
Introducing Vanessa Reed, Our New President & CEO
Projects & Articles
Árabe
Grace And Mercy
City of Women
Ice Hours
Identity: Freedom
Randy Weston: Music Is Life Itself
Ellen Reid: More Than Sound
What the Optics of New Music say to Black Composers
Charlottesville & Citizen Artisty
An Open Letter From Your Autistic Colleague
Music Alive
Advocacy
Project Grants
organizers
Collaborators
SUPPORTERS
FY19 Unaudited Financials
BOARD OF DIRECTORS, PROGRAM COUNCIL, AND STAFF
Photo Credits
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I’m happy to introduce you to our brilliant new President and CEO, Vanessa Reed. During FY19, it was my honor to serve as Interim CEO, while also continuing as Director of Development. The projects, journalism, and programs you will read about are the result of the work my colleagues and I did during the past year, but most of all, they provide a window into the important work done by new music creators and collaborators across the United States. So I want to extend my thanks to all of our community, both for the beautiful work you do, and for the opportunity to serve our field.
— Deborah Steinglass
Vanessa Reed joined New Music USA on August 15th, 2019 as President and CEO following just over a decade with PRS Foundation, the UK’s leading funder of music and talent development. During her time at this specialist agency, Vanessa significantly increased support available to diverse music creators at critical stages in their careers and re-positioned the Foundation as an international advocate and go-to partner for major new music collaborations. Her leadership of strategy and outreach resulted in the launch of an array of transformational funding programs including the Momentum Music Fund, Women Make Music, Musicians in Residence China, and the New Music Biennial which help music creators of all backgrounds to realize their potential. More recently, she also founded, with European and Canadian partners, the award-winning international Keychange initiative which invests in female talent and raises awareness of the gender gap in music.
Vanessa has supported the music sector in a range of voluntary roles including as board member of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic where she chaired the organization’s diversity group, as Chair of Sound UK Arts, and as a board member of Protein Dance. Before joining PRS Foundation, Vanessa worked in various arts and policy development roles in Amsterdam, Brussels, and London. She began her career in the late ’90s at the British Music Information Centre which, like the American Music Center and Meet The Composer, merged with other UK organizations to form a joint service organization for new music.
Vanessa believes passionately in New Music USA’s national and international role as supporter, connector, and advocate for the whole new music community in the United States. She will be introducing new programs and ideas to further our national impact and to create more opportunities for composers, musicians and audiences of all backgrounds. Keep in touch with Vanessa here: @iamvanessareed
Árabe would not be possible without the support of New Music USA! I have been able to expand my artistry, seek out new collaborators in different disciplines than my own, and create a project that is truly representative of my musical and personal identity.
— Amanda Ekery
Fleeing the Ottoman Empire, Middle Eastern immigrants to Mexico in the early 20th century contributed significantly to the culture of their new home—including cuisine, language, architecture, and even music. Inspired by her family history and her experiences growing up in El Paso, Texas, vocalist and composer Amanda Ekery delves into the musical influences that those immigrants had on Northern Mexico, and composes a new piece based on her research to be performed and recorded by her 11-piece ensemble. Árabe will be performed and dedicated to the El Paso community over Thanksgiving weekend 2019.
Support from New Music USA allowed for the Fisher Center to present two beautiful and ambitious collaborations – Grace and Mercy – and bring the work of these incredible artists further into the community through free classes taught by Brown at the Fisher Center and other local venues.
— Gideon Lester, Artistic Director
Grace and Mercy—a two-part production by choreographer Ronald K. Brown and his Evidence dance company performed at the 2019 SummerScape Festival at the Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College—pairs Mercy, a new work featuring music composed and performed by singer-songwriter/bassist Meshell Ndegeocello, and a new staging of Grace, a work choreographed by Brown in 1999 for the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theatre featuring music by Duke Ellington, Roy Davis Jr., and Fela Anikulapo Kuti. The performances were the first time that the music for Grace was performed by a live musical group.
Funding from New Music USA enables historic institutions like the Gardner to collaborate with inspiring and bold new voices, helping bring historic art to life for contemporary audiences.
— Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
A multidisciplinary performance conceived and curated by Helga Davis, City of Women explored the stories of women, from Lucretia to Sandra Bland, whose lives and deaths inspired others to take action against tyranny. The production featured the world premiere of the new commission On Lucretia by poet and rapper Oompa, as well as the performances by singer/songwriter Be Steadwell, dancer Shellz, pianist/composer Courtney Bryan accompanying a chorus performing her work Yet Unheard (in memory of Sandra Bland), and Boston’s Handel & Haydn Young Women’s Chamber Choir. Each performance was interspersed with reading by Davis of works by various writers including Christine de Pizan, Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz, and others.
The final round of support we received from NMUSA allowed us to work in an incredible studio without feeling terribly rushed, resulting in high quality recordings which will allow the project to live on as an installation.
— Kristina Dutton
Inspired in part by the works of artists such as Ansel Adams and Thomas Moran that catalyzed the conservation movement, Ice Hours endeavors to explore humanity’s relationship to nature through six film vignettes edited together by film artist Kim Miskowicz featuring raw footage captured over ten years by National Geographic photographer Camille Seaman. Each vignette focuses on a particular aspect of Antarctica’s geography and is accompanied by a score by composer/ performers Kristina Dutton and Nathan Clevenger. Ice Hours premiered at San Francisco’s Exploratorium in March 2019 featuring performance of the score by live chamber ensemble, and was created in partnership with San Francisco’s Cinematheque.
