Annual Report

TWO THOUSAND SEVENTEEN | IN THE KEY OF NOW There’s space for everybody in the world in this organization. If you’re a , you need to be connected here. All the genres are covered, there are no walls. It’s an open space. Go and write your own story.

- Nirmala Rajasekar, innova artist & 2008 and 2004 JFund Awardee

fy Cover Photo Credit: Kris Kautzman. Back Jim Nihart. Year in Review

Programs Education - Awarded more than $300,000 - Awarded six in grants to a diverse group of with mentorship, professional composers and performers of performances, and scholarship new music. funds through the third - Launched ACF CONNECT in NextNotes® High School partnership with Pittsburgh Composition Awards. New Music Ensemble. Jung Yoon - NextNotes Lab featured five Wie, Rufus Reid, and David world premieres performed by Biedenbender were selected from teen composers and their peers. a national pool of 370 applicants. - Three NextNotes participants - Partnered with ANCIA Saxophone featured on From the Top® Quartet for the fourth annual ACF radio show. Showcase Concert, featuring - Reached over 1 million students music by three composers chosen to date through BandQuest® from a national call for scores. and ChoralQuest®. Number of applicants increased - Attendance at national ACDA 130% from FY16. conference and International - Faith Partners continued Midwest Band Clinic to promote residencies in Baxter/Brainerd, programs with thousands of MN, and Rochester, MN. educators and conductors. - More than 289 people attended - New BandQuest piece Landmark to Lowertown, a “Steps Ahead” by Michael midday concert series in public Gandolfi premiered by Roland spaces in downtown Saint Hayes Middle School band Paul. Performers were all former (Roxbury Crossing, MA). Minnesota Emerging Composer - New ChoralQuest piece Awards awardees, and their “When I Sing” by Rosephanye music ranged from funk inspired Powell premiered by Auburn by Ethiopian rhythms and live Junior High School Elites Girls electronic music generated by (Auburn, AL). analog equipment to live coding and original jazz. - Served more than 2,000 members in all 50 states; Washington, DC; and 14 countries. ACF has helped me realize that I am relevant to the music scene and society. Writing music in my apartment, which is mostly a lonely endeavor, I never quite realized that what I’m doing is a collective effort among many composers, performers, and other creative artists.

- Jung Yoon Wie, ACF CONNECT composer 2017 fy Awardees & Commissions

- ACF Connect - McKnight Visiting Composer Residencies David Biedenbender (East Lansing, MI) Paul Giess (Philadelphia, PA) Rufus Reid (Teaneck, NJ) Kristin Norderval (New York, NY) Jung Yoon Wie (Ann Arbor, MI) - Minnesota Emerging Composer Awards (MECA) - ACF Showcase Lynn O’Brien (, MN) Robert Lemay (Sudbury, Ontario, Canada) Jay Afrisando (Falcon Heights, MN) Robin McLaughlin (Essex Junction, VT) Zacc Harris (Minneapolis, MN) Steven Snowden (Jamaica Plain, MA) - Minnesota Composer Institute - BandQuest Katherine Balch (Boston, MA) Michael Gandolfi (Cambridge, MA) Michael Boyman (New York, NY) Judy Bozone (Plano, TX) - Champion of New Music Awards Michael-Thomas Foumai (Honolulu, HI) International Alliance for Women in Music Tonia Ko (Ithaca, NY) The Crossing and Donald Nally Phil Taylor (Pittsburgh, PA) Charles Amirkhanian Conrad Winslow (Brooklyn, NY)

