2006 Grant Awards: Access to Artistic Excellence

[ March 14, 2005 deadline ]

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Some details of the projects listed below are subject to change, contingent upon prior Endowment approval.

Music

Albany Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
Albany, NY
$25,000
To support the American Music Festival. The month-long celebration of American music will include a salute to film composer Bernard Herrmann (1911-1975), best known for classics such as Psycho and Taxi Driver. The observance also features the commissioning and presentation of 28 new works by American composers including Todd Levin, Dorothy Chang, and James Matheson.

American Bach Soloists
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support a series of performances of choral works by 16th- and 17th-century English composers, including William Byrd, Orlando Gibbons, and Henry Purcell. The series, to be recorded for radio broadcast, will include pre-concert lectures by local musicologists, and educational outreach to area public school music students.

American Composers Forum
St. Paul, MN
$30,000
To support Alive and Composing in the 21st-Century, a series of three conferences on the art and business of being a composer, each with panel discussions, performances, and workshops broadcast live over the Internet. The conferences will be held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, Los Angeles, California, and Boston, Massachusetts.

American Composers Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the Emerging Composers Program, featuring commissioning and performances of new works by early- to mid-career American composers including Paul Yeon Lee and Derek Bermel. Additionally, two reading sessions will provide up to eight composers with rehearsal time, readings of their work, and professional coaching.

American Guild of Organists
New York, NY
$20,000
To support the creation and presentation of new works for organ and chorus. Composers, including Emily Porter and Frank Ferko, will discuss their new works, to premiere at the 48th biennial American Guild of Organists National Convention. Performances also will be broadcast on the Minnesota Public Radio program Pipedreams.

American Music Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support career development workshops for composers, performers, and other music professionals. The sessions will be held in up to six cities, such as Atlanta, Houston, and Miami. These two-day workshops will include topics such as copyright, licensing, commission contracting, publishing, marketing, and professional score development.

American Symphony Orchestra League
New York, NY
$140,000
To support learning exchange services designed to foster better leadership and community outreach for nearly 1,000 member orchestras of every size in all 50 states. The League will enhance communications tools for the orchestra community and share best-practice models at field-wide forums and an annual national conference for more than 1,200 participants.

American Symphony Orchestra, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of U.S. premieres of rarely performed works by established composers. Among those featured is Alexander Dargomyzhsky's opera The Stone Guest, based on Pushkin's play by the same name. Free educational activities will include pre-concert talks by composer-in-residence Richard Wilson, symposia, chamber recitals, and seminars at area high schools.

Arts for Art, Inc. (Vision Festival)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the 11th annual Vision Festival at the Clemente Soto Velez Cultural Center in New York City. The week-long jazz festival will focus on avant jazz, a movement closely related to free jazz, which counts three NEA Jazz Masters -- Cecil Taylor, Ornette Colenam, and Sun Ra -- among its founders.

Astral Artistic Services (Astral)
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support a series of solo recital debut concerts in Philadelphia. The series will include debuts by violinist Ayano Ninomiya, harpist and 2004 Avery Fisher Career Grant winner Bridget Kibbey, saxophonist Doug O'Connor, and prize-winning clarinetist José Franch-Ballester.

Baltimore Choral Arts Society, Inc.
Baltimore, MD
$18,000
To support a performance of Ernest Bloch's Sacred Service at Beth El Synagogue in Baltimore. The program will include a performance for area students, a pre-concert lecture on the work's historic and liturgical significance, and a recording of the performance for radio broadcast.

Bard College (on behalf of Bard Music Festival)
Annandale-Hudson, NY
$10,000
To support the Bard Music Festival. The festival will explore the music of Franz Liszt and his contemporaries by presenting a range of musical forms including piano music, symphonies and symphonic poems, concerti, and choral music.

Berkeley Symphony Orchestra (BSO)
Berkeley, CA
$20,000
To support Europe Meets America. Two concerts and related educational programs will combine the symphonies of Robert Schumann with performances of new works presented by the Center for New Music and Audio Technologies (CNMAT) at the University of California Berkeley (UC Berkeley).

Boston Baroque, Inc.
Belmont, MA
$7,500
To support performances of Requiem in C Minor (1815) by Maria Luigi Cherubini. This work was performed at the funeral of Beethoven, who regarded Cherubini as "Europe's foremost dramatic composer." The performances, using early music period instruments, will take place at the New England Conservatory in Boston.

Boston Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (BSO)
Boston, MA
$75,000
To support concerts and educational activities celebrating the works of Ludwig van Beethoven and Arnold Schoenberg, focusing on the composers' dramatic stylistic transformations as their careers progressed. Plans include 19 concerts of six different programs, pre-concert lectures, a multi-media exhibit from the Arnold Schoenberg Center in Vienna, and scholarly symposia.