The New Music USA grant not only directly supported the project’s lead artists, who are all well-established players in the vanguard of free jazz music, but also enabled two legendary downtown New York arts organizations to team together for the first time and present these multidisciplinary programs that celebrated improvisation and further enlightened our conceptions of social justice.
— The Kitchen
New York-based Arts for Art collaborated with presenting space The Kitchen to curate three evenings filled with multidisciplinary improvisation, each led by legendary free jazz artists Dave Burrell, Andrew Cyrille, and William Parker—Burrell with the latest incarnation of his continuing exploration of the Harlem Renaissance, featuring rhythm section, brass line, and two dancers; Cyrille with a new work in tribute to his Haitian ancestry for a quartet joined by additional musicians and poets; and a new multimedia work “tracing the de-evolution of humanity in America” by Parker featuring a film by the composer and cinematographer Michael Lucio-Sternbach.
We become one people when the music is right.
— Randy Weston
Frank J. Oteri interviewed Randy Weston in his Brooklyn home a short time before his death. They talked about a range of topics within the framework of his life, career, and artistic influences including jazz as African American classical music, his landmark 1960 suite Uhuru Africa, his extensive travel throughout the African continent, his 2012 magnum opus, African Nubian Suite, his musical philosophy, and the swing of Mother Nature.
Entire interview by Frank J. Oteri available on NewMusicbox at: newmusicusa.org/randy-weston-music-is-life-itself
The amount of people that it takes to make a work of art is enormous, but it’s usually credited to one person.
— Ellen Reid
We interviewed composer Ellen Reid before she won the 2019 Pulitzer Prize for her opera p r i s m. In this interview, she discusses with Frank J. Oteri the collaborative artistic process, and her career as a composer and sound artist for opera, theater, and film. The conversation takes a non-linear dive into her artistic path, from her first composition as an undergrad at Colombia, to the two and a half years she spent in Thailand studying Thai classical music, to her work for film and theater, to her thoughts on some of her upcoming projects.
Entire interview by Frank J. Oteri available on NewMusicbox at: newmusicusa.org/ellen-reid-more-than-sound
As a frequent attendee of new music events around the world, I often feel as though the presence of people who look like me is not wanted or is merely tolerated.
— Anthony R. Green
Anthony R. Green writes for change and action in the new music community when he brings forward a statement in the keynote speech at the 2018 New Music Gathering. The audience was asked to look around and see what the optics of the room said about what they wanted—based on the groups of people that were represented among the attendees, did it look like they wanted Black and brown artists to be in that space? In this article, Green presents the new music community with actionable steps: program music by Black composers, listen to music by Black composers, share your knowledge of Black composers, demand more of your musical sources, support (financially, professionally, emotionally) Black composers and those that program their music, and listen to Black composers when they express grievances.
Entire article available on NewMusicbox at: newmusicusa.org/what-the-optics-of-new-music-say-to-black-composers
Trite as it may sound, I believe music can make a difference.
— Cynthia Johnston Turner
In this NewMusicBox article, Cynthia Johnston Turner chronicles the collaborative experience of making art about injustice. In the wake of the events in Charlottesville, VA in August of 2017, and after many conversations between colleagues about race and injustice, Turner became involved with an in-progress project by composer Timothy Adams, a fellow professor at Hugh Hodgson School of Music. Turner writes about the powerful workshop performance of the piece, the experience of participating in and curating a night of “citizen-artistry,” and the future of the project.
Entire article available on NewMusicbox at: newmusicusa.org/charlottesville-and-citizen-artistry
Forget what you learned in elementary school; we are not all the same…[a]cknowledging our different realities isn’t a bad thing.
— Chrysanthe Tan
We believe in bringing forward issues that are on the minds of artists, in artists’ voices. Often these are also part of the wider public conversation. Chrysanthe Tan’s guide to increasing autistic accessibility for musicians and arts presenters breaks down the ways in which allistic (as in, not autistic) folks can make their events and spaces accessible to the autistic people in the new music community (and beyond!). In part one of this series, Tan provides readers with a basic primer on autism and how to treat autistic people. They cover the definitions of autistic and allistic, explain why people often prefer identity-first language over personfirst language, and advise readers to acknowledge the differences between autistic and allistic people’s realities, rather than brushing those differences under the rug.
Entire article available on NewMusicbox at: newmusicusa.org/an-open-letter-from-your-autistic-colleague
The 2018–2019 season marked the 20th anniversary of Music Alive, New Music USA’s composer-orchestra residency program that was administered in partnership with the League of American Orchestras. It was also the culminating year of a three-year cycle of the program that prioritized placing the composers at the center of the orchestra through collaborative work and immersive experiences for composers, orchestra musicians and artistic leadership, and community members.
Enabled by the generous lead support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the program embedded composers-in-residence in the culture and operations of orchestral life as a vital organizational member, with residency activities focused around three themes—workshopping, mentoring, and public access to the creative process.
The 2017–2019 Music Alive residency pairings were Lembit Beecher and the Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra; Anna Clyne and the Berkeley Symphony; Stacy Garrop and the Champaign- Urbana Symphony Orchestra; Hannibal Lokumbe and the Philadelphia Orchestra; and Theodore Wiprud and the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.
