experiences that it creates. We look forward with great anticipation to our 2024/25 Season, which marks our 20th Anniversary. We are taking this anniversary season as an ensemble to celebrate our relationships with presenters and composers, both in the United States and internationally.

The Center for the Arts at Kayenta was created with the grassroots support of community members who envisioned a vibrant, intimate, professional arts venue nestled in the red rock mountains of the Southern Utah community. New Music USA’s funding will be critical in helping us advance the new music program in our 2024/2025 year of programming. A series of informal residency opportunities will take place within the next year, creating a pilot program for more robust development and residency support beginning in 2025.

LADY GOT CHOPS WOMEN'S HISTORY MONTH MUSIC AND ARTS FESTIVAL is a 501c3 Charitable institution whose participants span the globe from the Far East to South America, Canada to Europe, Africa and of course the US. Our organization uplifts women in music by giving exposure, performance opportunities, educational and career guidance.

Funding from New Music USA will help us to continuing bringing new music by most influential living composers, those just beginning their promising careers, and all in between to audiences across the country! Next year alone will include world premieres by Pamela Z, Hilda Paredes, Piyawat Louilarpprasert, Michael Hersch, and Felipe Lara, as well as the release of our latest album, A Garden Adorned, which will feature music by Oscar Bettison, Christina George, Yotam Haber, Laura Cetilia, and Raven Chacon.

Funding from New Music USA will enable Luna Composition Lab to continue to support young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers as they embark on their creative journey as musicians. The gender imbalance in the world of music composition not only affects professional composers; it affects the young people who grow up understanding what is possible—both for their future artistic pursuits and professional careers. Luna Composition Lab provides an avenue for female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers—still very much in the minority of composers as a whole—to find each other, connect, and grow together.

The Metropolitan Music Community (MMC) provides adult instrumentalists the opportunity to make music in a friendly setting and share it with the public. We strive to give everyone a place to play at their level of experience. We foster awareness of instrumental music and promote the art of symphonic wind ensembles in particular.

MONDAY EVENING CONCERTS (MEC) presents unique artistic experiences rooted in the living legacy of classical music. Offering insightfully curated programs consisting of rare and challenging compositions that might otherwise never reach the ears of local audiences, MEC breathes life into its programming by engaging performing artists of the highest international caliber.

Montavilla Jazz enriches local culture by showcasing original music made in Portland, Oregon. With an annual festival, film series, education programs, and performances throughout the year, Montavilla Jazz engages an inclusive cross-section of musicians, artist curators, collaborative artists, students, music lovers, neighbors, and businesses. Montavilla Jazz promotes forward-thinking artistry and offers platforms for risk-taking, experimentation, and the creation of new works, adding to the diversity and strength of our community.

The mission of Music is Art is to create opportunities that fuel the unifying power of music in our region. Best known for our annual admission free festival that features over 21 stages of live music and DJs, live art creation, displaying artists, dance, non-profits, and a kids village. We run a successful instrument donation and placement program, two annual performance programs for students, and a Coaching and Mentoring Program. And our newest program, The WNY Music Industry Alliance that brings musicians together to educate, collaborate, and strengthen our creative community. The Alliance runs a monthly educational session, songwriter peer group, open-mic night, and member showcases.

Musicambia offers people in prison opportunities to transform their lives through studying, playing, writing, and performing music. The incarcerated music creators in our Sing Sing Flagship Program will write new woodwind quintets for a guest ensemble, as well as new songs for themselves and their peers to perform on our concerts.

Mutual Mentorship for Musicians (M³) is a non-profit, 501(c)3 organization and platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to musicians of historically underrepresented gender identities (including cis women, trans women, trans men and non-binary) in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

Network for New Music commissions and performs new musical works by emerging and established artists of all identities. We engage audiences with vibrant and thought-provoking musical experiences that challenge and inspire. We are committed to excellent performances, innovative curation, in-depth education programs and cross-genre collaborations—all with the purpose of enriching the cultural life of greater Philadelphia.

New Music Gathering is a conference/festival hybrid that is presented in a different city for each iteration. Dedicated to the performance, production, promotion, support, and creation of new and forward-thinking music, NMG seeks to bring together new music makers of all kinds in a welcoming and inclusive environment. With concerts, lecture/recitals, roundtable discussions, talks, and choreographed socializing like musician meet-ups and live action role playing games, NMG aims to be both a conference in the traditional sense but also quite literally a collective place for things to grow, improve, solidify, and above all get personal!

New Orleans Airlift is an artist-led nonprofit that seeks to connect people, ideas, and cultures through the creation of collaborative artworks. Airlift's flagship project and permanent home, Music Box Village welcomes tens of thousands of visitors yearly to the interactive art-site and performance venue. Airlift’s programs provide access to experimental art for diverse populations, increase opportunities for local artists, culture-makers, and youth, and foster creative cross-pollination among disparate cultures in New Orleans and beyond.

New Performance Traditions’ mission is to provide contemporary musicians, composers, and performing artists with the facilities, tools, resources, and expertise necessary to create, produce, perform, and record new multidisciplinary works that challenge the boundaries within and between art forms and/or that challenge existing societal assumptions about culture, identity, and history.

Swing Makes You Sing! is a New York Collective's award-winning jazz appreciation and education initiative. Through dynamic storytelling, movement, multimedia presentations, and interactive musical performances, it shares jazz fundamentals (blues, swing, improvisation), inviting young audiences to a joyous celebration from 50 public schools across 9 states and internationally, as well as prestigious venues like the Kennedy Center and Perlman PAC NYC.

RAMPD (Recording Artists and Music Professionals with Disabilities) is a professional platform equipping the music and live entertainment industry with disability inclusive tools, programming and strategy. RAMPD also connects the industry to a global directory of peer-vetted music/sound creators and industry professionals with disabilities, neurodivergence and other chronic or mental health conditions, to find source and hire—bringing competitive opportunities, visibility and community to our Professional Members while offering disability inclusion to Industry/Venue partners.

Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy-winning vocal band dedicated to reimagining the expressive potential of the human voice. By engaging collaboratively with artists, thinkers, and community leaders from around the world, the group seeks to uplift and amplify voices old and new while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music.

Founded in 1978, Roulette is an internationally-recognized venue, presenter, and producer of experimental music, movement, and media in Downtown Brooklyn, presenting on average 120 performances each year. As an artist-founded and led space, Roulette has awarded over $2,000,000 in commissioning and residency fees, and offers guaranteed artist fees for every performance.

STooPS creates opportunities for community building by showcasing interactive, multidisciplinary art on neighborhood stoops, sidewalks, and storefronts. We seek to reinvigorate outdoor spaces and the iconic brownstone stoops through meaningful interactions. Our programs range from an art crawl, block party, and art classes in unconventional spaces. STooPS was founded with the goal of finding ways to support sustainable connections among artists, homeowners, renters, and business owners.

Music as a catalyst for human connection: Street Symphony engages communities affected by homelessness and incarceration in the Skid Row area of downtown Los Angeles with workshops, performances, and collaborative community events. Through the practice of citizen artistry and partnerships, our programs create pathways toward relationship, renewal, reentry, and recovery.

The Industry is an experimental company that expands the operatic form. We bring together interdisciplinary artists to create collaborative performances that engage the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. We believe that opera is a living form that should respond to new perspectives and voices in contemporary culture. The Industry has led the operatic, multidisciplinary, and public art fields by developing singular performances in unexpected places. We pride ourselves on a holistic approach to creation: everything we do is a considered part of a whole work, not just what ends up on “stage”. We integrate artistic ideas, production, audience experience, and civic engagement.

One of New York City’s oldest nonprofit alternative art centers, The Kitchen is dedicated to offering artists opportunities to create and present new work within and across the disciplines of dance, film, literature, music, theater, video, and visual art. The institution fosters a community of artists and audiences, offering artists the opportunity to create—and for audiences to engage with—work that pushes the boundaries of artistic disciplines and strengthens meaningful dialogues between the arts and larger culture.

