2010 NEA Arts Education Projects

The projects below include composition as part or all of the project. Please
note that projects with primary focus on composition are: Grand Canyon
Chamber Music Festival, New York Youth Symphony and Tucson Symphony
Society.

Austin Chamber Music Center

Austin, TX
$50,000
To support year-round chamber music instruction for students ages 5 to 19.
Professional musicians will provide chamber music coaching, teach music theory
and composition classes, and conduct master classes.

Grand Canyon Chamber Music Festival

Grand Canyon, AZ
$27,000
To support the Native American Composer Apprentice Project. Students will study
one-on-one with a composer-in-residence and create original works that will be
performed by the ETHEL String Quartet while on tour to reservation schools.

New York Youth Symphony, Inc.

New York, NY
$80,000
To support Making Score. The project will consist of a series of educational courses
designed to introduce aspiring young composers to fundamental principles of
musical composition.

Pensacola Opera, Inc. (Consortium)

Pensacola, FL
$20,000
To support From Words to Music, an in-school project in which students produce an
opera. In partnership with the School District of Escambia County, students learn to
write, compose, design, produce, and perform their own operas based on a text
that they study in the classroom.

Philharmonic-Symphony Society of New York, Inc. (aka The New York

Philharmonic) (Consortium)
New York, NY
$40,000
To support the New York Philharmonic's School Partnership Program. In partnership
with the New York City Department of Education, teaching artists will provide
weekly in-school workshops in orchestral music, recorder instruction, composition,
and recital preparation for students, as well as professional development workshops
for teachers.

San Diego Opera Association (Consortium)

San Diego, CA
$41,000
To support the Words & Music Program. In partnership with the San Diego Unified
School District, the company will provide an in-school opera residency in which
students will learn to compose an original opera.

Tucson Symphony Society (aka Tucson Symphony Orchestra)

Tucson, AZ
$14,000
To support the Young Composers Project. Students will learn to compose music for
orchestra, culminating in a reading and recording of their newly composed pieces
by the Tucson Symphony Chamber Orchestra or the Tucson String Quintet.