The resident composer designed their work to impact on communities in transformative ways. Highlights from the 2018-2019 season include:
Advocating for new music and the community of performers, composers, and appreciators who make up the field is at the heart of everything New Music USA does. In addition to our programs that advance the field, we participate in more traditional forms of advocacy in order to promote American new music both nationally and internationally. We represent the United States as members of the International Society for Contemporary Music (ISCM) and the International Association of Music Information Centres (IAMIC). Composer Advocate Frank J. Oteri has served on the ISCM Executive Committee since 2016, and was elected vice president in April 2019; he also serves on the IAMIC Board of Directors and is the chair of the Communications Committee.
New Music USA is a member of the Performing Arts Alliance, the national policy advocate, leadership forum, and learning network for America’s nonprofit performing arts organizations, artists, and allies. In this capacity, staff participated in the National Arts Action Summit and Arts Advocacy Day in Washington, D.C. in March 2019.
Over the past year, staff traveled all over the world to attend conferences, music festivals, new music reading sessions and advocate for new American music. The events include: the New Jersey Symphony Orchestra’s Edward T. Cone Composition Institute at Princeton University; the 2018 Cyprus New Music Festival; The Midwest Clinic; the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute; Chamber Music America’s National Conference; the American Choral Directors Association National Conference; the EarShot readings hosted by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra; the 2019 ISCM World Music Days in Tallinn, Estonia; and Classical:Next in Rotterdam, Netherlands
(Re)move
Austin, TX
2020 Women Composers Festival – Kate Soper; Gabriela Ortiz; Jessica Krash
Washington, DC
20×2020
Los Angeles, CA
A Few Kites: Music for Trumpet and Electronics Performed by Andy Kozar
New York, NY
Allentown Symphony Commission by Chris Theofanidis
Allentown, PA
American Music Festival 2019: Sing Out, New York!
Troy, NY
An Exploration of Age: Cheat Day’s Interdisciplinary Process and Performance
New York, NY
Árabe
El Paso, TX
Arboreous Incantations: a recording project for three piccolos
San Francisco, CA
Bora Yoon + Karmina Silec :: CHOREGIE Project
New York, NY
Boston New Music Festival 2020
Boston, MA
Breaking and Entering
New York, NY
Cantigas
New York, NY
Caramoor presents John Luther Adams’ songbirdsongs
Katonah, NY
Chasing Memories in ‘Choreograph’: new music inspired by the photographs of James Welling
Rochester, NY
Chris Dingman Trio: Embrace
New York, NY
Chunky in Heat
New York, NY
City of Women at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Composer Portrait: Oscar Bettison
New York, NY
Connecticut Summerfest 2019
West Hartford, CT
Cosmic Language
Jamaica, Queens
CULTIVATE 2018 Emerging Composers’ Institute
Mount Kisco and Cortlandt Manor, NY
DanceVisions Residency
Philadelphia, PA
Dark Exhalation
Providence, RI
Darling / Helen Simoneau & Mary Kouyoumdjian
Winston-Salem, NC
Ear Taxi Festival 2020
Chicago, IL
Echo Chamber: Interactive Sound Sculpture for Installation and Performance
Washington, DC
Edgefest 2019: OUT
West Ann Arbor, MI
El País Invisible (The Invisible Nation): Inspired by Political Invisibility, Sovereignty, and the Desire for Belonging
Iowa City, IA
Ellen West – World Premiere
Saratoga Springs, NY
Emergence
Detroit, MI
Emerging Artist Residencies
New York, NY
EMEWS to the East
Detroit, MI
Emma O’Halloran New Marimba Work Recording
Philadelphia, PA
Endless Shapes
New York, NY
EPOCH
San Francisco, CA
Everything Changes, Nothing Changes
New York, NY
Expanding Conventions: Quartet for 6
Fayetteville, AR
Fires of Varanasi
Minneapolis, MN
FIVE
New York, NY
GOAT Commissioning Project
Claremont, CA
Grace and Mercy
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Gullah Roots
New York, NY
Hollow Square
Brooklyn, NY
Ice Hours
San Francisco, CA
Identity: Freedom — Dave Burrell, Andrew Cyrille, William Parker, and others
New York, NY
IFRIQIYA
New York, NY
Ikaros
San Diego, CA
Imagine – Peace at Play
Tacoma/Puyallup, WA
In search of lost sounds
New York, NY
In the Brink – New Work for Bergamot Quartet + Percussion
Baltimore, MD
in the shelter of the fold / epilogue
Brooklyn, NY
Invisible Anatomy – Illumination
New York, NY
Last Audience
New York, NY
Leyla McCalla | Breaking the Thermometer to Hide the Fever
Durham, NC
Life in The Lower East Side, 1937-1950: A Live Soundtrack
Jamaica, VT
