New Music USA has announced that 57 projects have recently been awarded a total of $311,000 in funding. Among the projects receiving funding are a five-orchestra commission of a violin concerto by David Ludwig, composed for Bella Hristova, for the Vermont Symphony Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony Orchestra, Louisville Orchestra, Quad Cities Symphony Orchestra, and Reno Chamber Orchestra (NV); commissions for the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra by Anna Clyne and Timo Andres; a recording by the Albany Symphony of three George Tsontakis concertos; Chris Brubeck’s artist residency at the New Haven Symphony Orchestra; a new work and composer residency for William Bolcom at the Grant Park Music Festival in Chicago; a composer residency by John B. Hedges at the Richmond Symphony; a recording on Bridge Records of two Charles Wuorinen works by the Boston Symphony Orchestra; an orchestra-commissioning project by Galician bagpiper Cristina Pato; and the chamber ensemble Alarm Will Sound’s October 2014 performance of John Luther Adams’s Ten Thousand Birds, based on songs of birds native to Missouri. New Music USA, formed by the 2011 merger of the American Music Center and Meet The Composer, provides grant support for the creation and performance of new work; it also operates Counterstream Radio and the online publication NewMusicBox.
Posted July 7, 2014
