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.
Either/Or Ensemble
Either/Or’s 2023-24 season features two major programming directions: expansive presentations featuring legacy African-American composers Leroy Jenkins and Talib Rasul Hakim and events featuring new and recent work developed in close collaboration with its creators including Diné/Navajo Nation composer Raven Chacon.
Earshot Jazz Society of Seattle
Since 1984 Earshot Jazz has presented thousands of one-of-a-kind concerts while balancing a variety of forward-thinking services to the community. It is distinctive for its long-view approach to nurturing the art form, support of its own community, and presenting creative artists from around the world.
Composers Now
Composers Now empowers all living composers, celebrates the diversity of their voices and honors the significance of their artistic contributions to the cultural fabric of society. It advocates for living composers through commissioning, mentoring and professional development initiatives, creative residencies, marketing, promotion, and forums for the expansion of composers' networks.
Cal Performances
Cal Performances will commission a major new work by composer Gabriella Smith for new music ensemble yMusic. The 40-minute piece for amplified ensemble integrates underwater field recordings and is inspired by ocean ecosystems from around the planet.
AXIS Dance Company
"Silenciosa Luna", will explore how we embed audio-description in choreography and music for a dance work without diminishing the artistic idea. "Silenciosa Luna" will be a 15 minute dance piece choreographed by Nadia Adame with 5 AXIS Company dancers and will include Alisa Rasera as a collaborator embedding audio-description within the performance and Kev Choice as the composer.
Audium Theater
Funding from New Music USA will help expand Audium’s artist residency and featured artist programs, which commission local Bay Area artists to create original works of spatial sound and new media.
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre
Yaa Samar! Dance Theatre is a multidisciplinary company of majority BIPOC artists presenting invigorating performance and education programs in the US and internationally, that increase access to- and promote understanding through - the arts.
Works & Process
Works & Process commissions performance piece “The Beatbox House,” following five beatboxers–world champions Amit Bhowmick, Chris Celiz, Neil “NaPoM” Meadows, Gene Shinozaki, and Kenny Urban, who unfold how their virtuosic, imagination-defying music, made by human mouths/bodies, encompasses the innovations, craft and expressions of generations of beatbox creators.
Treehouse Shakers
Treehouse Shakers creates original programming for babies to teens, which includes a NYC Season, touring, workshops and school programming. For the upcoming NYC season we will present The Deepest Breath, as part of our LGBTQIA+ initiative, Flutter for Babies, Sail Away for toddlers, and The Littlest Cove for ages 3-6.
The West Kortright Centre
Guided by both who is remembered and who is left out in a written history of a small rural NY village, artists Delaney Martin and Taylor Shepherd have conceived a site-specific performance that combines found sounds, rolling hills, converging roads, and singing traditions to celebrate and interrogate American identity.
The Merian Ensemble
The Merian Ensemble will use this grant to expand online presence and establish a website, publicize our 2023-2024 season and create a publicity template for future seasons, and streamline communication with supporters through regular newsletters.
The Leela Institute
The Leela Institute advances India’s rich artistic traditions by supporting the creation, development, and performance of cutting edge artistic works of kathak dance; providing comprehensive education in kathak for children, youth and adults; and engaging in strategic public activities to raise broad-based awareness of India’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.
The Lab
The Lab is a catalyst for artistic innovation, presenting over 60 performances with experimental American composers annually, while providing significant funding, time, and space to traditionally underrepresented musicians and artists.
The Crossing
The Crossing is a professional chamber choir conducted by Donald Nally and dedicated to new music. It is committed to working with creative teams to make and record new, substantial works for choir that explore and expand ways of writing, singing in, and listening to music for choir.
Sound Off: Music For Bail
Sound Off: Music for Bail is a dynamic collective of musicians, activists, and thinkers dedicated to raising money for abolitionist organizations and bail funds across the country, rethinking notions of public safety as they relate to real-life communities, and playing great music.
Silkroad
Funding will support the development of new music from Cecile McLorin Salvant and Suzanne Kite for American Railroad, Silkroad’s large-scale artistic initiative developed by Artistic Director Rhiannon Giddens that explores the cultures and communities behind the creation of the railroads in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
