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EarShot Partners
EarShot
brings together the resources and experience of the nation's leading
organizations devoted to the support of new
American orchestral music.
 The American Composers Forum is committed to supporting composers and developing
new markets for their music. Through granting, commissioning, and
performance programs, the Forum provides composers at all stages of
their careers with valuable resources for professional and artistic
development. By linking communities with composers and performers,
the Forum fosters a demand for new music, enriches communities, and
helps develop the next generation of composers, musicians, and music patrons. The Forum's
1,700 members include composers and performers, presenters and
organizations that share the Forum's goals, and individuals and
institutions with an interest in supporting new music. Forum members
come from both urban and rural areas; they work in virtually every
musical genre, including orchestral and chamber music,
"world" music, opera and music theater, jazz and
improvisational music, electronic and electro-acoustic music, and
sound art.
 The American
Music Center is a national service organization and information
center dedicated to building a national community for new American
Music. AMC advocates for the community through NewMusicBox, its
award-winning web magazine, and Counterstream Radio, a 24-hour online
station broadcasting music by a broad range of U.S. composers. AMC
supports the community by administering $1.5 million in grants to
individuals and organizations each year, and by offering professional
development tools for artists. AMC connects the community with an
array of information services designed to facilitate performances,
including a vast, searchable online database of more than 40,000
works by American composers; publications and directories compiling
opportunities in new music and other information useful to industry
professionals; and benefits and services for nearly 2,500 members in
all fifty states and around the world.
 Founded in
1942, and chartered by Congress in 1962, the League of American
Orchestras leads, encourages, and supports America's orchestras while
communicating to the public the value and importance of orchestras
and the music they perform. The League's vision is to be a
transformative and unifying force for the orchestra field - a
catalyst for understanding and innovation, a place for conversations
that matter, and a champion for orchestras. The League
provides a wealth of services, meaningful information, learning and
leadership opportunities, and grass-roots advocacy to its diverse
membership, which encompasses nearly 1,000 member symphony, chamber,
youth, and collegiate orchestras of all sizes, and links a national
network of thousands of instrumentalists, conductors, managers, board
members, volunteers, staff members, and business partners.
 Meet The Composer's mission is to increase opportunities for composers by
fostering the creation, performance, dissemination, and appreciation
of their music. Through a range of commissioning, residency,
education, and audience interaction programs, Meet The Composer has
revolutionized the environment for composers in this country,
establishing broadly accepted standards of payment and opening the
doors for them to work in cultural institutions of all kinds.
 American
Composers Orchestra (ACO) is the only orchestra in the world
dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation and promulgation
of music by American composers. ACO identifies
today's brightest emerging composers, champions prominent established
composers as well as those lesser-known, and increases regional,
national and international awareness of the infinite variety of
American orchestral music, reflecting geographic, stylistic, and
temporal diversity. ACO also serves as an incubator of ideas,
research and talent, as a catalyst for growth and change among
orchestras, and as an advocate for American composers and their
music. To date, ACO has performed music by 500 American composers,
including more than 100 world premieres and newly commissioned works.
In pursuit of
its singular mission, ACO maintains an unparalleled range of
activities including an annual concert series at Carnegie Hall,
commissions, recordings, radio broadcasts, educational programs, new
music reading sessions, composer residencies and fellowships, as well
as special projects designed to advance the field. |