Bravo! Colorado at Vail-Beaver Creek (Bravo!Vail Valley Music Festival)
Vail, CO
$15,000
To support the 19th annual Vail Valley Music Festival, which will feature chamber and orchestral concerts, a commissioned work, open rehearsals, public workshops, and educational outreach concerts. Three orchestras will be in residence during the festival, including the Dallas Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic, and the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra.

Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra Society, Inc. (Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra)
Buffalo, NY
$20,000
To support semi-staged performances of Shining Brow, an opera with music by Daron Hagen and libretto by Paul Muldoon. The opera chronicles the life of architect Frank Lloyd Wright and coincides with Buffalo's continuing restoration (through the NEA's Save America's Treasures) of Wright's five-structure Darwin D. Martin House complex.

Cabrillo Music Festival (Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music)
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
To support a professional development program for conductors. The training program will offer emerging conductors the opportunity to lead small and large ensembles in rehearsals and public performances, program contemporary works, and collaborate with composers.

California EAR Unit Foundation
Santa Clarita, CA
$10,000
To support concerts at the REDCAT Theater in the Disney Concert Hall complex. The series will celebrate the integration of advanced technologies in music by programming works scored for acoustic instruments and electronics such as tape, synthesizer, or computer.

California State University Sacramento Trust Foundation (on behalf of Festival of New American Music)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support the Festival of New American Music, featuring artists such as vocalist Susan Naruki, new music ensemble Earplay, and Bang-On-A-Can All Stars. The annual two-week festival, held on the university campus and at various community venues, will feature concerts, workshops, master classes, lectures, seminars, concert previews, and open rehearsals.

California Summer Music, Incorporated
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the Composition Program, which includes residencies for emerging composers, the creation and premiere of new chamber works, a free public concert of works by established living composers, and residency activities with guest and Grawemeyer Award- winning composer George Tsontakis.

Carnegie Hall Society, Inc. (Carnegie Hall)
New York, NY
$75,000
To support performances and educational activities by American orchestras. Plans include 10 concerts and two multi-media educational programs in New York City by the visiting symphony orchestras of Chicago, Cleveland, Minnesota, San Francisco, and St. Louis.

Chamber Music Albuquerque
Albuquerque, NM
$10,000
To support the 65th annual June Music Festival. Among the activities will be the presentation of three chamber ensembles and scholar-led lecture-demonstrations at the Simms Center for the Performing Arts at Albuquerque Academy.

Chamber Music America, Inc.
New York, NY
$100,000
To support the National Leadership Initiative, which is designed to build leadership skills in the chamber music field. The project will provide professional services to members through consultancies, on-site technical assistance, special publications, a Web site, and a national conference in New York City.

Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support Chamber Music Society Two, a professional development program for artists in the early stages of their careers. Musicians participating in the residency will receive coaching and performance opportunities with master artists. In 2006, in celebration of the program's 10th anniversary, current residents will perform in concert with alumni of the program.

Chamber Music Society of Salt Lake City, Inc.
Salt Lake City, UT
$7,500
To support the presentation of chamber music concerts and residency activities. Plans include the premiere of a newly commissioned work by William Wallace, master classes for 400 local students, and public concerts at the Libby Gardner Concert Hall.

Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud, Inc.
St. Cloud, MN
$10,000
To support chamber music concerts, residency activities, and outreach activities for area schools and student ensembles. Artists to be presented include the Miró String Quartet and eighth blackbird.

Chicago Chamber Musicians (CCM) (Consortium)
Chicago, IL
$20,000
To support a consortium project for the creation and presentation of a new work by NEA Jazz Master Paquito D'Rivera and related residency activities. Consortium partner Grant Park Orchestral Association will coordinate marketing strategies to target Latino community audiences for the new work, which will combine classical, jazz, and Afro-Cuban influences.

Chicago Jazz Orchestra Association [Chicago Jazz Orchestra (CJO)]
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support the music transcription and presentation of Exquisitely for Ella: The Songbook Concert. The concert, a tribute to the 1950s and 60s songbook recordings of Ella Fitzgerald, will be the first public performances of the selections as they were originally arranged and recorded. Two performances and a free open rehearsal are featured.

Chicago Sinfonietta
Chicago, IL
$10,000
To support performances of works by Gustav Holst and Daniel Bernard Roumain and related educational activities. The works to be performed include Holst's The Planets with a projected video presentation produced by the Adler Planetarium and Roumain's VooDoo Concerto for Violin No. 1, featuring the composer as soloist.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra
Chicago, IL
$75,000
To support Afterwork Masterworks and Beyond the Score. The audience development programs are designed to reach new audiences through alternative and informal concert formats.

