New Music USA has named 85 awardees for the New Music Organization Fund’s 2024 grant cycle. This year, 702 applications were submitted. Grant seekers included music organizations, performance groups, dance organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues spanning 17 states. Applicants chose their preferred funding strand from one of the following categories: General Operating Support, Creation of New Work, or Live Music {…}
Guerilla Opera is set to present Deniz Khateri’s “SALT” on August 17-20, 2022. The experimental opera is a monologue for soprano and electronics and is being presented as part of the Ice Factory Festival at the New Ohio Theatre in New York City. Aliana de la Guardia headlines the opera, which will be directed by Khateri with music and sound {…}
New Music USA has announced the selection of 100 organizational awardees as part of the 2022 Organizational Development Fund. Each organization will receive, on average, $6,780.00. A panel of 21 artists, creators, musicians, and administrators selected the 100 recipients from a pool of 392 applicants. To knock bias out of the selection process, 76 percent of panelists identified as women {…}
Parma Recordings is set to present an encore presentation of its 2016 production of “Loose, Wet, Perforated.” The opera by Nicholas Vines (composer and librettist on the work) was directed by Austin Regan and tells the story of “Loose” and “Wet” as they compete in a game show. The opera runs for approximately 75 minutes and is sung in English. {…}
OPERA America has announced the nine companies that will be awarded $100,000 in grants for commissioning operas by female composers. The recipients include Beth Morrison Projects for Du Yun’s “In Our Daughter’s Eyes,” which is written by Michael Joseph McQuilken; Boston Lyric Opera for Ellen Reid and librettist Christopher Oscar Peña’s “The Desert Inn;” Guerilla Opera for “HER: alive / {…}
OPERA America has selected 15 participants for its 2020 Leadership Intensive Program. These leaders, which hail from the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Latin America, were selected from a pool of 44 candidates. The participants selected by OPERA America include are Derrell Acon, director of engagement and equity, Long Beach Opera; Joe Barnes, company manager, the Metropolitan Opera; Robert Boldin, artistic {…}