The National Jazz Museum in Harlem (NJMH) preserves, promotes and presents jazz by inspiring knowledge, appreciation and the celebration of jazz locally, nationally and internationally. We fuel our mission through four Core Programs: Education (with a special focus on Title I schools); Jazz &… (performance/outreach to BIPOC and other communities; Exhibits (inclusion of BIPOC curators/artists who aren't provided a platform with other museums); and Partnerships (alliances with jazz and jazz-adjacent artists/organizations). NJMH annually produces more than 180 free, highly-subsidized performances, activities and events serving people of all ages, races, ethnicities, backgrounds and income levels from Harlem, New York City, the U.S. and worldwide. Jazz lives in the space of the visceral experience. At the heart of our programming is the presentation of live music. This includes intimate performances and up-close access to legends as well as artists not found in other spaces who elevate the “jazz in Harlem experience.” We spotlight emerging and established musicians and feature female, BIPOC, LGBTQ+, indigenous and other underrepresented artists whose culture and artistry influence and are influenced by jazz.

Praised as “fierce, fearless, and virtuosic… unapologetically stylistically omnivorous and versatile” (New Music Box) and “trailblazing...skillful composer-performers” (The New Yorker), The Rhythm Method strives to reimagine the string quartet in a contemporary, feminist context. The four performer-composers of The Rhythm Method continually expand their sonic and expressive palette through the use of improvisation, vocalization, graphic notation, songwriting, and theater.

The Westerlies are a New York-based quartet dedicated to expanding the canon of brass chamber music through their recording, touring, commissioning, and educational initiatives. Formed in 2011, The Westerlies navigate a wide range of venues and projects with the precision of a string quartet, the audacity of a rock band, and the charm of a family sing-along.

Thingamajigs is a genre-crossing arts organization that promotes music and other art forms created with made and found materials or alternate tuning systems. Our mission is to develop and nurture the exploration of alternate materials and methods of creating sound, as well as promote DIY and MAKER collaborative efforts between artists and local communities.

Unmanageable’s mission is to mobilize resources and build power for independent artists engaged in social change work through creative project management, fundraising, partnership building, fiscal sponsorship, and convening. Founded in 2020, Unmanageable supports artist-driven projects that connect across history, culture, and communities with a priority for work that is anti-racist and rooted in feminist ideology.

Vox Grata‘s Suffrage Cantata highlights the history of women's voting rights and engages diverse local artists from the W. Crimm Singers (Wakanda Chorale) to bring this powerful 40-minute choral composition to life. Coinciding with the 2024 presidential election, Suffrage Cantata will inspire civic engagement and awareness of the suffrage movement.

Wild Up is a contemporary music ensemble committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking experiences. Our programs are eclectic studies of people and ideas that explore how music can foster awareness, empathy, and understanding. We experiment with new contexts and approaches to show how listening offers new ways of being together and building community.

Wildflower Composers is a 501c3 nonprofit in Philadelphia that supports and amplifies female, transgender, nonbinary, and genderqueer composers. Our programs include an annual summer festival at Temple University for composers ages 13–19, a suite of online courses in topics like film scoring or working with electronics, and many ongoing collaborations with presenters and ensembles to offer paid opportunities to program alums.

The Alternative Guitar Summit, founded in 2010 by guitarist/ composer Joel Harrison, celebrates daring, inventive players who emphasize new and unusual approaches to the guitar. In our camps, concerts, videos, and recordings we present the guitar's enormous range, beyond style or genre. AGS seeks to commission new work, whether improvised, notated, or both, and is devoted to promoting new music through education and performance in the New York City metropolitan area and beyond.

Located in NY’s Hudson Valley, Ancram Center for the Arts is an incubator of new performance. The centerpiece of our 2024 season is Centuries, created and performed by Kate Douglas, Matthew Dean Marsh and Raina Sokolov-Gonzalez. Centuries is an immersive music-theater-concert experience, set in a small midwestern town, and explores how landscapes and people change with time.

Based on Octavia Butler's bestselling novel, The Apollo has commissioned KINDRED, a new opera by multiple Grammy Award-winning composer, jazz pianist, arranger, and conductor Billy Childs. Developed as part of Apollo New Works, KINDRED’s musical score will be rooted in the historical traditions of opera, while representing Black American Music to illustrate its main character, Dana, as she time travels between 1970s Los Angeles and the pre-Civil War South, where she meets her ancestors.

The Bardin-Niskala Duo (cello and piano) uses music to explore identity, fight racism, promote cultural awareness, and celebrate humanity during this time of division and racial violence. Exploring themes common across all humanity - including innocence, identity, homeland, loss, mourning, hope, and healing - they commission ALAANA (African, Latinx, Asian, Arab, and Native American) composers to write pieces incorporating the folksongs and children's songs of the composer’s particular cultures. These commissioned works are performed alongside additional works by ALAANA composers that explore a sense of identity.

An immersive new opera by composer Juhi Bansal and librettist Neil Aitken, STAR SINGER draws upon mythology from Polynesian, Asian, and Inuit cultures to celebrate matrilineal ancestors who keep the truths of our world's past alive. This Beth Morrison Projects commission is a stylized allegory of how we understand history and truth, how we pass them on, and their inevitable loss in the passage of time.

Using the works of Dr. Oliver Sacks as the basis for his new composition, composer Tobias Picker will begin work with Concert Theatre Works on a new concert-theatre adaptation titled Musicophilia. The project aims to teach performing arts centers around the US how to effectively hold Relaxed Performances for neurodivergent audiences.

Conspirare commission and premiere an extended composition for choir and instruments from transcultural composer Derrick Skye. Conspirare intends this to be the first in a future series of music where we invite people to remember, and to experience, sonically in a shared space, what unity is and what ‘being together’ actually feels like.

Conceived and performed by cellist Alisa Weilerstein, FRAGMENTS is a groundbreaking concert experience that weaves J.S. Bach with 27 specially commissioned works of varying genres, performed without pause within an illuminated set. Comprising six unique immersive programs, FRAGMENTS invites all the senses to create an unmediated, powerful and visceral listening experience.

Freight & Salvage presents 350 concerts each year, featuring a variety of traditions and genres. New Music USA funding will support the premiere of Mahsa Vahdat’s WOVEN VERSES: Poetic Resistance & Resilience, a song cycle incorporating historical and contemporary Persian text to reflect Vahdat’s persecution and exile from her beloved Iranian homeland.

The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is dedicated to showcasing new music in the longest running museum-based concert series in the U.S., featuring world-renowned musicians and exciting emerging artists. Funding will support the creation of a new song cycle by American composer Phil Kline to premiere at the Gardner in a performance by Yarn/Wire and featuring soprano Nicoletta Berry.

Propelled by the energy and success of the New Ear Festival and the spatial sound series CT::SWaM [Contemporary Temporary::Sound Works and Music]. New Ear is focused on fostering experimentation in time-based media and interdisciplinary collaboration in New York City and beyond. Now in its ninth edition, the annual New Ear Festival is a bold exploration of avant-garde sound, contemporary music, and interdisciplinary performance, bolstering the creative, experimental spirit of downtown Manhattan. In 2025, we will launch a major commissioning initiative for contemporary, experimental sound artists.

Heirloom, a multidisciplinary collaboration between New Music Detroit, composer Griffin Candey, choreographer Jillian Hopper, and fiber artist Rena Wood, looks at art through the lens of materiality. In increasingly digitally-mediated landscapes, Heirloom aims, both through performance and community participation, to explore what it means to remember through the process of craft—how we remember and are remembered through what we create.

Sphinx is a social justice organization dedicated to transforming lives through the power of the arts. Funding will support the creation of New Works by Black and Latino composers whose work is often under-performed and not a part of the classical music canon. These new works will be performed and toured in over 15 cities nationwide and abroad.

Launched in 2010, The Cedar Commissions grants annual commissions to six Minnesota-based emerging performers who represent different cultural backgrounds and aesthetic perspectives, culminating in performances of their new work for local audiences. In addition to a $5,000 cash award, the artists receive extensive professional development and digital content for future use. 81 artists have benefitted from the program since its inception.

This Is A Movement’s Composer Clinic will be a creative revolution to foster the next generation of women and non-binary composers and producers. Overall TIAM centers non-hierarchical, collaborative and imaginative modes of creation and organization asking the question: “What does a freer, fairer and more representative music industry look like?”

The 3 Pony Show Dance Company creates language out of moving bodies, telling untold stories in order to better understand our human story. Choreographer Keila Cordova and 3 Pony Show will premiere an evening length multimedia work colliding fragments of Panamanian heritage, culture and resistance at the Esperanza Arts Center with an original score composed by Emiliano Pardo-Tristán in Spring 2025.

Choreographer Alonzo King will collaborate with acclaimed composer and trumpeter Ambrose Akinsumire to create a new ballet for Alonzo King LINES Ballet. Akinsumire's original composition will be paired with the visionary choreography of Alonzo King, with a world premiere to be presented to San Francisco audiences in Spring 2025. The work will subsequently tour nationally and internationally.