Chicago Symphony Orchestra (on behalf of Civic Orchestra of Chicago)
Chicago, IL
$40,000
To support the production, presentation, and radio broadcast of concerts and reading sessions. Performances and reading sessions will be given under the direction of resident and guest conductors and offered to the public at no charge to attract more culturally and economically diverse audiences.

Chorus America
Washington, DC
$60,000
To support services and technical assistance to the choral field. Activities will include an annual conference; publications; and leadership development forums for conductors, board members, and managers.

Chorus America (Consortium)
Washington, DC
$10,000
To support a consortium project offering professional development for choral conductors. Philadelphia Singers will partner with Chorus America to host conducting workshops in Philadelphia; approximately 400 conductors, singers, and instrumentalists are expected to participate.

Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the Pocket Concerto Project, which will include the commissioning and presentation of new works for instrumental soloists and small chamber ensemble of 15 to 20 players (a 'pocket concerto'). Also planned are pre-concert discussions with the composers, program notes, and musicological information on the theater's Web site.

Concert Artists Guild, Inc.
New York, NY
$20,000
To support career development of emerging classical musicians through national concert engagements. Fifteen artists and ensembles will present 50 performances in diverse venues across the country, allowing performers to hone both performance and communication skills.

Contemporary Arts Center (CAC)
New Orleans, LA
$15,000
To support performances and residencies by jazz musicians. Plans include premieres of new works by Mark Feldman, Richard Landry, and Hannibal Lokumbe; and a performance by Dave Murray and the Gwo-Ka Masters, melding jazz with Caribbean rhythms. Outreach activities include programs for seniors and students.

Cuyahoga Community College Foundation (on behalf of Tri-C JazzFest)
Cleveland, OH
$15,000
To support the 27th annual Tri-C JazzFest. JazzFest will reach 44,000 people through live performances, school performances, clinics, and master classes; radio broadcasts will reach an additional 200,000 listeners in Northeast Ohio.

Da Camera Society of Texas, Inc. (Da Camera of Houston)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support The String Quartet in America: Then and Now and Music & Art: A Celebration of the Menil Collection's 20th Anniversary. The project will feature chamber music performances, panel discussions, and lectures, including a celebration of the development of the string quartet as a performing ensemble in America from post-World War II to present.

Dallas Symphony Association, Inc.
Dallas, TX
$20,000
To support the creation and premiere of a new work for orchestra by Jonathan Bailey Holland and related educational activities. The new work will be based on African American heritage and will include jazz, gospel, blues, and hip-hop influences.

Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra Association (Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra)
Dayton, OH
$10,000
To support the Mozart Festival, which will feature 17 live and radio broadcast performances in honor of the composer's 250th birthday The festival will feature the premiere of Robert X. Rodriguez' Agnus Dei, a work which offers a contemporary completion of Mozart's unfinished Mass in C Minor.

Detroit Symphony Orchestra Hall (Consortium)
Detroit, MI
$45,000
To support a consortium project of presentation and residency activities by the Silk Road Ensemble. Cellist Yo-Yo Ma is featured in a concert and educational program distributed live via the Internet to schools throughout Michigan in collaboration with University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development (aka Internet2).

Early Music America, Inc.
Seattle, WA
$20,000
To support a national conference, professional development sessions, and an early music marketplace. The conference in Berkeley, California and touring professional development sessions in Madison, Wisconsin, and New York City will offer peer forums, workshops, and in-depth training sessions for musicians and managers in the field of early music.

Elgin Symphony Orchestra Association
Elgin, IL
$18,000
To support In Search of the American Dream Festival, a month-long celebration of symphonic works inspired by America's immigrant history. Plans include concerts, interdisciplinary events, performances for youth, and the development of classroom materials for elementary schools.

Elkhart Centre, Inc.
Elkhart, IN
$10,000
To support the Elkhart Jazz Festival. Held in June, the festival will double the number of artists presented, featuring more than 150 musicians performing on seven different stages. The program will include free concerts at the Civic Plaza Stage.

Eugene Symphony Association, Inc.
Eugene, OR
$7,500
To support American Encounters: Michael Daugherty, a performance and composer residency project. In addition to performances of his work, the project will include onstage commentary by Daugherty and a four-day residency featuring coaching sessions, pre-concert lectures, and master classes.

Florida West Coast Symphony, Inc.
Sarasota, FL
$12,500
To support the Sarasota Music Festival. Under the leadership of Artists Director Paul Wolfe, the three-week chamber music festival will offer concert performances and professional development activities for 85 emerging musicians from around the world.

