People and Projects We’ve Funded

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

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9 people have a discussion over Zoom
Community Connections | Performance and Events

Project Beacon High School Composer Initiative

Working to identify and mentor high school composers with potential, and showcase their work through performance and recording.

Contemporary Classical
Colorfully dressed women stand in a line
Audio | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Recording | Video

BABA

A vocal-theater work inspired by “sworn virgins,” a disappearing social phenomenon of women living as men in remote Balkan highland regions.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Experimental | Folk & Culture-Based Sound
A conductor leads the orchestra
Community Connections | Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

Berkeley Symphony 50th Anniversary Fanfare

A musical tribute to Berkeley’s rich cultural heritage & celebrating the Berkeley Symphony’s 50th anniversary with a new work by Jimmy Lopez.

Contemporary Classical | Latinx & Tejano
Performance and Events | Small Ensemble

Their Own Voices: Stories of Migrant Women

The intersection of new music, the narratives of migrant women, and contemporary issues re-contextualized within electronic elements and live performance.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Latinx & Tejano
An audience gathers in front of a lake
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Recording | Small Ensemble | Video

Conversations with Whales

Conversations with Whales uses music, storytelling, and the mythical proportions of whale songs to grapple with climate change in the fastest-warming U.S. state.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art
Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Recording

Shaamya - Of Equality

“Of Equality, I sing: Where all barriers, differences among people have vanished.” A new dance work by JD Steele & Katha Dance Theatre.

Contemporary Classical | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Gospel | Jazz
Community Connections | Performance and Events | Recording

Gather Hear West Virginia

Pianist and actor travel around West Virginia with a piano in a van, inviting local residents to share stories on stage in live performance pieces.

Contemporary Classical | Electronic & Sound Art
Community Connections | Interdisciplinary | Performance and Events | Place-Making / Space Activations

Sprocket

A new work for the Akropolis Reed Quintet composed by Steven Snowden, Sprocket joins reed quintet and a rideable percussion bicycle.

Contemporary Classical | Experimental
Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

Blue

A new opera by Jeanine Tesori and Tazewell Thompson.

Contemporary Classical | Jazz | Opera
Community Connections | Large Ensemble | Performance and Events

Scott Joplin's Treemonisha

A creative team of black women composers and theater artists reimagines Scott Joplin’s visionary opera as a work reborn for our times.

Contemporary Classical | Experimental | Folk & Culture-Based Sound | Jazz | Opera
Present-Music Co-Artistic Directors

Time to Waterski

There's nothing this boat would rather do.

Can't Wait

I can't make out all the words you say — your sister just makes noises, like some sort of bird.