(Credit: Kate Mount)

New Music USA has launched the Thea Musgrave Performer-Composer Collaboration Grant.

The gift of $250,000 by Musgrave and her husband Peter Mark will support composer-performer collaborations in perpetuity. Starting in 2025, one to two grants of $10,000 will be distributed through the New Music Creator Fund. The first awardees of the grant will be announced this June.

“I am honored to collaborate with New Music USA to support composer-performer collaborations,” Musgrave said per an official press release. “It is through such collaborations that I’ve been encouraged to experiment and create works that are deeply personal to the performers I work with; and in turn, my works have benefitted greatly from the expertise and knowledge that the players bring to the collaborative process. We are establishing this new grant for New Music USA to ensure that future generations of composers and performers can experience these rich collaborations, with have been exceptionally meaningful to me throughout my career.”

“Collaboration is a central element of our New Music Creator Fund, and we could not be more grateful to Thea Musgrave and Peter Mark for their generosity to ensure that emerging composers and performers have the time, space, and funds to dedicate to the collaborative process. We are excited to experience the new works and collaborative relationships that come to fruition thanks to this extraordinary gift,” added Kate Dreyfuss, Marc Giosi, and Scott Winship, Co-Interim Executive Directors of New Music USA.

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