New Performance Traditions
For General Operating Support
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Amount$120,000
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Program
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Date Awarded3/21/2012
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Term36.0 Months
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Type of SupportGeneral Support/Organization
Strategies
Overview
The Paul Dresher Ensemble is a contemporary music organization dedicated to today’s most innovative and irreverent composers. Engaging more than 3,000 audience members each year through productions and tours of opera works and experimental music theater, the group performs contemporary compositions with a combination of traditional acoustic and contemporary electronic instruments. During the grant period, the organization plans to continue performing locally and nationally, to formalize its technical and production support services for local artists into an artist residency program, and to increase individual donations through increased board involvement in fundraising.
About the Grantee
Grantee Website
www.newperformancetraditions.org
Grants to this Grantee
for general operating support
New Performance Traditions develops and presents the work of music composer Paul Dresher and other multidisciplinary contemporary performing artists. Each year, the organization typically produces and presents 50 performances to audiences of 9,000 people. The organization also provides low-cost services that promote artistic creation, including performance and rehearsal space, recording and live streaming technologies, fiscal sponsorship, and artist residencies. This grant to New Performance Traditions advances the Performing Arts Program’s Communities strategy.
