The Presser Foundation Announces Nearly $1.6 Million in Special Project Grants to Music Organizations and Undergraduate & Graduate Awards
Peter Burwasser, Chair of the Special Projects Committee, commented “The ongoing pandemic has created financial challenges to our beloved musical institutions of an unprecedented magnitude. In response, the Presser Foundation has felt obliged, but also greatly honored, to dramatically increase our support to these groups through our Special Projects granting committee. Forty-two organizations of a great variety of scale and purpose will receive funding. They are comprised of six newer organizations, five pilot programs and 32 creative proposals, including many that requested funding for vital technology to enable virtual musical presentations.”
The Presser Foundation is also pleased to announce the selection of 220 undergraduate schools of music and 16 graduate schools of music from across the country to receive Undergraduate Scholar and Graduate Music Awards ranging from $4,000 to $10,000 and totaling $1,040,000. These Awards are designed to encourage and support in a special way the education and career of music students who exemplify high academic and musical accomplishment, leadership, and citizenship.
Special Project Grants: (in alphabetical order)
- American Composers Forum
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Ars Nova Workshop
- Art Sphere, Inc.
- Astral Artists, Inc.
- Bucks County Choral Society
- Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
- Chester Children’s Chorus
- Choir School of Delaware
- Encore Series Inc./The Philly POPS
- Intercultural Journeys
- Jazz Philadelphia
- Kleine Kammermusik
- LiveConnections DBA World Café Live
- Lyric Fest
- Mamadele Foundation
- Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
- Music for Everyone
- Musicopia
- Nashirah: The Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia
- Network for New Music
- Opera Philadelphia
- OperaDelaware
- Orchestra 2001
- Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
- Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
- PRISM Quartet, Inc.
- Singing City
- Susquehanna Chorale
- Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
- The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
- The Crossing
- The Friends of Chamber Music of Reading, Inc.
- The Georgia E. Gregory Interdenominational School of Music
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- The Polyphonia Society
- Trenton Music Makers
- Wilmington Children’s Chorus
- Wilmington Concert Opera
- Variant 6
- Yun International Music Foundation
