New Music Creator Fund is sponsored by New Music USA. Offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to move their creative practice forward, particularly those involving collaboration with other artists. Grant funds can be used for a variety of creative and project-related expenses.

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The Creator Fund is funded in part by The ASCAP Foundation Bart Howard Fund, BMI Foundation, the Howard Gilman Foundation. Grants to artists in New York are made possible in part by the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of the Office of the Governor and the New York State Legislature and with public funds form the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council.

The Musgrave Performer — Composer Collaboration Grant is made possible by the generosity and creativity of composer Thea Musgrave and her husband, conductor Peter Mark. New Music USA acknowledges and is grateful for the support of its endowment donors, including the Mellon Foundation, Mary Flagler Cary Charitable Trust, Helen F.

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Enter the an email address you'd like to share with. You may enter a short note here. (Pictured above: Annea Lockwood, photo by Julia Dratel) The New Music Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to reach the next stage of their creative practice.

The program supports costs related to the creation of new work and new projects developed in collaboration with other artists and practitioners. Examples of costs supported through the fund include (but are not limited to) performer/collaborator fees, project-specific equipment, joint R&D and workshopping of new project ideas, and other essential costs such as childcare for yourself or a collaborating artist.

Our aim is to enable music creators to take the lead in the development of new and existing ideas and projects. We believe in supporting new music in all its forms across the US, and our Creator Fund grantees represent geographic diversity and a broad range of musical styles. PDF versions of the Creator Fund and Musgrave grant guidelines.

The 2025 cycle of the New Music Creator Fund (the application was in November 2024) was reviewed by 38 independent panelists who evaluated over 475 applications from creators across the US South, West, and New York. We continue to be deeply inspired by the exceptional artistry and range of our Creator Fund awardees and applicants.

Discover the New Music Creator Fund 2025 awardees’ work through their profiles below and via the following playlists: Spotify Playlist and YouTube Playlist 2025 Thea Musgrave Performer-Composer Collaboration Grant Zachary Mowitz & Juantio Becenti This summer Juantio Becenti will complete a new work for viola, cello, and soprano engaging with water rights, water history, and the Navajo.

This is part of a series of works that LA Phil cellist Zachary Mowitz is commissioning as part of Nodality Music’s Climate Commissioning Initiative, a project prompting composers around the world to create music that emboldens listeners to process the realities of climate change and examine their own relationship with the natural world.

The world premiere will take place this September at Western University in London, ON, performed by Mowitz, violist Sharon Wei, and soprano Lucy Fitz Gibbon. 2025 Creator Fund Grantees: New York Grammy-winning choir The Crossing records composer Aaron Helgeson’s The Book of Never, an American Academy of Letters Award winning adaptation of the mysterious Ukrainian Novgorod Codex and writings by 20th-century writers in exile.

"Tinta Emborronada" is a multi-disciplinary bilingual work that includes intimate, emotional songs revolving around mental health struggles, social issues, and familial relationships. These compositions will be accompanied by video pieces in collaboration with filmmaker and video artist Daniel Aguilar.

Thawing Tides breathes with the rhythms of a world in flux—melting ice, resonant wood, and echoing depths converge in a sonic landscape of urgency and contemplation. In collaboration with Rebekah Heller, I weave Arctic recordings, bassoon, and the human voice into an immersive monodrama, where sound becomes both witness and invitation, opening space for reflection and dialogue.

Annea Lockwood & Nate Wooley The River is a Serpentine God, by Annea Lockwood and Nate Wooley, is a sound map of the Columbia/Nch’i-Wána River, an installation created from recordings of the river, and a song cycle tracing the great changes set in motion by the building of each of the many dams on the river’s main stem, the texts based on interviews with indigenous and settler community members.

The songs will be published and donated to schools, libraries and community centers along the river. This project is a collaboration with Iranian kamancheh player and composer Niloufar Shiri around our re-imagination of repertoire from Persian classical music, Kurdish folk songs, and folk music from eastern Czech Republic through the prisms of jazz improvisation and classical composition.