- ChoralQuest - MN Varsity Showcase Composers Rosephanye Powell (Auburn, AL) Nicholas Christenson (Minneapolis, MN) Sam Hanson (Saint Paul, MN) - Singers Commission Award Chorus Austin with Joshua Fishbein - NextNotes Composers Stephanie Chow (Bloomington, IL - Healing and Hope Through Song Alistair Coleman (Bethesda, MD) Louisa Castner (Minneapolis, MN) Nathaniel Heyder (Alexandria, VA) Victor Zupanc (Minneapolis, MN) Natsumi Osborn (Katy, TX) Sammy Sussman (Bedford Hills, NY) - Jerome Fund for New Music (JFund) Evan Tiapula (Brisbane, CA) Aleksandr Brusentsev (Eagan, MN) Stephanie Chou (New York, NY) - NextNotes Teacher Recognition Asuka Kakitani (Northfield, MN) Sue Colgan-Borror M. Lamar (Brooklyn ,NY) Orchestra Director at Fox Lane High School Brian Mark (Brooklyn, NY) Derek David JP Merz (Minneapolis, MN) Instructor at New England Conservatory of Music Brian Petuch (Brooklyn ,NY) Dr. Daniel Knaggs Joseph C. Phillips, Jr. (Brooklyn, NY) Director of Music at St. Martha Catholic Church Leah Maria Villarreal (New York, NY) Thomas Liddle Samuel Wells (Brooklyn, NY) Choral Director at Takoma Park Middle School Dr. Kimberly McCord - Landmark to Lowertown Music Education Professor at Illinois State University Yohannes Tona (Fridley, MN) Cynthia Van Maanen John Davis (Minneapolis, MN) Instructor of Music Composition and Music Theory Mike Hodnick (Chaska, MN) at Interlochen Arts Academy Kevin Washington (Minneapolis, MN) - Welcome Christmas - McKnight Composer Fellowships Lee Blaske (Excelsior, MN) deVon Russell Gray (Saint Paul, MN) Sean Sweeden (Kansas City, MO) Linda Kachelmeier (Saint Paul, MN) Andrea Mazzariello (Northfield, MN) Jake Runestad (Minneapolis, MN) Dana Jessen The NextNotes experience was among the best I’ve ever Carve had. Working with the mentors and each talented student composer was so intellectually stimulating. I not only learned Ross Feller X / Winds so much from listening to and discussing the others’ music, but the conversations I had with everyone sparked so many The Crossing questions and ideas about the music world and what our Seven Responses role in it is. arcomusical MeiaMeia - Natsumi Osborn, 2017 NextNotes Winner Timothy Dunne Metaphrase Revolutionary Snake Ensemble I Want That Sound Neil Rolnick Ex Machina Areon Flutes Thrive Bohemian Trio Okonkolo Cornelius Dufallo Journaling 2 Grant Cutler Self Portrait fy Kenneth Meyer 2017 ® Draw the Strings Tight innova recordings Volti This is what happened - Released 27 titles (total catalog holds over 550), featuring artists and composers Molly Gebrian and Danny Holt Trios for Two from brilliantly diverse backgrounds and experiences. Patti Cudd Eos - Achieved high visibility playlist, digital, and physical retail placement and facilitated Juri Seo many licensing opportunities on artists’ Mostly Piano+ behalf. Many titles received national and Akropolis Reed Quintet international radioplay. The Space Between Us - Received ongoing recognition and critical Society for New Music praise, both nationally and internationally, for Music Here and Now from the Heart of New York 2017 projects, from venues such as NPR, Trevor Babb WQXR, Wall Street Journal, Gramophone, Warmth Second Inversion, PopMatters, and more. Crystal Mooncone - Several titles earned places on end-of-year Listening Beam Five lists published by NPR, New Music Box, Sophia Vastek and Naxos Music Library. Histories - innova continues to pay out 100% of all net Tracey Engleman sales to artists, over $50,000. Lift Me into Heaven Slowly: Songs of - Supported artists’ tours and shows and Jane Antonia Cornish continued to foster community connections Into Silence by arranging gatherings, appearing at events, Orchestra Next. Brian McWhorter and presenting at conferences. Kenji Bunch: The Snow Queen David DiChiera Letters and Fantasies Emanuele Arciuli Walk in Beauty Ann Millikan Millikan Symphony I think the role that ACF plays in the field of new music continues to be the support of young composers through its various programs that are targeting school and school-age composers or people interested in composition. - Dameun Strange, 2015 MECA Awardee American Composers Forum Statement of Financial Activity for the year ending June 30, 2017 ACF Social Media Stats: 20,695 680 17,578 Workshop Financial Overview Facebook YouTube Twitter Wednesdays Income followers followers followers In collaboration with increased increased increased Minnesota Music Foundation Grants $563,042 Coalition, ACF hosted Government Grants 112,009 seven Workshop Individual Contributions 254,548 15% 5.5% 3.7% Corporation Grants 7,397 ACF, innova and ACF Education ACF, ACF Education, and innova ACF, innova, NextNotes and New Music MN Wednesdays. These workshops were open Membership 89,05 to anyone interested, Endowment Earnings 304,771 230 2279 # of new and topics ranged from Earned Income 214,948 Instagram Soundcloud composing for media Total Operations Income $1,546,420 works in a global market to followers followers writing about one’s increased increased art to the world of music conferences

