Kronos Performing Arts Association
For General Operating Support
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Amount$270,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/16/2015
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Kronos Quartet is known around the world for reimagining the string quartet through performance of contemporary music, commissioning of new works, and exploration of new instruments and sounds. Kronos manages its extensive yearly programming, which includes twenty-two weeks of national and international live concert tours, performing for more than 150,000 audience members. The organization’s programming is extended through audio recordings, podcasts, and twenty-four multi-day residencies and workshops. During the grant period, Kronos intends to begin archiving its voluminous inventory of music. Kronos also plans to launch the Fifty for the Future initiative, commissioning ten new works each year—half from women composers—for five years, designed expressly for the training of students and emerging professionals, establishing a permanent legacy beyond the life of the quartet.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.kronosquartet.org
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
The Kronos Performing Arts Association manages the work of the Kronos Quartet, which has been performing new and historic works for string quartets for 50 years. The quartet tours locally, nationally, and internationally and is known for commissioning new works, more than 1,000 since its inception. The organization also supports education programs with schools and universities, and it presents the annual Kronos Festival in San Francisco, a multiday celebration of new works from diverse traditions and genres. In a typical year, the organization engages more than 50,000 people through its programs. Support for the Kronos Performing Arts Association advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
for general operating support
Kronos Performing Arts Association manages the work of the Kronos Quartet, which has been performing new and historic works for string quartets for 50 years. The quartet tours locally, nationally, and internationally and is known for commissioning new works, more than 1,000 since its inception. The organization also supports education programs with schools and universities ,and presents the annual Kronos Festival in San Francisco, a multiday celebration of new works from diverse traditions and genres. In a typical year, the organization engages more than 50,000 people through its programs. Support for Kronos Performing Arts Association advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
