Advancement of Music: 2023-2024

The Presser Foundation is pleased to announce another round of general operating support grants totaling $1,128,500.00 in new single- and multi-year grants to 114 music organizations in the Greater Philadelphia Area. In addition, the Foundation will honor ten multi-year commitments totaling $350,000.00.  The number of music organizations given to is the most in the Foundation’s history in this grantmaking area, and their focus and size vary a great deal. The Foundation is proud to support music organizations working to make a difference in their community while significantly contributing to music and the arts in Greater Philadelphia.

William B. McLaughlin, III, Chair of the Advancement of Music Committee, commented, “The Presser Foundation received 121 proposals from music organizations across the Greater Philadelphia Area including 23 first-time applicants and 35 applicants with operating budgets below $100,000.  These organizations, like so many across the nonprofit sector, are volunteer-run and community-based. The proposals received affirm our commitment to supporting music educating, music performing, and music presenting organizations of all sizes and genres.”

Advancement of Music Grants: (in alphabetical order)

• Academy of Vocal Arts
• Allentown Symphony Association
• Anna Crusis Feminist Choir, Inc.
• Ars Nova Workshop
• Artistas y Musicos Latino Americanos (AMLA)
• ArtSmart
• Astral Artists, Inc.
• Bay Atlantic Symphony, Inc.
• Berks Arts Council
• Berks Sinfonietta
• Berks Youth Chorus
• Beyond the Bars
• Black Pearl Chamber Orchestra
• Bowerbird
• Bucks County Choral Society
• Capital Harmony Works
• Capital Philharmonic of New Jersey
• Central Pennsylvania Friends of Jazz
• Chamber Music Lehigh Valley
• Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
• Chesco Pops
• Chester Children’s Chorus
• Choir School of Delaware
• Choral Arts Philadelphia
• Christina Cultural Arts Center
• Commonwealth Youthchoirs
• Community Music School Lehigh Valley
• Community Music School of Collegeville
• Community Youth Orchestra of Bucks County
• Concord Chamber Singers
• Concordia Chamber Players
• Crescendo Phoenixville
• Cumberland Singers
• Darlington Arts Center
• Delaware Choral Arts Association
• Delaware County Symphony
• Delaware County Youth Orchestra
• Delaware Symphony Orchestra
• Delaware Valley Lyric Opera Guild
• Dolce Suono Ensemble
• Esperanza
• Friends of the Wanamaker Organ
• Garden State Philharmonic Orchestra
• Greater South Jersey Chorus
• Harrisburg Symphony Association
• Intercultural Journeys
• Kennett Symphony of Chester County
• Lancaster International Piano Festival
• Lancaster Symphony Orchestra
• Lansdowne Symphony Orchestra
• LiveConnections DBA World Cafe Live
• Lyra Society
• Lyric Fest
• Main Line Symphony Orchestra
• Mamadele Foundation
• Market Square Concerts
• Market Street Music
• Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
• Mennonite Children’s Choir of Lancaster
• Montgomery County Chorale & Orchestra
• Music at Bunker Hill, a Nj nonprofit corporation
• Music at Gretna, Inc.
• Music for Everyone
• Musicopia
• Nashirah: The Jewish Chorale of Greater Philadelphia
• Network for New Music
• Opera Delaware
• Opera Philadelphia
• Orchestra 2001
• Penn Live Arts
• Penn Square Music Festival
• Pennsylvania Philharmonic
• Pennsylvania Sinfonia Orchestra
• Pennsylvania Symphonic Winds
• Philadelphia Boys and Girls Choirs
• Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
• Philadelphia Clef Club of Jazz & Performing Arts
• Philadelphia Heritage Chorale, Inc.
• Philadelphia Sinfonia Association
• Philadelphia Youth Orchestra Music Institute
• Philomusica Chorale
• Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
• Play On, Philly! (POP)
• Princeton Symphony Orchestra
• PRISM Quartet, Inc.
• Project 440
• Reading Musical Foundation
• Reading Symphony Orchestra
• Riverside Symphonia
• Rock to the Future
• Rowan Community Music School
• Settlement Music School
• Singing City
• Singing Hearts Choir Inc.
• Southeastern Pennsylvania Symphony Orchestra
• Sruti
• State Theatre New Jersey
• Susquehanna Chorale
• Symphony in C
• Tempesta di Mare, Inc.
• Temple University Music Preparatory Division
• The Allentown Band
• The Bach Choir of Bethlehem
• The Brandywine Valley Chorale
• The Crossing
• The Friends of Chamber Music Reading, Inc.
• The Georgia E. Gregory Interdenominational School of Music
• The Jazz Sanctuary, inc.
• The Mann Center for Performing Arts
• The Music School of Delaware
• The Philadelphia Orchestra and Kimmel Center Inc.
• The Philharmonic of Southern New Jersey
• The Rainbow Chorale of Delaware
• The Young People’s Philharmonic of the Lehigh Valley
• Tri-County Concerts Association, Inc.
• Variant 6
• Voices Chorale NJ
• Westrick Music Academy
• Wilmington Children’s Chorus
• Wilmington Concert Opera
• WRTI90.1FM
• Young Women Composers dba Wildflower Composers
• Youth Orchestra of Central Jersey
• Zoellner Arts Center

About The Presser Foundation

The Presser Foundation was established in 1939 under the Deeds of Trust and Will of the late music publisher Theodore Presser. It is one of the few private foundations in the United States dedicated solely to music education and music philanthropy. The Presser Foundation supports music organizations working in a broad range of traditions, genres, and styles through general operating and program grants to music organizations; capital grants for music building projects; undergraduate and graduate student awards; and assistance to retired music teachers. Much of the grant making focus of the Foundation is on organizations and institutions in the 75-mile radius surrounding Center City Philadelphia. For more information: www.presserfoundation.org.