“Nomadic Crossroads” is a new choreographed music composition in collaboration with bassist Maksim Perepelica and dancer Argelia Arreola. It explores identity and belonging through the lens of immigrant artists, highlighting their unique challenges as they navigate diverse paths and cultures while remaining true to themselves. 'The Book of Radio Hours' is a theatrical song cycle, created by Eliza Bagg & Celeste Oram.

Resurrecting the startlingly radical qualities of Medieval music & thought with ornate, experimental polyphony and its electronic augmentation, the piece is a playful yet critical take on Medievalism’s ever-ascendant allure as a fiction for escaping present-day dissatisfactions.

Nigel is an evening-length dramatic work for music and movement based on the life of a seabird by the same name, who fell in love with a concrete bird replica and died peacefully by her side. The work is a collaboration with the choreographer Mary Sigward and the ensemble Hypercube.

Girders is inspired by the work I’ve long considered to be a central allegory for my life’s improvisatory path—the 1934 Popeye Theater cartoon entitled “A Dream Walking.

” Composed for piano/oboe/marimba/EBow guitar/trombone/laptop/tenor saxophone/high frequency signal generators & transistor radios, the piece explores various tunings and temperaments ranging from the precise 12-equal & just intonation systems to the barely controllable or predictable airwaves.

Elizabeth Kate commissions Seare Farhat for Sacred Sounds: Fractured Spaces, a concert-length work for vocalizing cello that transposes the sacred acoustics of Fairchild Chapel into open-air urban environments using immersive live electronics, convolution reverb, and resonant metal. Ledra is the name of one of the ten ancient Cypriot kingdoms, where the present Nicosia (Cyprus) municipality extends.

This will be my first piano trio and my first collaboration with the London based world renowned Fidelio trio. "PLAY ME" is Frankie Leroux’s debut: a dynamic, heartfelt collection of warm, soulful, and culturally rich music. Blending modern and timeless sounds, the album features a diverse range of artists and reflects years of deep collaboration and creative exploration.

Nothing Stands Still Jazz soprano saxophonist/ composer Jane Ira Bloom collaborates with immersive audio engineer Ulrike Schwarz to find new directions in recorded music for improvising musicians that heightens the impact of high fidelity surround sound. Bloom captures the poetry she imagines of soaring in space and Schwarz expands the sensory event with ground breaking recording technology.

With a background rooted in native South Korean culture, bassist and composer Jeong Lim Yang infuses her music with a distinctive traditional Korean folk theme and ambiance echoing the nuances of colloquial language.

The ensemble looks to breakout of the classic jazz piano trio format, they aim to explore each instrument both technically and creatively, by incorporating innovative improvisational techniques that capture an Eastern sensibility. Julia Rocha-Nava, who leads the collaborative music project Chispa, is a vocalist, producer, educator, and land steward.

Their debut album "Somos Medicina" tells stories of composting systems of oppression, reconnecting with the land, and channeling the transformative power of queer love. Drawing on music traditions from Latin American and the Caribbean—including Cumbia, Bolero, Bomba, and Son Jarocho—the album offers love songs for the land and the people who tend it.

SISTERS OF THE STORM is a chamber opera that centers queer identity, dementia, euthanasia, and inter-generational trauma while decolonizing Shakespeare’s King Lear through an all-female Asian American family. "Seagulls" is a recording project by Kelly Schenk, created in collaboration with producer Sahil Ansari, aiming to capture themes of control, queer acceptance, and making peace with change.

Inspired by the natural imagery of Kelly's Pacific Northwest upbringing, the project embraces an organic and contemporary folk soundscape, brought to life with exceptional local musicians. Enheduanna, Layale Chaker's forthcoming second opera, is conceived like an experiment in feminist utopia - a reimagination of a world anew - through birth, and rebirth, of text.

