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Home , Calder Quartet, Damion Reid, Don Byron, Kronos Quartet, Marty Ehrlich, Meridian Arts Ensemble

[Chiara ] [Imani Winds] [Community Music Works] [] [SUNY Artswego] Jazzmobile [] Yosvany Terry . Musical Chairs Alaska Illinois Iowa New-Trad Octet Quartet Walden Chamber Players Massachusetts Daedalus Quartet Music of Remembrance2008 Red Cedar David Sanchez Southern Illinois Univer- sity MyraGrantees Melford Christopher Rouse Earshot Huang Ruo Marty+ EhrlichHonorees Dorian Quintet Enso Quartet Meridian Arts Ensemble Ars Nova Workshop [Simon Shaheen] iO Quartet Pittsburgh Montgomery County Community College Don Byron Pierre Jalbert New Music PRISM Quartet Shanghai Quartet Bright A Sheng Kerrytown Concert House [Lei Lang] [Du Yun] Cor- nish 2009College of the Arts [David Sanford] Kurt Stallman David del Tredici Jazz St. Louis Adam Rudolph Cavani String Quartet Zeitgeist [] Over the past year, Chamber Music Chinary Ung. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Vermont Rhode Island presenting America’s support to ensemble musicians the Dafnis andPrieto presenters totaledInternational more than Festival of Arts and Ideas] [Connecticut] pre- $745,000 in grants and awards. These senting Jasonfunds Moran’s will make Big possible Bandwagon an unprecedented Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) presenting Jason Moran’snumber Big of Bandwagon CMA-sponsored World commissions Music Institute Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pic- (the marked increase this year is thanks to tures OctetThe Wayne Andrew Horvitz W. Mellon JACK Foundation Quartet andMiguel Zenón The Parker the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation), as Quartet Rez Abbasi Group Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers Juneau Jazz and Classics M well as residency projects, jazz presentations [Chiara Stringin concert Quartet] venues, [Imani collaborations Winds] [Community between Music Works] [Shanghai Quartet] French and American jazz artists, and support [SUNY Artswego]to emerging Jazzmobile classical ensembles. [Kronos Quartet] Yosvany Terry Wu Man So Percussion. Musical Chairs CMA Alaska congratulates New York all of Illinois the grant Iowa Washington New-Trad Octet Greg recipients, as well as the many individuals Osby Quartetand groupsWalden receiving Chamber awards Players during Massachusetts the Daedalus Quartet Music of Remembrancepast yearRed for Cedar their artisticChamber achievements Music David Sanchez Southern Illinois Univer- and their educational contributions in sity Myracommunities Melford Calder throughout Quartet the Christopher . Rouse Earshot Jazz Huang Ruo Steven

Mackey Marty Ehrlich Dorian Quintet Eno Quartet Meridian Arts Ensemble Ars Nova

26 october 2009 Workshop [Simon Shaheen] iO Quartet Pittsburgh Montgomery County Community C [Chiara String Quartet] [Imani Winds] [Community Music Works] [Shanghai Quartet] [SUNY Artswego] Jazzmobile [Kronos Quartet] Yosvany Terry Wu Man So Percussion. 2 Musical Chairs Alaska New York Illinois Iowa Washington New-Trad Octet Greg Osby Quartet Walden Chamber Players Massachusetts Daedalus Quartet Music of Remembrance Red Cedar Chamber Music David Sanchez Southern Illinois Univer- sity Calder Quartet Christopher Rouse Earshot Jazz Huang Ruo Steven 1 Mackey Marty Ehrlich Dorian Quintet Enso Quartet Meridian Arts Ensemble Ars Nova RESIDENCY ARTSwego (Oswego, NY) and the Imani Winds 1 lecture/performances at a public

Workshop [Simon Shaheen] iO Quartet Pittsburgh Montgomery County Community PARTNERSHIP school and a church, and on the SUNY Oswego PROGRAM campus A College Don Byron Pierre Jalbert New Music PRISM Quartet Shanghai Quartet Bright Supported by the JPMorgan Chase Jazzmobile (New York, NY) with Harlem Foundation, the Doris Duke Charitable Stage: a four-month residency with the Cuban- born composer/educator Yosvany Terry Sheng Jason Moran Steve Reich Kerrytown Concert House [Lei Lang] [Du Yun] Cor- Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund 2 and his ensemble