April Sellers Dance Collective will present the world premiere of Echo… We Are Imperfect Mortal Being. Featuring original music created and performed by vocalist Kashimana Ahu with drummer Greg Schutte and choreography by April Sellers. New Music USA will support the creation, rehearsals, and six live performances in Minneapolis MN.

FLOCK is a vertical dance theater work expressing a poetic overlay of bird and human migrations with a multilingual musical score co-composed by composer and musician Ben Juodvalkis and composer, vocalist, and Circlesong director, Destani Wolf. A member of Bobby McFerrin’s improvisational singing group MOTION, Destani is an experienced Circlesong leader, facilitating spontaneous vocal compositions among groups to make music, build trust, take risks, and embrace joy. Destani will guide intergenerational community choirs at each tour location to integrate Circlesinging as a way to activate musical participation and inclusion, deepening FLOCK’s meaning and impact.

David Dorfman Dance creates movement that seeks to de-stigmatize the notion of accessibility and interaction in post-modern dance by embracing audiences with visceral, meaningful dance, music and text. truce songs, our newest evening length work, continues our vision of creating innovative, inclusive, movement-based performance that is radically humanistic by examining and unearthing issues and ideas that enliven, incite, and excite audiences.

The Dorrance Dance Production, "The Center Will Not Hold" features a collective of singular performers deeply rooted in different street, club, and vernacular dance styles as well as original music composed by Donovan Dorrance with live percussion provided by world class drummer/percussionist, John Angeles. This evening-length work is born from “a little room”, a short duet created and performed by Ephrat Asherie and Michelle Dorrance in December 2022.

Ephrat Asherie Dance (EAD) is dance company rooted in the African American and Latine street and club dances of breaking, hip hop, house and waacking. Their new project, Shadow Cities, is a collaboration with world-renown composer and pianist, Arturo O'Farrill. Their new work explores what it means to be and to feel in-between. We are split between cities, memories and generations; We are an amalgam of cultures, fully embodied and fragmented all at once. Our identities are fixed and infinitely fluid, our movements concurrently malleable and explosive. We are utterly out of synch and suddenly in immaculate unison. Shadow Cities asks how and why—halfway between so many disparate extremes in time, space and state—we sometimes feel most at home and our most enlivened selves. With a cast of six dancers and four musicians, Shadow Cities is a reflection on the beauty, vastness and joy of the in-between.


A contemporary reimagining of shadow puppetry, a traditional Balinese performance medium, Nor’easter will integrate visual storytelling through dance, gamelan music, and multimedia elements, challenging the conventional need for a physical screen on which to project shadows. Instead, the project will employ cutting-edge depth-sensing camera technology to introduce new dimensions of interactivity. Nor’easter was composed by New York-based composer and Dharma Swara member Joel Mellin and will be choreographed by Ilona Bito.

Lessons from My Mothers is a retelling of oral stories, anecdotes, experiences, emotions felt by our Mothers as they left their homes in India and embarked upon a new life in America. Using Bharatanatyam dance, mimetic storytelling, experimental music, spoken, word, theater and music, we meld the lived experience of her mothers and aunts into a personal history of joy, laughter, sorry, anxiety and fear. Choreographer Sonali Skandan will collaborate with longtime partners, composers/musicians Bala Skandan and Shiv Subramaniam who will compose the music along with others. Acclaimed director and dramaturg Arpita Mukherjee of Hypocrit Theater will direct the show. The cast includes two dancers/spoken word artists and musicians.

A Cultural collaboration. Celebrated African American Choreographer Sean McLeod and Grammy Nominated Taiwanese Composer Chihsuan Yang will create a new work presented as part of the 34th New York Dance Festival and the 2024-2025 season. What can Black and Taiwanese find together, how can you be more than your history?

Music From The Sole, led by Brazilian dancer/ choreographer Leonardo Sandoval and by bassist/ composer Gregory Richardson, is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap's Afro-diasporic roots, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian dance and music, and its lineage to forms like house dance and Brazilian funk. The company expands audiences for tap by appearing at both dance and music venues, including recently at the Joyce Theater, Works & Process at the Guggenheim, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and White Bird.

Founded by Robin Dekkers, Bay Area dance collective Post:ballet uses collaboration as a catalyst for pushing the ballet envelope and creating experiences that connect artists and audiences in new and meaningful ways. Post's newest collaboration "The Recital" features percussionist and Music Director Andy Meyerson onstage with the company dancers in a new music and dance recital by five composer/choreographer teams.

Dharma is Life - forever sprouting, transforming, dissolving, and renewing. Ragamala Dance Company’s Children of Dharma reveals the power of ancient cultures to harmonize, heal, and reaffirm humanity's relationship with nature. “Ragamala shows how Indian forms can be some of the most transcendent experiences that dance has to offer.” - NY Time

Sequoia Ascension cultivates the well-being of Atlanta’s Black American and Native American communities by way of movement, music, and healing practices. Sequoia Ascension is thrilled to present Powwows & Ciphers: A Sacred Place to Be, a groundbreaking dance piece that highlights Afro-indigeneity by bringing together Hip Hop and Native American music and dance.

ShaLeigh Dance Works (SDW) is a nonprofit, dance-theatre company dedicated to inspiring people of all abilities, social backgrounds, cultures, and generations with the transformative power of dance. Under the direction of Founder and Artistic Director ShaLeigh Comerford, SDW is recognized for its socially conscious works, expansive movement language, and commitment to community action.

With a cast of 12 dancers and 10 musicians, “A Very SW!NG OUT Holiday” invites audiences to revel in the joy of social dance and festive cheer. Featuring live music by the Eyal Vilner Big Band and created by director/choreographer Caleb Teicher and collaborators—Evita Arce, LaTasha Barnes, Nathan Bugh, and Eyal Vilner—14 performances of the Joyce Theater Production will be presented in December 2024.

The Mariposa Collective is a performing artists collective based in Boulder, CO dedicated to the service and support of contemporary artists and the creative process. Our mission is to support a diverse community by engaging in artistic dialogue, exploring and sharing multi-disciplinary work, and offering quality artistic contributions to the community at large.

Public Domain-Confidential, a collaboration with Roxey Ballet and musician/composer Richard Jarboe, reimagines recognizable works from the public domain that have been lost with unknown original composers. The project narrative revolves around a fictional love story set in New Orleans, featuring a man and woman from the public domain, both of whom become entwined in each other's lives. One frequents a local bar while the other works there and their journey is underscored by the soulful music performed live by Richard Jarboe on guitar and Carlo Gentiletti on bass guitar with choreography by Mark Roxey and Roxey Ballet Artists. Richard Jarboe has been fascinated with these lost public domain works and this project recreates them reflecting the culture and music of New Orleans with traditional jazz, blues, and Afro-Cuban styles.

The Traverse City Dance Project traces its origins to a New York City rooftop in 2012, where professional dancers and choreographers Brent Whitney and Jennifer McQuiston Lott planted the seeds of their vision. Motivated by Brent's desire to bring top-tier dance back to his hometown of Traverse City, Michigan, they sought to foster a platform for professional dancers, choreographers, musicians, and composers alike. Now celebrating its eleventh season, the mission of the Traverse City Dance Project is to produce and present professional dance in Northern Michigan, promoting collaboration among artists and actively engaging with the community. The Traverse City Dance Project is committed to expanding and ensuring access to live dance performances, recognizing the transformative power of the arts to unite, empower, and inspire communities.

Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea, with the BIPOC women and femme dancers of Ananya Dance Theatre, composer/musicians and guest collaborators, will create ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME, an original full-length transnational feminist contemporary dance theater work, in ADT’s tradition of social justice choreography.

Deborah Slater Dance Theater’s “In the Presence of Absence” explores how a diverse array of individuals have endured the chaotic impact of a global pandemic through an intersectional lens, culminating in a multimedia dance theater piece featuring dance, spoken word, video projection, and original music by composer Marcus Shelby.

"Silenciosa Luna", will explore how we embed audio-description in choreography and music for a dance work without diminishing the artistic idea. "Silenciosa Luna" will be a 15 minute dance piece choreographed by Nadia Adame with 5 AXIS Company dancers and will include Alisa Rasera as a collaborator embedding audio-description within the performance and Kev Choice as the composer.