This piece unearths the life of Enheduanna, a Sumerian priestess and the first named poet in history, transposing her into a modern unnamed landscape where young women are rising against the state of the world. "The Days Pass Quickly Immersed in the Shadow of Eternity" is a new composition for early flutes and multichannel sound. Featuring medieval flutist, Norbert Rodenkirchen, the piece catapults ancient music into a mesmeric present.

Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed & Ms. Zilbert What do Halloween, Christmas, Valentine's Day, Pride, and 4/20 all have in common? They are all celebrated with original songs by Ms. Zilbert and Lucas Tahiruzzaman Syed in their debut EP, “The High Holy Days. ” Collaborator: No Looking Back.

The King Zodiac Project is a transformative sonic journey, merging jazz, classical, electronic, and rock to tell the story of an early Martin Luther King Jr.'s spiritual awakening. Composed by Majid Khaliq, the project explores his growth from birth to young manhood, guided by mysticism and ancestral wisdom.

The first, "The Genesis of Michael King Jr.," portrays his early life as the son of a sharecropper, burdened by a prophecy that will shape history. The second, The Quickening of Amun – Martin’s Violin, highlights the development of Martin’s musical talents and intellectual growth, laying the foundation for his future.

The final movement, Luther’s Moonwalk into the House of Moors, represents his evolution at Morehouse College, where he embraces his purpose and vision for justice, stepping into his legacy as a leader. “Vinho e Mel” is a poetic wordplay that gives name to a duet by composer/performer collaborators Melvis Santa (singer/multi instrumentalist. Cuba) and Vinicius Gomes (guitarist/arranger.

Brazil). Through a selection of new compositions and reimagined classics the artists will record an album that explore indigenous and alien sonic spaces, drawing inspiration from each other’s cultural roots, and reflecting on their journey as immigrant independent musicians based in Brooklyn NY - the inspiring as well as challenging landscape that brought them together.

Sahara von Hattenberger & Vanessa Croome A collaboration that folds, bends, and breaks classical aesthetics through a bold new work, setting original text drawn from the artists’ own diaries. Co-founded by cellist Sahara von Hattenberger and vocalist Vanessa Croome, Duo Étrange reimagines two soloists as equal duet partners, creating a new and intimate sound world.

Kebra Seyoun-Charles, a virtuosic composer and performer, is celebrated for their innovative, genre-fluid artistry, with work spanning concerti, ballets, and pop ballads. Waterfront is a multimedia composition for eight-channel audio and live performers which explores the fragile and ever-evolving relationship between living beings and the bodies of water they live near.

The work splices, reorganizes, and mutates field recordings from ten locations by the water around NYC, all while different combinations of bass clarinet, bassoon, tenor saxophone, trumpet, acoustic guitar, and found percussion play throughout the space. Sam Kogon's forthcoming album (name TBA) follows up his 2022 self-titled EP, as he's teamed back up with veteran producer John Agnello along with his band and some very special guests.

Kogon & Co. recorded the songs last spring at the coveted Dreamland studio's in Woodstock, NY very close to where he grew up, making this new album hit close to home. FEMPIRE is Sarah Overton and Brittany Harris, a cello duo dedicated to cultivating spaces that reimagine social constructs through sound.

We use genre and gender as fluid tools to challenge narratives around blackness, femininity, and the classical tradition. 2025 Creator Fund Grantees: South Voice and Phenomenon uses the medium of the voice, the most personal instrument of all, to traverse the concept of violence, by playing with the voice in its myriad forms: poetry, spoken word, singing, buddhist chants, games, voice overs, samples, gibberish, crying, and laughing.

It argues that violence is not just physical violence but that of crossing the line, that of transformation; the album traces the artists' personal history of violence and concludes that life requires violence, because love is the greatest form of violence. Ami Dang presents Bhai Vir Singh’s Lost Melodies with Tallā Rouge, featuring a new composition for sitar, voice, electronics, and violas and a video recording of the performance.