Friends of Chamber Music (FCM)
Kansas City, MO
$10,000
To support chamber music, solo piano, and early music presentations as well as educational programs. Composer and commentator Rob Kapilow will lead three What Makes It Great? educational programs, which are discussions and performances of a single work.

Grand Rapids Symphony Society (Consortium)
Grand Rapids, MI
$12,500
To support a consortium project to commission and premiere a new choral work by composer Dalit Hadass Warshaw, and related educational activities. The new work will highlight the relevance of vocal music in a time of world conflicts, its premiere will follow a performance of Haydn's Mass in Time of War.

Handel & Haydn Society
Boston, MA
$20,000
To support performances of Handel's oratorio Belshazzar (1744) and related educational activities. Two period-instrument performances will be preceded by presentations by musicologists and experts in Baroque music. Complimentary tickets will be offered to students in the Vocal Apprenticeship Program.

Houston Symphony Society (Houston Symphony)
Houston, TX
$20,000
To support performances of a new work by composer Pierre Jalbert along with related educational activities. Prior to the performances at the Jesse H. Jones Hall, the composer will speak about his work to community groups and in area schools.

International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE)
Manhattan, KS
$42,500
To support the 34th annual International Association for Jazz Education (IAJE) Conference and Music Festival in New York City. The conference includes performances with more than 50 jazz artists, workshops, master classes, panel sessions, and a music technology center. More than 7,000 jazz educators, musicians, students, and industry personnel from around the world are expected to attend.

Irving S. Gilmore International Keyboard Festival
Kalamazoo, MI
$25,000
To support the Gilmore Keyboard Festival. More than 90 classical concerts, master classes, lectures, and public educational programs will be presented throughout southwestern Michigan.

Jazz at Lincoln Center Inc. (Consortium)
New York, NY
$50,000
To support a consortium project, the Essentially Ellington High School Jazz Band Competition and Festival. More than 1,100 high school bands will receive newly transcribed Ellington scores, CDs, and other educational materials. A three-day festival will feature 15 student Jazz Band Competition finalists.

Jazz Forum Arts, Inc.
Dobbs Ferry, NY
$10,000
To support free summer jazz concerts. At least 50 concerts will be presented at venues in the New York communities of Yonkers, Mt. Vernon, Dobbs Ferry, Sleepy Hollow, Tarrytown, Ossining, and Haverstraw.

Jefferson Academy of Music
Columbus, OH
$5,000
To support chamber music presentations and residency activities. Children's concerts, programs in retirement communities, master classes, teacher's forums, and open rehearsals are planned during the residencies.

Juneau Jazz & Classics, Inc.
Juneau, AK
$10,000
To support the Juneau Jazz & Classics Festival. As many as 30 jazz and classical musicians will be presented during the nine-day festival.

Kansas City Symphony
Kansas City, MO
$17,500
To support the second U.S. performance of new works and pre-concert activities with the composers. The works to be performed include Melinda Wagner's Extremity of Sky, featuring pianist Emanuel Ax and Jonathan Leshnoff's Symphony No. 1: Forgotten Chants and Refrains.

Kitka, Inc.
Oakland, CA
$25,000
To support Song Routes in a New Land. This program will include a series of five-day residencies featuring 11 performer-teachers of traditional Eastern European music. The program will also feature school and community workshops, as well as repertoire development, master classes, and national touring.

Kronos Performing Arts Assn (Kronos Quartet)
San Francisco, CA
$40,000
To support Kronos: Live Mix. The project will feature musical inventions, technologies, compositions, and performances, including a celebration of the music of Steve Reich and collaborations with instrument creator and sound artist Walter Kitundu, the experimental duo Matmos, and sound artist Trimpin.

Kuumbwa Jazz Society (Kuumbwa Jazz Center)
Santa Cruz, CA
$15,000
To support Kuumbwa Collaborations. Four concerts will feature collaborative performances by renowned artists, including NEA Jazz Masters Gerald Wilson, Kenny Burrell, and Roy Haynes. Among the performances is an afternoon concert for 200 students; an estimated live and radio audience of 30,000 will benefit from the project.

La Jolla Music Society
La Jolla, CA
$20,000
To support SummerFest. The three-week music festival will include chamber music and jazz presentations as well as master classes, guided open rehearsals, and panel discussions. Saxophonist and NEA Jazz Master Wayne Shorter and Grawemeyer Award-winning composer George Tsontakis are among the musicians featured.

Lafayette College
Easton, PA
$15,000
To support Jazz at Lafayette: Looking Back, Moving Forward, a program of performances and presentations by a broad range of jazz musicians, including guitarist and NEA Jazz Master Jim Hall. Performances, radio broadcasts, and workshops at local high schools and Boys' and Girls' Clubs will reach more than 2,500 people.

