2009 Fund Grantees: Music
- 15th Street Friends Meeting
- The Meetinghouse Jazz Orchestra performs the 19th Annual MLK Concert to benefit the Friends Shelter.
- Antara Ensemble, The
- The Antara Ensemble will present a series of three two-hour classical and contemporary music concerts in churches in Harlem, one of which will be with a full orchestra.
- Cerddorion NYC, Inc.
- Cerddorion Vocal Ensemble presents two performances of a program of new and commissioned music by American composers and two panel discussions with the composers and performing artists to take place on the Upper West Side and in Inwood.
- Citywide Youth Opera, Inc.
- Two opera recitals performed by 22 teens from across New York City, including an operatic solo piece typically in a non-English language, presented at the West 63rd Street YMCA.
- Cornerstone Chorale, Inc.
- Mass for Troubled Times, concert presentation of Haydn’s “Missa in Angustiis,” for chorus, soloists, and orchestra.
- Crusco, Gina
- Cosi fan Tutte: Defining Women, a series of collaborative, intergenerational workshops at the YM & YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwoo, will create alternative endings to Mozart’s opera for audience-interactive Spring 2009 performances.
- East Winds, Inc.
- Taikoza concert series 2009, a series of Japanese traditional music and dance performances in different parts of Manhattan.
- Ensemble Pi
- Thoughts About Peace in A Time of War, a concert at the Cooper Union in the East Village, featuring the music of Kristin Norderval, Dmitri Shostakovich, Alice Shields, and John Harbison.
- Keys to the Future Festival,Inc.
- Keys to the Future’s Fourth Festival of Contemporary Piano Music, a music festival at Greenwich House’s Renee Weiler Concert Hall featuring three concerts of international contemporary piano works performed by nine pianists from all over the world.
- Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra, The
- The second concert of the Knickerbocker Chamber Orchestra's inaugural season, featuring 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.
- Melodia Women’s Choir of NYC, Inc.
- Melodia’s spring concert, May 16, 2009, presents wide-ranging music written for women’s voices, featuring an all-female orchestra and a total of 54 artists.
- Music Mondays
- Music Mondays, a concert series, presents nine free chamber music concerts every year to the Upper West Side community of Manhattan.
- New Paths in Music
- An 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.
- Creation, production, and completion of a concert titled The Gathering IV: A night of African traditional, popular, art music and Awards Ceremony.
- Orfeo Duo
- What a Neighborhood! 2008: 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.
- Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
- Six concerts in MOSA’s Spring 2009 and Fall 2009 seasons, and the 2009 OSA Christmas Carol Festival.
- Peace of Heart Choir, The
- A twice-annual series of community concerts, comprising twelve to twenty hour-long community concerts to take place at various non-profit organizations in need.
- Polyhymnia Music Foundation
- The chamber choir Polyhymnia will present three concerts of Renaissance choral music.
- Sicular, Eve for Isle of Klezbos sextet
- Isle of Kelzbos: Really Big GLBT Shul Show, a concert by Isle of Klezbos sextet with multi-cultural guests and multimedia imagery, celebrating the 36th anniversary of the founding of NYC’s queer synagogue, Congregation Beth Simchat Torah.
- Vocal Ease, Inc.
- Vocal Ease Cabaret, performances at Manhattan public senior centers
- World Foundation for Music & Healing
- NYCSongs will offer public access to the creative process of songwriting, engaging the public to write songs by sponsoring five free concerts and two songwriting workshops for the general public.
