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Music Alive

Music Alive [Past Program] was a steward and partner in a multitude of projects that fostered strong working relationships between American orchestras and accomplished composers across the country.

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Music Alive

Music Alive [Past Program] was a steward and partner in a multitude of projects that fostered strong working relationships between American orchestras and accomplished composers across the country.

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Launched in 1999 as a joint program between Meet The Composer (now New Music USA) and the League of American Orchestras, Music Alive was a steward and partner in a multitude of projects that fostered strong working relationships between American orchestras and accomplished composers across the country. In its 20 years, the program supported 110 composers, 76 orchestras, and 114 distinct residencies.

MUSIC ALIVE: KEY OBJECTIVES

  • The composer-orchestra relationship is a vital symbiosis, with strong benefits for both partners and rich possibilities for enhancing an orchestra’s ability to deliver public value to its community.
  • Extended involvement between composers and orchestras including residency is a powerful structural tool to realize those benefits and possibilities.
  • A key goal for systemic change is to secure a vital role for living artists as key factors in the orchestral world of the future.

Music Alive was made possible through a lead grant from The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation with additional support from The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Francis Goelet Charitable Lead Trusts, The Amphion Foundation, and The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund.

Featured Music Alive Composers

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Anna Clyne

Berkeley Symphony 2016-2019

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Gabriela Lena Frank

Detroit Symphony Orchestra 2013-2016

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Hannibal Lokumbe

Philadelphia Orchestra 2016-2019

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Jerod Tate

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019

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Lembit Beecher

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2016-2019

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Stacy Garrop

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019

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Narong Prangcharoen

Pacific Symphony 2013-2016

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Sleeping Giant Collective

Albany Symphony 2013-2016

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Stella Sung

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance 2013-2016

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Trimpin

Seattle Symphony 2013-2016

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Theodore Wiprud

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2018-2019

Music Alive Program Participants

Aaron Jay Kernis

Seattle Symphony 2007-2008

Adolphus Hailstork

Albany Symphony 2000-2001

Alejandro Rutty

Springfield Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013

Alvin Singleton

American Composers Orchestra 2003-2004

Andreia Pinto-Correia

Berkeley Symphony 2009-2013

Andrew Norman

Boston Modern Orchestra Project 2011-2013

Anna Clyne

Berkeley Symphony 2016-2019

Annie Gosfield

Chautauqua Symphony 2014-2016

Anthony Davis

American Composers Orchestra 2003-2004

Augusta Read Thomas

Patel Conservatory Youth Orchestra 2007-2008, New Haven Symphony Orchestra 2009-2012

Avner Dorman

Stockton Symphony 2011-2013

Barbara Kolb

Greater Boston Youth Symphony 2001-2002

Belinda Reynolds

Denver Young Artists Orchestra 2007-2008

Bright Sheng

Seattle Symphony 2000-2001

Bun-Ching Lam

New Jersey Symphony 2005-2008

Carl Schimmel

Louisiana Philharmonic Orchestra 2014-2016

Carolyn Yarnell

Albany Symphony 2005-2008

Charles Coleman

Cincinnati Symphony 2006-2007

Chen Yi

Seattle Symphony 2003-2004, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2006-2009

Christopher Brubeck

Stockton Symphony 2004-2005, 2006-2007

Cindy McTee

National Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003

Clarice Assad

Boston Landmarks Orchestra 2014-2016

Clint Needham

Albany Symphony 2019-2013

Dan Coleman

Tucson Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003

Dan Visconti

Arkansas Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016

Daniel Bernard Roumain

Orchestra of St. Luke’s 2005-2006

Daniel Kellogg

Green Bay Symphony 2006-2009

Daniel Schnyder

Milwaukee Symphony 2000-2001

David Balakrishnan

Nashville Chamber Orchestra 2005-2008

David Dzubay

Green Bay Symphony 2005-2006

David Lang

Delaware Symphony 2006-2007

David Ludwig

Vermont Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004, 2006-2009

David Ott

Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra 2003-2004

Derek Bermel

Albany Symphony 2001-2002, Westchester Philharmonic, 2002-2003, American Composers Orchestra, 2006-2009

Derrick Spiva

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 2014-2016

Dorothy Chang

Albany Symphony 2003-2004, 2005-2008

Douglas J. Cuomo

Grant Park Music Festival 2014-2016

Edward Green

InterSchool Orchestras of New York 2004-2005

Eric Ewazen

Kalamazoo Symphony Orchestra 2006-2007

Fred Lerdahl

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2006-2009

Gabriel Kahane

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra 2011-2013

Gabriela Lena Frank

Seattle Symphony 2005-2006, Annapolis Symphony Orchestra 2011-2013 Detroit Symphony Orchestra 2013-2016

