CMA Chamber Music America was established to raise the profile of small-ensemble music by supporting the activities of artists and presenters devoted to this uniquely collaborative art form. Through CMA’s many grant programs, the membership has since introduced chamber music to new audiences in hundreds of community venues nationwide; expanded the reper- toire in classical, jazz, world, and crossover genres; ventured into international collaborations with other artists; and presented innovative programming that has attracted new audiences. In 2009-2010, CMA continued to support our rapidly evolving and expanding field. This year, $698,915 in grants was awarded to 45 ensembles and presenters for community residencies, concert presentations, international collaborations, commissions, and professional development. Outstanding service and contributions to the field were recognized through the CMA/ASCAP, CMAcclaim, and Richard J. Bogomolny National Service awards. We congratulate our grant and award recipients on their inspiring achievements! 09-10 Grantees + Honorees 28 september/october 2010
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CMAChamber Music America was established to raise the profile of small-ensemble music by supporting the activities of artists and presenters devoted to this uniquely collaborative art form. Through CMA’s many grant programs, the membership has since introduced chamber music to new audiences in hundreds of community venues nationwide; expanded the reper-toire in classical, jazz, world, and crossover genres; ventured into international collaborations with other artists; and presented innovative programming that has attracted new audiences.
In 2009-2010, CMA continued to support our rapidly evolving and expanding field. This year, $698,915 in grants was awarded to 45 ensembles and presenters for community residencies, concert presentations, international collaborations, commissions, and professional development. Outstanding service and contributions to the field were recognized through the CMA/ASCAP, CMAcclaim, and Richard J. Bogomolny National Service awards.
We congratulate our grant and award recipients on their inspiring achievements!
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CMAThe ClassicalCommissioningProgram Supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund
Grants to U.S.-based professional classical, contemporary and world music ensembles and presenters support the creation and performance of new chamber works by American composers
1 American Brass Quintet (New York, NY) A work for brass quintet and bass-baritone Christòpheren Nomura, by Anthony Plog, based on Walt Whitman’s Civil War-era poetry.
2 Caixa Percussion Trio (Bloomington, IN) A work from Dennis DeSantis, using found or prepared objects.
3 Da Camera of Houston (Houston, TX) A Piano Quintet by Tobias Picker for the Brentano String Quartet and pia-nist Sarah Rothenberg
4 Del Sol String Quartet (San Francisco, CA) Bagatelles for String Quartet and Electronica, by Mason Bates for live performance with recorded samples created by the ensemble
5 JACK Quartet (New York, NY) A String Quartet by Jason Eckardt
6 Musiqa (Houston, TX) A song cycle by Sebastian Currier for voice, piano quintet and electronics; set to the poetry of Sarah Manguso
7 Network for New Music (Philadelphia, PA) A six-movement work by Shih-Hui Chen, based on indigenous Taiwanese music; for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello
8 New York New Music (New York, NY) A work by Eric Chasalow, for flute, clarinet, piano, percussion, violin, and cello, combining electronic manipulations of text and voice
9 Talea Ensemble (Bronx, NY) A work by John Zorn, for violin, viola, cello, flute, clarinet, piano and percussion; the musicians will also vocalize and execute extended performance techniques.
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New Jazz Works: Commissioning and Ensemble Development New Jazz Works supports professional U.S. ensembles for the creation and performance of new work in the jazz idiom. The program also funds activities that extend the life of the work and offers career-building opportunities to artists.
A component of the Doris Duke Jazz Ensembles Project, the New Jazz Works program is made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation.
1 Martin Bejerano Trio (Miami, FL) Potential Energy Suite, for piano, bass, and drum set
2 Taylor Ho Bynum Trio and Sextet (New Haven, CT) New Sextet Book, for three-horns plus three-piece rhythm section
3 Ben Goldberg Quintet (Berkeley, CA) A large-scale work for Goldberg’s quintet (violin, clarinet, tenor saxophone, bass and drums) plus trumpet, cello, guitar, and vibraphone; based on Summa Lyrica: A Primer of the Common Places in Speculative Poetics, by Allen Grossman.
Abraham Gomez-Delgado and Positive Catastrophe (Bronx, NY) Dibrujos, Dibrujos, Dibrujos, a work for tentet combining Afro-Latin, free jazz and the American avant-garde. (Not pictured.)
