Composer Assistance Program Grants Announced
Twenty-five composers have received grants totaling $25,560 through the current round of the Composer Assistance Program (CAP), the American Music Center has announced. The awardees are American composers ranging in age from 23 to 83, and residing in nine states.
AMC awards approximately $85,000 annually to composers to assist in the production of premiere performances. A complete list of awardees and performers follows below.
Since 1962, the Composer Assistance Program has provided over $2 million in support to more than 1,200 American composers.
Sebastian CurrierNew York, NYNightmazeNetwork for New Music and Mosaic, at Temple University’s Rock Hall, Philadelphia, PAMatt DoranVancouver, WASymphonyThe Vancouver Symphony at Skyview Auditorium, Vancouver, WAAaron GarberSalem, VAMass for PeaceThe Salem Choral Society at Jefferson Center, Roanoke, VAFareed HaqueEvanston, IL“Lahara” ConcertoFareed Haque, Zakir Hussain and the Chicago Sinfonietta at Orchestra Hall, Chicago, IL and Lund Auditorium, River Forest, ILIvana LisakBoston, MALaments of Shadow and MysteryThe ALEA III Ensemble at the Tsai Performance Center, Boston, MAKermit MooreNew York, NYDe Natura NaturaeNorth South Consonance at Christ & St. Stephen’s Church, New York, NYDan ViscontiWestern Springs, ILBlack BendThe Cabrillo Festival Orchestra at Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium, Santa Cruz, CA</table
| Composer | Residence | Composition | Performance Detail |
| Kabir Carter | New York, NY | Decontrolled | Kabir Carter and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute Electronic Arts MFA Students at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY |
| Gerald Cohen | Yonkers, NY | Sarah and Hagar (Act I) | Elizabeth Shammash, Ilana Davidson, Robert Gardner, Tanya D. Witek, Jo-Ann Sternberg, Krystof Witek, Lois Martin, Eliot Bailen, Linda Hall Gerson, and Michael Adelson at Temple Shaaray Tefila, New York, NY |
| Nicholas Didkovsky | New York, NY | Rain on a Frail Cutie | California EAR Unit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
| Man Fang | Ithaca, NY | Le Noir ‘Black’ | Orchestre National de Lorraine at Centre Acanthes, Metz, France |
| J. Ryan Garber | Jefferson City, TN | Concerto for Piano and Orchestra | The Salem Choral Society Orchestra at Shaftman Hall, Roanoke, VA |
| David Glaser | New York, NY | Apparitions | The Peconic Chamber Orchestra at Westhampton Beach Performing Arts Center, Westhampton, NY |
| Aaron Grad | Brooklyn, NY | Concertino for Clarinet | Alan R. Kay and the New York Chamber Ensemble at the Episcopal Church of the Advent, Cape May Music Festival, Cape May, NJ |
| Jonathan Bailey Holland | Somerville, MA | Monochrome | The New Gallery Concert Series at the Community Music Center, Boston, MA |
| Brooke Joyce | Charlottesville, VA | watersmooth-silver | The High Mountain Symphony at William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ |
| Victor Kioulaphides | New York, NY | Riegelsberg Suite | Kammerorchester Riegelsberg, at Elisabethskirche, Riegelsberg, Germany |
| Robert Kritz | Chicago, IL | Diaspora Dances | Concertante Di Chicago Orchestra at DePaul University Auditorium, Chicago, IL |
| Felipe Lara | Revere, MA | Tutti | The New York New Music Ensemble at the June In Buffalo Festival, Buffalo, NY |
| Janis Mattox | Woodside, CA | Solombra | Katia Escalera, Susan Freier, Stephen Harrison and Matthew Edwards at Sanchez Concert Hall, Pacifica, CA |
| Akmal Parwez | Kew Gardens, NY | Once Upon a Springtime | Lauren Vollono, Marilyn Brendel, Justin Friedman and the Freeport High School Wind Ensemble, at Freeport High School Festival of the Arts, Freeport, NY |
| Jeffrey Raheb | Brooklyn, NY | Topaz Under Moon | The South Dakota Symphony Orchestra at Washington Pavilion, Sioux Falls, South Dakota |
| Anna Rubin | Ellicott City, MD | Family Stories: Sophie, Sally | The Da Capo Chamber Players at The Knitting Factory, New York, NY |
| David Wolff | St. Paul, MN | Sun Dogs | The St. Cloud Symphony Orchestra at St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN |
| Gregg Wramage | Brooklyn, NY | Remember Death (The Hemingway Summer) | The American Composers Orchestra at Columbia University, New York, NY |