Listen to the Future: Inclusive and Equitable Orchestras
Chicago, IL
Margaret Bonds: The Ballad of the Brown King & Selected Songs
New York, NY
Meet Us Quickly With Your Mercy: Part 2 of the Decarceration Trilogy
San Francisco, CA
Mending Wall
Philadelphia, PA, Brooklyn, NY
Mind the Gap: Reflections on Beauty
New York, NY
Musical Fund Society Bicentennial: New Commissions from Tania León, Stephen Jaffe, Roberto Sierra, Augusta Read Thomas
Philadelphia, PA
Narrow Sea
Hudson, NY
Nashville Symphony Premiere at the League of American Orchestras Conference
Nashville, TN
National Park Centennial Commissions Commercial CD Recording
Allendale, MI
National String Project Consortium 20th Anniversary Virtual Concert
Multiple Locations
Native American Composer Apprentice Project (NACAP)
Navajo Nation
New Commission by Allison Loggins-Hull to be performed by Raleigh Civic Chamber Orchestra
Raleigh, NC
New Work for Wave Field Synthesis by Nina C. Young, Performed by the American Brass Quintet
Troy, NY
No Seasons: A Post-Climate Change Take on Vivaldi
New York, NY
Not-So-Heavy Metals
Cambridge, MA
Oratorio for the Earth-Kama: River of Stars
Laguna Beach, CA
Organism
Narrowsburg, NY
Ornithologies: Fuego Quartet and Visual Artist Juan Fontanive
Chicago, IL
Pandora’s Box – commission a film score to this classic silent film, premiere & repeat performances
Syracuse, NY
Presence: Stenberg|Cahill Duo & Pamela Z
San Francisco, CA
Pronoun Emergencies
Teaneck, NJ
Rambler, Worlds Worlds A Part
New York, NY
Re:Sound New Music Festival 2019
Cleveland, OH
Recognition
New York, NY
Recording of Commissions by Alvin Lucier & Jordan Dykstra
Middletown, CT
Red Prada
Greenville, SC
Scott Joplin’s Treemonisha
Stanford & San Francisco, CA
Shaamya – Of Equality
Minneapolis, MN
Shake the World
New York, NY
Song Sessions
Ithaca, NY
Sounds from the Tank and New Music on the Plains: New Music for Flute and Percussion from Katherine Bergman, Joshual Clausen, and Everette Minchew with a recording at The Tank. Rangely, C
spaceinitiative
New York, NY
Sprocket: A scrap metal sextet composed by Steve Snowden for reed quintet & rideable percussion bicycle
Detroit, MI
String Theory: Works for string orchestra/KINETIC + Pierre Jalbert
Houston, TX
The Buffalo Chamber Players record Caroline Mallonee’s String Tunes
Buffalo, NY
The Clarice presents Brooklyn Riders
College Park, MD
The Cutouts (Matisse)
New York, NY
The Dances Are For Us
New York, NY
The Female Gaze: New Works from George, Herbst, and Peacocke
New York, NY
The Francesca Harper Project collaborates with The D.O.M.E Experience
New York, NY
The Furies: An Opera for Laptop Orchestra (premiere of Act III)
Palo Alto, CA
The Lark Quartet: 30th Anniversary Album
New Rochelle, NY
The Solo Piano Works of Nathan Corder
Oakland, CA
The Sun Still Burns Here
Seattle, WA
Third Coast Percussion Residency
Harrisburg, PA
Three Rites: Happiness
Brooklyn, NY
TILT
New York, NY
Time forever dividing itself toward innumerable futures
New York, NY
Traced Upon Cinders
New York, NY
Transience: [Switch~] commissions Anna-Louise Walton
New York, NY
Treehouse Shakers’ The Boy Who Grew Flowers
New York, NY
Underway
Los Angeles, CA
Urdimbre y Trama/Warp and Weft
Miami, FL
Val Jeanty and Risha Rox: Ritual Merging
Brooklyn, NY
Vivian Fung World Premiere
Erie, PA
Woodstock historic site artists in residence: Soul Inscribed
Bethel, NY
World Premiere of Joel Thompson Work by Project Inclusion String Quartet at Grant Park Music Festival
Chicago, IL
YInMn Project
Atlanta, GA
{Trés}
Minneapolis, MN
a canary torsi |Yanira Castro
Brooklyn, NY
Aaron Ragsdale
Rangely, CO
Adam Groh
Sylva, NC
Ade Gee
Greenville, SC
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Detroit, MI
Alarm Will Sound
New York, NY
Albany Symphony
Albany, NY
Alexander Hyman
Seattle, WA
Allentown Symphony Association, Inc.
Allentown, PA
Amanda Ekery
El Paso, TX
Amber Vistein
Cambridge, MA
Andrew Kozar
Los Angeles, CA
Anne Hege
Kensington, CA
arx duo
New Haven, CT
Barry Sharp
Ithaca, NY
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Bethel, NY
Bora Yoon
New York, NY
Bridge Records
New Rochelle, NY
Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
Caroline Mallonee
Buffalo, NY
Cassidy Chey
Boston, MA
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Chicago, IL
Chris Dingman
Brooklyn, NY
Christy Funsch
San Francisco, CA
Claire Porter
Teaneck, NJ
Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project
Cleveland, OH
Connecticut Summerfest, Inc.
West Hartford, CT
Creative Music Studio
Woodstock, NY
David Clay Mettens
Chicago, IL
Deviant Septet
New York, NY
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Cambridge, MA
Doug Varone and Dancers (DOVA, Inc.)