Two legendary producers, DJ T-Rell from Chicago and H Rockz from New York City, will create original music for a joint Chicago Footwork and Litefeet Mixtape, which will be live-streamed online for educational purposes, used in our weekly community programming spaces, and featured at two culminating community events focused on unifying the cultures of Chicago Footwork and Harlem Litefeet.

Dark Circles Contemporary Dance collaborates with composer Brandon Carson for "Ten-Gallon," premiering in October 2023 in El Paso, TX. Created and choreographed by Joshua L. Peugh, the work reimagines the Western genre, honoring the contributions of BIPOC and queer individuals in shaping the American West.

Choreographer Jo Kreiter and composer Xoa Asa are collaborating on Flyaway Productions' site-specific dance--Ode to Jane—to connect struggles for bodily autonomy via reproductive justice with struggles for autonomy in housing and addiction recovery.

Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) has commissioned NY-based composer Jessie Cox to create an original score for a new site-specific performance work, “Herald In and Examine Throughout,” premiering at the Herald Examiner Building in Los Angeles in Spring 2024. Cox’s score will be performed live alongside original choreography by Heidi Duckler.

Founded in 2016 by award-winning artist Jeremy McQueen, The Black Iris Project (BIP) is an Emmy® award-winning ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates new, relevant classical & contemporary ballet works that celebrate diversity and Black history.

These funds support the work of choreographer Aszure Barton and award-winning composer Ambrose Akinmusire, who are using José Limón’s personal notes to reimagine The Eumenides – Doris Humphrey’s never-recorded masterwork exploring impossible moral choices (originally choreographed to a soaring orchestral score by Darius Milhaud).

Katha Dance Theatre will present the world premiere of PRAKRITIR PRATISODH -- Nature’s Revenge! in November 2023 at the Twin Cities’ premiere dance venue, The Cowles Center. The production will showcase an original score composed by Vinod Krishnan of Atlanta, and choreography by master Kathak artist, Rita Mustaphi, of Minneapolis.

Composer okkyung lee creates an original score for choreographer Donna Uchizono for "March," a tri-section dance work together with Tendayi Kuumba and Annie-B Parson, envisioned as three discrete sections by three choreographers celebrating and interrogating our human compulsion to dance together.

LED is an award-winning arts organization that weaves signature contemporary choreography, original musical compositions, and elements of film into thought-provoking narratives and inspiring stories that are redefining the boundaries of performing arts.

Nava Dance Theatre is a bharatanatyam dance company which uses the south Indian dance form to navigate place, identity, and politics through the lens of our lived experience.

ODC Theater exists to empower and develop innovative artists. It participates in the creation of new works through commissioning, presenting, mentorship and space access; it develops informed, engaged and committed audiences; and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component to the economic and cultural development of our community.

New Music USA support of Parsons Dance will support commissions by composer Michael Wall and choreographer Penny Saunders with live music for dance at 10 performances at The Joyce Theater in New York City.

ShaLeigh Dance Works (SDW) is a nonprofit, dance-theatre company dedicated to inspiring people of all abilities, social backgrounds, cultures, and generations with the transformative power of dance; funds will support the 2023 new music program enVISION: The Next Chapter, which researches the perception of music and sound in the absence of vision and how access informs our creative process.

The Leela Institute advances India’s rich artistic traditions by supporting the creation, development, and performance of cutting edge artistic works of kathak dance; providing comprehensive education in kathak for children, youth and adults; and engaging in strategic public activities to raise broad-based awareness of India’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.

Treehouse Shakers creates original programming for babies to teens, which includes a NYC Season, touring, workshops and school programming. For the upcoming NYC season we will present The Deepest Breath, as part of our LGBTQIA+ initiative, Flutter for Babies, Sail Away for toddlers, and The Littlest Cove for ages 3-6.

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre is a multidisciplinary company of majority BIPOC artists presenting invigorating performance and education programs in the US and internationally, that increase access to- and promote understanding through - the arts.

The Sound Art + Experimental Music Program is a specialized track embedded within Bemis Center’s international Residency Program, offering two- and three-month residencies to artists pushing the boundaries of sound, composition, voice, and music of all genres. Integral parts of the Sound Program include Bemis’s facilities for rehearsing and recording new work, and a music venue, LOW END.

HILDEGARD is a work about Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179), the first opera by composer/librettist Sarah Kirkland Snider.

Cal Performances will commission a major new work by composer Gabriella Smith for new music ensemble yMusic. The 40-minute piece for amplified ensemble integrates underwater field recordings and is inspired by ocean ecosystems from around the planet.

CYO will commission composer and photographer Dylan Trần to write a multi-movement, community-sourced, multi-media, photo-orchestral piece entitled "(in)halation: breathing/blooming together," bringing together two art forms wherein process and community involvement are key.

EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer partners with The Living Earth Show to commission and support the creation of a new music work by composer Raven Chacon and support the creation of a new music production led by composer M. Lamar. The partnership is organized by EMPAC music curator Amadeus Julian Regucera.

Composer, singer-songwriter, and performing and recording artist Tamar-kali will create a dramatic work-in-development — Black Damask — about the life and times of the first documented drag queen William Dorsey Swann, in collaboration with Harlem Stage.

Kronos Performing Arts Association will commission a new work for Kronos Quartet from composer Trey Spruance as part of the KRONOS Five Decades Project.

This timely opera, composed by Annie Gosfield and directed by Ashley Tata, interprets the visionary ideology and enduring legacy of Emma Goldman — one of the most influential political activists in US history. In a driving, dramatic setting for vocalist and percussion ensemble, EMMA! evokes the power of community and the anarchic clatter of her times.

Living In the “In-Between” is a song cycle exploring what it means to live "in-between" ethnicities and cultures. It highlights the Asian American experiences as seen through the eyes of two Chinese American women artists - composer Vivian Fung and soprano Andrea Núñez with a libretto by Royce Vavrek.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process.

Noisefloor is a unique collaboration between the musician-led ensemble, Palaver Strings and the contemporary dance collective, little house dance. In this interdisciplinary performance, twelve musicians and seven dancers join forces, premiering a new composition by Courtney Swain written specifically for choreography by Heather Stewart.

Pittsburgh Opera, partnering with Opera Santa Barbara, presents the powerful world premiere of Antigone (working title) by composer Laura Kaminsky, librettist Crystal Manich, and dramaturg/stage director Amy Hutchison, which explores an issue of gun violence at schools through the eyes of high school students preparing to stage a performance of Sophocles’ Antigone.

Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble commissions, performs, and releases new music created by Portland and Oregon-resident professional and student composers.

PRISM Quartet seeks to place the saxophone in unexpected contexts, chart fresh musical territory, and to challenge, inspire, and move audiences with music from a diverse range of creators; PRISM will use funds to advance contemporary composers’ work through its concert series and label XAS Records, and provide educational + mentorship programs to aspiring artists from diverse backgrounds.

Funding will support the development of new music from Cecile McLorin Salvant and Suzanne Kite for American Railroad, Silkroad’s large-scale artistic initiative developed by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens that explores the cultures and communities behind the creation of the railroads in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

Guided by both who is remembered and who is left out in a written history of a small rural NY village, artists Delaney Martin and Taylor Shepherd have conceived a site-specific performance that combines found sounds, rolling hills, converging roads, and singing traditions to celebrate and interrogate American identity.

SENSORIUM is a multi-modal arts project exploring fundamental questions of what it means to have voice. The project is centered around the opera, Sensorium Ex – a multi-sensory narrative woven together at the intersections of disability and artificial intelligence.

Works & Process commissions performance piece “The Beatbox House,” following five beatboxers–world champions Amit Bhowmick, Chris Celiz, Neil “NaPoM” Meadows, Gene Shinozaki, and Kenny Urban, who unfold how their virtuosic, imagination-defying music, made by human mouths/bodies, encompasses the innovations, craft and expressions of generations of beatbox creators.

American Composers Orchestra supports new music through commissions, premieres, and EarShot composer advancement initiatives. ACO exists to expand the definition of American orchestral music to ensure an inclusive and vibrant future.

ANIKAYA will use our New Music Organizational grant to support tour development for The Women Gather, a live music work made in collaboration with ANIKAYA artistic director Wendy Jehlen, composer Shaw Pong Liu and vocalist/creative artists Mali Shastri, Sutikshna Veeravali and Sam Whyte, along with an ensemble of dancers, along with touring for Conference of the Birds.

Ars Nova Workshop is Philadelphia's premiere presenter of avant garde jazz and new music, as well as a host of interdisciplinary programs that explore why jazz matters.

