Creative Music Studio
Creative Music Studio (AKA Creative Music Foundation, Inc.) will build community through new partnerships, presentations, and mentorship to young artists, particularly BIPOC, female, trans and genderqueer musicians/composers.
Contemporary Youth Orchestra
CYO will commission composer and photographer Dylan Trần to write a multi-movement, community-sourced, multi-media, photo-orchestral piece entitled "(in)halation: breathing/blooming together," bringing together two art forms wherein process and community involvement are key.
Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles
Chicxs Rockerxs South East Los Angeles (CRSELA) amplifies the voices of trans and gender expansive youth, girls, and artists from communities of color through music, mentorship and social justice to empower themselves and their communities.
CapitalBop
CapitalBop’s grassroots shows and festivals are known for their invigorating, cutting-edge artistry, energy, and fresh approaches to bringing audiences together. We build audiences and community around jazz, creative music and Black culture, recognizing each as a crucial part of D.C.’s contemporary and historic identities. CapitalBop documents the city’s vibrant jazz scene through its unique e-magazine and media platforms.
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
The Sound Art + Experimental Music Program is a specialized track embedded within Bemis Center’s international Residency Program, offering two- and three-month residencies to artists pushing the boundaries of sound, composition, voice, and music of all genres. Integral parts of the Sound Program include Bemis’s facilities for rehearsing and recording new work, and a music venue, LOW END.
Ananya Dance Theatre
Choreographer Ananya Chatterjea, with the BIPOC women and femme dancers of Ananya Dance Theatre, composer/musicians and guest collaborators, will create ANTARANGA: BETWEEN YOU AND ME, an original full-length transnational feminist contemporary dance theater work, in ADT’s tradition of social justice choreography.
ANIKAYA
ANIKAYA will use our New Music Organizational grant to support tour development for The Women Gather, a live music work made in collaboration with ANIKAYA artistic director Wendy Jehlen, composer Shaw Pong Liu and vocalist/creative artists Mali Shastri, Sutikshna Veeravali and Sam Whyte, along with an ensemble of dancers, along with touring for Conference of the Birds.
American Composers Orchestra
American Composers Orchestra supports new music through commissions, premieres, and EarShot composer advancement initiatives. ACO exists to expand the definition of American orchestral music to ensure an inclusive and vibrant future.
Kayla Briët
「追憶：catching memory」 is a multi-movement piece composed by Kayla Briët exploring the rupturing, re-retrieval, and re-weaving of memory as an act of hope. Created in collaboration with artists Denzel Boyd and Anissa Amalia.
Berta Moreno
“La Troupe” is a new jazz quartet composition blending contemporary jazz, world music, and Afro-Latin elements with effects and loops. The piece, written in collaboration with Maksim Perepelica, explores the concept of identity and the struggle of being yourself in a world that fears and rejects those who are “different.”
Badie Khaleghian
"The Sounds of Freedom" project will commission eight new compositions—four by Iranian composers in North America and four by composers in Iran—that will premiere at an Asia Society Texas Center event in January 2024.
Braxton Taylor
Field Service documents our DIY approach to organizing underground events in Summer of 2021, that celebrates culture on the ground floor.
Cary L. Morin
A collection of songs inspired by the famous Western painter Charlie Russell, and my life in Great Falls, Montana. “ Cary has created a body of work that goes far beyond what he set out to achieve, through the songs, I was able to visualize these unseen paintings with uncanny clarity and feel the powerful emotions that would surely be inspired were I to see Mr. Russell’s paintings firsthand.”
Charles Burnham
Pitch Rhythm Consciousness will record a song cycle the lyrics of which will be drawn from sutras, psalms and scriptures.
Colin McLaughlin
Northview is a new musical by Colin McLaughlin about people power, solidarity, and hope for change. A collaboration between some of the most accomplished theater makers and jazz musicians in St. Louis, this new work would not have been possible without the New Music Creator Fund.
DaEun Jung
Norri is an interdisciplinary group dance project that interlaces Korean folk dance steps, gestural movements, pansori (Korean folk opera) singing, odd meter rhythms, microtonal tunes, and electronic beats in a playful structure.
Danielle Jones – Tylynn
"You don't know the 1/2" is a nine song album detailing the journey of a young woman who learned to overcome obstacles she was faced with growing up in inner cities, triumphing over the trauma and using those lessons to inspire others.
David Leon
Led by saxophonist-composer, David Leon, and trumpeter-composer, Adam O’Farrill, Locomotive is a double trio of winds, guitars, and hand percussion creating an experimental sound rooted in a mix of folkloric musical traditions.
Ehsan Matoori
The Bright Voices is written based on the heartbreaking stories of women refugees; why they are forced to leave their homelands and what happens to them during this unbearable journey. The Bright Voices follows the tragic stories of two women refugees who lose their lives. Composed by: Ehsan Matoori Vocals: Maliheh Moradi, Mina Deris
Elisa Harkins and Kalyn Fay
"Rugged Boy" is a genre-blending electronic/country Cherokee language song by Elisa Harkins and Kalyn Fay that highlights Indigenous language and culture.
Emily Pinkerton
“Ephemera Ballads” is a chamber-folk song cycle that reimagines 18th and 19th century broadside ballads. Songwriter Emily Pinkerton will partner with fivebyfive chamber music to craft original songs in folk verse that explore bodily autonomy and gender equity.
Eric Kennedy
For Lisa, will be an original composition and music tribute in honor of my late wife and dear friend, Lisa Weems Kennedy.
Eunmi Ko
Meaning quiet, soft, and indistinct, MUTED is an interdisciplinary and autobiographical project by pianist Eunmi Ko who delves into her identity as an Asian woman –who is muted–and a professional musician by performing three solo piano works that extensively use the muting technique and theatrical effects.
Gabriel Globus-Hoenich
Members of People of Earth will collaborate to compose a 50 minute suite for 13 member timba band and string quartet.
Jacinta Clusellas
AZUL is a Latin American bilingual musical about artistry and the immigrant experience.
Jake Charkey
Rasika is a collection of music that explores hybridity, the overlapping spaces between Western music and Indian music, points of tension or commonality, and new ways of using Indian techniques and musical grammar.
John Hodian
“Songs from a Stranger” is a new collaborative project between John Hodian and several leading musical figures in the Armenian-American diaspora community to create, record and perform new work that embraces Armenian folk and spiritual music, new classical music, improvisation, jazz, and new technology.
Jonathan Suazo
RICANO is an Afro-Caribbean experience that presents themes of exploration, fusion, integration, community, and self-acceptance. The project shares and celebrates the coexistence of Afro Puerto Rican and Afro Dominican styles of music by bringing the audience into a cross cultural fusion container of Suazo's roots and many musical influences. Both of these traditions are beautiful in every way, they contain uplifting chants, captivating lyrics, as well as dance and improvisational elements that are deeply connected to the unique ancestry of each island (Puerto Rico and Dominican Republic).