George Tsontakis

Albany Symphony 2005-2008, 2009-2012

Gregg Wramage

Chicago Modern Orchestra Project 2009-2013

Hannibal Lokumbe

The Philadelphia Orchestra 2016-2019

Harold Meltzer

Colonial Symphony 2007-2008

Ingram Marshall

Westchester Philharmonic 2002-2003

Howard Hersh

Music in the Mountains Orchestra 2001-2002

Jason Freeman

South Florida Youth Symphony 2009-2013

Jeffrey Mumford

Milwaukee Youth Symphony 2006-2007

Jennifer Higdon

Pittsburgh Symphony 2005-2006, The Philadelphia Orchestra 2007-2008, Green Bay Symphony 2006-2009

Jeremy Gill

Harrisburg Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003

Jerod Tate

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019

Jin Hi Kim

New Haven Symphony Orchestra 2009-2012

Jingjing Luo

Princeton Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016

Joan Tower

Utah Symphony 2005-2006

John B. Hedges

Richmond Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013

John Corigliano

Brooklyn Philharmonic 2007-2008

John Mackey

Greater Twin Cities Youth Symphonies (GTCYS) 2002-2003, Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005

Jonathan Bailey Holland

South Bend Symphony Orchestra 2002-2003

Judd Greenstein

Alabama Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013

Kate Soper

American Composers Orchestra 2009-2013

Kati Agocs

Music Foundation of Spartanburg 2009-2013

Kenji Bunch

Mobile Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004, 2005-2008

Kenneth Froelich

Cornell University Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013

Kevin Puts

Mobile Symphony Orchestra 2005-2008

Kristin Kuster

Cornell University Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013

Laura Schwendinger

Richmond Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016

Lee Hyla

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2006-2009

Lembit Beecher

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra 2016-2019

Lisa Bielawa

Boston Modern Orchestra Project 2006-2009

Lowell Lieberman

Evansville Philharmonic Orchestra 2009-2012

Mark Grey

Phoenix Symphony 2007-2008

Mason Bates

Mobile Symphony Orchestra 2005-2008, Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra 2011-2013

Melinda Wagner

Westchester Philharmonic 2002-2003

Michael Abels

Richmond Symphony Orchestra 2001-2002

Michael Daugherty

Colorado Symphony Association 2001-2002, West Shore Symphony 2005-2006, Pacific Symphony 2009-2012

Michael Gandolfi

Atlanta Symphony 2006-2007

Michael Schelle

Albuquerque Youth Symphony 2005-2006

Miguel del Aguila

New Mexico Symphony Orchestra 2005-2008

Missy Mazzoli

Westfield Symphony Orchestra 2009-2013, Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra 2014-2016

Naomi Sekiya

Berkeley Symphony 2003-2004

Narong Prangcharoen

Pacific Symphony 2013-2016

Osvaldo Golijov

Los Angeles Philharmonic 2000-2002

P. Q. Phan

American Composers Orchestra 2000-2001

Peter Child

Albany Symphony 2005-2008

Peter Schickele

Waterloo-Cedar Falls Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005

Philip Rothman

Eugene Symphony Orchestra Association 2004-2005, Green Bay Symphony 2006-2009

Pierre Jalbert

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra 2002-2003

Randall Woolf

String Orchestra of New York City 2007-2008, Fulcrum New Music Project 2009-2012

Rick Robinson

River Oaks Chamber Orchestra 2014-2016

Robert Livingston Aldridge

Westfield Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005

Robert Paterson

Vermont Youth Orchestra Association 2009-2012

Robert Sierra

The Philadelphia Orchestra 2000-2001, New Mexico Symphony Orchestra 2004-2005, Puerto Rico Symphony 2006-2007

Ruby Fulton

American Composers Orchestra 2009-2013

Samuel Jones

Meridian Symphony Orchestra 2003-2004

Sleeping Giant Collective

Albany Symphony 2013-2016

Stacy Garrop

Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra 2016-2019

Stella Sung

Dayton Performing Arts Alliance 2013-2016

Stephen Paulus

Annapolis Symphony Orchestra 2000-2001

Steven Stucky

Berkeley Symphony 2011-2013

Stewart Wallace

National Symphony Orchestra 2001-2002

Sumi Tonooka

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016

Takuma Itoh

Tucson Symphony Orchestra 2014-2016

Theodore Wiprud

South Dakota Symphony Orchestra 2018-2019

Tobias Picker

Westchester Philharmonic 2002-2003

Tod Machover

American Composers Orchestra 2001-2002

Tomas Svoboda

Helena Symphony 2002-2003

Trimpin

Seattle Symphony 2013-2016

Vivian Fung

San Jose Chamber Orchestra 2004-2005

William Kraft

San Diego Youth Symphony 2004-2005

Zhou Long

Seattle Symphony 2001-2002, Westfield Symphony 2006-2009

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