Jeremy McQueen's Black Iris Project
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.
Art of the Matter Performance Foundation/Deborah Slater Dance Theater
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.
Sparks & Wiry Cries
Sparks & Wiry Cries curates opportunities for art song creators, performers, and scholars through innovative initiatives that capture the stories of our diverse communities.
José Limón Dance Foundation
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).
Copland House
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.
DC Jazz Festival
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.
Brooklyn Raga Massive
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.
Unison Arts
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.
New Music Gathering
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.
Harlem Stage
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.
Verdigris Ensemble
Verdigris Ensemble reshapes choral traditions, fusing diverse genres, innovative collaborations, and technology to craft immersive narratives that redefine the concert experience.
Creative Netwerk
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.
Trilogy an Opera Company
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.
La Donna Dance
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.
Beth Morrison Projects
HILDEGARD is a work about Saint Hildegard von Bingen (1098 - 1179), the first opera by composer/librettist Sarah Kirkland Snider.
Bang on a Can
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.
Ars Nova Workshop
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.
Wild Up
Wild Up is a contemporary music ensemble. We are committed to creating visceral, thought-provoking concerts and happenings.
VisionIntoArt
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.
Trinosophes Projects
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.
The Jazz Gallery
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)
ShaLeigh Dance Works
ShaLeigh Dance Works is a nonprofit, dance-theatre company dedicated to inspiring people of all abilities, social backgrounds, cultures, and generations with the transformative power of dance.
Ravinia Festival
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.
Pittsburgh Opera
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.
M³ – Mutual Mentorship for Musicians
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.
Music Kitchen - Food for the Soul
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.
Inversion Ensemble
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.
International Contemporary Ensemble
New Music USA supports the Ensemble's general operations in 2023-24, contributing to our ability to mount over 70 programs of adventurous music.
Flyaway Productions
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.
Elastic Arts Foundation
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.
