{"id":410490,"date":"2020-03-17T17:09:53","date_gmt":"2020-03-17T17:09:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newmusic.bfcsite.com\/?post_type=nmusa_news&p=410490"},"modified":"2021-09-14T11:04:35","modified_gmt":"2021-09-14T15:04:35","slug":"new-music-solidarity-fund","status":"publish","type":"nmusa_news","link":"https:\/\/newmusicusa.org\/newsroom\/new-music-solidarity-fund\/","title":{"rendered":"New Music Solidarity Fund"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Music Solidarity Fund completes fundraising with $508,000. The Fund has covered 1,016 $500 grants.<\/h2>\n

I really want to thank you all for what you are doing. This grant is an immense help to me in this really insecure time- everything has been so up and down these last few weeks and I’ve really been stressing out not knowing what’s going to happen next. This email made my day today and has given me some hope for the future. Thank you to every single one of you working at New Music USA and those of you on this committee. This means the world to me.<\/em> \u2014 Solidarity Fund Grant Recipient<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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The New Music Solidarity Fund, an\u202finitiative\u202fformed to grant emergency funding to musicians impacted by COVID-19, has concluded fundraising. At\u202f$508,000, the\u202fcompleted Fund has far exceeded its initial\u202f$100,000 goal, as well as its subsequent $500,000 goal; the Fund is now\u202fable to distribute emergency $500 grants to 1,016\u202fapplicants.<\/p>\n

The\u202fNew Music Solidarity Fund was made possible through the collective\u202fefforts of Marcos\u202fBalter, Julia Bullock, Claire Chase, Anthony Roth Costanzo, Du Yun, Reena Esmail, Judd Greenstein, Nico Muhly, Andrew Norman, Christian\u202fReif, Christopher Rountree, Caroline Shaw, Conrad Tao, Seth Parker Woods, and New Music USA. This group\u202fsought to extend help to less-secure individuals within their community.\u202fBeyond this emergency bridge fund, the organizers and contributors hope to lay the grounds for a new financial and cultural framework that ensures the stability of musicians in the new-music scene.\u202fThe New Music Solidarity Fund\u202fis administered through New Music USA, a 501c3 organization.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe future of our whole community depends on generosity, support and, compassion for those who are the most impacted by this global challenge,\u201d says Vanessa Reed, President and CEO of New Music USA. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor to manage this fund in collaboration with visionary composers and musicians who share this belief \u2013 with the support of longstanding foundational supporters, alongside the hundreds of music practitioners who have kindly donated to this cause.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many artists, including Marcos Balter, Claire Chase,\u202fSusie Ibarra, Jen Shyu,\u202fRebecca Sigel,\u202fNadia Sirota, Conrad Tao,\u202fand Third Coast Percussion, also\u202fraised money for the New Music Solidarity Fund by turning online concerts into fundraisers. Organizations such as\u202fthe\u202fOmniARTS Foundation and PARMA Recordings \u202falso raised funds independently through streaming events.<\/p>\n

The New Music Solidarity Fund would also like to thank Larry and Arlene Dunn<\/a>, who donated\u202fproceeds from a recent recording project to the Fund;\u202fand Son Lux, R. Andrew Lee, Ginevra Petrucci, and more who donated proceeds from their titles on Bandcamp; as well as Just a Theory Press and Matthew Kennedy’s proceeds from the Book 1 of Miniatures to this and other charities.<\/p>\n

<\/a>The New Music Solidarity Fund could not have achieved this goal without significant\u202fgenerosity from the nonprofit and music communities. In addition to the outpouring of support from individual donations, several like-minded organizations have diverted their funds into major gifts. These are The Aaron Copland Fund for Music<\/a>,\u00a0American Composers Forum<\/a>,\u00a0The Amphion Foundation<\/a>, \u00a0Boosey &\u00a0Hawkes,<\/a> a Concord Company<\/a>, Howard Gilman Foundation<\/a>, Loud\u00a0Hound Foundation, the\u00a0<\/span>New York Community Trust<\/a>, and the\u00a0Pacific Harmony Foundation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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New Music Solidarity Fund Collective<\/strong><\/p>\n

Marcos Balter
\nJulia Bullock
\nClaire Chase
\nAnthony Roth Costanzo
\nDu Yun
\nReena Esmail
\nJudd Greenstein
\nNico Muhly<\/div>\n
Andrew Norman
\nChristian Reif
\nChristopher Rountree
\nCaroline Shaw
\nConrad Tao
\nSeth Parker Woods<\/div>\n
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