Las Vegas Jazz Society
Las Vegas, NV
$10,000
To support the Diversity in Jazz Program. The three-concert series will include a Black History Month Jazz Program for children, a Latin Jazz Concert, and the Society's free Jazz Picnic.

Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra Society, Inc. (Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra)
Los Angeles, CA
$25,000
In celebration of Mozart's 250th birthday anniversary, Music Director and pianist Jeffrey Kahane will perform and conduct (from the piano) all 23 concertos in a series of concerts that will also include a symphony, overture, or aria. One of the programs will be presented in South Los Angeles in conjunction with the African American Unity Center; a total of 13,500 people are expected to attend all the performances.

Los Angeles Master Chorale Association (Los Angeles Master Chorale)
Los Angeles, CA
$15,000
Presentations at the Walt Disney Concert Hall will feature classic and new music repertoire, and a program of rarely performed Mexican baroque music. Each program will be broadcast on live radio, and each will include a pre-concert lecture.

Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Los Angeles, CA
$100,000
To support the Minimalist Jukebox Festival. Performances and educational activities examining the minimalist movement in music will include orchestral and chamber ensemble programs; a symposium held in collaboration with the Getty Research Institute; and educational activities, including family concerts and residencies.

Mainly Mozart Festival
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the 18th annual festival. Performances will feature the Juilliard Choir and the festival orchestra under the direction of music director David Atherton.

Marilyn Horne Foundation (MHF)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support vocal recitals by emerging artists. Recitals will be presented at New York City's Saint Bartholomew's Church as part of its On Wings of Song series and for later broadcast on WQXR-FM radio in the tri-state area of New York, New Jersey, and Connecticut.

Marlboro School of Music, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$25,000
To support the Invited Master Artist Project. As many as 100 students will participate in a series of workshops, open rehearsals and concerts, master classes, and lecture-demonstrations led by a group of world-class concert artists, composers, and scholars.

Meet The Composer, Inc.
New York, NY
$50,000
To support Commissioning Music/USA, a landmark program that supports the creation of new American music by partnering composers with chamber and symphony orchestras, opera, dance and music theater companies, and jazz and chamber ensembles nationwide. The program will result in more than 30 new works and more than 120 performances of new music.

Melody of China, Inc.
San Francisco, CA
$5,000
To support the commission and premiere of a new work by composer Duo Huang and the premiere performance of a new work by composer Kui Dong. The Del Sol String Quartet , which was founded to foster a greater understanding of the diverse styles and genres of Chinese music, will collaborate with Melody of China in performances in San Francisco.

Memphis Orchestral Society, Inc. (Memphis Symphony Orchestra)
Memphis, TN
$10,000
To support Rock like Bach, a festival, presented during the Music Library Association's 75th anniversary convention in Memphis in 2006. The festival will integrate rock and roll with orchestral music, and will feature a residency and world premiere performance of a commissioned work by composer Augusta Read Thomas.

Monadnock Music
Peterborough, NH
$10,000
To support the Monadnock Music Summer Festival. The free weekly concerts will be presented in churches and meetinghouses in rural towns of southwestern New Hampshire.

Monterey Jazz Festival
Monterey, CA
$25,000
To support the Monterey Jazz Festival at the Monterey County Fairgrounds. Festival highlights include the premiere of a commissioned work by artist-in-residence Maria Schneider. The Festival also will feature public panel discussions, workshops, technical clinics and a collaboration between artists-in-residence and the High School All-Star Band.

Mount Saint Mary's College (on behalf of Da Camera Society)
Los Angeles, CA
$17,500
To support the presentation of Chamber Music in Historic Sites. The series of chamber music concerts and outreach activities will match musical programming from a variety of cultures and periods with sites of architectural and historical significance in the Los Angeles area.

Music Associates of Aspen, Inc. (Aspen Music Festival and School)
Aspen, CO
$30,000
To support the American Academy of Conducting. The summer institute for 20 post-conservatory conductors will engage participants in a comprehensive, professional development training program including master classes at the Aspen Opera theater Center, and composition and film scoring classes.

Music at Angel Fire, Inc. (Music from Angel Fire)
Angel Fire, NM
$14,000
To support Music at Angel Fire's 23rd Anniversary Festival. The festival will tour the rural, northern New Mexico communities of Angel Fire, Las Vegas, Raton, and Taos and will feature diverse chamber ensembles specifically programmed for each of the communities, as well as Music in the Schools classroom concerts.