3 nish College of the Arts [David Sanford] Kurt Stallman David del Tredici Jazz St. Louis This program supports live Musical Chairs Ensemble chamber music and related (Staten Island, NY): a series of interactive activities, and encourages concerts at Holy Child Church Adam Rudolph Rudresh Mahanthappa Cavani String Quartet Zeitgeist [Minnesota] collaborations among Jeff Newell’s New-Trad Octet 4 ensembles, presenters, and (New York, NY): a four-month residency integrating community organizations Chinary Ung. Flynn Center for the Performing Arts Vermont Rhode Island presenting American music with social studies curriculum for K–6 students in three Brooklyn public schools the Dafnis Prieto Sextet International Festival of Arts and Ideas] [Connecticut] pre- 5 Rocco John Group (New York, NY): building a self-sustainable Jazz Community 3 senting Jason Moran’s Big Bandwagon Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) presenting Orchestra in Talkaetna, Alaska. Partners: KTNA Public Radio, the Denali Arts Council

6 CONTINUING Jason Moran’s Big Bandwagon World Music Institute Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pic- Walden Chamber Players (Boston, MA): chamber music institute for high MULTI-YEAR school string students in Nyack, NY, and outreach RESIDENCIES tures Octet JACK Quartet Miguel Zenón Judith Sherman The Parker performances with the student instrumentalists at a local camp and public library Daedalus Quartet: (New York, NY) M Quartet Rez Abbasi Group Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers Juneau Jazz and Classics interactive concerts, masterclasses, coachings, lecture/demonstrations, and workshops in Long [Chiara String Quartet] [Imani Winds] [Community Music Works] [Shanghai Quartet] Island public schools.

4 Music of Remembrance (, WA): [SUNY Artswego] Jazzmobile [Kronos Quartet] Yosvany Terry Wu Man So Percussion. community outreach program featuring music by Holocaust survivors and composers who died in Nazi concentration camps Musical Chairs Alaska New York Illinois Iowa Washington New-Trad Octet Greg 5 Red Cedar Chamber Music Osby Quartet Walden Chamber Players Massachusetts Daedalus Quartet Music of (Marion, IA): interactive events in rural Iowa for elementary school students and their families, Remembrance Red Cedar Chamber Music David Sanchez Southern Illinois Univer- and senior citizens. Southern Illinois University School of Music (Carbondale, IL) with the sity Myra Melford Calder Quartet Christopher Rouse Earshot Jazz Huang Ruo Steven Cavani String Quartet: residency at a rural elementary school and concerts at the Mackey Marty Ehrlich Dorian Quintet Eno Quartet Meridian Arts Ensemble Ars Nova Southern Illinois Chamber Music Society 6 27 Workshop [Simon Shaheen] iO Quartet Pittsburgh Montgomery County Community C 7

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CLASSICAL COMMISSIONING PROGRAM 9 Supported by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Aaron Copland Fund for Music, and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund

This program enables ensembles and chamber music presenters to commission new repertoire.

6 Calder Quartet (, CA): a String Quartet from Christopher Rouse

7 Chiara String Quartet (Lincoln, NE): a String Quartet from Huang Ruo, inspired by wall drawings from various epochs and cultures

8 Dorian Wind Quintet (New York, NY): a 10 Woodwind Quintet from David Del Tredici, celebrating the ensemble’s 50th anniversary

9 Enso Quartet (New York, NY), a work for string quartet and electronics, from Kurt Stallman, to be performed in sections, interwoven with traditional classical works in a concert program

10 Festival of New Music (New York, NY): a work from David Sanford for , percussion, and jazz trumpet, to be performed by the Meridian Arts Ensemble

11 Imani Winds (New York, NY): for woodwind 11 quintet and from Simon Shaheen. Guest artist: Simon Shaheen 28 october 2009 12