and festivals. 65% 9.8% ACF Education innova 35 Foundation Foundation Grants Earned Income Endowment Earnings Membership Individual Contributions Government Grants In FY17 36% 14% 20% 6%16% 7% ACF announced the evolution of its National Composition Contest into ACF CONNECT, 1% Corporation Grants a program which will give composer awardees more significant time with partnering Expense ensembles as well as professional development opportunities. For the first cycle, three composers will have two years to work with Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble, Commissioning and Residency $479,897 Readings and Performances 86,444 culminating in a concert of the new work in July 2018 during PNME’s festival season. Education 179,219 Media 299,939 Chapters 142,835 ACF would like to extend a special thank you to all the Member Services 9,377 Administration 147,908 organizations that partnered with us last year. Development 214,803 Total Operations Expense $1,560,422 University of MN School of Music (Minneapolis, MN) Springboard for the Arts (Saint Paul, MN) Auburn Junior High School (Auburn, AL) Minnesota Orchestra (Minneapolis, MN)

Roland Hayes School of Music (Roxbury Crossing, MA) Minnesota (Minneapolis, MN) Minnesota Public Radio (Saint Paul, MN) Vocalessence (Minneapolis, MN) and Music Makes Us Whole Hal Leonard Corporation (Milwaukee, WI)

Landmark Center (Saint Paul, MN) Minnesota Boychoir (Saint Paul, MN) Minnesota Music Coalition (Saint Paul, MN) Christ United Methodist Church (Rochester, MN) Commissioning & Residency Media Member Services Reading & Performances Development Administration Make Music Alliance (New York, NY) B’nai Israel Synagogue (Rochester, MN) Education MakeMusic, Inc (Boulder, CO) Lord of Life Lutheran Church (Baxter, MN) 31% 19% 11% 9% 6%14% 9% Giving Voice Initiative (Minneapolis, MN) First Congregational United Church of Christ (Brainerd, MN) MacPhail Center for Music (Minneapolis, MN) RECLAIM (Saint Paul, MN) 1% Chapters One Voice Mixed Chorus (Saint Paul, MN)

