New Music USA Announces 2024 Organization Fund Awardees

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 {…}

Sphinx Organization Announces 2022 Sphinx Venture Fund Grantees

The Sphinx Organization has announced the recipients of its 2022 Sphinx Venture Fund grants. The winning projects are the inaugural Nina Simone Piano Competition, the inaugural New York City Opera’s Duncan-Williams Voice Competition, and Composing Inclusion. The piano competition and Composing Inclusion will receive $100,000 in funding, and the voice competition, $97,500. The Nina Simone Piano Competition, named in honor {…}

Interlochen Center for the Arts Names Enrique Márquez as Director of Music

Interlochen Center for the Arts has named Enrique Márquez as the organization’s Director of Music. He will assume the role on June 1, 2021. Márquez will lead music programming, pedagogy, and curriculum at Interlochen Arts Academy, Interlochen Arts Camp, Interlochen Online, and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. “An accomplished educator, arts leader, musician, and Interlochen alumnus whose career in the {…}

Morris Robinson Hosts ‘A Concert for Equity in the Arts’ Presented by Sparrow Live

Star bass Morris Robinson will host “A Concert for Equity in the Arts” presented by Sparrow Live on Oct. 25, 2020. Thus far, the artist lineup for the showcase will include Metropolitan Opera bass, Morris Robinson; Minnesota Opera Resident Studio Artist, baritone Allen Michael Jones; Chautauqua Opera young artist, soprano Chasiti Walker; Wolf Trap soprano, Brittany Logan; recent Maryland Lyric {…}