The Presser Foundation Announces Advancement of Music Grants
The Presser Foundation is pleased to announce the selection of sixty-nine multi- and single year grantees for Advancement of Music. These grants, totaling $865,500, provide general operating support to music presenting, music performing and music education organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Area.
William B. McLaughlin, III, Chair of the Advancement of Music Committee, commented, “It is an honor to provide the largest round of critical operating support grants to so many musical organizations in and around Philadelphia. The Presser Foundation is proud to help sustain and nurture these organizations that are essential to the communities and audiences they serve.”
2018-19 Advancement of Music Grantees (in alphabetical order)
- Academy of Vocal Arts
- Allentown Symphony Association
- Anna Crusis Women’s Choir
- Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
- Ars Nova Workshop
- ArtistYear
- Artistas y Musicos Latino Americanos
- Astral Artists, Inc.
- Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra
- Bowerbird
- Bucks County Choral Society
- Bucks County Symphony Society
- Chamber Music Society of Bethlehem
- Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
- Chester Children’s Chorus
- Choir School of Delaware
- Choral Arts Philadelphia
- Commonwealth Youthchoirs
- Community Conservatory
- Community Music School Lehigh Valley
- Community Music School of Collegeville
- Concert Operetta Theatre
- Darlington Arts Center
- Delaware County Youth Orchestra
- Delaware Symphony Orchestra
- Dolce Suono Ensemble
- Esperanza
- Friends of the Wanamaker Organ
- Kimmel Center, Inc.
- Lancaster Symphony Orchestra
- LiveConnections
- Lyra Society
- Market Square Concerts
- Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
- Music at Gretna, Inc.
- Musicopia
- Network for New Music
- Opera Philadelphia
- OperaDelaware
- Orchestra 2001
- Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
- Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts
- Philadelphia Gay Men’s Chorus
- Philadelphia Youth Orchestra
- Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
- Play On, Philly!
- Princeton Symphony Orchestra
- PRISM Quartet, Inc.
- Project 440
- Reading Symphony Orchestra
- Riverside Symphonia
- Settlement Music School
- Singing City
- State Theatre Regional Arts Center at New Brunswick, Inc.
- Symphony in C
- Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
- Temple University Music Preparatory Division
- The Allentown Band
- The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
- The Crossing
- The Friends of Chamber Music of Reading, Inc.
- The Georgia E. Gregory Interdenominational School of Music
- The Mann Center of the Performing Arts
- The Music School of Delaware
- The Philadelphia Orchestra
- The Princeton Festival
- Trenton Children’s Chorus, Inc.
- Trenton Community Music School
- Tri-County Concerts Association, Inc.
