Copland House has recently announced that five composers have been selected to receive 2020 Residency Awards, a year curtailed by...

The Recording Academy has announced the complete list of nominees for the 2021 Grammy Awards which will presented in a...

Gabriela Lena Frank is one of recipients of the 2020 Heinz Award, an unrestricted prize of US$250,000 which recognizes outstanding...

Jazz vocalist, pianist, composer and bandleader Cécile McLorin Salvant is the sole musician among the 21 recipients of 2020 MacArthur...

G. Schirmer & Associated Music Publishers, part of Wise Music Group, has announced that the recipient of the 2020 G....

With the forthcoming launch of their new global streaming platform, Opera Philadelphia has commissioned four American composers to create and...

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The Oral History of American Music (OHAM), an oral history project and archive of audio and video recordings based at...

Katherine Balch and William Dougherty are among the 22 American artists and scholars in 11 disciplines awarded 2020–21 Rome Prizes...

As we evaluate our digital resources, we’ve heard your feedback. Our site can be difficult to navigate, and the bounty...

New Music USA grants $502,700 to 392 artists and organizations working at the forefront of music creation, performance, and recording.

On Friday, June 12, President & CEO Vanessa Reed accepted the League of American Orchestras’ highest honor, the Gold Baton,...

The American Composers Forum (ACF) and New Music USA will jointly receive the League of American Orchestras’ highest honor, the...

The ASCAP Foundation has announced the 20 winning composers in its 2020 ASCAP Morton Gould Young Composer Awards competition all...

Trumpeter, composer, and producer Christian Scott aTundé Adjuah is the one of the five recipients of this year's interdisciplinary Herb...

Chamber orchestra The Knights to serve as ensemble-in-residence at the 92nd Street Y in New York City.

The Jazz Coalition has announced the first 51 recipients of $1000 awards in its Commission Fund, which has been newly...

The Jazz Journalists Association has announced the winners of its 25th annual JJA Jazz Awards. Carla Bley received the JJA's...

The award-winning works range from an orchestral evocation of Nahua cosmology to a string quartet inspired by somatic therapy created...

Artists from a wide variety of genres have been commissioned to create new works, less than 5 minutes long, while...

Paul Novak will receive the 2020 Underwood Commission and Dai Wei will receive the CANOA (Composing a New Orchestra Audience)...

The Lewis Prize for Music has established a $1 million COVID-19 Community Response Fund which will distribute over 20 grants...

Thirteen composers and a music historian are among the recipients of the Guggenheim Foundation's 2020 fellowships to 175 writers, scholars,...

Maria Schneider's Concert in the Garden, Jennifer Higdon's Percussion Concerto, the Original Cast Album of Fiddler on the Roof, and...

The American Academy of Arts and Letters announced today the seventeen recipients of this year’s awards in music, which total...

Edition Peters has announced that American composer Ashley Fure has signed a publishing agreement with the firm; she is the...

ASCAP Foundation President Paul Williams has announces that Cory Brodack has been named the 2020 recipient of The ASCAP Foundation...

A total of nearly $2 million has been awarded to inaugural class of recipients of the Lewis Prize for Music,...

G. Schirmer, Inc. has announced a worldwide publishing administration agreement with composer, performer, activist, curator, and educator Du Yun. Schirmer...

The American Composers Forum has announced the 2020 recipients of its ACF | create program (formerly JFund – Jerome Fund...