This work will be in collaboration with viola duo, Talla Rouge. The piece will be set to text from a poem by Vir Singh, a 20th-century Punjabi poet and scholar, who is also Dang's great-great-grandfather. "Rhythm & Brass" will be an exciting day festival, showcasing a diverse lineup of talented artists from the DC, MD, and VA region.

The event will culminate with the recording of a live album, capturing the energy and unique vibe of the performance for everyone to enjoy long after the festival. 100% PURE explores themes of love, self-discovery, and healing on a deeply personal and transformative musical journey.

Through raw lyrics and soulful melodies, this R&B fusion album invites listeners to embrace vulnerability while challenging societal standards of romance, femininity, and purity. enVISION amplifies the voices of marginalized communities by designing a DeafBlind-centered experience through an immersive, multisensory performance that reimagines dance and theater.

Shaped in collaboration with disabled musicians and the ShaLeigh Dance Works creative team, the work transcends sight and sound—evoking felt sonic and visual perception to uplift underrepresented voices. This project centers on the creation and performance of an original country EP that amplifies underrepresented voices in the genre while reflecting the creative spirit of Northwest Arkansas.

In collaboration with local producers, musicians, and engineers, the project will blend classic country roots with modern influences to craft a sound that feels both timeless and new. Recorded at a regional studio and supported by visual storytelling, the project will culminate in a live release show celebrating the music and the community behind it.

Grounded in cultural representation and regional pride, this work aims to increase diversity in country music and contribute to NWA’s vibrant artistic scene. Kayla Verse’s upcoming project: Telensia, City of AI is a cyberpunk visual album centered around the tensions between humans, AI, and otherworldly beings in a sci-fi fantasy story world.

Listeners will hear themes of Pop, Alternative, Techno, Trip hop, and more in this immersive concept album full of danceable tracks and dark dramatic ballads. 'this latent space' is the first project from multimedia collaborative trio Answer in Spades (Michael Gancz — composer and engineer, Aloïs Tirard — visual artist, and Chi S Tsu — writer).

A new composition in the guise of a point-and-click video game, this piece employs nonlinear storytelling, real-time composition, and a blurred sense of agency in order to explore the emotional nuance of a society governed by machine intelligence. Red Clay 2 is the soulful second installment of Micheal J. Hall's community-themed album series.

A collaborative project, this new work illuminates the beautiful struggle of community by exploring themes of pride, joy, and anguish; it highlights artists with deep connections to the singer/songwriter's home state of Mississippi. “Jazz Influences and V. I.

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A. ” is a three-part immersive series featuring experimental jazz and projected abstract art designed to explore how playing jazz influences (and values) Vulnerability, Improvisation, Collaboration, Exploration, Versatility, Experimentation, Representation, Space, Authenticity and how those values influence playing jazz, historically and currently.

A Hundred Miles” is an Afro-Eclectic single that blends Afrobeat and folk influences to tell a story of longing, memory, and liberation. The project aims to amplify cultural storytelling through rich acoustic textures and ancestral rhythms. The Jazz Soloist with String Orchestra concept, pioneered by Charlie Parker, has been embraced by many jazz artists, yet the trombone is rarely featured in this context.

Notable exceptions include Jack Teagarden's "Think Well of Me" and Curtis Fuller's "Cabin in the Sky." My new project, “Threads,” aims to collaborate with GRAMMY-Winning Producer/Composer Ryan Truesdell to compose a piece for Trombone and String Orchestra that transcends traditional jazz arrangements, inspired by adventurous projects like Stan Getz/Eddie Sauter’s “Focus” album.

"Flowers for Maceo" is a jazz/funk recording project led by saxophonist/composer Rahsaan Barber in celebration of legendary saxophonist Maceo Parker. The project will feature performances by upcoming musicians who, like Parker, hail from or reside in North Carolina.