Music From China, Inc.
New York, NY
$10,000
To support thematic concerts of new music for traditional Chinese instruments. The project will include commissions and premieres of new work by Bun-Ching Lam, also a renowned pianist and conductor, and Wang Guowei, a master erhu performer, producer and radio music program host.

Musical Arts Association (Cleveland Orchestra)
Cleveland, OH
$80,000
To support 100 Years of American Music. The Cleveland Orchestra will perform works by John Adams, Samuel Barber, Aaron Copland, Charles Ives, Peter Lieberson, Stephen Paulus, and Chen Yi. Performances will be attended by more than 20,000 live audiences, and will be heard by an additional 138,000 radio broadcast listeners.

National Symphony Orchestra Association (National Symphony Orchestra)
Washington, DC
$55,000
To support the seventh National Conducting Institute. The professional development program for conductors will culminate in public concerts at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC.

New Jersey Symphony Orchestra (NJSO)
Newark, NJ
$22,500
To support The Many Faces of Mozart, a winter festival celebrating the 250th anniversary of Mozart's birth. Statewide concerts will be performed in Newark, New Brunswick, Trenton, and Princeton.

New West Symphony Association (New West Symphony)
Thousand Oaks, CA
$12,500
To support the commission and performance of a new work by composer-in-residence Bright Sheng. The composer will conduct performances of his work in Oxnard and Thousand Oaks, California. Residency activities will also include public discussions and visits to a local Chinese school.

New World Symphony, Inc.
Miami Beach, FL
$50,000
To support the Musician Professional Development Program. More than 100 conductors, composers, soloists, and musicians will train and mentor more than 80 gifted young musicians, preparing them for musical leadership positions in the orchestral field.

New York Festival of Song, Inc. (NYFOS)
New York, NY
$10,000
To support the presentation of thematic song programs, including a program which will look at France at the eve of World War I, and another which will pay tribute to lyricist Dorothy Fields and pianist and songwriter Fats Waller. The concerts will be performed in Merkin Concert Hall at Kaufman Center in New York City.

Northshore Concert Band
Barrington, IL
$7,500
To support the commission and performance of a fanfare by composer Frank Ticheli. The commission, which will help increase available repertoire written for the symphonic wind band, will be heard by more than 15,700 audience members over several performances.

Oakland East Bay Symphony (OEBS)
Oakland, CA
$12,500
To support premiere performances of new works by American composers. The project will include works by Mason Bates, Guillermo Galindo, Ellen Hoffman, and Kevin Puts. Each composer will participate in a pre-concert lecture prior to each performance.

Ojai Festivals, Ltd. (Ojai Music Festival)
Ojai, CA
$20,000
To support the Ojai Music Festival. The 60th annual music festival, directed by guest music director Robert Spano, will present the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, the Atlanta Symphony Chamber Chorus, and Brazilian singer Luciana Souza in works by Osvaldo Golijov, Manuel de Falla, Conlon Nancarrow, John Adams, and Steve Reich.

OK MOZART, Inc. (OK MOZART International Festival)
Bartlesville, OK
$15,000
To support the 22nd annual OK Mozart International Festival, which will include music for orchestra, chamber ensemble, and chorus. Performances will take place in locations around Bartlesville, including churches, schools, the Price Tower, and a natural ampitheater at the Woolaroc Ranch and Nature Preserve.

Orchestra 2001, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support the commission and performance of a new violin concerto by composer Andrea Clearfield. Performances of the work will be conducted by music director James Freeman in downtown Philadelphia and at Swarthmore College.

Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Inc. (Orpheus)
New York, NY
$20,000
To support commissions and performances of new work by composers Stephen Hartke, Marc Mellits, and Joan Tower. The concert programs also will serve as components of an educational outreach program, as well as a professional development initiative in conjunction with the Juilliard School and the Manhattan School of Music.

Other Minds
San Francisco, CA
$15,000
To support OM12. The 12th annual new music festival will be held at Yerba Buena Center, with guest composers participating in a four-day residency that will include a panel discussion, a free workshop, and lecture-demonstration session.

Pacific Symphony Association (Orange County's Pacific Symphony)
Santa Ana, CA
$45,000
To support the American Composers Festival. The festival will honor the late California composer Lou Harrison in live- and radio-broadcast performances of his work. Additionally, the Festival features educational presentations, such as a film viewing and a discussion with the biographer of a new book about Harrison.

Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia, PA
$15,000
To support a vocal music project exploring the art of song. The performances of works, ranging from the renaissance to contemporary music, will be augmented by master classes and lectures conducted by guest artists and scholars.

Philadelphia Orchestra Association
Philadelphia, PA
$75,000
To support performances of commissioned work by Sofia Gubaidulina, Bright Sheng, and Gerald Levinson. Music director Christoph Eschenbach and guest conductors Simon Rattle and Osmo Vänskä will conduct the concerts at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts.

Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the commission and performance of a cantata scored for period instruments by composer Jake Heggie. The performances, preceded by free public lectures, will celebrate the orchestra's 25th anniversary of presenting historically authentic performances of baroque and classical masterworks.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (New York Philharmonic)
New York, NY
$80,000
To support commissions and performances of new work by Hans Werner Henze, Kaija Saariaho, and Melinda Wagner. The project will include discussions with conductors and composers; students grades three to five who participate in the New York Philharmonic's Very Young Composer Program will learn more about the new works during the school year.

Plymouth Music Series, Inc. (VocalEssence)
Minneapolis, MN
$35,000
To support the Witness program. An annual celebration of contributions by African Americans, the program will focus on the life and work of Sojourner Truth (1797-1883) in a young people's concert, a residency program in Minneapolis and St. Paul public schools, a commissioned work by Alvin Singleton, and regional and national broadcasts on public radio.

Present Music, Inc.
Milwaukee, WI
$10,000
To support the world premiere of a new work by Amy X. Neuberg and the Midwest premiere of The Tyrant, a new work by Paul Dresher featuring tenor John Duykers. Both composers will be in residence with the ensemble, participating in rehearsals, concerts, and master classes.

ProMusica Chamber Orchestra of Columbus, Inc.
Columbus, OH
$10,000
To support a commission of a new double concerto by composer Gabriela Lena Frank for piano, violoncello, and chamber orchestra. The work, which will premiere at the Southern Theatre in Columbus, will be augmented by lectures and master classes by the composer and guest artists.

Robert W. Woodruff Arts Center, Inc. (RWWAC) (on behalf of Atlanta Symphony Orchestra) (Consortium)
Atlanta, GA
$50,000
To support A King Celebration, a consortium project that celebrates the life and work of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. In collaboration with Morehouse College, the project will include performances, educational outreach activities, and a national radio broadcast.

Rockport Chamber Music Festival, Inc.
Rockport, MA
$10,000
To support the 25th annual chamber music festival. Free family concerts and free educational lectures will be presented. The project will include special concerts of world music, featuring a Balinese gamelan performance and an Indian classical program.

Sacramento Philharmonic Orchestra Association, Inc. (Sacramento Philharmonic)
Sacramento, CA
$10,000
To support Gold Mountain, the commission and presentation of new works by composers Jon Jang and Gang Situ. The performances and related residency activities will honor the contributions of the Chinese population to the state of California through new music by the two Chinese American composers.

Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra Society (Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra)
St. Paul, MN
$50,000
To support the Living Composers Project. In addition to performances of contemporary works and a week-long festival celebrating the life and works of American composer Elliot Carter, the orchestra will perform works by Philip Glass, John Harbison, George Tsontakis, Arvo Part, and Henri Dutilleux.

San Diego Symphony Orchestra Association (San Diego Symphony)
San Diego, CA
$10,000
To support the premiere of a new orchestral work by composer Mark O'Connor. The orchestra will perform the work in Copley Symphony Hall and conduct related outreach activities.

San Francisco Chanticleer, Inc. (Chanticleer) (Consortium)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support a consortium residency project of choral workshops, youth choral festivals, and a symposium. With the MacPhail Center for the Music and other national educational residency partners, Chanticleer will present a series of day-long workshops and festivals for high school choruses, choir directors, and adult singers in California, Connecticut, and Minnesota.

San Francisco Contemporary Music Players
San Francisco, CA
$10,000
To support the world premiere of a commissioned work by composer Wendell Logan and performances of works by composers Lisa Bielawa, Charles Wuorinen, and Julia Wolfe. The chamber works will be performed at the Yuerba Buena Center for the Arts in San Francisco.

San Francisco Jazz Organization (SFJAZZ)
San Francisco, CA
$30,000
To support the residency and touring activities of the SF Jazz Collective ensemble. Events will include open rehearsals, world premieres of new work, educational outreach activities, and a national tour.

Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival
Santa Fe, NM
$30,000
To support the 34th annual Santa Fe Chamber Music Festival. The festival, which annually reaches more than 16,000, will include a diverse range of repertoire, guest composers, and world premieres, as well as free community and youth concerts.

Santa Rosa Symphony Association
Santa Rosa, CA
$15,000
To support The Russian Titans Festival: Music as a Mirror of History. The festival will feature the music of Stravinsky, Prokofiev, and Shostakovich performed by the orchestra and the Santa Rosa Symphony Chamber Players, under the direction of Jeffrey Kahane.

