Big Mouth Society
Big Mouth Society is a member-supported community of all ages and backgrounds, founded by award-winning composer Emily Lau. Big Mouth Society embraces music as a catalyst for connection.
Albina Music Trust
Albina Music Trust is preserving North Portland’s music culture with programming that documents the Black community’s oral history, archival media, and special events.
Opera Theater Oregon
The mission of Opera Theater Oregon is to create, develop, and produce new operatic work, with an emphasis on projects that engage the community on issues of environment and social justice.
REBELWISE
REBELWISE is an artist collective committed to uplifting our people and our communities by delivering high-caliber videos and music with intentional lyricism and life-affirming values.
World Stage Theatre
World Stage Theatre is a nonprofit, multidisciplinary, interdisciplinary, all-ages arts organization committed to creating a culture where imagination, exploration, creativity, and growth thrive.
Third Angle New Music
Third Angle New Music leans into the experiential side of performances through cross-genre collaborations and intentional pairings of music with architecture.
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble commissions, performs, and releases new music created by Portland and Oregon-resident professional and student composers.
Montavilla Jazz
Montavilla Jazz promotes home-grown jazz in Portland, Oregon by providing unique opportunities for local artists to build an audience for their music through performance and teaching.
Fear No Music
Fear No Music promotes music education through the high-quality public performance of modern and contemporary classical music, and by offering groundbreaking youth mentorship in composition.
Resonance Ensemble
Resonance Ensemble, a professional vocal ensemble, creates powerful programs that promote meaningful social change.
Katherine Balch
Through the Amplifying Voices program, the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, New York Philharmonic, Ann Arbor Symphony, Erie Philharmonic, and Santa Rosa Symphony are proud to be collaborating with composer Katherine Balch.
Clarice Assad
Through the Amplifying Voices program, the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, the Chicago Sinfonietta, and ROCO are proud to co-commission composer Clarice Assad.
Nai-Ni Chen Dance Company, Inc.
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.
Ensemble Pi
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.
Copland House
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.
World Arts West
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.
Opera on Tap
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.
NewEar Contemporary Chamber Ensemble
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.
Coalition for African Americans in the Performing Arts (CAAPA)
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.
Orchestra 2001
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.
Impulse New Music Festival
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.
TAC Temescal Art Center
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.
The American Opera Project
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.
Musiqa
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.
Traverse City Dance Project
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.
The Industry
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.
Life/Art Dance Ensemble
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.
