Chamber Music America Grants for McGill/McHale Trio, Jessie Montgomery, Trevor Weston

Chamber Music America

McGill /McHale Trio

Portraits: Works for Flute, Clarinet and Piano

Demarre McGill, flute; Michael McHale, piano; Anthony McGill, clarinet

Cedille Records

Jessie Montgomery

Trevor Weston

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Chamber Music America

CMA Announces More Than $850,000 in Grants for Small Ensembles and Presenters

NEW YORK, NY (August 6, 2019)—Chamber Music America (CMA), the national network for ensemble music professionals, today announced the distribution of $855,570 through its four grant programs: New Jazz Works and Presenter Consortium for Jazz, supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation; the Classical Commissioning Program, supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation; and the Residency Partnership Program, funded by Chamber Music America's Residency Endowment Fund.

This funding will provide key support for the creation, performance, and presentation of small ensemble works, and for community engagement and audience-building initiatives. The grantees in each program were selected by independent peer panels.

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CLASSICAL COMMISSIONING

Funded by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation

Thirteen grants totaling $209,100 have been awarded through the Classical Commissioning program, which provides support to U.S.-based professional ensembles and presenters for the creation and performance of classical contemporary chamber works.

• 92nd Street Y with the McGill/McHale Trio (New York, NY) Composer: Tyshawn Sorey
• Cassatt String Quartet (New York, NY) Composer: Victoria Bond
• Departure Duo (Boston, MA) Composer: Sarah Gibson
• FLUX Quartet (Brooklyn, NY) Composer: Hans Tammen
• F-PLUS (Chicago, IL) Composer: Jessie Montgomery
• Hub New Music (Jamaica Plain, MA) Composer: Hannah Lash
• Kaleidoscope (Los Angeles, CA) Composer: Peter Shin
• Latitude 49 (Waco, TX) Composer: Gity Razaz
• Musiqa (Houston,TX) Composer: Trevor Weston
• PRISM Quartet (Philadelphia, PA) Composer: George Lewis
• Shanghai Quartet (Montclair, NJ) Composer: Marcus Balter
• The Nouveau Classical Project (New York, NY) Composer: Sugar Vendil
• Third Sound (Philadelphia, PA) Composer: Kati Agócs

Additional program support is provided by The Aaron Copland Fund for Music, the Amphion Foundation, the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, and the Chamber Music America Commissioning Endowment Fund.