2009 MCAF Grantees: Music
- Afro-Asian, Inc.
- To support a two 1.5 hour music show presenting blues and jazz improvisations.
- Cerddorion NYC, Inc.
- To support two performances of a program of new and commissioned music by American composers and two panel discussions in the Upper West Side and Inwood.
- Ensemble Pi
- To support a concert at the Cooper Union in the East Village, Thoughts About Peace in a Time of War, featuring the music of Kristin Norderval, Philip Miller, Dmitri Shostakovich, Krystof Penderecki, and Benjamin Britten.
- Robert Feldman
- To support Hell’s Kitchen Hop, a concert of original music inspired by the sights and sounds of Hell’s Kitchen.
- Laurine Celeste Fox
- To support an arrangement and presentation of a concert of Rafael Hernandez songs “Linda Quisqueya” and “Quimbamba,” performed by the Boricua College Chorus and a pianist in November 2009.
- Keys to the Future Festival, Inc.
- To support a concert of contemporary Minimalist solo and duo piano works, Keys to the Future: SPOTLIGHT on Minimalism, performed by five pianists at the PaceWildenstein Gallery in Chelsea in April 2009.
- Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, The
- To support the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra Concert in presenting the world premiere of Gary Fagin’s Hungarian Suite, and a performance of J.S. Bach’s Cantata No. 4 in collaboration with Seraphim chamber choir.
- Ray Leslee
- To support Shakespeare Songs for Tenor and Strings, a large work for chamber orchestra and tenor soloist, to premiere with the Antara Ensemble and a guest vocalist.
- Marco Lienhard
- To support Shakuhachi concert series 2009, a series of concerts and lecture demonstration presentations.
- Diliana Momtchilova
- To support the presentation of rarely performed music for violoncello by composers from Bulgaria in a concert series for the Bulgarian immigrant community and the general public.
- New Amsterdam Symphony Orchestra, Inc. (NASO)
- To support a February 2009 concert, performing works by Wagner, Bruch, and Rimsky-Korsakov, featuring the conducting debut of Matthew Oberstein, with violin soloist Michi Wianko.
- New Paths in Music
- To support the Hispanic Festival, American and world premieres of works of contemporary music by outstanding living Hispanic composers whose works have rarely or never been performed in the United States.
- New York African Chorus Ensemble, Inc.
- To support the creation and presentation of a concert titled The Gathering IV: A Night of African Traditional, Popular, Art Music, and Awards Ceremony.
- Peace of Heart Choir, The
- To support 2009 community concert series, comprising twelve to twenty hour-long community concerts to take place at various non-profit organizations in need.
- Polyhymnia Music Foundation
- To support three concerts of Renaissance choral music by the Polyhymnia chamber choir.
- Robert Previte
- To support a week-long concert series April in New York, of improvised duets in a raw, untraditional performance space.
- Theodore M. Rosenthal
- To support a new jazz composition for quintet to be performed with the Dario Vaccaro Dance company at the Dicapo Opera Theater in May 2009.
- Stonewall Chorale, The
- To support 2009 Stonewall Chorale Concert Series, Find Yourself in the Music, three 2-hour choral concert performances.
- Gwendolyn Toth
- To support a concert of early German music, Sinfonia Praetorius, by Praetorius, Scheidt, Hassler, and others in the historically German district of Yorkville.
- Ishmael Wallace
- To support What a Neighborhood! 2009, five free concerts celebrating the voices of local composers, musicians, and neighborhood residents, including two events inspired by the Australian Aborigine tradition of the Songlines.
- Guowei Wang
- To support Double Talk, a lecture/demonstration in Chinatown and an uptown concert at the NY Public Library for the Performing Arts by erhu performer and composer Guowei Wang.
- Welltone New Music, Inc.
- To support Cutting Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2009, a month-long series of four concerts of music by living composers who discuss their work in dialogue with host Victoria Bond prior to performances.
- West Side Community Garden
- To support Music in a Garden, a series of at least six varied musical concerts during the summer of 2009 in the West Side Community Garden, free and open to the public.
- Margarita Zelenaia
- To support the world premiere of Byzantine Chants: Sacred Concerto of Eight Movements for Solo Cello based on ancient Russian musical art forms, to be performed by cellist Andrey Tchekmazov in Inwood.