New York, NY
Duke Performances
Durham, SC
Edisa Weeks
Brooklyn, NY
Editions Verde
Val Verde, CA
Elizabeth A. Baker
St Peters, FL
EMPAC – The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer
Troy, NY
Ensemble Échappé
New York, NY
Etienne Charles
East Lansing, MI
Experiments in Opera
Brooklyn, NY
fivebyfive
Rochester, NY
Flyaway Productions
San Francisco, CA
Grand Canyon Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble
Allendale, MI
Grant Park Music Festival
Chicago, IL
Hadar Ahuvia
Brooklyn, NY
Heidi Duckler Dance
Los Angeles, CA
Helen Simoneau
Winston-Salem, NC
Invisible Anatomy
New York, NY
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
J.D. Steele
Minneapolis, MN
JACK Quartet
New York, NY
Jane Rigler
Colorado Springs, CO
Jillian Flexner
New York, NY
Joo Won Park
Detroit, MI
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Boston, MA
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles, CA
Kate Stenberg
San Francisco, CA
Kathy Westwater
New York, NY
Katie Jacobson
New York, NY
Kerrytown Concert House
Ann Arbor, MI
Kristina Dutton
Berkeley, CA
Ledah Finck
Baltimore, MD
line upon line percussion
Austin, TX
LONGLEASH
New York, NY
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
New York, NY
Market Square Concerts
Harrisburg, PA
Molly Joyce
Pittsburgh, PA
Momenta Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
Music from Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Nadia Shpachenko
Claremont, CA
Nashville Symphony
Nashville, TN
Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis
New York, NY
National String Project Consortium
Watkins Glen, NY
New Music Chicago
Chicago, IL
New York Live Arts
New York, NY
Nimbus Dance Works
Jersey City, NJ
Ning Yu
New York, NY
Niurca Marquez
Miami, FL
Northwest Sinfonietta
Tacoma, WA
Opera Saratoga
Saratoga Springs, NY
Pamela Madsen
Laguna Beach, CA
Performance Garage
Philadelphia, PA
Periapsis Music and Dance
Brooklyn, NY
Pheeroan akLaff
Montclair, NJ
Pierre Jalbert
Houston, TX
PRISM Quartet, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA and New York, NY
PUBLIQuartet
New York, NY
Qubit
New York, NY
Racoco
Brooklyn, NY
Ragamala Dance Company
Minneapolis, MN
Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra
Raleigh, NC
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Roulette Intermedium
Brooklyn, NY
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Montclair, NJ
Sara Serpa
New York, NY
Silkroad
Boston, MA
Sō Percussion
Brooklyn, NY
Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
Stanford Live
Stanford, CA
Steve Weiser
Erie, PA
the [Switch~ Ensemble]
Brooklyn, NY
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
College Park, MD
The Dessoff Choirs, Inc.
New York, NY
The Francesca Harper Project
New York, NY
The Kitchen
New York, NY
Third Rail Projects
New York, NY
Tiffany Mills
Brooklyn, NY
Timothy Nelson
Washington, DC
Treehouse Shakers
New York, NY
Yacine Boulares
Brooklyn, NY
{Trés}
Minneapolis, MN
~Nois
Chicago, IL
a canary torsi | Yanira Castro
Brooklyn, NY
A’Lelia Bundles
Aaron Einbond
New York, NY
Aaron Jay Kernis
Aaron Johnson
Albany, CA
Aaron Ragsdale
Brookings, SD
Adam Groh
Sylva, NC
Adam Vidiksis
Philadelphia, PA
Ade Gee
Greenville, SC
Aeolus Quartet
New York, NY
Akropolis Reed Quintet
Detroit, MI
Alarm Will Sound
New York, NY
Albany Symphony
Albany, NY
Alec Hall
New York, NY
Alexander Hyman
Seattle, WA
Alexandra Gardner
Baltimore, MD
Aliana de la Guardia
Boston, MA
Allentown Symphony Association, Inc.
Allentown, PA
Allison Burke
Allison Loggins-Hull
Montclair, NJ
Alvin Lucier
Alyssa Weinberg
New York, NY
Amanda Ekery
Amanda Justice
Brooklyn, NY
Amber Vistein
Cambridge, MA
American Brass Quintet
New York, NY
Amirtha Kidambi
Queens, NY
Amiya Brown
Seattle, WA
Amy Tan
andPlay
New York, NY
Andrew Cyrille, Andrew J.S.
Andrew Kozar
New York, NY
Andrew Stoltz
Austin, TX
Andrew Waggoner
New York, NY
Angélica Negrón
Brooklyn, NY
Anna Weesner
Philadelphia, PA
Anna-Louise Walton
Anne Hege
Kensington, CA
Anne Leilehua Lanzilotti
Greeley, CO
Annika Socolofsky
Princeton, NJ
Anthony Vine
San Diego, CA
Aparna Ramaswamy
Minneapolis, MN
ArcoIris Sandoval
New York, NY
Areon Flutes
San Francisco, CA
Argus Quartet
New Haven, CT
Arts for Art
New York, NY
Arturo O’Farrill
arx duo
New Haven, CT
Ashley Bathgate
New York, NY
Aska Kaneko
Augusta Read Thomas
Chicago, IL
Aurie Hsu
Austin New Music Co-op
Austin, TX
Avi Amon
Brooklyn, NY
Ayanna Woods
Baba Israel
Bang on a Can
Brooklyn, NY
Barry Sharp
Benjamin Aron
Cambridge, MA
Benjamin Broening
Richmond, VA
Beth Morrison Projects
Brooklyn, NY
Bethel Woods Center for the Arts
Bethel, NY
Billy Martin
New York, NY
Bløm Meadworks
Bob Holman
Bobby Bradford
Los Angeles, CA
Bora Yoon
New York, NY
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Malden, MA
Boston Musica Viva
Boston, MA
Boston Opera Collaborative
Boston, MA
Brent Fariss
Austin, TX
Brian Balmages
Bridge Records
New Rochelle, NY
Brightwork New Music
Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Rider
Buffalo Chamber Players
Buffalo, NY
Camille Seaman, Caramoor Center for Music and the Arts, Inc.