Butterfly Blood explores the resiliency, strength and wisdom in butterflies and connects with the metaphorical theme of femininity in regards to the competency of its leadership. The Sofia Goodman Group will learn and perform Goodman's compositions and will collaborate with Jeff Coffin, as he serves as a mentor for Goodman and her ensemble, offering feedback and insight.

Join me, Somalia, on the "Love Conquers All Tour"—a soul-stirring journey of love, healing, and harmony through live intimate performances, coming to a city near you. 2025 Creator Fund Grantees: West For "Saturation Triplex", a new chamber music composition with fixed electronics, Watts will be collaborating with Switch~ Ensemble.

The piece seeks to create a complex sonic ecosystem in which influences from three pioneering composers—Giacinto Scelsi, Fausto Romitelli, and Maryanne Amacher—coexist simultaneously, each filtered through Watts' unique voice. Every Moment is Another Opportunity to Shine is an album of works by Andrew Tholl exploring the intersection ​of electronic, acoustic, and improvisational practices.

Featuring collaborations with Wild Up, saxophonists M. A. Tiesenga, Patrick Shiroishi, Brian Walsh, and Pat Posey, and producer Lewis Pesacov, the album presents a continuous progression from synthetic to acoustic environments, reflecting Tholl's ongoing exploration of genre-blending sound worlds.

City Spirits, is a Latin-Jazz-Fusion, concept Album and Multimedia performance experience. This Project explores the different micro-cultures within different neighborhoods in Los Angeles through the lens of a Mexican American. City Spirits is comprised of 10 original compositions that represent 10 different Los Angeles neighborhoods and incapsulate the micro culture and energy within the neighborhood.

My project will create and premiere a new concerto for Native American flute and Orchestra, collaborating with composer Justin Ralls and the Idaho State Civic Symphony. Igor Santos is writing a new piece for video and chamber ensemble, a work commissioned by both EMPAC and [Switch~ Ensemble]. Free Folk is a dynamic collaboration between Melanie Dyer, Gwendolyn Laster, and J.

R. Rhodes, three African American women artists who blend folk traditions with improvisational music to explore musical traditions alongside personal and collective narratives. Their work honors the creative legacies of people of color—highlighting the voices, stories, and artistry of women—through a resonant sound rooted in storytelling, healing, and cultural expression.

I Am He Whose Life and Soul Are Torment is an evening-length work for live electronics, voice, and projections about the life of Georgian-born Soviet-Armenian film director Sergei Parajanov. It is a collaboration between composer Joseph Bohigian, vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian, and Ensemble Decipher.

This composition project in collaboration with the Del Sol String Quartet will be centered around the Filipino Immigration experience, specifically centered around California and the San Francisco Bay Area.

Through researching and investigating documentation of these experiences along with interviews conducted with members of the community, I will use these materials to create a new multimedia experience that will be premiered at the Angel Island Immigration Station.

Take Kare is a project by Northeast LA-based Filipinx-Chinese artist, Karen Joyce and aims to remind listeners of the validity of their own feelings and the power of our interconnected existence. Blending dream pop, jazz, and indie rock soundscapes, Take Kare's music transmits an emotive intensity, which is tempered with self-awareness, and a sincere hope for healing.

EPA to DRC, an original chamber music piece by composer Kiazi Malonga, sheds light on the parallels between Silicon Valley’s exploitation of the Black community of East Palo Alto for its cheap property and labor, just as in the Democratic Republic of Congo for its cheap cobalt and labor. Leilehua Lanzilotti & brooke smiley ka/ua is a new collaboration between choreographer/dancer brooke smiley and Leilehua Lanzilotti.

The work will be an evening-length live performance of live music for dance. The title of the work is a word play on the meanings of “kaua” (you and I) and “ka ua” (the rain) in the Hawaiian language. This is a new interdisciplinary work combining interviews from fringe ecologists and improvisational compositions by experimental musicians in four movements entitled “Ecological Thinking”.