Savannah Music Festival, Inc.
Savannah, GA
$10,000
To support the Savannah Music Festival, which will feature performances in historic structures and venues of downtown Savannah. Programming for the 2006 festival will range from orchestral and chamber music performances to African choruses and solo recitals.

Schubert Club, Inc.
St. Paul, MN
$12,500
To support the third annual Saint Paul Summer Song Festival, a 10-day event focusing on the art song through recitals, master classes, and lectures. The festival will culminate in a free public performance and is expected to attract an audience of 3,000 with an additional 1 million national radio broadcast listeners.

Seattle Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (Seattle Symphony)
Seattle, WA
$50,000
To support New Europe: Bridging the 48th Parallel, a festival exploring works by composers from Central and Eastern Europe. The two-week festival concerts and activities are expected to reach 40,000 people, including 14,500 school children.

Skidmore College
Saratoga Springs, NY
$7,500
To support the Skidmore Jazz Institute. Hosted by the college's Bernhard Theater, the two-week summer jazz program will include master classes, daily classes on improvisational techniques, private instruction, and a mini-jazz festival.

Society for New Music
Syracuse, NY
$10,000
To support concerts and the creation and presentation of a commissioned work by composer Robert Morris. The work, intended to be performed outdoors, will premiere at Stone Quarry Hill Art Park in Cazenovia. The winter concerts will include repeat performance programs in venues such as colleges, universities, and libraries.

Sphinx Organization, Inc.
Detroit, MI
$60,000
To support the artistic development of the Sphinx Symphony, an ensemble of professional African American and Latino musicians from orchestras and institutions around the country. The Sphinx Symphony will perform concerts in Ann Arbor and at Orchestra Hall in Detroit, and feature talented, young soloists in each of the concerts.

St. Luke's Chamber Ensemble (Orchestra of St. Luke's)
New York, NY
$15,000
To support Second Helpings, an effort to attract new and younger audiences to chamber music. The program will consist of repeat performances of new work and a recording of contemporary American chamber music. Concerts will be held at the Chelsea Museum in New York City and the Dia: Beacon Riggio Galleries in Beacon, New York.

Stanford Jazz Workshop
Stanford, CA
$20,000
To support Jazz Mentors. The teacher internship and professional development program will train young jazz musicians to serve as junior faculty members at the annual Stanford Jazz Camp. The program will mentor 12 interns (ages 18 to 22) in a program designed to develop their musicianship and teaching abilities.

Symphony Society of San Antonio (San Antonio Symphony)
San Antonio, TX
$10,000
To support orchestral and choral concerts featuring Music Director Larry Rachleff. Performances will be held in San Antonio's Majestic Theatre.

Syracuse Children's Chorus, Inc.
Syracuse, NY
$7,500
To support the commission and performance of a new work by composer Zhou Long for children's chorus and traditional Chinese instruments (the erhu and the pipa). Students in the Children's Chorus will learn about Chinese culture through the rehearsal process and the Central New York Chinese School will assist with audience outreach.

Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
Philadelphia, PA
$10,000
To support Ambassador Franklin in London, a concert commemorating the 300th anniversary of Benjamin Franklin's birth. Performances will include 18th-century works by George Frederic Handel, Johann Christian Bach, Maurice Greene, John Stanley, and William Boyce.

University of the Pacific (on behalf of Brubeck Institute)
Stockton, CA
$10,000
To support the Visiting Jazz Artists Program, in which young musicians in the professional development program of the University's Brubeck Institute will be mentored by master artists (such as NEA Jazz Master David Baker and Branford Marsalis) and participate in master classes, outreach to schools and performances at the annual Brubeck Festival.

Vocal Arts Society
Washington, DC
$22,500
To support the presentation of vocal solo recitalists at venues in Washington, DC including the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts. The project will include educational outreach performances in schools and will serve more than 6,000 youth and adult audiences.

Westfield Symphony
Westfield, NJ
$10,000
To support the New Colossus Collaborative. Five composers will develop a single orchestral work based on Emma Lazarus's poem, "The Colossus," which graces the foot of the Statue of Liberty. The project will provide secondary schools in Central New Jersey with teacher guides, score excerpts, and pre-concert school visits by the composers.

Yellow Barn, Inc. (Yellow Barn Music School and Festival)
Putney, VT
$7,500
To support professional development in chamber music. Young emerging musicians will participate in rehearsals, coaching sessions, master classes, and performances during the annual summer chamber music festival.

Young Concert Artists, Inc.
New York, NY
$25,000
To support the Young Concert Artists Series. The professional development program of recitals and concerto debuts in New York City and Washington, DC, will include the commissioning of a new work by a young composer and provide career management for emerging classical performers and composers.

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