Katonah, NY
Carlos Bandera
Caroline Mallonee
Buffalo, NY
Cassidy Chey
Boston, MA
Catalyst Quartet
New York, NY
Cedille Chicago, NFP
Chicago, IL
Cheryl Leonard
San Francisco, CA
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras
Chicago, IL
Chloe Perkes
Philadelphia, PA
Chris Dingman
Brooklyn, NY
Christopher Cerrone
Brooklyn, NY
Christopher Chandler
Richmond, VA
Christopher Farrell
Nashville, TN
Christopher Theofanidis
New Haven, CT
Christy Funsch
San Francisco, CA
Claire Porter
Teaneck, NJ
Clarice Assad
Chicago, IL
Cleveland Uncommon Sound Project
Cleveland, OH
Colton Dixon
Seattle, WA
Connecticut Summerfest, Inc.
West Hartford, CT
Contemporaneous
New York, NY
Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
Creative Music Studio
Woodstock, NY
Curtis Stewart
New York, NY
Dalit Warshaw
Forest Hills, NY
Danny Mekonnen
Boston, MA
Dave Burrell
David Biedenbender
East Lansing, MI
David Bird
New York, NY
David Brynjar Franzson
David Clay Mettens
Chicago, IL
David Coll
Oakland, CA
David Lang
New York, NY
David Lockington
David Sanford
Northampton, MA
Delaware Valley Arts Alliance
Narrowsburg, NY
Derek Bermel, Detroit Greenways Coalition
Detroit, MI
Detroit Riverfront Conservancy
Detroit, MI
Deviant Septet
New York, NY
Dinosaur Annex Music Ensemble
Cambridge, MA
Doug Varone and Dancers (DOVA, Inc.)
New York, NY
Duende
Philadelphia, PA
Duke Performances
Durham, NC
Duo Alterity
CT
Edisa Weeks
Brooklyn, NY
Editions Verde
Val Verde, CA
Elizabeth A. Baker
Saint Petersburg, FL
Emi Ferguson
New York, NY
Emily Bunning
Brooklyn, NY
Emma Griffin
New York, NY
Emma O’Halloran
Princeton, NJ
EMPAC – The Curtis R. Priem Experimental Media and Performing Arts Center at Rensselaer
Troy, NY
Ensemble Dal Niente
Chicago, IL
Ensemble Échappé
New York, NY
ensemble soundinitiative
Paris, FR
Eric Dyer
Eric Umble
Brooklyn, NY
Erin Bednarz
Erin O’Hara
Erin Rogers
New York, NY
Etienne Charles
East Lansing, MI
Everette Minchew, Experiments in Opera
Brooklyn, NY
Fivebyfive
Rochester, NY
Flyaway Productions
San Francisco, CA
Four/Ten Media
Fuego Quartet
Gabriel Cabezas
New York, NY
Gabriel Crouch
Gabriela Ortiz
Gabrielle Herbst
Brooklyn, NY
Gavin Reub
Ge Wang
Stanford, CA
Gemma Peacocke
Princeton, NJ
George Lewis
New York, NY
Grand Canyon Music Festival
Grand Canyon, AZ
Grand Valley State University New Music Ensemble
Allendale, MI
Grant Park Music Festival
Chicago, IL
Hadar Ahuvia
Brooklyn, NY
Hannah Lash
Hew Haven, CT
Harold Meltzer
New York, NY
Heather Cornell
Valley Cottage, NY
Heidi Duckler Dance
Los Angeles, CA
Helen Simoneau
Winston-Salem, NC
Helga Davis
New York, NY
Heloise Gold, Hub New Music
Boston, MA
Human Rights / Radio Haiti Archive | David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke University
Durham, NC
Ian Dicke
Los Angeles, CA
Innova Recordings
St. Paul, MN
Inscape Chamber Orchestra
Bethesda, MD
Invisible Anatomy
New York, NY
Irene Han
Isabel Lepanto-Gleicher
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Boston, MA
Isaiah Singer
Brooklyn, NY
J.D. Steele
Minneapolis, MN
JACK Quartet
New York, NY
Jacqueline Horner-Kwiatek
Jamaica Center for Arts and Learning
Jane Rigler
Colorado Springs, CO
Jannina Norpoth
Jason Cady
Queens, NY
Jason Thorpe Buchanan
San Francisco, CA
Jeff Herriott
Fort Atkinson, WI
Jennifer Zetlan
Jerron Herman
New York, NY
Jessica Krash
Washington, DC
Jessie Marino
Rome, IT
Jessie Montgomery
Jewlia Eisenberg
Jillian Flexner
New York, NY
Joel Thompson
Johan Svensson
Gothenburg, SE
John Dorhauer
Chicago, IL
Jon Anderson
Detroit, MI
Jonathan Bailey Holland
Boston, MA
Jonathan Howard Katz
Brooklyn, NY
Joo Won Park
Detroit, MI
Jordan Dykstra
Middletown, CT
Jorinde Keesmaat
Jose Luis de la Paz
Miami, FL
Joshua Clausen
Minneapolis, MN
Juan Fontanive
Juan Martinez
Julia Wolfe
New York, NY
Juri Seo
Princeton, NJ
Juventas New Music Ensemble
Boston, MA
Kaleidoscope Chamber Orchestra
Los Angeles, CA
Kamala Sankaram
Bronx, NY
Karl Berger
Woodstock, NY
Karmina Silec
Kate Soper
Kate Stenberg
CA
Kate Wallich
Seattle, WA
Katha Dance Theatre
Minneapolis/St. Paul, MN
Katherine Bergman
MN
Kathleen Maguire
San Francisco, CA
Kathy Couch
Northampton, MA
Kathy Westwater
New York, NY
Katie Jacobson
Keith Phares
Keith Witty
New York, NY