Funding from New Music USA will help expand Audium’s artist residency and featured artist programs, which commission local Bay Area artists to create original works of spatial sound and new media.

Bang on a Can is dedicated to making music new. Since its first Marathon concert in 1987, Bang on a Can has been creating an international community dedicated to innovative music, wherever it is found.

Brooklyn Raga Massive is an adventurous nonprofit musicians' collective that creates cross-cultural understanding through the lens of South Asian classical music by providing support to artists, fostering collaboration through our iconic concerts and jam sessions, facilitating cultural exchange through educational initiatives, and producing transcendent, and often massive, performances, festivals, and one-of-a-kind albums.

CapitalBop’s grassroots shows and festivals are known for their invigorating, cutting-edge artistry, energy, and fresh approaches to bringing audiences together. We build audiences and community around jazz, creative music and Black culture, recognizing each as a crucial part of D.C.’s contemporary and historic identities. CapitalBop documents the city’s vibrant jazz scene through its unique e-magazine and media platforms.

Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles (CRSELA) amplifies the voices of trans and gender expansive youth, girls, and artists from communities of color through music, mentorship and social justice to empower themselves and their communities.

Composers Now empowers all living composers, celebrates the diversity of their voices and honors the significance of their artistic contributions to the cultural fabric of society. It advocates for living composers through commissioning, mentoring and professional development initiatives, creative residencies, marketing, promotion, and forums for the expansion of composers' networks.

New Music USA is supporting one of Copland House’s flagship initiatives, its annual CULTIVATE emerging composers institute – an intensive, weeklong creative workshop and mentoring programs.

Creative Music Studio (AKA Creative Music Foundation, Inc.) will build community through new partnerships, presentations, and mentorship to young artists, particularly BIPOC, female, trans and genderqueer musicians/composers.

New Music USA funding will help JazzDC at the Mead Center activities, including our Generations series, curated by Artist-in-Residence Orrin Evans, pairs jazz elders with emerging artists, along with an emerging artist program focused on new compositions. Funding will support a new weekly jazz club series at the Mead Center that will showcase regional talent and provide space for artists to rehearse new works.

D-Composed is a Black chamber music collective that celebrates Black culture and creativity through the music of Black composers.

Since 1984 Earshot Jazz has presented thousands of one-of-a-kind concerts while balancing a variety of forward-thinking services to the community. It is distinctive for its long-view approach to nurturing the art form, support of its own community, and presenting creative artists from around the world.

Either/Or’s 2023-24 season features two major programming directions: expansive presentations featuring legacy African-American composers Leroy Jenkins and Talib Rasul Hakim and events featuring new and recent work developed in close collaboration with its creators including Diné/Navajo Nation composer Raven Chacon.

Elastic Arts is an organization that creates space for all artists to create, but especially those who are not welcome elsewhere because their work is experimental, unorthodox, nontraditional, out of bounds, or reflective of racial, ethnic, sexual, or political identities that are unwelcome in (or threatening to) dominant cultural institutions.

Experiments in Opera's 2023-2024 season will include new works in development with librettists, composers and designers looking to expand the boundaries of opera.

HEAL Center for the Arts is committed to making quality arts programming accessible to all students, especially to those of urban communities.

Called "contemporary chamber trailblazers" by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a quartet of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello forging new ground in 21st century repertoire.

Imani Winds and Andy Akiho will collaborate to co-produce and record Andy Akiho’s BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging (2022), a 40-minute five-movement work for woodwind quintet and optional percussion commissioned by Imani Winds.

NYC-based InfraSound is redesigning the way experimental music is being heard and experienced through creative and thoughtful concert curation, commissions, and presentations of contemporary Western/European music.

New Music USA supports the Ensemble's general operations in 2023-24, contributing to our ability to mount over 70 programs of adventurous music.

Inversion is dedicated to bringing to life new choral works by living composers; we continuously commission brand-new music, perform exclusively in venues that feel like safe spaces for diverse audiences, and work to mentor the next generation of singers and composers.

ISSUE presents projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. A leading incubator in NYC’s cultural ecology, ISSUE facilitates work that eludes audience expectations and is otherwise underrepresented within the field.

Funding from New Music USA will enable Luna Composition Lab to continue to provide mentorship and resources for young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers in their 2023–24 season.

Motor City Sings uses musical performance and musical production to remove stigma from suicide prevention and mental health programs for audiences in Detroit, MI.

Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul, founded by violinist Kelly Hall-Tompkins as the pioneer organization to bring classical music to homeless shelters, and described by the New York Times, “Just Three blocks from Lincoln Center…The concerts have an air of authenticity and directness that sometimes does not exist in concert halls,” commissioned Forgotten Voices by 15 award-winning composers.

Musiqa is a non-profit organization dedicated to the performance of contemporary chamber music. Over two decades, Musiqa has performed the works of nearly 300 living composers, including over seventy world premieres, commissioned new works by established and emerging composers, collaborated with hundreds of artists, and provided educational programs for tens of thousands of young people.

M³ (Mutual Mentorship for Musicians) is a platform created to empower, elevate, normalize and give visibility to women, non-binary musicians and those of other historically underrepresented gender identities in intersection with race, sexuality, or ability across generations in the US and worldwide, through a radical model of mentorship and musical collaborative commissions.

New Music Gathering is a biennial conference/festival hybrid dedicated to the performance, production, promotion, support, and creation of new and forward-thinking music. NMG works with a different host city each year, and seeks to present work from across the country (and beyond!) alongside the work being made there locally.

The Next Festival supports early-career performers and composers via a two-week series of workshops, rehearsals, mentoring and performances. Collaborating with world class guest artists, Next Festival Fellows perform a program of 21st century music and engage with the community to advance the future of contemporary classical music.

Since its founding in 2005, Winter Jazzfest has cemented its reputation as a hotbed of cultural discovery, presenting new and exciting sounds and scenes each January throughout New York.

The Peninsula Women’s Chorus is excited to present new music from our Composer-in-Residence program during the spring of 2024, featuring composer Theresa Wong, with support from New Music USA.

Project [BLANK] is a San Diego-based concert series and presenting organization that produces immersive, multi-disciplinary performances of chamber music and opera.

Qubit's 14th annual season in New York will see the continuation of our Innovator Lab artist-in-residence series, as well as curated productions throughout the year.

Ravinia is an internationally renowned, not-for-profit music festival, that presents outstanding performances by the world’s greatest artists. Ravinia's Breaking Barriers Festival celebrates women composers—classical and jazz artists as well as singer-songwriters.

Founded in 1978 as a laboratory and performance space where creative trailblazers and curious thinkers could share perspectives on current conversations, Roulette now presents 120+ performances of experimental music, movement, and media each year and hosts an additional 150+ community and rental events in its 12,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art theater in Downtown Brooklyn.

Sound Off: Music for Bail is a dynamic collective of musicians, activists, and thinkers dedicated to raising money for abolitionist organizations and bail funds across the country, rethinking notions of public safety as they relate to real-life communities, and playing great music.

Sparks & Wiry Cries curates opportunities for art song creators, performers, and scholars through innovative initiatives that capture the stories of our diverse communities.

The Crossing is a professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. It is committed to working with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir that explore and expand ways of writing, singing in, and listening to music for choir.

For over 27 years, The Jazz Gallery has been an integral part of the cultural life of New York City. Founded in 1995 by trumpeter Roy Hargrove, vocalist Lezlie Harrison, and cultural anthropologist Dale Fitzgerald, TJG has been hailed as "the most imaginatively booked jazz club in New York." (NYTimes)

The Lab is a catalyst for artistic innovation, presenting over 60 performances with experimental American composers annually, while providing significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented musicians and artists.

The Merian Ensemble will use this grant to expand online presence and establish a website, publicize our 2023-2024 season and create a publicity template for future seasons, and streamline communication with supporters through regular newsletters.

We focus on the works of black composers and subject matter relative to the black experience, bringing this new music forward and adding it to the American operatic catalog. We are expanding the Cannon of American operatic works and highlighting black composers as never done before.

Trinosophes Projects exists to curate, create and produce musical, artistic and literary works, performances, exhibitions and events in order to promote culture and the arts in Detroit Michigan.

Unison Arts offers opportunities to grow our creative community through innovative environmental, racial, and social justice-centered art practices, as well as exceptional exhibits and performances.

Verdigris Ensemble reshapes choral traditions, fusing diverse genres, innovative collaborations, and technology to craft immersive narratives that redefine the concert experience.

