2010 Fund Grantees: Music
- American Classical Orchestra, Inc.
- All Bach Program: a full orchestral concert and free pre-concert lecture presented in Manhattan’s Upper West Side on February 24, 2010 by the American Classical Orchestra, New York City’s own premier period-instrument orchestra. Bach’s “Concerto for Three Harpsichords,” “Coffee Contada,” “Concerto for Two Violins” will be performed.
- Cerddorion NYC, Inc.
- For Love: an adventurous program of music from the 17th-21st century in a one-time concert performance, led by the group’s potential new Music Director.
- Chamber Orchestra of New York “Ottorino Respighi”
- 2009/2010 Third Season – Premieres: two programs featuring two World Premieres and three U.S. Premieres, including a recently completed Respighi violin concerto from the Respighi family archive.
- Citywide Youth Opera , Inc.
- An opera recital featuring 25 teens from across New York City representing diverse ethnicities, who are studying performing and vocal arts. The event will include an operatic solo piece typically in a non-English language, and will be presented to the general community in four performances.
- Columbia Summer Winds
- Columbia Summer Winds 2010 Season: a series of four, 1.5 hour concerts performed free to the public starting in June 2010 through July 2010 in public parks all over Manhattan.
- Cornerstone Chorale, Inc.
- Celebrating Twenty Years of Community Choral Music: a retrospective concert of movements and excerpts from some of the major choral works the Cornerstone Chorale has presented throughout its twenty-year history.
- Laura Dreyer / Capoeira Center of New York, Inc.
- The New York Brazilian Jazz Funk Project: a jazz ensemble that performs the classics of Brazilian Jazz Funk along with original compositions and arrangements by saxophonist, flutist and composer Laura Dreyer, will perform two sets of music followed by Q&A at the Church Street School for Music and Art.
- East Winds, Inc.
- Taikoza Concert Series 2010: a series of concerts and free outdoor community concerts in Manhattan featuring taiko drumming.
- Ensemble Pi
- The Ensemble Pi Peace Project: A Better Country and a Newer World: a concert exploring the meaning of caring in a time when so many have lost so much, featuring the music of Karim Al-Zand, Sophia Gubaidulina, Behzad Ranjbaran, Peter Ablinger, and Frederic Rzewski.
- Good Shepherd on the Island Corp.
- The Church of the Good Shepherd Sunday Concert Series: a free series of music concerts on Roosevelt Island.
- Greenwich Village Orchestra
- The 2010 Spring/Summer Concert Series: includes three concerts and two summer outdoor “Pops” concerts
- Hamilton-Madison House
- Hamilton-Madison House’s City Hall Senior Center Chorus will produce and perform 4 concerts during the program year. The culminating performance will be a new composition and production celebrating the Chorus’ Director’s 60th anniversary of being a working composer, arranger, and choral director.
- Harlem Opera Theater Inc.
- Harlem Opera Theater’s 2010 Concert Season, including recitals, concerts, classical music, and new initiatives.
- Alison Loeb / YM/YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood
- MendelsSongs: Stories of a Neighborhood: a multimedia recital featuring songs based on true stories of German Jews who fled Hitler to settle in Washington Heights. The songs are set to Felix Mendelssohn’s Songs Without Words, and performed by singers and musicians from the neighborhood, with translations provided.
- Manhattan Choral Ensemble
- Muhly/Handel Commission and Concert: The MCE has commissioned a major choral-orchestral work from award-winning composer Nico Muhly to serve as a new overture to Handel’s oratorio Israel in Egypt. The new work and the oratorio will be performed in June 2010 in a major concert venue in Manhattan with chorus, soloists, and orchestra.
- Midtown Arts Common
- Prez Fest 2010 Celebrating Legendary Jazz Drummer, Art Blakey and the Jazz Messengers: a jazz festival on March 14, 2010 honoring Art Blakey. The festival includes a panel discussion, exhibition of photos and artifacts, and a concert featuring major jazz artists, rising stars and students.
- MOTYL Chamber Ensemble
- Human Creativity in the Face of Adversity: a multimedia concert that engages students and community members in an interactive examination of racism, prejudice, and anti-Semitism to help promote cross-cultural understanding.
- Music Mondays / Advent Lutheran Church
- Music Mondays: a community concert series, presenting nine free classical chamber music concerts every year to the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
- Orfeo Duo / 102-103 Streets Block Association
- What a Neighborhood! 2010: includes five concerts and two strolling sing-alongs celebrating the neighborhoods of Morningside Heights and West Harlem primarily through the music of living local composers. Three workshops will also be held in which music for the performances will be developed by neighbors of all ages and diverse backgrounds.
- Our Saviour’s Atonement Lutheran Church
- Music at Our Saviour’s Atonement Concerts: include five concerts in the spring and 2 concerts in the fall in Washington Heights.
- The Peace of Heart Choir
- Peace of Heart Choir holds annual series of community concerts, comprising up to twenty hour-long community concerts to take place in the Spring and Fall at various non-profit organizations in need.
- Rector, Churchwardens, Vestrymembers of the Church of St. Luke in the Fields
- Concerts at Saint Luke in the Fields, 2010: a series of five concerts of choral and instrumental music of the Baroque and Renaissance periods, featuring the Choir of St. Luke in the Fields under the direction of David Shuler.
- Russian Musical Arts Society of America, Inc.
- Spirit of Old Russia: a series of live concerts in Manhattan that brings to life the evolution and development of Russian sacred music and popular songs of the pre-revolutionary period.
- Eve Sicular / Jews for Racial and Economic Justice (JFREJ)
- KlezBiGay Pride at El Sol Brilliante: Isle of Klezbos, the genre-bending klezmer sextet, returns by popular demand to this legendary East Village garden, with performance art juggler and Circus Amok founder Jennifer Miller as MC, for a cross-cultural Yinglish Queer Pride concert and community celebration.
- Underworld Productions Opera Ensemble, Inc.
- Pygmalion: My Unfair Lady: a new take on Rameau’s chamber opera to be performed at the Thalia Theatre at Symphony Space with a pre-concert talk, two free children’s workshops and family performances in Washington Heights and the Lower East Side.
- Vocal Ease, Inc.
- Vocal Ease Cabaret: a year-long series of professional, on-site performances at Manhattan public senior centers.
- World Foundation for Music and Healing
- NYC Songs for Seniors: a program that brings seniors together for 12 biweekly singing and songwriting workshops, culminating in a public concert with chorus at St. Peter’s Church.
- Young People’s Chorus of NYC, Inc.
- Transient Glory: commissioned music as the culmination of a special program of the group’s hands-on work with composers. The program will also be aired on live radio.