PROGRAMS 2017fydonors 2017fy ACF board

Government, Foundation, Barbara Ann Brown Karen Kim & Patrick Castillo Richard Langellotti T.G. Febonio Kerrith Livengood Officers and Corporate Support Philip & Carolyn Brunelle Susan Feder & Todd Gordon Don & Joann Leavenworth Daniel Strong Godfrey Lutheran Arts Mary Ellen Childs, chair $100,000+ Jeffrey R. & Jennifer Cadwell Vivian Fung Tania Leon Joel Harrison David Macbride Patrick Castillo, vice chair Jerome Foundation Chris & Claire Campbell Dick Geyerman Mark & Becky Lystig Steve Heitzeg & Gwen Pappas Janice Marschke Anne LeBaron, vice chair Sam Hseng-Hung Hsu, treasurer The McKnight Foundation Scott Clugston Stephen Green Reid McLean Lois Hoger Patrick Marschke Jeff Graves, secretary Minnesota State Arts Board Dee Ann & Kent Crossley Elizabeth A. Hoger & Lisa Swem Michael McMurchie William Holab John McGinn John Nuechterlein, ex officio Joan Duddingston John Kightlinger David Means Vance R. Koven Matthew & Jessica Mehlhoff $25,000-$49,999 Jorja Fleezanis Lori Lane Jane Ramseyer Miller & Lynn Lindsay Kevin Mendoza Members Susan Haugh The Augustine Foundation Delta David & Angela Gier Anne LeBaron Patrick & Lisa Luetmer Sarah E. Miller J. Anthony Allen Peter & Karla Myers Louis Fors & Kathrine Hill John A. Michel Gordon E. Marsh Ann Millikan James Berdahl Dr. Merritt Nequette Jeff Cadwell $10,000-$24,999 Sam Hseng-Hung Hsu & David & Leni Moore Family Steve McPherson Donald Nally Aaron Copland Fund for Sally Cheng Foundation of The Lowell & Sonja Noteboom David Conte Minneapolis Foundation Cecily Morse Daniel Nass New Music, Inc. Jack & Linda Hoeschler Joseph Ohrt Dee Ann Crossley Polly Nyberg Karen Nelson Peter Paulsen Athwin Foundation Deborah Kermeen & Timothy J. Olsen Melitta Drechsler Peter O’Gorman Rebecca Lynn Petersen Rosemary & David Good John Grochala Stanislaw Skrowaczewski* Eileen O’Shaughnessy Jorja Fleezanis Family Foundation Alice Parker Belinda Reynolds Barry & Cheryl Kempton Helen Slater Chris Osgood Vivian Fung The Dr. Fred Noah Gordon Diana Lee Lucker Paul Sperry Colleen & Terry Paulus Martin & Deborah Chin Rokeach Delta David Gier Charitable Fund Daniel J. Perlongo Sarah Lutman Craig Swan Bob Peskin Patrick Rooney Jennifer Howard HRK Foundation Barbara A. Petersen Bonnie Marshall Osmo Vänskä & Erin Keefe Michael B. Scherperel Paul John Rudoi Nancy Huart National Endowment for the Arts Neva S. & Richard Pilgrim Carl Schimmel Hiroshi Sawaki Barry Kempton Mike & Kay McCarthy Lawrence R. Redmond I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation Deborah Kermeen Greg McNeely Enthusiast ($100-$249) Marlene Schoenberg Sarah Schaffer Barbara Rice Michelle Kinney Evans Mirageas & Thom Dreeze Mary Ann Aufderheide Patricia C. Shifferd Vartan Simonian $5,000-$9,999 Nancy & Everett Rotenberry Sarah Lutman David & Judy Myers Roger Aldridge Robert Sieving David F. Smith The Wenger Foundation Joseph Rubin Stephen Miles Gayle & Timothy Ober Douglas Allchin Stephen Shewan Gerald Starlight Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra** Evans Mirageas Lawrence M. & Bonnie Susan M. Barnes Steve Tibbetts Pat Steege $1,000-$4,999 Michael & Shirley Santoro Fred Moore O’Shaughnessy David & Karen Trudeau Karel Suchy Laura J. Barton-Holding Thomas Schunn David Myers Amphion Foundation John Orenstein Steven Scott Broback Mark Warnken Mohan Thomas Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation Alex Shapiro Joseph Ohrt David & Judy Ranheim Elizabeth Wolff William Upham Ann Buran Haskell Small Chris Osgood ASCAP Gale Sharpe & The Albrecht Mary Ellen Childs Wang Jie Bill Sands BMI Foundation Family Foundation Evan Solot David Conte Friend ($1-$49) Lu Wang Asha Srinivasan Dorsey & Whitney Foundation Kathleen van Bergen Frank Stubbs Joanna & Richard Cortright Andy Akiho Margaret Wilson James Stephenson Margaret Rivers Fund James Wafler Asha Srinivasan Kay Dawson Adrienne Albert Tom