Next Jazz Legacy
Siya Charles
2026 | 2027
Trombonist, Composer, Arranger | Bandleader: Ingrid Jensen; Creative Mentor: Steve Davis
Next Jazz Legacy
Sequoia “REDWOOD” Snyder
2026 | 2027
Producer, Composer, Producer, Bandleader | Bandleader: Braxton Cook; Creative Mentor: Aneesa Strings
Next Jazz Legacy
Devon Gates
2026 | 2027
Bassist, Vocalist, Composer | Bandleader: Jason Moran; Creative Mentor: Dianne Reeves
Next Jazz Legacy
Destiny “Lé Queen” Diggs
2026 | 2027
Bassist, Bandleader, Composer | Bandleader: Jeff Watts; Creative Mentor: Cecile McLorin Salvant
Next Jazz Legacy
Allison Philips
2026 | 2027
Trumpeter, Bandleader, Composer | Bandleader: Allison Miller; Creative Mentor: Andrew Cyrille
Next Jazz Legacy
Alden Hellmuth
2026 | 2027
Saxophonist, Bandleader, Composer | Bandleader: Sylvie Courvoisier; Creative Mentor: Ingrid Laubrock
Next Jazz Legacy
Lily Finnegan
2026 | 2027
Drummer, Composer, Improviser, Organizer | Bandleader: Camae Ayewa; Creative Mentor: Marilyn Crispell
Monday Evening Concerts
2025 | 2026
Founded in 1939 by Peter Yates and Frances Mullen in their modest Rudolf Schindler-designed Silverlake home, Monday Evening Concerts (MEC) is the world's longest-running series devoted to contemporary music. Originally envisioned as a forum for displaced European emigrés and virtuoso Hollywood studio musicians to sink their teeth into the most challenging solo and chamber music of the day (such as the works of Charles Ives, Alexander Scriabin, Erik Satie, John Cage and Béla Bartók), MEC has blossomed its way to international acclaim for its presentation of demanding, uncompromising and poetically-charged music – whether new or ancient.
South Side Symphony
2025 | 2026
Dr. Marcus Norris founded South Side Symphony with the idea “What if orchestras didn’t exist, and were invented today by a young Black man?” He describes the sound as “like if Quincy Jones grew up on 90s R&B and Rap.”
Resonance Collective
2025 | 2026
The Resonance Collective inspires and nurtures collective spirit by expanding our understanding of sound and music as a mystical experience. We create interdisciplinary theatrical narratives based on spiritual transformation for our Original Works program. We curate music from traditions around the world in the Golden Thread Concert Series. We educate musicians during the annual N.E.O. Voice Festival.
Piano Spheres
2025 | 2026
Piano Spheres supports and encourages the composition and performance of major new works for the piano while, mentoring the next generation of emerging pianists. It enlarges the piano repertoire by commissioning new works and sustaining a concert series that focuses primarily on works by contemporary composers.
Oracle Egg
2025 | 2026
Oracle Egg is an artist-run incubator supporting new and ambitious work by both emerging and established artists in the field of experimental music and performance. Central to our mission is our residency series, which grants 3 to 7 day of unrestricted access to our downtown loft space to develop new, boundary-pushing work.
Laós Chamber Music
2025 | 2026
Laós Chamber Music is a local chamber music series offering free and public concerts in the San Gabriel Valley. Laós celebrates local musicians through musician-led curation and advocacy for the creation of new works by Los Angeles based composers.
DC6 Singers Collective
2025 | 2026
DC6 Singers Collective is a Los Angeles-based vocal ensemble that reimagines classic and contemporary music through gospel-inspired harmonies and cultural authenticity, creating transformative experiences that preserve Black musical traditions while advancing new sound.
Brightwork newmusic
2025 | 2026
Brightwork newmusic enlivens and expands contemporary classical music through performing cutting-edge works, presenting innovative programming, and mentoring the next generation of creative artists.
Bridge to Everywhere
2025 | 2026
Bridge to Everywhere creates transcultural musical experiences that bring together contemporary musical styles from around the world in fresh and innovative ways that reflect our globally interconnected lives. We encourage collaboration, inspire empathy and curiosity, and celebrate the richness of our shared human journeys.
Angel City Arts / Angel City Jazz Fest
2025 | 2026
Angel City Arts is a non-profit organization committed to cultivating and revitalizing jazz culture in Los Angeles by producing concerts by established and emerging music innovators who have brought forward a significant contribution to the evolution of jazz and improvised music.
Street Symphony
2025
Music as a catalyst for human connection: Street Symphony harnesses the power of music to cultivate transformative connections and relationships. Street Symphony engages communities affected by homelessness and incarceration in the Skid Row community of downtown Los Angeles through workshops and collaborative community events. Through the practice of citizen artistry and partnerships - our programs create pathways toward relationship, renewal, reentry, and recovery.
Company SBB
2025
Company SBB is a New York-based dance-theatre company that creates experiential work to interrogate contemporary and historical cultural symbolism - specifically, the relational interplay between our ancestral roots and perceived legitimacy, value, and rights. We use movement to express complex issues and create translational space to heighten the interconnectedness of our audiences. Company SBB lives in the borderlands between our multinational partnerships, where we blur our ethnic identities through immersive and physical theatre into emotional, visceral original works illuminating and unpacking cultural codes.
New Amsterdam Presents
2025
New Amsterdam Presents is a non-profit artist’s service organization dedicated to supporting the public’s engagement with new music that is fluid with regard to genre, form, or style. Together with New Amsterdam Records, our subsidiary record label, the combined organization (NewAm) is focused on the development, presentation, and promotion of new projects that wholly fulfill the vision and intention of their creators.
The Era Footwork Collection
2025
Lab Sessions is a dynamic Footwork pop-up event where attendees immerse themselves in the vibrant culture of Chicago Footwork. Through live DJ sets, high-energy battles, hands-on Footwork lessons (called “Labbing”), and powerful live performances, guests experience the music, movement, and history of this unique dance form. By the end of the night, participants leave not only entertained but also educated about the roots, evolution, and community impact of Chicago Footwork—making it more than a party, but a cultural exchange.
NobleMotion Dance
2025
Free Rein is a groundbreaking collaboration between music, dance, and neuroscience that explores the neural dynamics of creativity in real time and context. Blending both choreographed and improvised performance, the piece features musicians and dancers outfitted with MoBI (Mobile Brain Body Imaging) equipment, allowing researchers to capture brain activity during a live artistic performance.
NON:op Arts and Humanities
2025
NON:op Arts and Humanities creates experimental music and art experiences by and for all Chicagoans. NON:op projects are guided by a commitment to break artistic boundaries, to encourage active participation and dialogue among artists and audiences, and to create experiences that inspire individuals and groups to be curious in the face of complexity.
Opera Saratoga
2025
Opera Saratoga is one of the oldest performing arts institutions in the Capital Region, with a storied past of championing the premieres of new American operas. OS will present DRIFT by Alyssa Weinberg and J. Mae Barizo, a story touching on themes of motherhood, exile, and climate change, delving into the complexities of identity and nationhood.