4 Russ Gershon and The Either/ Orchestra (Somerville, MA) The Collected Subconscious, for tentet, will integrate the approaches of Ethiopian jazz with core and Latin jazz styles.
5 Curtis Hasselbring and The New Mellow Edwards (Brooklyn, NY) A septet inspired by broadcasts that mysteri-ously appear on shortwave radio; each musician will have his own five-pitch scale, or “number station.”
6 Carl Maguire and Floriculture (Brooklyn, NY) Magnify Simply, a 90-minute work for clarinet, saxophone, viola, piano, bass and drums, creating two planes of sound, via variables of pitch collection, pulse spheres, and timbral textures
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7 The Peter Sprague String Consort (Encinitas, CA) Dr. Einstein’s Spin, a three-movement work for violin, viola, cello, guitar, bass and drum
8 Wadada Leo Smith’s Golden Quartet (Ventura, CA) Ten Freedom Summers A tribute to the Civil Rights movement of 1954-1964. (Three movements: “Brown v. Board of Education, 1954”; “Little Rock Nine, 1957” and “Freedom Summer, 1964”)
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Residency partnerships are projects in which jazz, classical/contemporary, and world ensemble music are presented outside traditional perform ance venues and in community settings.
The program is made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund.
An additional award, the Guarneri String Quartet Residency, made possible by a generous gift from the Sewell Family Foundation, is given to the top-ranking string quartet applicant.
1 The Auditorium Chamber Music Series (Moscow, ID) and the Walden Chamber Players Lecture/performances for K-12 students and others in the community; coaching of a youth orchestra, 12 teen string quartets; masterclasses for University of Idaho string students.
2 Anthony Brown and Fifth Stream Music (San Francisco, CA) Bridging Japantown and the Fillmore with Jazz: classroom activities and interactive performances at the Rosa Parks Elementary School, providing an historical overview of San Francisco’s jazz history
3 The Chamber Music Society of St. Cloud (St. Cloud, MN) and the Four Nations Ensemble Lecture-demonstrations of Baroque music or period instru-ments, including four short concerts for the Royalton Elementary School, and lecture-demonstrations at a senior center and at St. Cloud University
4 Music For Youth (Westport, CT) and the Enso String Quartet Coaching for middle-school music students in Bridgeport and Weston, culminating in a joint concert. (The Enso Quartet was awarded the Guarneri String Quartet Residency Grant for this project.)
5 Mike Noonan and the Unified Jazz Ensemble (Severna Park, MD) An extended residency, with Class Acts Arts, of interactive jazz performances and workshops for public school students in the Maryland and Washington, D.C. area
6 The Avery Sharpe Trio (Amherst, MA) A 15-part jazz residency with the Community Music School of Springfield; for pre-schoolers, incarcerated youth, young jazz scholarship awardees, and the general Springfield community. A student ensemble will be formed to perform for and with pre-school children.
7 Silver Roots (New York, NY) A workshop series in Columbia Falls and Kalispell, MT, on impro-visation and collaboration, with youth from the First Best Place Task Force, followed by a joint public per-formance at the Flathead County Library. Students will learn how to present and produce concerts.
8 Third Coast Percussion (Chicago, IL) A five-day residency at McMurry University and four high schools in the Abilene, TX, area. Masterclasses and other activities will focus on the music of John Cage, Steve Reich, and David T. Little. Lecture/performance on the university campus.
