People and Projects We’ve Funded

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

All
  • Project Type

  • Genre

  • Year

Two musicians with a violin and drum respectively look off into the distance
Audio | Community Connections | Performance and Events | Recording

Cosmic Language

Cosmic Language utters a resonant exchange of intuitive belonging. It invites distortion, ambiguity, and celebrates unfamiliar sound cells.

Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Jazz
Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra, posed in black & white
Audio | Performance and Events | Recording | Small Ensemble

Commissions by Alvin Lucier & Jordan Dykstra

New England-based ensemble Ordinary Affects will work with composers Alvin Lucier and Jordan Dykstra to record their new commissions.

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

Ornithologies

Fuego Quartet performs David Clay Mettens's "Ornithology S" in a gallery space alongside Juan Fontanive's whirring bird animation machines.

Contemporary Classical
A dancer holds another, overcast by deep, blue light
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Emerging Artist Residencies

Choreographers and composers develop and workshop new collaborative work

Contemporary Classical
Alarm Will Sound, surrounded by eclectic instrumetns
Audio | Performance and Events | Recording

Composer Portrait: Oscar Bettison

Alarm Will Sound records Oscar Bettison’s “Livre des Sauvages” and “Pale Icons of Night”

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Performance and Events | Recording

GOAT Commissioning Project

A diverse group of composers will write pieces for piano (with voice, toy piano, percussion, and electronics) that I will premiere, tour, and then record for my 4th commercially released CD.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art
Four performers play in a room outfitted with interesting lighting fixtures
Community Connections | Performance and Events | Place-Making / Space Activations

spaceinitiative

Qubit invites French ensemble soundinitiative to collaborate on a weekend-long festival of new site-specific performances and installations.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
Performance and Events

No Seasons

The Shattered Glass Ensemble and composer Trevor Bumgarner join to create a new post-climate change response to Vivaldi's "The Four Seasons"

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Recording

Red Prada

When seeking revenge, if you have someone there to jog your memory of the consequences, you are less likely to act on those thoughts.

Soul, Hip Hop, R&B
A woman presses herself against a wall as visuals are projected upon her
Audio | Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Recording

The Dances Are For Us

The Dances are for Us embodies a break from a Zionist cultural legacy by examining the construction of Israeli folk songs and dances.

Contemporary Classical | Folk & Culture-Based Sound
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Theatre

Urdimbre y Trama/Warp and Weft

Urdimbre y Trama (Warp and Weft) is a dialogue from and with the margin. We dance with what is hidden, silenced, and invisible as mestizas.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental | Latinx & Tejano
Community Connections | Dance | Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever

A music/film/dance project set to new music by Haitian-American singer-songwriter Leyla McCalla exploring the legacy of Radio Haiti

Contemporary Classical | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Latinx & Tejano
Dance | Interdisciplinary

Hollow Square

Samuel Pott and Tim Eriksen explore the spiritual threads which emanate through communal sound and movement-making.

Contemporary Classical
Dance | Interdisciplinary

Bora Yoon + Karmina Silec :: CHOREGIE Project

Multimedia choral songcycle based on recently discovered compendium of German and Bavarian fairy tales, drawing parallels w/ Asian mythology

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
5 musicians stand in front of a very colorful projection of lights
Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Theatre

Invisible Anatomy

Illumination weaves together new pieces by IA's five composer-performers with visual and theatrical elements by Michael McQuilken.

Contemporary Classical | Jazz | Musical Theater
Dance | Film | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

The Francesca Harper Project and the D.O.M.E Experience

The Francesca Harper Project performs with The D.O.M.E. Experience

Contemporary Classical | Jazz
Four percussionists perform with a lighting fixture surrounding them
Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Reclaimed Timber

Reimagined performances of Michael Gordon's "Timber" for percussion sextet, using materials from abandoned and vacant homes

Contemporary Classical
Dance | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

ATTIC

ATTIC is the follow-up to Girl Gods, which won two Bessie Awards in 2016: one for Outstanding Production and one for Visual Design.

Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Gather Hear Tour: Utah and Massachusetts

Miki travels with a piano to perform an audience participatory show in community gathering spaces.

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Recording

BLURRED ORIGINS: REDEFINING CULTURE THROUGH MUSIC

A new work for cello and piano that redefines cultural identity through the individual's experience

Contemporary Classical
Community Connections | Performance and Events | Small Ensemble

Celebrating 50 Years of the Rothko Chapel

Celebrating Rothko Chapel's 50th Anniversary

Contemporary Classical | Jazz
A large group of smiling kids with jazz instruments
Community Connections | Performance and Events

El Paso Jazz Girls Composers

50 girls meet on Monday, compose new music together Tuesday - Thursday, and perform their world premiere on Friday. Let’s do this!

Jazz
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Place-Making / Space Activations

Sound Garden

Performances, installations, and workshops inspiring the conservation of native plants

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental
A group of musicians stand in a forest
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Opera | Performance and Events

Mahakala, a Commission by Leila Adu

A multidisciplinary chamber opera, featuring two female soloists, responsive video art, and a 12-member ensemble.

Contemporary Classical | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Soul, Hip Hop, R&B
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Music for Refugees in Providence, RI

Syrian composer residency engages Syria’s culture, civil war and refugee crisis, creating a musical home for R.I.’s refugee community.

Contemporary Classical | Folk & Culture-Based Sound
Audio | Community Connections | Performance and Events | Recording | Video

2020 Young Women Composers Camp

The Young Women Composers Camp aims to amplify the voices of young female-identifying and non-binary composers, to allow them access to a high level of musical training, and to work towards a more equitable and diverse composition field.

Contemporary Classical
Audio | Recording

Seven Souls, or 164 Years

An interdisciplinary piece for string quartet and spoken word by Anthony Tidd

Contemporary Classical | Jazz | Soul, Hip Hop, R&B
An ivory horn in a musem exhibit
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events

Penn Museum Africa Galleries Commissions Hannibal Lokumbe

The world premiere of Hannibal Lokumbe’s commission of new music inspired by the Penn Museum’s Africa Galleries.

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

HOME

HOME is an examination of race and marginalization in the city of Philadelphia. This project will open space for conversations and solutions to the fear, anger and mistrust that cloud the present.

Contemporary Classical | Soul, Hip Hop, R&B
Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

Axis: Philadelphia

An explosion reverberates throughout a city's past and future.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art