People and Projects We’ve Funded

Dive into the wealth of creativity we've supported all across the country.

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Two violinists facing each other while kneeling and playing
Performance and Events

Re:Sound New Music Festival 2019

The second annual Re:Sound Festival will traverse Cleveland, connecting regional and national artists with local audiences.

Contemporary Classical
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

MEET US QUICKLY WITH YOUR MERCY

A large scale public art performance bringing together Black and Jewish voices to explore issues of race and capture.

Contemporary Classical
Two people dance in front of an audience
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

The Cutouts (Matisse)

Inspired by the cut-outs of Matisse, this new work animates the combination of visual sound and sequence of physical form.

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Large Ensemble | Performance and Events | Recording

The Ballad of the Brown King & Selected Songs

The Dessoff Choirs records "The Ballad of the Brown King" by Margaret Bonds with soloists, choir and new orchestration by M. Merriweather.

Contemporary Classical
Four musicians, covering their faces with vibrantly colored percussion mallets
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Third Coast Percussion Residency

Market Square Concerts brings Grammy-winning Third Coast Percussion's "Perpetulum" and two educational programs to Harrisburg, PA.

Contemporary Classical
Five musicians stand in front of their laptops
Community Connections | Performance and Events

EMEWS to the East

A prominent Detroit electronic music ensemble plans to present free concerts and workshops in four cities

Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
An icy scene, reflected horizontally upon itself
Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Ice Hours

A multimedia concert experience inspired by footage of stunning Antarctic landscapes and the surrounding ocean.

Contemporary Classical
Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Life in the Lower East Side, 1937-1950

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Contemporary Classical | Jazz
An art gallery featuring fivebyfive musicians displayed on the wall
Performance and Events | Small Ensemble

It Can't Not Be Dance Music

Commissioning project between fivebyfive and The George Eastman Museum, with open rehearsals and a concert among the photographs

Contemporary Classical
picture of a person.
Dance | Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Val Jeanty and Risha Rox: Ritual Merging

A Merging of Sound and Human Painting - AfroElectronica + Corporealism - Reframing the Black Body and Inspiring Action

Experimental | Folk & Culture-Based Sound
Audio | Recording

Everything Changes, Nothing Changes

JACK Quartet's first self-curated multi-composer disc, "Everything Changes, Nothing Changes," music by Sabrina Schroeder and Tyshawn Sorey

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Recording

String Theory

Recording the string orchestra works of Pierre Jalbert

Contemporary Classical
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Darling

Vulnerability and intimacy subverted. Darling redirects assumptions about the correlations between strength, power, gender, and size.

Contemporary Classical | Experimental
Two dancers embrace each other in a window by an alleyway
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Opera | Performance and Events

Underway

Heidi Duckler Dance collaborates with composer Leaha Villarreal for a new dance opera under the 7th St Bridge above the Los Angeles River.

Contemporary Classical | Opera
Yacine smiles off into the distance
Audio | Recording

IFRIQIYA

An exploration of the African roots of Tunisian music with a hybrid ensemble mixing a Jazz quartet and traditional Tunisian percussions.

Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Jazz
Performers and audience fill a dim room with pops of electric lighting
Dance | Film | Interdisciplinary | Opera

FIVE

An interdisciplinary project rooted in the vogue dance style, created by the multi-dimensional artist Rashaad Newsome.

Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental | Gospel | Opera | Soul, Hip Hop, R&B
A person with an inflatable pool ring sits by a staged pool
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Opera | Performance and Events

Chunky in Heat

Six composers collaborate on a new opera that tells a shared family history through different musical and storytelling perspectives.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental | Opera
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Breaking and Entering

Debut evening-length collaboration between disabled artists Jerron Herman and Molly Joyce, exploring the potential of physical immobility.

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Recording

The Lark Quartet: 30th Anniversary Album

An album to celebrate the thirtieth anniversary of a groundbreaking quartet!

Contemporary Classical
A woman sings with her shadow cast upon the wall
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Opera | Performance and Events

ELLEN WEST - WORLD PREMIERE

Opera Saratoga presents the World Premiere of ELLEN WEST, by Ricky Ian Gordon and Frank Bidart

Contemporary Classical | Opera
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Place-Making / Space Activations

Ikaros

A experiential collection of dreams, myth, and audience-centered narrative, framed as an "audio tour" of a former naval base.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art
Performance and Events

2020 Women Composers Festival

A festival of new operas and staged vocal works by living female composers including Kate Soper, Gabriela Ortiz, and Jessica Krash.

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Last Audience

"Last Audience," commissioned by NY Live Arts, is an immersive performance where audience members are invited to build and embody the work.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
Audio | Dance | Interdisciplinary | Recording

GULLAH ROOTS

Telling the untold stories of the fascinating Gullah Culture through music.

Jazz
So Percussion and Caroline Shaw pose in front of a grey background
Recording

Narrow Sea

So Percussion, Dawn Upshaw, and Gil Kalish seek funds to complete a recording of Caroline Shaw's 'Narrow Sea' (2017)

Contemporary Classical
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

in the shelter of the fold / epilogue

NYC Premiere of "in the shelter of the fold / epilogue," with live music by Bang on a Can All-stars, Lesley Flanigan, and PUBLIQuartet.

Contemporary Classical
Demarre and Anthony McGill perform as concerto soloists
Performance and Events | Recording

Listen to the Future

Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras promotes diversity and inclusion in orchestras through performances, a panel discussion, and recording.

Contemporary Classical
Mind the Gap, Reflections on Beauty
Interdisciplinary

MIND THE GAP: Reflections on Beauty

Creating a musical story of Madam C.J. Walker and the strong communities she fostered in America at the turn of the 20th century.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Gospel | Jazz | Opera
Audience members gathered in a large, green forest.
Audio | Recording

National Park Centennial Commissions Commercial CD Recording

Studio recording and commercial CD release of commissions in celebration of the National Park Service Centennial

Contemporary Classical
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Not then, not yet

“Endless Shapes”, premiering at The Flea, joins together choreographer Tiffany Mills, composer Angelica Negron, and vocalist Muriel Louveau.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art