12 iO Quartet (New York, NY): a work for string quartet, narrator, and electronics, from Du Yun: elements of storytelling; classical, folk, alternative rock and noise music; acting, installation, and staging

13 Kronos Quartet (, CA): a work for live and recorded string quartet, from Steve Reich, and calling for vocalizations from the musicians

Pittsburgh New Music Ensemble (Pittsburgh, PA): a work for flute, , , , piano, percussion, by Pierre Jalbert, 14 for presentation with an abstract animated film by Canadian artist Jean Detheux 14 13 15 PRISM Quartet (Philadelphia, PA): a work for quartet and Chinese instruments, from Bright Sheng. Guest artists: Music From China ensemble

16 Shanghai Quartet (Montclair, NJ): a work for string quartet and pipa, from Lei Liang. Guest artist: Wu Man, pipa

17 So Percussion (Brooklyn, NY): a work for percussion quartet by Steven Mackey

18 Zeitgeist (Saint Paul, MN): for percussion, piano 15 and clarinet/ from Chinary Ung. Calls on the musicians to speak and sing

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Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

This program encourages the presentation of jazz in concert settings, with an emphasis on emerging and mid-career ensembles 19 20 Ars Nova Workshop (Philadelphia, PA) presenting concerts by Marty Ehrlich’s Rites Quartet 19 , spotlighting the works of saxophonist/composer

Cornish College of the Arts 20 (Seattle, WA) presenting Myra Melford’s Be Bread Ensemble

Earshot Jazz Society (Seattle, WA) presenting the Don Byron Quartet 21 Flynn Center for the Performing Arts 22 (Burlington, VT) presenting the Dafnis Prieto Sextet

International Festival of Arts and Ideas 21 (New Haven, CT) presenting Jason Moran’s Big Bandwagon 23

Jazz St. Louis 24 (St. Louis, MO) presenting the Greg Osby Quartet

Kerrytown Concert House (Ann Arbor, MI) presenting the Human Activity Quintet 25 22 Montgomery County Community College (Blue Bell, PA) presenting the David Sanchez Group 26 23 Walker Art Center (Minneapolis, MN) presenting Jason Moran’s Big Bandwagon 23 World Music Institute (New York, NY) presenting Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures Octet 27

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30 NEW JAZZ WORKS Supported by the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation

This program supports new works in the jazz idiom, as well as professional development for the ensemble leader

Rez Abbasi Group 28 (New York, NY) A work for , piano, bass, and drum set, and a guest vocalist

Amir ElSaffar and Two Rivers 29 (Yonkers, NY) A piece for voice, trumpet, alto saxophone, santour (Iraqi hammered- dulcimer), oud ( ), (long-necked lute), violin, 31 bass, dumbek, frame drum, and drum set John Escreet Project 30 (New York, NY) A work for alto saxophone, trumpet, electronics, piano, bass, and drum set, and multiple, simultaneously occurring speech tracks

Ellery Eskelin and Different But the Same 31 (New York, NY) A quartet for tenor , bass, and drum set

Joel Harrison Group 32 (Brooklyn, NY) A suite for alto saxophone, violin, cello, guitar, bass, hajini, dejmbe, frame drum, and drum set

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PB John Hollenbeck and The Claudia Quintet 33 (New 36 York, NY) A suite for clarinet, tenor saxophone, accordion, vibraphone, bass, piano, percussion, and drum set

Jason Kao Hwang and Edge 34 (Jersey City, NJ) A work for cornet/flugelhorn, violin/, erhu, pipa, string bass, and drum set

Rudresh Mahanthappa Quartet 35 (Brooklyn, NY) A work for alto saxophone, guitar, bass, and drum set

Ole Mathisen and F.F.E.A.R. 36 (New York, NY) Mirage, a work for saxophones, clarinet, , bass, and drum set

Josh Moshier and the Moshier/Lebrun Collective 37 (Evanston, IL) A through-composed sequence of five songs inspired by Studs Terkel’s memoir, Touch and Go, for tenor saxophone, guitar, piano, bass, and drum set 37 Mario Pavone and Orange Double Tenor Ensemble 38 (Prospect, CT) A five-part suite for paired tenor and soprano saxophones, trumpet, piano, bass, and drums