Wild Up is a contemporary music ensemble. We are committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking concerts and happenings.

ABREPASO flamenco is a Cleveland-based nonprofit music and dance company directed by Alice Blumenfeld that aims to deepen appreciation for flamenco and create original flamenco choreography and music, finding new entry points into and new pathways within the art form; funds will help expand repertory and offerings of flamenco in Northeast Ohio.

As the first reed quintet to grace the Billboard Charts (May 2021), the untamed band of 5 reed players and entrepreneurs are united by a shared passion: to make music that sparks joy and wonder; funds will support its 22-23 season of world premieres, its 5th album release featuring Shara Nova and the music of Nico Muhly, its annual high school residency and new music festival in Detroit, and more than 100 total workshops and performances nationwide.

Alarm Will Sound commissions, performs and records new music for large ensemble with the aim of moving contemporary music towards the center of today’s culture; funds will support Artist Fees for musicians, guest artists, and commissioned composers.

Alphabet Rockers make music that makes change, working in partnership with communities to create media reflecting the culture of belonging needed in the world; funds will be used to curate and stage live productions of “The Movement,” featuring songs for all ages about justice, belonging and community care.

American Lyric Theater (ALT) was founded in 2005 to fill a void in the training of operatic writers; funds will be used to support the commission of three new operas from Resident Artists in the company’s Composer Librettist Development Program, which provides invaluable support to mentor gifted emerging opera composers and librettists, with a focus on artists from historically underrepresented groups in opera.

Since 1965, Americas Society has been one of the main stages in New York City for music and artists from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada; funds will support the payment of rehearsals and performing fees for new music ensembles performing works by composers from Latin America, the Caribbean, and Canada during the 2022-2023 season of the Music of the Americas Concert Series.

andPlay is committed to expanding the existing violin/viola duo repertoire by commissioning new works and actively collaborating with living artists; funds will support andPlay’s administrative and organizational capacity for its 22-23 season.

Angel City Arts is committed to cultivating and revitalizing jazz culture in LA; funding will go towards the 2022 Angel City Jazz Festival, a vehicle to present the best contemporary West Coast jazz and beyond.

Arts For Art (AFA) is a NYC-based organization dedicated to the promotion and advancement of FreeJazz -- an African American indigenous art form in which improvisation is principle; funding will help cover artist/production fees and administrative costs in implementing the Community Development Program, the goal of which is to cultivate a wider and more diverse following for improvised art forms, and to ensure the continued long-term stability of the organization.

arx duo is dedicated to the expansion of the percussion chamber music repertoire through the creation and presentation of new works, engaging with young artists and audiences, and bringing communities together through music; funds will complete the costs of recording our album with new commissions from Juri Seo and Robert Honstein, as well as cover part of our cost of the new commission of Steven Mackey's "Memoir"

Audium- the first theater of its kind in the world- has been pioneering the idea of live sound movement for over 50 years; this grant will help expand Audium’s artist residency and featured artist programs, which commission local Bay Area artists to create original works of spatial sound and new media.

"AXCBT is rooted in a deep commitment to ballet and contemporary dance and cultivates an environment rooted in diversity, inspiration, encouragement, and equality; funds will be used for “The lost Princess of Oz,” a new Literary Ballet music score written by composer Chris Becker. "

Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center (BMCM+AC) celebrates and extends the legacy of Black Mountain College (BMC). Funding will support the BMCM+AC Performance Initiative, which brings innovative contemporary musicians and performing artists to Western North Carolina and supports the work of artists working in BMC’s avant-garde lineage.

Teresa Fellion founded BodyStories: Teresa Fellion Dance in late 2011, after working as an independent choreographer since 2004; funds will be used to compensate and credit collaborators in a just manner and provide opportunities to new and upcoming musicians and composers.

The Boise Phil is a classical orchestra based in Boise, Idaho that presents a broad array of music from historical works to commissioned pieces by living composers; funds will go towards sponsoring the performances of three co-commissioned works by Jennifer Higdon, Jimmy López Bellido, and Vijay Iyer during Boise Phil's 2022-2023 season.

Boulanger Initiative advocates for women and all gender-marginalized composers; funds will continue efforts towards increasing gender equity in the music industry through our programs.

The Bowdoin International Music Festival is approaching its 60th anniversary as a world-renowned chamber music performance and training program; funding will help sustain and strengthen our annual Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, as well as move us closer towards our goal of fully-funding tuition for all composition students.

Bowerbird is a Philadelphia based non-profit organization that shares music, dance, film, and related art forms with audiences at locations across the region; funds will allow Bowerbird to produce concerts of new and experimental music in venues across Philadelphia.

Brightwork newmusic is the only organization in Southern California with a performing ensemble, monthly concert series, and educational initiatives all focused through the lens of contemporary classical music; funds will help sustain general operating at a critical stage in their organizational growth.

"Brooklyn Raga Massive (BRM) is an adventurous artist collective dedicated to preserving and expanding the rich genre of South Asian classical music by providing direct support to musicians, and facilitating cultural exchange through performances, new compositions, and educational programs."

Castle of our Skins is a Black arts institution dedicated to fostering cultural curiosity and celebrating Black artistry through music; funds will support its annual Black Composer Miniature Challenge project and Shirley Graham DuBois Creative in Residence program, both of which support African diasporic creatives from around the world through the realization and documentation of new work.

Chamber Dance Project, dancers & musicians (CDP,) mission is to create extraordinary experiences in contemporary ballet on stage with live music and in film; funds will support our artists – dancers and musicians for live performances and events.

Chatterbird creates uniquely orchestrated chamber music that explores alternative instrumentation, stylistic diversity, interdisciplinary collaboration, and celebrates friendly, accessible concert settings; funding will support the artistic season, including three large concerts featuring newly commissioned music, educational engagement and partnerships, composer residences, and community-focused experiences.

Classical Music Indy (CMI) is Central Indiana's premier syndicator of Peabody-award-winning classical music radio programs, producer of 24/7 classical music streaming and award-winning podcasts, community programs provider, and advocate for classical music and classical music-makers; funds will be used to create studio recordings of five new chamber works for mixed ensembles by Indiana-based composers.

Uniquely positioned in the world of classical music and opera, the Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA)’s mission is dedicated in “Bringing Color to the Classics”™ in support of Black classical musicians, youth, senior citizens, opera singers, and others in the performing arts.

Copland House is dedicated to nurturing and renewing America’s vibrant, diverse musical legacy, and to fostering greater public awareness and appreciation of our nation’s composers and their work.

"Ornette Coleman, Karl Berger, and Ingrid Sertso formed the Creative Music Foundation in 1971; CMS will use its award to advance its new education and professional development programs for music creators, particularly BIPOC, female, trans, and genderqueer artists; and promote and present more new up-and-coming artists who have historically been underrepresented in the music field. "

Crosstown Arts is a multidisciplinary contemporary arts center located in Memphis, TN; funding will support the ongoing collaboration between Memphis-based Blueshift Ensemble and Iceberg New Music as well as growing its new music programming in its 2022-2023 season.

The Dance & Music Festival (DMF) is a family friendly festival that aims give our youth and families hope for their future and encourage mentorship, positive self-images, and role models; funding will develop communities and strengthen neighbors by hosting free family friendly events showcasing dance, music, and visual arts.

El Paso Jazz Girls is a cost-free program for young female musicians to learn about jazz, meet each other, play together, and create a support system; support will help fund El Paso Jazz Girls' annual cost-free summer program, teacher development workshops for the Texas community, and local performance opportunities for our participants.

Ensemble Pi is a socially conscious new music collective committed to performing works by living American composers, as well as underrepresented composers of the past; funds will support new projects exploring personal devastation brought on by war.

Experimental Sound Studio (ESS) is a Chicago-based nonprofit organization dedicated to artistic evolution and the creative exploration of sound; funds will support staff capacity, new voices in leadership, and the build-out of expanded resource accessibility as ESS works to evolve and mature the momentum, lessons, and connections forged over the past two years of programming amidst a constantly changing landscape.

Since 2013, Girls Rock! Des Moines has been empowering cis-girls, gender-expansive, nonbinary, and trans youth through music education, collaboration, and performance opportunities; funds will help GRDSM hire new staff members.

The Great Lakes Chamber Music Festival was born in 1994 of a remarkable relationship between religious and cultural institutions; funds support collaboration with regional and national organizations to commission new works by underrepresented composers, and share them with the larger Metro Detroit community.

