Wild Shore New Music
2026
Wild Shore New Music presents adventurous contemporary chamber music in Alaska, exploring how art engages with the natural world. Wild Shore incubates new collaborative work and partners with interdisciplinary artists across Alaska, celebrating Alaska-raised and Alaska-based creators. Wild Shore works alongside Alaskan communities to raise awareness of our nation's untouched land and help preserve the North for future generations.
Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra
2026
The Washington Heights Chamber Orchestra (WHCO) is a professional classical music ensemble composed of incredible musicians who regularly perform at Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall, and other prominent venues nationally and internationally. Our mission is to cultivate meaningful connections in Upper Manhattan with exemplary classical music performances and innovative educational programming, sharing our world-class artistry right in our own community.
Vermont Symphony Orchestra
2026
Established in 1934, The Vermont Symphony Orchestra’s 54 contracted instrumentalists and a volunteer chorus perform between 40-50 concerts statewide each year in concert halls, beautiful natural settings, and historic buildings. VSO’s Year-round education programs reach over 7,200 students, focusing on music composition, showcasing young artists in performance, and in-school residencies.
Unmanageable
2026
Unmanageable's mission is to mobilize resources and build power for independent artists engaged in social change work. Unmanageable supports mission-driven, community-responsive projects that aim to create a more compassionate and inclusive world through creative project management, producing, fundraising, fiscal sponsorship, and convening.
THE WORLD STAGE PERFORMANCE GALLERY
2026
The World Stage Performance Gallery (TWS) was founded in 1989 by late Jazz Drummer, Billy Higgins and Poet/Activist, Kamau Daaood as a non-profit performance arts gallery in Leimert Park Village, LA's African American cultural community. One of TWS’s innovative composers, Brian Hargrove, will be commissioned with New Music US funding, to create an original score for his Jazz Chamber Ensemble.
The Rising Artist Foundation
2026
The Rising Artist Foundation is an innovative 501(c)(3) nonprofit committed to bettering the lives and careers of emerging musicians from underrepresented communities. They offer educational, financial, creative and professional resources to ensure all American artists have equal access to a career in music.
The Queer Urban Orchestra (QUO)
2026
The Queer Urban Orchestra is the only LGBTQ+ orchestra in the northeast.
The New York Baroque Dance Company
2026
The New York Baroque Dance Company is leading force in the revival of 18th century ballet, challenging aesthetic conventions and bringing forgotten masterpieces to new audiences. Led by choreographer/stage director Julia Bengtsson and composer Doug Balliett, the Ovid Cantatas will reimagine Ovid's transformational myths through dance, shadowplay and original music.
The Jazz Gallery
2026
The Jazz Gallery is America’s premier performance venue for emerging artists who challenge convention, take creative risks and lead their field as performers, composers and thinkers.
Meredith Monk/The House Foundation for the Arts
2026
The House Foundation for the Arts is a nonprofit organization with a mission to cultivate cultural engagement through live music concerts, interdisciplinary performances, exhibitions and educational initiatives. The House Foundation develops, disseminates, promotes and preserves the work of iconic American artist Meredith Monk and members of Meredith Monk & Vocal Ensemble.
The Cedar Cultural Center
2026
Community-based and artist-led, The Cedar Cultural Center is a regional anchor for traditional, cutting-edge, new and experimental music from around the globe. Our mission to promote intercultural understanding is realized through our commitment to amplifying a diversity of artistic styles, voices and perspectives.
The Avalon Lounge
2026
The Avalon Lounge is a small venue and Korean restaurant/bar in the village of Catskill, NY, hosting a wide variety of local and national acts in the areas of experimental, ambient, noise, jazz, art-rock, punk, folk, and world music; as well as dance parties featuring DJs from the northeast's underground techno and house scenes.
TAK ensemble
2026
For TAK's 2026-2027 season, New Music USA's Organization Fund will support world premieres by Anahita Abbasi, Golnaz Shariatzadeh, Ann Cleare, Eric Wubbels, and Victoria Cheah in addition to 21 world premieres from collaboration with institutions. Additionally funds will be directed toward the inaugural TAK LAB, which will gather 26 participants for a week in upper Manhattan alongside guest faculty for exploration and experimentation. The season also includes festival engagements across Europe and the release of our latest record, "when the great fires were lit on the other side of the ocean"—a collaboration with Weston Olencki on Sweet Wreathe and TAK editions.
TAC Temescal Art Center
2026
Based in Oakland, Temescal Art Center (TAC) is a sanctuary for diverse expressions and ideas to flourish. TAC is a place rooted in belonging and a platform for cultural expression. TAC facilitates opportunities to explore and build identity for historically excluded artists, and to connect to the place they live, and the people they live with. Our TACmusic program supports the new music community through free workshops, commissioned performances, and an artists-in-residence program.