Adam Rudolph’s Moving Pictures 39 (Maplewood, NJ) A 12-part suite for six multi-instrumental improvisers on winds (B-flat and bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, bansuri, hichiriki, shakuhachi, bass, C and alto flute, cornet, flugelhorn, and kuduhorn), strings (, oud, , dotar, and ), and percussion (djembe, dumbek, tarija, cajon, bata, conga, thumb piano, bender, qarqaba, gongs, slit drum, marimbula, udu drum, caxixi, achimevu, and drum set) 33

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32 october 2009 CMA/FACE 40 FRENCH-AMERICAN JAZZ EXCHANGE Supported by the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and its French American Cultural Exchange (FACE), CulturesFrance, the Doris Duke Charitable Foundation, the Florence Gould Foundation, and SACEM

This program encourages innovative cross-cultural collaborations.

Trumpeter Ambrose Akinmusire 40 Marcus Gilmore, drums; Matt Brewer, (U.S.), with pianist Yaron Herman and the Ebene Quartet (FR)

U.S. cornetist Taylor Ho Bynum 41 and trumpeters Franz Hautzinger (Austria), and Joe McPhee (U.S.) with Jean-Luc Cappozza and Itaru Oki, bassist Jean-Jacques Avenel, and drummer John Betsch (FR)

French baritone saxophonist François Corneloup 42 and violinist Dominique Pifarély with U.S. artists Dean Magraw (guitar), Arlie Huff (bass), and James- 41 Thomas Bates (drums)

French alto saxophonist Gaël Horellou 43 , pianist Jean-Sébastien Simonoviez, bassist François Gallix, with American drummer Ari Hoenig

U.S. pianist Wayne Horvitz 44 and saxophonist Briggan Krauss with French percussionist Le Quan Ninh

42 Saxophonist (U.S.) joins French bassist Stéphane Kerecki (not pictured), saxophonist Matthieu Donarier and drummer Thomas Grimmonprez

U.S. based guitarist Miles Okazaki 45 and drummer Damion Reid with French saxophonist 43 Guillaume Perret

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Alto saxophonist Tim Berne and pianist (U.S.) with violinist Dominique Pifarély 48 46 and bassist Bruno Chevillon American saxophonist Sam Sadigursky 47 and pianist Laurent Coq, vocalists Christine Correa and Laurence Allison, drummer Karl Jannuska, and bassist Yoni Zelnik

U.S.-based saxophonist Felipe Salles 48 and pianist Alain Mallet with France-based bassist Gildas Boclé and guitarist Nelson Veras

U.S.-based saxophonist Miguel Zenón 49 , bassist Hans Glawischnig, and drummer Henry Cole with French pianist Laurent Coq 49

RICHARD J. BOGOMOLNY 2nd Place: Chameleon Arts NATIONAL SERVICE Ensemble (Boston, MA) AWARD Presenters (10 or more concerts Given in recognition of significant, lasting per season) contributions to the field 1st Place: Smithsonian judith sherman, recording producer Institution’s Freer Gallery CLEVELAND of Art (Washington, D.C.) 2nd Place: Da Camera of QUARTET AWARD Houston (Houston, TX) Supported by the Award Endowment Fund Presenters (9 concerts or less) Awarded to emerging string quartets 1st Place: Other Minds of extraordinary promise (San Francisco, CA) The Parker Quartet 2nd Place: Grand Canyon Music Festival (Grand Canyon, AZ) CMA/ASCAP AWARDS FOR ADVENTUROUS JAZZ (presenter or ensemble): James Carney Group (Brooklyn, NY) PROGRAMMING Supported by American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers CMACCLAIM AWARD For extraordinary cultural impact (ASCAP) in a locality or region ENSEMBLES (new music only) 009 2009 Community MusicWorks 1st Place: newEar (Kansas City, MO) (Providence, RI) and Juneau Jazz 2nd Place: JACK Quartet (Brooklyn, NY) and Classics (Juneau, AK) ENSEMBLES (mixed-repertory) 1st Place: Calder Quartet (Los Angeles, CA) A wardees

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