Fran is sorely missed by Board and staff, past and present, at New Music USA, and by the music community she championed and cherished. ♥️

Join us tomorrow, Tues, April 2 @ 2pm ET for a free webinar to launch the Arts Indicators Project, an online research tool for finding key facts/figures—& exploring lessons learned—abt the role of artists & the arts in our lives & communities. Register: bit.ly/4a0rayt

Exciting #NewMusicBox news: we have licensed to Yale University University Library more than 250 video interviews with U.S. composers created by NewMusicBox between 1999 and 2020! Yale Library will digitize and digitally preserve the interviews in its Oral History of American Music

Deadline approaching! 🚨 Applications for our 2024 Organization Fund are due in 2 days, on Thursday, April 4th at 11:59pm ET. 📥 The New Music Organization Fund offers grants to non-profit organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues

Y'ALL THIS IS HUGE

Congrats to 2019 grantee theresonancecollectivela on completing the final recording of their funded project, The Conference of the Birds! ✨ This is a new, movement driven, a cappella oratorio is about the journey of the soul as it seeks union with the Divine. Check out this animation

"Some of the most successful jazz musicians I've seen have been those who really communicate with their audiences." #NEAJazzMaster Willard Jenkins has spent his life advocating for jazz in a variety of roles. On the Art Works pod, he shares his story: bit.ly/49fXDQg

Whoaaa the Crystal Mommy vibes transcend FFXIV! This was a totally different and incredibly amazing and fulfilling project with composer Fahad Siadat that got turned into an animation and LOOK AT THAT MOTHER CRYSTAL FLAME RIGHT THERE! 💎 #amandaachen #therealcrystalmommy

In this clip, Renee Fleming, Kelli O'Hara and Joyce DiDonato, as Clarissa Vaughan, Laura Brown, and Virginia Woolf, sing an excerpt from Act II in the final dress rehearsal of Kevin Puts' and librettist Greg Pierce's “The Hours.” Our latest NewMusicBox #tbt archive post shines

Join Mid Atlantic Arts as our Development Associate! The Development Associate will report to and work in partnership with the Director of Development to bolster the organization’s development and fundraising efforts. Learn more and apply at: ecs.page.link/tgrvN

🌞🌑 Ready for today's solar eclipse? 🔭 Tune in with this playlist curated by the New York Times Music to enhance your viewing experience!🎶

Lately we’ve been loving past grantee Missy Mazzoli & Jennifer Koh’s recent #tinydeskconcert on NPR Music 🤩 The description in the full YouTube video – linked below – says it best, “Hearing this set, in all its rugged delight, feels like we’re eavesdropping on something

We're thrilled to be a national partner of the 2025 Chamber Music America (Chamber Music America) conference in Houston, TX! 📍 Our President & CEO Vanessa Reed shared, "We are eager to partner more closely with CMA in 2025, especially to celebrate the phenomenal music making occurring

We’re delighted to welcome Jenn(ifer) Jolley 👩🏻‍💻 (she/her) to the New Music USA Board of Directors! Congratulations, Jenn!🌟 Jennifer Jolley is a composer, conductor, and professor. Her work is founded on the belief that the pleasures and excesses of music have the unique potential to engage

Congratulations to #Fulbright alumna, Leah Curtis, who has been accepted into the New Music USA Reel Change Program, a 5y grants and mentorship program for composers who have been marginalised in film composition! 🎼🎧 Listen to Leah's ANWAR: soundcloud.com/user-538449239…

I am excited and grateful to announce funding through my New Music USA Creator Fund Award for “The Talking Leaves: A Cherokee Opera”! Based upon the screenplay by Cherokee author, Joshua Nelson, translated by Cherokee artist and linguist, @RoyBoney and starring Cherokee mezzo

Honored to be a New Music USA Creator Fund 2024 awardee!! Thank you New Music USA for supporting my upcoming album “Mad Different” newmusicusa.org/program/new-mu…

Thrilled to announce that I’m a New Music USA Creator Fund awardee! 🎉 I’ll use this grant to record a studio version of 'Dragon', my piece for erhu and string trio! We’re so excited to get into the studio! Thank you New Music USA #WeAreNewMusic bit.ly/CreatorFund2024

Attention composers: KHORIKOS wants your music! Read more and submit your best work here: khorikos.org/2024-call-for-… art: Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus, c. 1560