In daring performances, Guerilla Opera has garnered a national reputation for innovative contemporary opera with The Boston Globe raving that “radical exploration remains the cornerstone of everything it does”; funds will aid in supporting our Guerilla Opera Staff, allowing them to root more in the art we are creating and focus on supporting our artists and creators during their process.

Founded in 1977 by experimental composers and sound artists, Harvestworks’ mission is to support contemporary artists in the creation of art works achieved through the use of new and evolving technologies; funds will support inviting more composers from the BIPOC and LGBTQ communities to their residency program.

NYC-based quartet Hypercube specializes in cutting-edge works for saxophone, guitar, piano and percussion, while spanning electric and acoustic worlds; funds will support scholarships for its Cubelab programs, with special attention to BIPOC composers, LGBTQIA+, woman-identifying and low-income/need-based participants.

Impulse New Music Festival provides talented early-career musicians with critical tools, training, and mentorship for building a career in new music; this support will help advance the work done with music creators in our summer festival and workshops.

The ICD is housed at the State University of New York at Fredonia, and dedicated to the celebration, education, and advocacy of music created by composers from historically underrepresented groups through database resources and programming analysis; support will be used to expand the ICD databases and resources, as well as supporting the ICD Database Expansion and Community Impact Initiative.

ICE has become a leading force in new music throughout the last 20 years; funding will support work with eight composers who have been selected for new commissions through ICE’s “Call For ___” in-house commissioning program.

Intersection is a Nashville-based contemporary music ensemble dedicated to challenging the traditional concert experience, supporting living composers, engaging youth in new music, promoting collaboration, technology, and the avant-garde, while embracing the musical and cultural diversity of Nashville; funds will support a return to live performances and enable Intersection to increase staff capacity. 

One of the most acclaimed, renowned, and respected groups performing today, JACK Quartet has maintained an unwavering commitment to their mission of performing and commissioning new works, giving voice to underheard composers, and cultivating an ever-greater sense of openness toward contemporary classical music; funds will support fees for commissioned artists via JACK Studio + JACK Creative Fund.

Founded by jazz musician/educator Eli Yamin and teacher/writer Clifford Carlson, after identifying the need for youth-friendly jazz education programs in Uptown Manhattan, specifically vocal jazz, JPI’s music education and performance programs place jazz at the center of American culture and history; the grant will support operating support and new organizational development for Jazz Power Initiative.

Founded by choreographer Jeremy McQueen in 2016, The Black Iris Project (BIP) is a ballet collaborative and education vehicle which creates relevant classical and contemporary ballet works that celebrate diversity and Black history; funds will help choreographer Jeremy McQueen and composer Brian Nabors develop a new ballet entitled “Blood in the Soil”, examining the often complex intersectionality of Black Americans.

Juventas New Music Ensemble (Oliver Caplan, Artistic Director) is the only contemporary chamber group with a special focus on emerging voices; the grant will support Juventas's 2022-23 Season "Stories of Our Time," a musical journey, exploring some of today’s most critical social issues through the voices of emerging composers.

Khemia Ensemble is dedicated to reflecting broader perspectives in contemporary classical chamber music by presenting engaging performances, commissioning new works, and mentoring the next generation of musicians; funding will support 2022-23 season projects.

Funding will help Kronos, which approaches its 50th anniversary in 2023-24, continue to pursue creative collaborations and projects that foster connections between musical traditions and artistic genres, engage audiences and artists in new ways, and amplify the voices and concerns of marginalized or underrepresented communities.

Lampo supports artists working in new music, experimental sound, and other interdisciplinary practices; this award will provide vital assistance to commission and produce more ambitious and complex new work.

LPI aims to highlight freestyle dance and music voices under-recognized in the traditional performing arts landscape and to transform individuals’ relationship to music/dance while providing entertainment, building community, educating audiences in cultural history, and supporting emotional and social well-being; funds will support musicians’ engagement in LayeRhythm club and theater events.

Leela Institute, based in both SF and LA, was founded by senior disciples of legendary kathak master Pandit Chitresh Das, and is the only one of its kind Indian-American dance company; funds will support the development of our next original work and provide more platforms for our artistic output, and allow us to collaborate more deeply with composers and musicians who share our values, and whose work inspires us.

Life/Art Dance Ensemble is a Colorado-based modern dance company, support will allow Life/Art to commission works from emerging local artists, adequately compensate them, and provide a platform for their work to be experienced.

Live the Spirit Residency and its Englewood Jazz Festival are cultural anchors in Chicago's Englewood community, deeply rooted in and reflective of the rich artistic heritage of Black creative music in Chicago; funds will be put towards the 23rd annual Englewood Jazz Festival from September 14–17, 2022 and offers concerts, free all-ages jazz workshops, and a series of panel discussions.

The mission of LACO is to enrich and connect our community through intimate and transformative musical experiences that exemplify and foster artistic excellence, education and innovation.

Luna Composition Lab provides mentorship and performance opportunities to young composers who are female, non-binary or gender nonconforming. Funded by a New Music USA Partnership Grant.

The Michele Brangwen Dance Ensemble is an interdisciplinary performing ensemble of contemporary dance and music; funds will support our 2022-2023 Season of live performances and enable the creation and premiere of a new dance & music work entitled "The Faces Of Sun And Wind,” which will explore our ability to connect, both literally and poetically, to sources of renewable energy, like sun and wind.

Mivos Quartet is dedicated to advancing and performing new music in all its variety to diverse audiences worldwide; these funds will help commission and premiere diverse new music for string quartet, fund composition awards for emerging composers, and fund recordings of recent new works.

MIXTAPE is an artistic organization focused on dance theater and the professionalization without gatekeeping resources of the Twin Cities Hip Hop dance community; this grant will go toward paying artists a fair wage for their labor so that they can create work around social justice issues such as racial inequity, sexual violence, and climate change.

Music From The Sole is a tap dance and live music company that celebrates tap's Afro-diasporic roots, particularly its connections to Afro-Brazilian dance and music, and its lineage to forms like house dance and passinho (Brazilian funk); funds will strengthen focus as music creators, including preparing for recordings of recent works, and marketing ourselves to presenters who might not normally book a hybrid dance company/ band.

Musiqa is a non-profit organization dedicated to the performance of contemporary chamber music; funding from will help the organization fulfill a commitment to the creation of new work and support for composers at every stage in their careers and providing an essential platform for diverse voices from around the nation.

M³ was created to empower and elevate musicians of historically underrepresented gender identities in the US and worldwide through a new model of mentorship and an ongoing performance series of new collaborative commissions. With the aim of building new paradigms of mentorship, M³ celebrates a wide network of artists, providing a think tank for new ways to connect, collaborate, support and create.

The Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company is a rare Asian American woman led professional touring company with programs for educational settings, community organizations and mainstage venues; funds will be used to enhance the organization's capacity to coordinate among our music collaborators throughout the creative process.

Nameless Sound presents international, national, and local artists in the fields of experimental music, sound art, improvisation, and jazz; funds will go towards two concert series, the Creative Music Concert Series and the weekly They, Who Sound series, as well as guests artist engagements with youth in our Creative Music Communities program.

The New Mexico Contemporary Ensemble (NMCE) is an artistic collective that works to connect regional and international artists with New Mexico communities; funds will support their James Tenney Memorial Symposium and a new virtual collaboration.

The New York Kathak Festival is a nonprofit organization that presents and promotes dancers, scholars, and practitioners of Kathak, a classical dance tracing its origins to India; funds will support the creation of an original Indian classical score to be used across all programming, as well as support performances by Indian classical musicians at our upcoming concerts.

newEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble dedicates itself to commissioning and performing music of our time and providing listeners with unique and stimulating musical experiences that are rooted in artistic excellence and enhanced by educational opportunities.

nienteForte is a presenting series whose mission is to champion contemporary music in New Orleans by hosting residencies featuring world renowned new music ensembles, artists, and composers from around the globe; funds will contribute greatly to upcoming residencies.

Nimbus Arts Center bridges the gap between world-class performance and community engagement by presenting work that speaks to and elevates diverse audiences and producing annual new dance premieres that challenge audiences to reflect on today’s most pressing societal issues; funds will go towards the 22-23 season.

Omaha Under the Radar emerged from a desire to support innovative performers, arts educators, and creators living and working in Nebraska and throughout the Midwest, and to connect this community to audiences and artists throughout the US; funds will be used to support the 2022-23 Generator Series held at KANEKO, to increase staff support, and to increase the frequency of our SOUNDRY workshops.