This is a collaboration with Andre Raiah, a sound creator known as Brown Calvin, and with Grammy-winning trombonist Denzel Mendoza of Illegal Son. Melanie DeMore, vocal activist, is creating music using the stories of the folks who live and thrive in the Tenderloin despite all the odds. "Home" is the second studio album by the MINA CHOI Orchestra, featuring renowned artists, Terell Stafford and Jon Cowherd.

This project presents a diverse collection of music and narratives composed for a 19-piece big band. It reflects Mina Choi’s personal journey as a Korean immigrant, capturing profound themes of struggle, longing, and self-discovery. Through her music, Mina aspires to connect with others and to share messages of hope and love.

Richard An & Gillian Rae Perry Gilly’s Garden is a heartfelt, hour-long album that blends contemporary classical music with the warmth and intimacy of singer-songwriter sounds. This album will be recorded at rasp. la, and upon completion, we will host an album release show at the studio, aiming to bring together different musical communities in LA.

San Cha will collaborate with Darian Donovan Thomas to finalize 'The Assumption,' blending pop structures, industrial sounds, opera vocals, and punk energy, inspired by queer nightlife in the Bay Area & LA, aiming for a 2026 release.

Sanaya Ardeshir (Sandunes) The Book of Communal Howling (BOCH) is an hour long composition by Aurora Nealand written for the Instigation Orchestra, Tower of Silence is a composition by Sanaya Ardeshir written for Alarm Will Sound. The work uses orchestration and electronics to explore the Parsi funerary ritual of sky burials through the lens of vulture disappearance in the Indian subcontinent.

The Dakhma, or Tower of Silence refers to structures used for the decomposition of the dead.

SHE MONSTER is a new music-theater collaboration between composer Juhi Bansal, performer Laura Bohn, and librettist Stephanie Fleischmann that explores the archetype of the mythic monstrous female and asks: What happens when we embrace the strange, empowering ourselves to harness ferocity in order to grapple with trauma and loss, and catalyze transformation?

“Guava Jam” is a community-centered project led by composer Takuma Itoh featuring an original composition using invasive and salvaged woods of Honolulu. Through instrument-making workshops and collaborative performances, the project culminates in an Arbor Day 2025 event that blends environmental awareness with creative music-making.

The Scalene Triangle project brings together three improvising artists (William Roper, Randal Fisher, Devin Daniels), of different generations, forming a performing unit adept in several styles of improvisation. Through a collaborative process, Roper will create three graphic scores that reflect the similarities and differences of their coming of age as African Americans in South Central Los Angeles, in different eras.

“So often composers are expected to simply deliver the parts while the performers are expected to just make it happen with however many rehearsals they’ve been allotted. It makes all the difference, though, when you can spend meaningful time with the composer from conception through performance.

This grant allows us to do just that with Tio, and furthermore it will help us set a collaborative model for the rest of Nodality Music’s Climate Commissions. Thank you, Thea and Peter, for providing the means to bring Tio’s new work to the world in the most inspired and impactful way possible!

” Zachary Mowitz, Los Angeles, CA “I'm incredibly excited to produce my first recorded venture (as a bandleader) into the world of funk and to do so in tribute to Maceo Parker, a legendary saxophonist I've admired since first becoming aware of his contributions as a bandleader and sideman with countless incredible artists.

The funds will be used to pay studio and musician costs, and the project will feature musicians who, like Parker, either hail from North Carolina or reside in the state. ” Rashaan Barber, Chapel Hill, NC “Big ideas need adventurous partners like New Music USA.

When The Crossing and I first started work on ‘The Book of Never’ in 2017, we didn't know its themes of political exile and religious persecution in Ukraine and beyond would become more and more prescient as the creative process unfolded over years of war, conspiracy, and censorship. The Creator Fund allows us to present this work in a moment of heartbreaking relevance at home and abroad.