Voegeli Wells Fargo Foundation Minnesota Andrea Stern Elizabeth R. Austin ACF CONNECT Jim Wafler Sponsor ($500-$999) Kevin Duggins John Thorne III & Joan Vail Thorne Mary Lynn Badarak Carol Barnett Paul A. Epstein Special thank you to the lead Employee Matching Gifts Eric Barber C. Lee Essrig Michelle Tucker donors who have supported General Mills Foundation Bruce & Mary Bean Michael Farley & Barbara Theresa J. Beckhusen & ACF CONNECT. James & Susan Berdahl Salvatore Pane Ecolab Foundation Phillips-Farley Joseph & Jo Ann Ward Medtronic, Inc. Robert & Pearl Bergad Philip Blackburn 2017fy ACF staff Tom Flaherty Janis Weller Will & Margee Bracken Robert & Mary Brod Antonio Carlos Peter Flint Sharon West Dee Ann & Kent Crossley Harry Brull & Myra Barrett Theresa J. Beckhusen, Development Associate Gifts from Individuals Alex Freeman Chen Yi Thomas Whitman Jeff & Hyun Mee Graves Philip Blackburn, Director of Artist Services Grand Champion ($10,000+) Richard Cisek & Kay Fredericks Valerie Crescenz Christos J. Granias Arlene Williams Kathleen Henschel & John Chris Campbell, innova Operations Director Alfred P. & Ann M. Moore Melitta Drechsler Michael & Kathleen Croswell Dewes Mary J. Greer Michelle Willinganz & Paul Hanson, VP of Finance & Administration Catherine Fischer Michael Rydberg Jim Gailloreto Hella Mears Hueg* Paul Hanson & Steve Riendl Kris Kautzman, Manager of Community Partnerships Ken & Gwen Freed Gramercy Trio Champion ($5,000-$9,999) Anne Harney Mark Winges Estate of Thelma Hunter* Laura Krider, Director of Education & Jonathan Guyton Brendan Hanenburg Anonymous Carol Heen, Ph.D. Gernot Wolfgang John & Ruth Huss Community Partnerships William Kinney Jennifer Howard & Christina Hemphill David Wrobel David Jordan Harris Jewett Foundation William J. Lackey, VP of Programs Anthony Cascardi Katherine Majkrzak Julie & Anders Himmelstrup Linda Tutas Haugen Art & Martha Kaemmer Bonnie Marshall, VP of Development John Nuechterlein & Dan Monson Louis & Gloria Nuechterlein Asako Hirabayashi Contributor ($50-$99) Art & Joan Higinbotham Alfred P. & Ann M. Moore Patrick Marschke, Manager of Membership & Social Media Bill & Susan Sands Gloria & Fred Sewell Ken & Linda Holmen Obataiye Akinwole Peter Homans I.A. O’Shaughnessy Foundation Steve McPherson, innova Publicist Margaret & Angus* Wurtele Doug & Kathy Skor Monica (Niki) Houghton John Austin Ruth Huber David & Judy Ranheim Tim Igel, innova Publicist Steve & Karen Sonnenberg David Hunter & Janet Legler Patrick F. & Linda Beckman Albert Hurwit Bill & Susan Sands John Nuechterlein, President & CEO Benefactor ($2,500-$4,999) James Stephenson Lila & Harry Jacob Alexander Blackburn Timothy James Igel Gale Sharpe Julia W. Dayton Dan & Ellie Thomas Chapter Staff Layton “Skip” James Anselm Blumer Adrienne Inglis Dan & Ellie Thomas Jeff & Hyun Mee Graves Tom Voegeli James Falconi, Chapter Director of ACF-Philadelphia Steven Juliani Christopher Brunelle Portia M. Johnson James Wafler Nancy Huart Jack Van Zandt, President of ACF-Los Angeles Sergey Khvoshchinsky Elizabeth & Robert Burns Kris Kautzman Margaret & Angus* Wurtele Art & Martha Kaemmer Aficionado ($250-$499) Michelle Kinney Susan M. Clambey Stephanie Key Stephen Miles & Kathy Killion Charlie & Ginger Alden Karen Koepp René Clausen Laura Krider J. Anthony Allen William J. Lackey & Daniel G. Crozier, Jr. Keith B. Lay Patron ($1,000-$2,499) Will & Margee Bracken Trevor Sannes Dominick DiOrio Cherise Leiter *deceased Mark Applebaum Josephine Benz Carpenter* Marvin Lamb Lawrence & Arlene Dunn James Lindsay **in memory of Stanislaw Skrowaczewski I appreciate the American Composers Forum and the McKnight Foundation for the amazing work without which my work would not be so effective. I appreciate them. I can continue to do my favorite thing: composing music.

– Sergey Kvoshchinsky, 2017 McKnight Fellow

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