New Music USA has released the names of the 83 awardees for the 2025 New Music Organization Fund. The organization provides grants to outstanding organizations that work regularly with and support the development of music creators and artists, offering crucial resources to their community. Totaling $584,000 in awards, the program funds organizations working in a variety of genres to help {…}
ChamberQUEER and the Handel and Haydn Society team up to present “BaroQUEER: Historically Informed.” The concert featuring music by composers ranging from George Frideric Handel and Jean-Baptiste Lully to Julius Eastman and Caroline Shaw. Performers include soprano Cassandra Extavour, countertenors Reginald Mobley and Doug Dodson, tenor Gregório Taniguchi, and baritones Brian Mummert and Dana Whiteside. The program celebrates queer perspectives {…}
ChamberQUEER and Luna Composition Lab are set to introduce the first volume of works from “The Nebula Project” on Nov. 4, 2024. For each presentation as part of “The Nebula Project,” a minimum of two Luna Lab alums will be commissioned to create new work for ChamberQUEER performers. This inaugural event, titled “Little Gems” will feature a ChamberQUEER-curated ensemble of {…}
ChamberQUEER has announced its “Constellation Festival,” a celebration of queer community, diversity, and excellence in chamber music for 2024 Pride month. “Constellation” is the organization’s sixth annual Pride month festival. The Fringe Festival-style format will provide a diversity of affordable cultural programming that platforms queer artists during Pride month, including family-friendly, sensory-friendly, and free events. Only vocal events are featured for {…}
ChamberQUEER and Classical Uprising are set to present the “Messiah. Multiplied” on Nov. 3-5, 2023. The adaptation of Händel’s famed work will feature the organization alongside Oratorio Chorale. “What is ‘Messiah?’ Handel’s ‘Messiah’ tells the story of one man’s work to make his world a better place. But what if ‘Messiah’ is not someone but something: an ethic of care, {…}
New Music USA has announced its cohort of 30 new music groups and organizations that have been selected as the inaugural awardees for its newest initiative, New Music Inc. The program based in Baltimore, Chicago, and New York City works to propel small-budget and artist-led organizations. The first cohorts include eight organizations in Baltimore, 12 in Chicago, and 10 New {…}
ChamberQUEER will celebrate NYC’s Pride Week with its pride festival titled, “Part of The Future Is…” Events will take place on June 10 and 12 and be held at National Sawdust. Both ChamberQUEER and National Sawdust strive to highlight historically underrepresented LGBTQ+ people in western classical music by collaborating with today’s queer artists. The works to be presented are written, {…}
(Credit: Joshua South) ChamberQueer is set to showcase “Narcissus” on Nov. 16, 2019 at the Christ & Stephen’s Church in New York. The concert will feature tenor Andrew Fuchs and harpist Parker Ramsay in music by gay composers over the last two centuries. Among the pieces performed will be Schubert’s “Songs of the Harper,” songs by Reynaldo Hahn, and Britten’s {…}