2012 MCAF Grantees: Music

Arts at Tenri Cultural Institute
The Tenri Concert Series features two distinctive four-concert series, one offering a contemporary and traditional repertoire for Japanese instruments, the other an intimate offering of piano recitals, focusing on a long Western tradition of chamber music.
Arts Indonesia - Gamelan Dharma Swara
Bali Modern is a concert that includes traditional, influential works and two new and highly innovative multimedia works that borrow and subvert traditional Balinese gamelan techniques and forms.
Audience Inc.
Sound Off, a six‐month salon and concert series of avant‐garde music and sound art, presents intimate performances by some of New York’s most unique and respected experimental musicians.
Chamber Orchestra of New York "Ottorino Respighi"
Respighi Restorations, is a series of four concerts featuring Respighi's rediscovered works: "Serenade", "Suite for Organ and Strings," "Three Songs," and "Ariadne's Lament for Mezzo-Soprano."
Chelsea Symphony
Rediscovering America is a series of six concerts featuring a symphonic repertoire by American composers of the early to mid-20th century and new works by emerging American composers.
Chhandayan, Inc.
The 13th Annual Chhandayan All-Night Concert of Indian Music will be a dusk-to-dawn musical journey featuring the spell-binding music of maestros, Pt. Ajoy Chakraborthy, L.K. Pandit, Dr. Rajeev Tarnath, Partha Bose, Parasarathi Roychoudhury, Ronu Majumdar, and Anoushka Shankar.
Choral Chameleon, Inc.
The Choral Chameleon Concerts reach out to the community with the goal to unlock sensibilities in their audience, by using old and new music of varying styles, presented in choral manifestations created in a close collaborative process.
Columbia Summer Winds
The Columbia Summer Winds 2012 Season features a series of four symphonic wind ensemble concerts performed free to the public in parks throughout Manhattan.
Cornerstone Chorale, Inc.
Cornerstone Chorale’s performance of Gabriel Faure’s Requiem—one of the most inspiring and beautiful works in Cornerstone Chorale's choral repertory—will be presented with chorus, orchestra, and soloists.
Ensemble Pi
The Ensemble Pi Peace Project Concert: Unheard Voices will explore the music and words of brilliant creators who risked their lives and professional futures to voice their message, with works by Karl Hartmann, Dmitri Shostakovich, and American composer Mohammed Fairouza.
Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd - Roosevelt Island
The Church of the Good Shepherd's Sunday Concert Series provides free admission concerts on Roosevelt Island, funding The Emergency Food Assistance Program through free-will donations received at these concerts.
Suzanne Farrin
Fires Inside: Mythologies, Modern Perspectives, Images and Personal Reflections, a collaboration between female composers Du Yun and Suzanne Farrin, is a new musical work grappling with the immense power and tragedy of reproduction from the female perspective.
Joshua Gilgoff
Shaking for NYC Communities: A Kids Instrument Making and Concert Series! is one part concert, one part craft making, and one part music lesson. The project features a live music performance by Glow in the Drum and a project in which attendees make and play their own West African shaker.
Sharon Gunderson
Divine and Devilish, a series of programs of music by Bach, Franck, Stravinsky and living composers, Arvo Pãrt and Susan Stoderl, examines the relationship between the duality between the divine and the devilish.
Harlem Chamber Players, Inc.
The Harlem Chamber Players present 4 concerts as part of their Music at St. Mary's chamber music series in Harlem.
Midtown Arts Common at Saint Peter's Church
Prez Fest 2012- Celebrating Dizzy Gillespie honors the renowned trumpeter, composer, band leader and "ambassador to the world" with a panel discussion, exhibit and jazz concert with big bands.
Ne(x)tworks Music, Inc.
Music without Dance Festival is a festival of concerts and panel discussions, focusing on recent and historical musical works originally created for performance with choreographed movement, performed by Ne(x)tworks and featuring music by Ne(x)tworks composers.
New Paths in Music
The Nordic New Music Festival presents a concert of new Scandinavian works by The Cassatt String Quartet, followed by the international and national premieres of six works by living Scandinavian composers.
New York City Classical Guitar Society
The New York City Classical Guitar Society Concert Series, a series of four concerts by world-renowned international guitarists, is presented for the general public at the Baruch Performing Arts Center in Manhattan.
Peace of Heart Choir, Inc.
The semi-annual Peace of Heart Choir Community Concert Series comprises eight to ten community concerts at various non-profit and social service organizations in need.
Adam Reifsteck
iConcert features the composer/musician collective Blind Ear Music, Flutronix, and the Attacca Quartet, who will manipulate the structure of their compositions live in concert, based on audience participation, with Blind Ear’s performance software program.
Raquel Rivera
Decimas of Bitterness / Las Decimas del Amargue consists of a panel discussion and a concert highlighting the similarities between the "decima" musical and poetic traditions of Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic.
Eve Sicular
KlezBiGay Pride: Equality Anniversary Mazel Tov celebrates love and marriage, saluting New York's first anniversary of marriage equality with refreshing original tunes, lusciously re-arranged Yiddish 1916 wedding sheet-music, plus vintage and contemporary cinema screenings.
St George's Choral Society
St. George's Choral Society's 2012 Spring Concert, Music of the French Master includes Franck's "Psaume 150" and Dextera Domini", Vierne's "Messe Solennelle", and Ravel's "Trois Chansons."
Stonewall Chorale
The Stonewall Chorale's 35th Anniversary will consist of two commemorative performances celebrating the Stonewall Chorale's 35 years of bringing powerful music and a message of pride to the New York lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and allied community.
Sybarite Chamber Players LTD.
Unconventional Music in and Unconventional Space is a continuation of the unique collaboration between Sybarite 5 String Quintet and the cell theatre, as they once again join forces for a series of three performances that include traditional classical pieces and genre-crossing classical arrangements.
Sympho, Inc.
Sympho Unplugged is a chamber orchestra concert that aims to provide a low-cost, compelling and highly polished classical music experience to an adventurous audience in the breathtaking setting of the Angel Orensanz Center on the Lower East Side.
Tami Tyree
Ma, Mahalia & The Man is a tribute concert to Thomas A. Dorsey, blues and gospel pioneer, featuring the music of two icons that Dorsey the composer and accompanist helped rise to superstardom, Gertrude "Ma" Rainey and Mahalia Jackson.
Guowei Wang
The Art of Erhu Music is a series of four, two-hour master classes for erhu players conducted by Erhu soloist Wang Guowei, culminating with a concert in Chinatown of an arrangement written by Mr. Wang.
Cheryl Warfield
Black History Month Vocal Extravaganza is a three-part, weekly lecture and recital series designed to educate the public about the experiences of African-American opera singers, past and present, culminating with a gala concert event in the Lincoln Center area.
West Side Community Garden
Music in a Garden is a series of six free outdoor concerts taking place during June through mid-July, including jazz, early music, classical, and light opera performed by professional, currently performing musicians.