People and Projects We’ve Funded

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

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Audio | Performance and Events | Recording | Small Ensemble

Song Sessions

Learning from the musical minds of whales

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art
Ear Taxi performers in a kaleidoscopic venue.
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Ear Taxi Festival 2021

Celebrating Chicago's vibrant new music community with performances across the city

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Recording

Arboreous Incantations

a recording of a new composition for three piccolos

Contemporary Classical
Performance and Events

Musical Fund Society Bicentennial

The Nation's Oldest Music Society Celebrates Philadelphia with Four New Works Performed by Curtis 20/21, Astral Artists, PRISM Qtet and NNM!

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP)

Native students study composition in an immersive experience, their original works premiered and recorded by professional ensembles.

Contemporary Classical
Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Recording

Pandora's Box

Commission and premiere score for silent film "Pandora's Box" by regional composer Erin O'Hara, giving voice to lead female, Louise Brooks.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Media Music
Four masked figures lay their hands upon a seated person
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

TILT

A live performance/construction site swirling movement, wood, live music, and tap dance into a visceral experience of a delusional brain.

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Not-So-Heavy Metals

Transducers, sheet metal, electronics, and improvisation in a display of sonic and visual playfulness

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
A marimba player hovers their mallets above the instrument
Audio | Film | Interdisciplinary | Recording | Video

Emma O'Halloran New Marimba Work Recording

Video recording project for Emma O'Halloran's new work for solo marimba and electronics by percussionist Adam Groh.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Theatre

Treehouse Shakers' The Boy Who Grew Flowers

The Boy Who Grew Flowers, is a thoughtful performance for young people, that follows Rink Bowagon who has truly spectacular gifts.

Contemporary Classical
An old photo of 5 people with the word
Community Connections | Performance and Events | Recording

Árabe

Middle Eastern immigrants have substantially influenced Mexican food, language, and architecture – but what about the music?

Contemporary Classical | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Latinx & Tejano
Audio | Recording

Traced Upon Cinders

Nina C. Young's debut portrait album with Ensemble Échappé on innova Recordings

Contemporary Classical
Musicians rehearse as fellows watch with their scores
Audio | Community Connections | Performance and Events | Recording | Video

CULTIVATE 2018 Emerging Composers' Institute

The Future is HERE!

Contemporary Classical
Performance and Events

20×2020

Kaleidoscope will commission 20 American composers for premieres in 2020.

Contemporary Classical
Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

New Commission by Allisonn Loggins-Hull

The Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra performs the world premiere of Allison Loggins-Hull's first orchestral composition in April 2020.

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Film | Interdisciplinary | Opera | Performance and Events

Dark Exhalation

A new multi-media opera that explores isolation, fragility, and kindness as unexpected connections blossom during a catastrophic solar storm

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental | Opera
Two dancers moving in synchronicity
Community Connections | Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

EPOCH

EPOCH is an extended-length performance with new music by Cheryl E. Leonard that challenges the glorification of acquisition and excess.

Contemporary Classical
Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

New Work for Wave Field Synthesis

An installation-performance of fragmented Renaissance polyphony, spatial audio, and video projection creating ephemeral architectural spaces

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
Community Connections | Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

Vivian Fung World Premiere

World-premiere trumpet concerto from award-winning composer Vivian Fung, written for trumpeter Mary Elizabeth Bowden.

Contemporary Classical
A solo dancer on a stage
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part

Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part is a new work by choreographer Kathy Westwater that explores pain and the body, including the pain of others.

Contemporary Classical
Musicians playing within the walls of an abandoned silo
Audio | Community Connections | Performance and Events | Place-Making / Space Activations | Recording | Small Ensemble | Video

Sounds from the Tank/New Music on the Plains

Sounds from The Tank and New Music on the Plains: new music for flute and percussion

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Performance and Events | Small Ensemble

World Premiere of Joel Thompson Work

The Grant Park Music Festival's Project Inclusion string quartet will world premiere a commissioned chamber work by composer Joel Thompson.

Contemporary Classical
Dancers in an expansive, calming field.
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Time forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures

French horn score to site-specific choreography, exploring tensions in classical ballet/modern dance, natural/unnatural, and past/present.

Contemporary Classical
A woman prays in a surreal, warm landscape
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Fires of Varanasi

The dancers’ feet trace the pilgrimage routes of Varanasi, embodying the millions who seek to re-write a living, sacred, internal geography.

Folk & Culture-Based Sound
Community Connections | Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

American Music Festival 2019

The American Music Festival: 47 new works including 24 world premieres, and 25 composers in residence.

Contemporary Classical
Five musicians play various cultural instruments on a stage with visual projections
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Emergence

Through an exploration of Alice Coltrane’s spiritual jazz, Emergence examines what it means to make American music right now.

Experimental | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Jazz
A warmly lit stage with four performers
Performance and Events

Connecticut Summerfest 2019

Connecticut Summerfest is a contemporary music festival that brings together talented emerging composers and inventive chamber ensembles.

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Edgefest 2019: OUT West

KCH 23rd annual Edgefest explores the rich contributions of West Coast artists/composers in the development of avant jazz & new music.

Contemporary Classical | Experimental | Jazz
Performance and Events

(Re)move

Austin artists ask the question "What is essential?" through a program of composed and choreographed "decluttering."

Contemporary Classical
A percussionist performs in an outdoor garden for an audience.
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Caramoor Presents John Luther Adams' songbirdsongs

Caramoor presents a free outdoor performance of John Luther Adams' seminal work as part of a weekend birdsong celebration.

Contemporary Classical