BMI Foundation Awards 2015 Grants for Music Education and Performance
The BMI Foundation’s 2015 General Grants Program has awarded over sixty grants to music education programs and performing arts presenters throughout the United States. The awards provide operating support for a range of contemporary performers, instructors, and preservationists spanning all genres of American music. Below is a complete list of 2015 BMI Foundation General Grant recipients.
“Since its founding in 1985, the BMI Foundation has had the privilege of supporting nonprofit organizations that share our commitment to the vitality of American music,” said BMI Foundation President Deirdre Chadwick. “This year’s worthy recipients include GRAMMY-winning ensembles, tuition-free youth orchestras and bands, mentoring programs, and organizations that are supporting, supplementing or replacing public school arts curricula. We applaud these initiatives and look forward to increasingly diverse and expanded philanthropic partnerships in the future.”
The BMI Foundation General Grants Program provides essential funding for nonprofit organizations committed to furthering the creation, performance, and/or study of contemporary American music. The program is administered on an annual, competitive, and invitation-only basis. Awards are determined by the Foundation’s General Grants Committee with the aid of internationally acclaimed musicians and music industry executives serving on the Artistic Advisory Panel. Established in 1985, the General Grants are the very first program created by the BMI Foundation.
BMI Foundation 2015 General Grant Recipients:
Community Music Programming and Presenters
Bowdoin International Music Festival
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
Chamber Music Monterey Bay
Community MusicWorks
Ebb & Flow Arts
Look & Listen Festival
Market Square Concerts
Music at the Anthology
Music from Angel Fire
Other Minds
Present Music
Savannah Music Festival
South Florida Symphony Orchestra
Tribeca New Music
Composer and New Music Advocacy
American Composers Forum
American Composers Orchestra
Association for the Promotion of New Music
Composers, Inc.
New Music USA
Young Concert Artists
Contemporary Music Ensembles, Orchestras, and Choirs
Alarm Will Sound
American Modern Ensemble
Boston Modern Orchestra Project
Boston Musica Viva
The Crossing
Cypress String Quartet
eighth blackbird
Either/Or
Ensemble Dal Niente
Fifth House Ensemble
New Century Chamber Orchestra
New York Virtuoso Singers
newEar contemporary music ensemble
Poné Ensemble for New Music
Riverside Symphony
Sympho, Inc.
Symphony in C
Tucson Symphony Orchestra
Voices of Change
Wet Ink Ensemble
Jazz
Afro Latin Jazz Alliance
JazzReach
Music Education and Mentorship
Composers Conference and Chamber Music Center
Concert Artists Guild
Elaine Kaufman Cultural Center
Entertainers 4 Education Alliance /I WILL GRADUATE PROGRAM
Education Through Music-Los Angeles
Arts Alive
Learning through an Expanded Arts Program
Music Unites
New York Youth Symphony
The Passerine Project
Time In Children’s Arts Initiative
The Walden School
Willie Mae Rock Camp for Girls
Musical Theatre
Amas Musical Theatre
American Opera Projects
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International Contemporary Ensemble Foundation Inc
National Alliance for Musical Theatre
The New York Musical Theatre Festival
New Dramatists
New Musicals Inc.