The New York Women Composers, founded in 1984, announces its Seed Money grants for the upcoming season. Awards for support of recordings as well as concerts have been designated for the following groups:
2013 SEED-MONEY GRANT RECIPIENTS
1. Women
Composers Festival of Hartford (Hartford,
Connecticut). This year's festival will take place March 6-9, 2014.
2. The
Orchestra da Camera of San Anselmo, California. The orchestra is an award-winning string ensemble of
pre-professional members of the Virtuoso Program at San Domenico School,
directed by Ann Krinitsky
3. Baritone
singer Chai-Lun Yueh, a member of the
college voice faculty at Trinity College and Wesleyan University
4. The
Nouveau Classical Project, an
all-female cutting-edge music ensemble that reimagines classicaland new
music through interdisciplinary projects and connects emergingcomposers
with diverse audiences
5. The Bor
zova-Fousteris Vocal Duo, Alla Borzova (NYWC member composer and singer) and
Helen Fousteris, are a soprano-mezzo soprano duo (accompanied by pianist
Nataliya Medvedovskaya)
6. Ensemble Mise-En, an innovative and versatile New York-based
contemporary music collective led by composer Moon Young Ha, will produce a
festival June 68, 2014.
7. Nailah Nombeko (NYWC member composer) will curate two concerts for
Vox Novus
8. Aviva Players, co-directors Mira Spektor and Dorothy Indenbaum,
will present an evening of short mini-operas of 520 minutes for 2 to 4 singers
and piano
9. Max Lifchitz, pianist, will record a CD that willinclude
works of NYWC members Elizabeth Bell, Katherine Hoover, Nailah Nombeko, and
Margarita Zelenaia, for North/South Recordings label.