Opera On Tap was created to promote opera as a viable, living and progressive art form and to support the developing artists who continue to keep the art form alive. Support from New Music USA will support Opera On Tap’s development activities in relation to our new music projects, including the Immersive Opera Project and New Brew.

Currently in its fourth decade, Orchestra 2001 has performed at Carnegie Hall, the Library of Congress, Phoenix’s Musical Instrument Museum, and more; funds will support artistic, production, and administrative expenses for three of Orchestra 2001’s signature series: EMERGING MARKETS, presenting concerts in local markets where Philadelphians work and shop; ¡CONEXIONES!, highlighting music by Latin American composers; and JOURNEYS: Classical Music from the African Diaspora.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process; funds will support concerts at Carnegie Hall, a national tour, the presentation of new music and expansion of repertoire for chamber orchestras through newly imagined arrangements.

Pathos Trio is a two percussion and piano trio committed to combining aesthetics of contemporary classical music with their interests in dark, heavy, dense sounds drawn from various genres of music, while also aiming to bring adventurous music to audiences through collaborations with young, living new music composers; funds will go toward general operating costs.

Through collaboration with local artists, PDC Works creates and presents multidisciplinary performances that entertain, intrigue, educate and inspire learning; support will be used to fund the performances of local musicians and dancers in "Take Root.”

Periapsis Music and Dance is a Brooklyn-based organization dedicated to cultivating a new collaborative repertoire between choreographers and composers; funding will support our administrative structure, which in turn will allow us to expand our programming and our artistic ambitions, offering more frequent performances and more opportunities for artists, and leading to a larger overall scale of activity.

Piano Spheres supports and encourages the composition, performance, and video production of major new works for the piano as well as rarely heard treasures from centuries past; funds will support the Leonard Stein Artist Residency for Historically Underrepresented Groups with resident artist Dr. William Chapman Nyaho.

PRISM Quartet seeks to place the saxophone in unexpected contexts, chart fresh musical territory, and to challenge, inspire, and move audiences with music from a diverse range of creators; PRISM will use funds to advance contemporary composers’ work through its concert series and label XAS Records, and provide educational + mentorship programs to aspiring artists from diverse backgrounds.

San Francisco Girls Chorus prepares girls and young women from diverse backgrounds for success, on stage and in life, through rigorous, empowering music education, and enriches Bay Area cultural life through innovative vocal performance; funding will support SFGC’s year-round music education programs for girls, young women, and gender-expansive youth, and commissions and performances of new music in the 2022-2023 concert season.

SJCO is a twenty-member professional string orchestra that champions living composers with a wide spectrum of ethnic and/or stylistic backgrounds; funds will support performance of new works during the 2022-23 season.

This funding will help Sandbox to prioritize the time we spend creating and exploring with our collaborators. Through initiatives like our Creator Mentorship Program, we are able to set aside time and resources for workshops with creators, documentation of the works we’ve created, and public presentations of this music for our community of listeners.

ShaLeigh Dance Works (SDW) is a nonprofit, dance-theatre company dedicated to inspiring people of all abilities, social backgrounds, cultures, and generations with the transformative power of dance; funds will support the 2023 new music program enVISION: The Next Chapter, which researches the perception of music and sound in the absence of vision and how access informs our creative process.

Sidra Bell Dance New York is an internationally recognized boutique brand of prolific movement illustrators based in NYC that presents and fosters a canon of innovative and progressive dance theater in realms of ideas, environs and (im)possibilities; funds will go toward a new creation with composer Dan Cooper for film.

With a mission that is to nurture and embrace a contemporary vision of Flamenco art in America, the funds will be utilized on finalizing the mixes of the tracks and the mastering of the whole album.

"The Skaneateles Festival is a summer music festival in Upstate New York; funds will support a new project called Freedom Sounds, for which the Festival will invite composers, performing artists, longtime and new listeners to consider a simple question with many answers: What does freedom sound like?"

Formed at the Yale School of Music in 1999 and based in Brooklyn since 2004, Sō Percussion has cultivated a unique repertoire that focused on American music - beginning with John Cage and exploring the rich diversity of today's musical culture; funds will be used to support scholarships and guest artist fees at our 2022 So Percussion Summer Institute.

staibdance is a contemporary dance company that embraces the development and performance of original work while equally nurturing creative impulses from our cultural community; funding will support a resident, experimental sound artist to create and develop an aural world which will bolster our newest, multi-disciplinary work titled ARARAT.

A community art space in Oakland, CA that supports experimental, community, and healing arts practices and provides the Bay Area with a “Room for Belonging” – a sanctuary space where non- binary and non-dominant ideas can flourish; funding will support the 25th season of TACmusic.

Talea Ensemble champions musical creativity, cultivates curious listeners, and brings visionary new works to life with vibrant performances that remain in the audience’s imagination long after a concert; funds will allow Talea to strengthen + build out the Talea Access Project and support creative ways to connect with its community outside of performance, such as the Open Forms podcast + discussion series.

The American Opera Project’s mission is to develop and present new and innovative works of lyric theater, provide a creative home to emerging and established artists, and engage contemporary communities in a transformative operatic experience; support will go towards artist fees for workshops of projects in AOP's opera-incubator, First Chance.

The Dream Unfinished is an activist orchestra and its mission is to use classical music as a platform to engage audiences in dialogues surrounding social and racial justice; funding will go directly towards supporting live performances.

The Fuse Factory is an art and technology initiative that facilitates practical and critical engagement with performance, sound and visual arts, high and low technologies, and new media; funds will go towards compensating the musicians participating in our Frequency Fridays 2022-2023 season, touring artist program, and our artist-in-residence program.

The Industry is an experimental company that expands the operatic form, bringing together interdisciplinary artists to create collaborative performances that authentically engage the cultural landscape of LA; funding will support its ambitious upcoming programming schedule.

The Lab gives significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented musicians and artists, and a site for interdisciplinary artistic production; funding will support performances and partnerships for experimental composers and musicians at The Lab in 2022–23.

The funds will assist in the production and performance of a new site-specific commission, Trouble the Water, which will premiere in August 2022 at the Fairmount Waterworks and then later in Fall 2022 at the Philadelphia Fringe Festival.

The West Kortright Centre is dedicated to excellence in the arts, featuring a diverse blend of world-class concerts, workshops, art exhibits, and community events; funds will support concert programming, bringing the very best and innovative American music to rural upstate New York.

Third Coast Percussion is a GRAMMY® Award-winning Chicago-based percussion quartet and GRAMMY®-nominated composer collective; support will strengthen TCP’s Currents Creative Partnership, a collaborative program for innovative music creators who are at the beginning of their careers, have less experience writing for percussion, or are expanding their creative work in new directions.

The mission of the Traverse City Dance Project is to produce and present professional dance in Northern Michigan and beyond; funds will be used in support of our NewVo Fellowship program, through which the Traverse City Dance Project commissions and facilitates new collaborative works between choreographers and composers.

Unison Arts offers opportunities to grow our creative community through innovative environmental, racial, and social justice-centered art practices, as well as exceptional exhibits and performance; funds will build and sustain community in the performing arts across the Hudson Valley.

Wildflower Composers (formerly the Young Women Composers Camp) aims to amplify the voices of female and gender-expansive composers and work toward a more equitable future for contemporary music; funds will support the expansion of 2022/2023 programming to include an in-person winter retreat for composers between the ages of 18 and 30, as well as virtual courses on specialized topics within composition such as film scoring.

The mission of World Arts West (WAW) is to support local artists sustaining diverse world music and dance traditions by providing needed services and performance opportunities while deepening the public’s support of and engagement with these inspiring culture bearers. 

WMI is dedicated to presenting the best in traditional as well as contemporary music and dance from around the globe; funding will support engaging artists to create kid-friendly free podcasts of improvised international folk tales underscored with musical interpretations and to pay innovative artists who advance and experiment with “world music” to perform live in NYC, highlighting WMI’s motto: Many Cultures – One World.

Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre (YSDT), founded in 2005 by Artistic Director Samar Haddad King in NYC, operates under the belief that art should be liberating, transformative, and accessible to all; funds will support operational expenses for the development of a new production featuring an original soundscore.

"YDC is a unique, tuition-free summer dance ensemble of New York City teenagers, dedicated to creating and performing their own original work; funding will support the collaboration between professional composers and YDC’s teen choreographers as they work together on the creation of original music and dance, to be presented in concerts throughout NYC, free and open to the public. "