Ken Ueno
Berkeley, CA
Kenji Bunch
Portland, OR
Kerrytown Concert House
Ann Arbor, MI
Kim Miskowicz
Kinetic Ensemble
Houston, TX
Kiyoko McCrae
New Orleans, LA
Kristina Dutton
Berkeley, CA
Kyle Austin
Larry Ochs
Berkeley, CA
Laura Kaminsky
Bronx, NY
Lauren Cauley
New York, NY
Laurent Dubois
Durham, NC
Leaha Maria Villarreal
Los Angeles, CA
Ledah Finck
Baltimore, MD
Lesley Flanigan
Leyla McCalla
New Orleans, LA
Lidiya Yankovskaya
Chicago, IL
Liliya Ugay
Linda May Han Oh
New York, NY
line upon line percussion
Austin, TX
Lisa Mezzacappa
Berkeley, CA
Lisa Moore
New York, NY
LONGLEASH
New York, NY
Loren Loiacono
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Lu Wang
Providence, RI
Luke Damrosch
Boston, MA
Lynn Wright
M. Lamar
Marilyn Nonken
New York, NY
Mark Reigelman
Market Square Concerts
Martin Bresnick
Martyn Axe
New York, NY
Mary Elizabeth Bowden
Winston-Salem, SC
Mary Kouyoumdjian
Brooklyn, NY
Matthew Schumaker
Matthew Welch
New York, NY
Maxwell Dulaney
New Orleans, LA
Mazz Swift
Brooklyn, NY
Meera Dugal
New York, NY
Megan Arns
Columbia, MO
Melanie George
Meshell Ndegeocello
Michael Begay
Tuba City, AZ
Michael Joseph McQuilken
New York, NY
Miguel del Aguila
Seattle, WA
Miguel Zenon
New York, NY
Mike Hadreas
Mimi Jones
Molly Joyce
Pittsburgh, PA
Momenta Foundation, Inc.
New York, NY
Morgan Evans-Weiler
Malden, MA
Music from Copland House
Cortlandt Manor, NY
Musical Fund Society of Philadelphia
Philadelphia, PA
Myra Melford
Nadia Shpachenko
Claremont, CA
Nasheet Waits
Nashville Symphony
Nashville, TN
Nathan Clevenger
Oakland, CA
Nathan Corder
Nathan Lincoln-DeCusatis
New York, NY
Nathaniel Braddock
National String Project Consortium
Network for New Music
New Morse Code
Lawrence, KS
New Music Chicago
Chicago, IL
New York Live Arts
New York, NY
Nicholas Isherwood
Nicholas Revel
Nicholas Van Young
New York, NY
Nicole Mitchell
Los Angeles, CA
Nicole Pearce
Jackson Heights, NY
Nimbus Dance Works
Jersey City, NJ
Nina C. Young
New York, NY
Ning Yu
New York, NY
Niurca Marquez
Miami, FL
Noa Even
Cleveland, OH
Noelle McMurtry
Northwest Sinfonietta
Oktaven Audio
Yonkers, NY
Oompa
Boston, MA
Opera Saratoga
Saratoga Springs, NY
Oscar Bettison
Pacific Lutheran University Choral Union
Pam Tanowitz
Pamela Madsen
Laguna Beach, CA
Pamela Z
San Francisco, CA
Patricia Alessandrini
Paula Matthusen
Performance Garage
Philadelphia, PA
Periapsis Music and Dance
Brooklyn, NY
Peter Askim
Raleigh, NC
Peter Shin
Los Angeles, CA
Pheeroan akLaff
Montclair, NJ
Phil Taylor
Boulder, CO
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
Pierre Jalbert
Houston, TX
Preeti Vasudevan
New York, NY
PRISM Quartet, Inc.
New York, NY & Philadelphia, PA
PUBLIQuartet
New York, NY
Qubit
New York, NY
Quince Ensemble
Chicago, IL
Quinn Collins
Philadelphia, PA
Quintan Ana Wikswo Racoco
Brooklyn, NY
Ragamala Dance Company
Minneapolis, MN
Raleigh Civic Symphony and Chamber Orchestra
Raleigh, NC
Ranee Ramaswamy
Minneapolis, MN
Raven Chacon
Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts at Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Ricky Ian Gordon
Risha Rox
Rob Deemer
Fredonia, NY
Robert Jesselson
Robert Lydecker
Los Angeles, CA
Roberto Sierra
Camillus, NY
Ronald Brown
Roulette Intermedium
Brooklyn, NY
Ruairi Oneill
Rudresh Mahanthappa
Montclair, NJ
Ryan Ingebritsen
Chicago, IL
Sabrina Schroeder
Vancouver, CA
San Francisco Cinematheque
San Francisco, CA
Sandbox Percussion
Brooklyn, NY
Sandeep Das
Boston, MA
Sara Serpa
New York, NY
Sarah Cahill
Berkeley, CA
Sarah Thomas
Scott Worthington
Los Angeles, CA
Sean Hagerty
New York, NY
Shattered Glass Ensemble
New York, NY
Shauna Fallihee
Shelley Washington
Princeton, NJ
Sidney Chen
San Francisco, CA
Silkroad
Boston, MA
Sō Percussion
Brooklyn, NY
Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
Sophie Benn
Cleveland, OH
Sophie Till
Stanford Live
Stanford, CA
Stephan Moore
Chicago, IL
Stephanie Griffin
New York, NY
Stephen Jaffe
Steve Weiser
Steven Kemper
New Brunswick, NJ
Steven Snowden
Boston, MA
Susan Thomasson
Susanna Loewy
Philadelphia, PA
Tammy Yonce
Brookings, SD
Tania Leon
Ted Hearne
Los Angeles, CA
Terry Sweeney
New York, NY
the [Switch~ Ensemble]
Brooklyn, NY
The Boston New Music Initiative, Inc.
