Roulette Intermedium
Founded in 1978 as a laboratory and performance space where creative trailblazers and curious thinkers could share perspectives on current conversations, Roulette now presents 120+ performances of experimental music, movement, and media each year and hosts an additional 150+ community and rental events in its 12,000-sq-ft state-of-the-art theater in Downtown Brooklyn.
Qubit
Qubit's 14th annual season in New York will see the continuation of our Innovator Lab artist-in-residence series, as well as curated productions throughout the year.
Project [BLANK]
Project [BLANK] is a San Diego-based concert series and presenting organization that produces immersive, multi-disciplinary performances of chamber music and opera.
PRISM Quartet
PRISM Quartet’s Generate Music is a commissioning, performance, and recording project that explores the ties between Black and Jewish Americans, featuring world premieres and performances by David Krakauer, Diane Monroe, Ursula Rucker, Tyshawn Sorey, and Susan Watts, plus new works by Yotam Haber, Myra Melford, and Fred Wesley.
Portland Jazz Composers Ensemble
PJCE’s mission is to create and perform original jazz music that engages and supports our community’s diverse artists, cultures and place. PJCE envisions a vibrant jazz community where composers, performers, students and audiences create, see and hear their cultural experiences artistically expressed and represented in original jazz compositions and performance.
Peninsula Women's Chorus
The Peninsula Women’s Chorus is excited to present new music from our Composer-in-Residence program during the spring of 2024, featuring composer Theresa Wong, with support from New Music USA.
Parsons Dance
New Music USA support of Parsons Dance will support commissions by composer Michael Wall and choreographer Penny Saunders with live music for dance at 10 performances at The Joyce Theater in New York City.
Palaver Strings
Noisefloor is a unique collaboration between the musician-led ensemble, Palaver Strings and the contemporary dance collective, little house dance. In this interdisciplinary performance, twelve musicians and seven dancers join forces, premiering a new composition by Courtney Swain written specifically for choreography by Heather Stewart.
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra
Orpheus Chamber Orchestra is a radical experiment in musical democracy, proving for fifty years what happens when exceptional artists gather with total trust in each other and faith in the creative process.
Original Music Workshop d.b.a. National Sawdust
Living In the “In-Between” is a song cycle exploring what it means to live "in-between" ethnicities and cultures. It highlights the Asian American experiences as seen through the eyes of two Chinese American women artists - composer Vivian Fung and soprano Andrea Núñez with a libretto by Royce Vavrek.
NYC Winter Jazzfest
Since its founding in 2005, Winter Jazzfest has cemented its reputation as a hotbed of cultural discovery, presenting new and exciting sounds and scenes each January throughout New York.
ODC Theater
ODC Theater exists to empower and develop innovative artists. It participates in the creation of new works through commissioning, presenting, mentorship and space access; it develops informed, engaged and committed audiences; and advocates for the performing arts as an essential component to the economic and cultural development of our community.
Next Edge Arts, Inc.
The Next Festival supports early-career performers and composers via a two-week series of workshops, rehearsals, mentoring and performances. Collaborating with world class guest artists, Next Festival Fellows perform a program of 21st century music and engage with the community to advance the future of contemporary classical music.
Nava Dance Theatre
Nava Dance Theatre is a bharatanatyam dance company which uses the south Indian dance form to navigate place, identity, and politics through the lens of our lived experience.
Musiqa
Musiqa is a non-profit organization dedicated to the performance of contemporary chamber music. Over two decades, Musiqa has performed the works of nearly 300 living composers, including over seventy world premieres, commissioned new works by established and emerging composers, collaborated with hundreds of artists, and provided educational programs for tens of thousands of young people.
Motor City Sings
Motor City Sings uses musical performance and musical production to remove stigma from suicide prevention and mental health programs for audiences in Detroit, MI.
Mantra Percussion Inc.
This timely opera, composed by Annie Gosfield and directed by Ashley Tata, interprets the visionary ideology and enduring legacy of Emma Goldman — one of the most influential political activists in US history. In a driving, dramatic setting for vocalist and percussion ensemble, EMMA! evokes the power of community and the anarchic clatter of her times.
Luna Composition Lab
Funding from New Music USA will enable Luna Composition Lab to continue to provide mentorship and resources for young female, nonbinary, and gender-nonconforming composers in their 2023–24 season.
LED
LED is an award-winning arts organization that weaves signature contemporary choreography, original musical compositions, and elements of film into thought-provoking narratives and inspiring stories that are redefining the boundaries of performing arts.
Kronos Quartet
Kronos Performing Arts Association will commission a new work for Kronos Quartet from composer Trey Spruance as part of the KRONOS Five Decades Project.
Katha Dance Theatre
Katha Dance Theatre will present the world premiere of PRAKRITIR PRATISODH -- Nature’s Revenge! in November 2023 at the Twin Cities’ premiere dance venue, The Cowles Center. The production will showcase an original score composed by Vinod Krishnan of Atlanta, and choreography by master Kathak artist, Rita Mustaphi, of Minneapolis.
ISSUE Project Room
ISSUE presents projects by interdisciplinary artists that expand the boundaries of artistic practice and stimulate critical dialogue in the broader community. A leading incubator in NYC’s cultural ecology, ISSUE facilitates work that eludes audience expectations and is otherwise underrepresented within the field.
InfraSound
NYC-based InfraSound is redesigning the way experimental music is being heard and experienced through creative and thoughtful concert curation, commissions, and presentations of contemporary Western/European music.
Imani Winds Foundation
Imani Winds and Andy Akiho will collaborate to co-produce and record Andy Akiho’s BeLoud, BeLoved, BeLonging (2022), a 40-minute five-movement work for woodwind quintet and optional percussion commissioned by Imani Winds.
Hub New Music
Called "contemporary chamber trailblazers" by the Boston Globe, Hub New Music is a quartet of flute, clarinet, violin, and cello forging new ground in 21st century repertoire.
Heidi Duckler Dance
Heidi Duckler Dance (HDD) has commissioned NY-based composer Jessie Cox to create an original score for a new site-specific performance work, “Herald In and Examine Throughout,” premiering at the Herald Examiner Building in Los Angeles in Spring 2024. Cox’s score will be performed live alongside original choreography by Heidi Duckler.
HEAL Center for the Arts
HEAL Center for the Arts is committed to making quality arts programming accessible to all students, especially to those of urban communities.
Experiments in Opera
Experiments in Opera's 2023-2024 season will include new works in development with librettists, composers and designers looking to expand the boundaries of opera.
EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center
EMPAC / Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer partners with The Living Earth Show to commission and support the creation of a new music work by composer Raven Chacon and support the creation of a new music production led by composer M. Lamar. The partnership is organized by EMPAC music curator Amadeus Julian Regucera.
Dark Circles Contemporary Dance (DCCDUSA)
Dark Circles Contemporary Dance collaborates with composer Brandon Carson for "Ten-Gallon," premiering in October 2023 in El Paso, TX. Created and choreographed by Joshua L. Peugh, the work reimagines the Western genre, honoring the contributions of BIPOC and queer individuals in shaping the American West.