Synchromy
2026
Synchromy’s mission is to elevate underrepresented Los Angeles county-based composers and expand the scope of new music through commissions, collaborations, and community engagement. By reimagining what concerts look like, we reach out to adventurous new artists and audiences. You set the minimum to 50 words so I must add more here.
South Hudson Music Project
2026
Music is the healing force of the universe. It is a powerful language, but it is often expressed in dialects that keep us separate. By forging opportunities for artists and audiences to communicate, share, and explore through music, we can bring our community together to transform our world.
SOLI Chamber Ensemble
2026
SOLI Chamber Ensemble advances contemporary classical music in San Antonio, championing bold new works that speak to the complexities of 21st-century life. Through new commissions, pioneering collaborations, and immersive educational programs, SOLI cultivates a vibrant musical ecosystem where audiences, composers, and performers share in a living creative dialogue.
Soles of Duende
2026
“The Kitchen” is a full-evening dance and music work by Soles of Duende, bringing together Tap, Flamenco, Kathak, and live music in a communal kitchen where rhythm, gesture, and song become inherited languages across immigrant lineages. Through shifting scenes of cooking, gathering, and solitude, the piece transforms the kitchen into a site of survival, memory, and intergenerational transmission across cultures and difference.
Society for New Music
2026
Society for New Music is Central New York's home for bold and unexpected musical experiences--and the region's only organization solely dedicated to new music, living composers, and emerging artists.
Sō Percussion
2026
Sō Percussion is a leading percussion quartet and nonprofit organization that fosters, creates, and presents adventurous new work with a unique focus on collaboration. Fueled by a belief in the unifying power of music, Sō Percussion brings the joy, curiosity, and inherent connectivity of percussion in all its forms to an ever broader audience.
Siletz Bay Music Festival
2026
Siletz Bay Music Festival shares extraordinary musical experiences on the Central Oregon Coast, providing cultural enrichment through uplifting, world-class concert music. Inextricably linked to the wild, magical beauty of Oregon’s rugged coastline and its diverse population, the festival connects the community through thoughtfully designed programs of new and existing works.
Sequoia Ascension
2026
Sequoia Ascension is a community-centered organization dedicated to nurturing the holistic well-being of Black, Native American, and Afroindigenous people across the Southeast and Northeast coasts. Through our housing, dance, and wellness offerings, we intend to create spaces of belonging, self discovery, and joy.
RootStock Arts
2026
RootStock Arts is built on an artist-first philosophy, centering the voices and needs of Bay Area musicians and composers. We facilitate artist development opportunities and connect artists in a safe and equitable setting, so they can support and learn from each other while working toward career-artist sustainability. All programs are grounded in lived experience of career artists and shaped by ongoing dialogue within the artist community that we serve.
Roomful of Teeth
2026
Roomful of Teeth is a Grammy winning, genre-defying vocal group that explores and celebrates the potential of the human voice through adventurous music creation, performance, recording and education. By engaging collaboratively with composers, students and audiences from around the world, we seek to uplift and amplify all voices while creating and performing meaningful and adventurous music.
Rock Autism
2026
Rock Autism is a Buffalo-based nonprofit that empowers autistic and neurodiverse individuals through paid workforce training in music, filmmaking, and live event production. By providing hands-on industry experience, participants build technical skills, professional portfolios, and pathways to meaningful employment in the creative arts.
Rhizome DC
2026
Rhizome DC is a volunteer-driven community space dedicated to art, education, and community power. We provide a home for non-mainstream programming in DC's local artistic and cultural scene through new music, visual and performance art, experimental film/video, immersive theater, interactive installations, experimental poetry, creative workshops, youth programs, and more.
Renegade Opera
2026
Hailed as the “favorite little opera company in all of Oregon” (Oregon Arts Watch), Renegade Opera is focused on creating immersive and boundary-pushing works of music-theatre. Since 2020, Renegade has been committed to ethical producing practices, uplifting underrepresented voices, and institutional reform through multi-disciplinary collaboration.
Nurturing Original Voices in the Arts (NOVA)
2026
Nurturing Original Voices in the Arts (NOVA) is a nonprofit dedicated to developing and producing bold, original performing arts. Through works like Florence Foster Jenkins Schubertiade, Miss Bellas, and Las Hermanas, NOVA champions emerging artists, new voices, and innovative storytelling that connects communities through live performance.
North Dakota Museum of Art
2026
In its 34th season of chamber music, the North Dakota Museum of Art focuses on contemporary works by over a dozen 20th and 21st century composers, including a presentation of Angel Island Oratorio by Huang Ruo performed by the Del Sol Quartet. Each artist residency includes a formal concert in the museum gallery, a free concert at the public library, visits to K-12 classrooms and master classes with advanced student musicians.
New Performance Traditions
2026
New Performance Traditions is a hub for contemporary musicians, composers, and performing artists, providing facilities, tools, resources, and expertise to create, produce, perform, and record multidisciplinary works. Each year, we host more than 50 performances that challenge artistic boundaries and societal assumptions about culture, identity, and history in our community.