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Presenting Jazz Supports the engagement of professional jazz ensembles in concert Presenting Jazz is made possible by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation
1 American Jazz Museum (Kansas City, MO) The Clayton Brothers Quintet will perform music from its recent album Brother to Brother in the museum’s Jammin’ at the Gem series; masterclasses and instrument clinics. 2 Ars Nova Workshop (Philadelphia, PA) Karl Berger and his ensemble in Ars Nova’s season-long project, Composer Portrait: Don Cherry. 3 Earshot Jazz Society (Seattle, WA) The Steve Lehman Octet performed its CMA New Works piece, Travail, Transformation & Flow, to be released by Pi Recordings in Fall 2010. 4 Flynn Center for the Performing Arts (Burlington, VT) Rudresh Mahanthappa’s Indo-Pak Coalition performs at Flynnspace jazz cabaret; three masterclasses and a workshop at the University of Vermont next April. 5 Hallwalls (Buffalo, NY) The Roscoe Mitchell Trio, at Asbury Hall, will perform its recent music as part of a five-day October residency with local musicians. 6 Jazzmobile (New York, NY) The Wycliffe Gordon Septet performed its score to Oscar Micheaux’s silent film Within Our Gates in a free concert; open rehearsal at Harlem Stage and a discussion of Gordon’s works at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture. 7 Northrop Concert and Lectures (Minneapolis, MN) The Regina Carter Quartet— with master kora player Sissoka—performed Reverse Thread, Carter’s work based on folk melodies and improvisations from various cultures of the African Diaspora. Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA) Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet performed Rudolph’s two CMA New Works commissions. (Not pictured.) 8 Planet Arts (Catskill, NY) The Luis Bonilla Quintet performs music from its latest CD, I Talking Now, and other new music in October. 9 Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) Dave Douglas and Keystone in Spark of Being will perform a new collaboration with filmmaker Bill Morrison in October.
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CMA/FACE French American JazzExchange For collaborative projects in France and/or the U.S.
Supported by Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and SACEM
1 Hélène Breschand (Fr., harp) with Zeena Parkins (U.S., harp, electronics), Elliott Sharp (U.S., saxophone, guitar, electronics) and Franck Vigroux (Fr., guitar, turntable), performances in both countries
2 Serge Pesce (Fr., accommodated guitar) and Vincent Chancey (U.S. French horn) compositional collaboration
3 John Hollenbeck (U.S., drums) and Daniel Yvinec (Fr., bass), tentet exploring relation of jazz music to movement
4 Fernando Huergo (U.S., bass) and Gabriel “Minino” Garay (percussion, FR), composition, performance, recording
5 Nguyên Lê (Fr., guitar) and Rudresh Mahanthappa (U.S., saxophone) with Meiko Miyazaki (koto) and Prabhu Edouard (tablas). Residency at Cornish College for the Arts and West Coast tour
6 Hervé Sellin (Fr., piano) with Brian Lynch (U.S., trumpet) composition and pre-miere of a five-part work for nonet
7 Jean-Marie Machado (Fr., pianist) with Dave Liebman (U.S., saxophone) co-composi-tion of a work for septet
8 Baptiste Trotignan (Fr., piano) with Mark Turner (U.S., saxophone) composition, performance, recording
9 Woody Witt (U.S., saxophone) with Franck Amsallem (piano, FR) new works for quartet inspired by the French Impressionists. European tour with Sylvain Romano (Fr., bass) and James Thomas Bates (U.S., drums)
10 Keith Witty (U.S., bass, electronics) with Christophe Panzani (Fr., saxophone), and Guillermo E. Brown (U.S., drums, electronics) composition, performance in both countries, and recording
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12010 Richard J. BogomolnyNational ServiceAwardFor significant, lasting contributionsto the field
1 Chick Corea, pianist, composer
2010 CMAcclaim AwardsFor extraordinary cultural impact in a locality or region
2 BargeMusic (Brooklyn, NY)
3 San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music (San Francisco, CA)
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counterclockwise from top: Chick Corea in 2001; a Bargemusic concert; Dominique Pelletey, executive director of San Francisco Friends of Chamber Music
2010 CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous ProgrammingFor extraordinary commitment to contemporary composers, originality in programming, and innovation in reaching audiences for new music
Supported by the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Ensemble Contemporary: 1 International Contemporary Ensemble (ICE) (Brooklyn, NY)
2 So Percussion (Brooklyn, NY)
Mixed Repertoire: 3 Alturas Duo (West Hartford, CT)
Jazz: 4 Chris Byars Quartet (New York NY)
Presenter/festival (10 or more concerts per season)Mixed Genre: Bowdoin International Music Festival (Brunswick, ME)
Jazz: Earshot Jazz Society (Seattle, WA)
Presenter/festival
(10 concerts or less per season)Contemporary: Carlsbad Music Festival (Carlsbad, CA)
Jazz: 5 Painted Bride Art Center (Philadelphia, PA)
Networking OpportunitiesVibrant Exhibit AreaAnnual Awards Banquethonoring Anthony Checchia and Frank Salomon on the 60th Anniversary of the Marlboro Music School and Festival
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