” Aaron Helgeson, New York, NY I am beyond impressed by the captivating and imaginative work of this year’s Creator Fund awardees and applicants. The exceptional breadth and quality of their music and collaborations reaffirms that the United States is a wellspring of extraordinary new music. I’m proud that our grants are empowering over 60 creators per year to propel their own artistic pursuits and collaborations.

The unprecedented demand for this fund also points to the challenging economic climate for artists. I hope we can find ways to support more of the many deserving creators who apply in the years to come. Scott Winship, New Music USA's Interim Co-Executive Director and Director of Grantmaking Programs 2024 Creator Fund Grantees: National For You is a project that uses sound and meditation to heal breakthroughs.

The music pours emotions onto melody lines, making the cup half empty and telling a story about self-deaths and their connection to past memories of love, grief, pain, and exhaustion. The song will be performed by A'Jon in collaboration with Nazir Ebo. "Parallel Lines" is a true duet between violinist/composer and dancer/choreographer, where both artists will be equal players on the stage and in the creative process.

This new work considers the parallel lives of musicians and dancers, the physical demands of producing art, and the inextricable ties between sound and motion. The Book of Communal Howling (BOCH) is an hour long composition by Aurora Nealand written for the Instigation Orchestra, an evolving collective of some of the most adventurous cross-genre-performers, composers and improvisors hailing from Chicago & New Orleans.

The Book of Communal Howling is rooted in elements of collective improvisation and classical chorales and explores societal sampling. B. K.

Zervigón & Luca Hoffmann Composer/photographer duo B. K. Zervigón and Luca Hoffmann create multimedia experiences exploring the sights and sounds of the Gulf South.

In this iteration, "Night People," attention is turned to the secret world of tug boat captains, shrimpers and spirits along the Mississippi River. Utilizing recording as a means of orchestration as well as photographic alternative processes, the duo hopes to share their world with the nation.

The "Charm City Jazz Exchange" is a three month creative residency orchestrated by Brent Birckhead featuring some of Baltimore's finest jazz artists. The culmination of this residency with feature a live compilation album of all of the artists featured in the residency to showcase Baltimore rich Jazz landscape and our collaborative community.

The 2024 New Music Creator Fund will be used to commission clarinet works to be featured on the Han & Heung Album. Inspired by stories of conflict, resolution, hope, and celebration surrounding human experiences, this project aims to compile newly commissioned works that explore humanitarian sentiments that stem from global social issues beyond borders.

Composed and performed by Dai Wei, Taò Wá is a one-person acapella piece that symbolizes the strength of women, the celebration, and the reproduction of lives, featuring a collaboration with four/ten Media.

Roses Are Blue is a new, genre-mixing musical work for a cappella vocal sextet, based on Gertrude Stein’s 1939 book for children, The World Is Round, whose narrative playfully explores the challenges of self-discovery, identity, and growing up. A live studio recording with the ensemble will be created in July, 2024.

Divinity Roxx Presents Divi Roxx Kids: World Wide Play Date is an album of original bops for kids of all ages, and the kid in all of us. The album features up-tempo, fun, and engaging hip-hop/pop songs that personify play for people of all ages. Play connects us and encourages us to engage with one another on multiple levels.

This album focuses on the power of play to supplement learning and strengthen the social and emotional bonds between people of different cultures. ... edited to fit: World Wide Play Date is an album of original bops for kids of all ages, and the kid in all of us.

The album features up-tempo, fun, and engaging hip-hop/pop songs that personify play for people of all ages. This album focuses on the power of play to supplement learning and strengthen the social and emotional bonds between people of different cultures.

Gaspard's 'Avec Le Courrant' is a banjo driven, Cajun bilingual, story album, retelling the tragic factual events of his Acadian ancestors and their exile from their home Acadie (Nova Scotia) in the 1700s. The music fuses Trad, Americana, Roots and Cajun genres, while interludes are narrated by Gaspard's French teacher, actress and co writer Becca Begnaud.

“When the Dogs Howl: The Migrant Soundscapes of Venezuelan Refugees” is a multi-disciplinary work for jazz big band,