Boston, MA
The Canales Project
The Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center
College Park, MD
The Dessoff Choirs, Inc.
New York, NY
The Flea
New York, NY
The Francesca Harper Project
New York, NY
The Kitchen
New York, NY
The Lark Quartet
New York, NY
Theo Chandler
Third Coast Percussion
Chicago, IL
Third Rail Projects
New York, NY
Tiffany Mills
Brooklyn, NY
Tim Eriksen
Tim Keiper
Timothy Nelson
Toby Twining
Tom Flaherty
Claremont, CA
Tomeka Reid
Chicago, IL
Tony Arnold
Travis Weller
Austin, TX
Treehouse Shakers
New York, NY
Trevor Bumgarner
Los Angeles, CA
Tribeca New Music, Inc.
New York, NY
Tyshawn Sorey
Val Jeanty
Viet Cuong
Philadelphia, PA
Vinny Golia
Los Angeles, CA
Vivian Fung
San Jose, CA
Whitespace Gallery
Whitney George
Brooklyn, NY
William Hooker
New York, NY
William Parker
New York, NY
Yacine Boulares
Brooklyn, NY
Yoshiko Chuma
New York, NY
Yousif Sheronick
Tuckahoe, NY
Yuanyuan (Kay) He
Tucson, AZ
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Detroit, MI
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New York, NY
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on the Arts
NYC Department of
Cultural Affairs
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for the Arts
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John Luther Adams
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Daniel Asia
Martin Brody
Donald Crockett
Michael Daugherty
Orlando Jacinto Garcia
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John Harbison
Joel Harrison
Stephen Hartke
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Pierre Jalbert
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Lori Laitman
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Frank Proto
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Donald Walker
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Justus and Elizabeth Schlichting
Joseph A. and Nancy Meli Walker
John Adams and
Deborah O’Grady
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and Mr. Kenneth Davidson
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Barbara A. Petersen
Mr. Aaron Egigian
Dorothea Endicott
Daniel S. Godfrey
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James Kendrick
Ryan McNaughton
Ms. Gayle Morgan
Mr. and Ms. Linda and Stuart Nelson
Ms. Frances Richard
Mr. Paul J. Sperry
Matías Tarnopolsky
Mr. Samuel Adler
Mrs. Susan Bienkowski
and Mr. Wang Lee
Mr. John Bierbusse
NancyBell Coe
Reena Esmail
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Gail Wein Classical Music Communications, Inc.
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Anthony B. Creamer III
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Neva Pilgrim
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Alex Shapiro
Ms. Lucy A. Shelton
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Spencer Vidulich
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Dr. Nancy R. Bogen
Ms. Joanne Hubbard Cossa
Dr. Michael G. Cunningham
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John Harris
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Vivian Perlis
Amy and Robert Poster
Glenn Reed
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Louise K. Smith
Rand Steiger
Dawn Upshaw
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Gail Wein Classical Music
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Marya Martin
Phyllis Mills
Gayle Morgan
Barbara A. Petersen
Frances Richard
Esa-Pekka Salonen
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Steve Stucky, Founding Member In Memoriam
Steve Reich, Trustee Emeritus
Seth Boustead, Co-chair
Nathalie Joachim, Co-chair
Courtney Bryan
Sarah Cahill
Michael Ching
Paul Dresher
Jennifer Jolley
George Lewis
Jimmy Lopez
David Ludwig
Paula Matthusen
Meg Okura
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Madeline Bohm
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Eileen Mack
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Molly Sheridan
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Scott Winship
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Grace and Mercy performance
(Cover photos by Julieta Cervantes)
Syrian-Lebanese musicians performing at an event put on by the Syrian Ladies Club of El Paso
(Photo courtesy of Amanda Ekery)
Grace and Mercy performance
(Photo by Julieta Cervantes)
Oompa performing City of Women
(Photo by Sarah Whitling)
Nathan Clevinger at the piano
(Photo by Kristina Dutton)
Performance of Identity: Freedom
(Photo by Ian Douglas)
Randy Weston
(Photo by Molly Sheridan)
Ellen Reid
(Photo by Molly Sheridan)
Anthony R. Green
(Photo by Ben Semisch)
Connie Frigo (saxophone), Tim Adams (perccussion) and Cynthia Johnston Turner performing the first movement of Timothy K. Adams’s Charlottesville
(Photo courtesy of Cynthia Johnston Turner)
Chrysanthe Tan
(Photo courtesy of the artist)
Clockwise from bottom left: photo of Stacy Garrop by SnoStudios Photography, photo of Hannibal Lokumbe by Mark Winslett, photo of Lembit Beecher by Jamie Jung, photo of Anna Clyne by Javier Oddo, and photo of Theodore Wiprud by Rich Press