New York City-based composers in all genres are invited to apply for one of six (6) three-month residencies at one of three cultural facilities. The newly-expanded residency program will provide awardees with use of suitable composition and rehearsal space for a three-month period starting in spring 2010. Each composer-in-residence will also receive a stipend.
Flushing Town Hall and Florence E. Smith Community Center, Queens, will each host two residents beginning on or around May 1, 2010, and finishing on or around July 31, 2010.
Turtle Bay Music School, Midtown Manhattan, will host two residencies: one from May 1, 2010 - July 31, 2010 and the other from October 1, 2010 - December 31, 2010.
Each facility will present a free public program featuring their resident composers' work.
All application materials must be received at the address below by February 26, 2010, 5:00 PM. Award announcements will be made no later than April 1, 2010.
The residencies are funded by Con Edison, The Amphion Foundation, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, the Reed Foundation, and individuals. NYC Performing Arts Spaces developed the program and continues to administer it.
The first Con Edison Musicians' Residencies were awarded in the spring of 2009, when three Queens-based composers were chosen to work in residence at Flushing Town Hall.
The Con Edison Musicians' Residency: Composition Program had its genesis in NYC Performing Arts Spaces' 2008 study “Where Can We Work?", an examination of how access to workspace in New York City impacts musicians' ability to compose, rehearse and perform. The study was made possible by a seminal grant from the New York State Music Fund. NYC Performing Arts Spaces is a program of Fractured Atlas, a non-profit organization serving the basic resource needs of a national community of performing and visual artists and arts organizations.
For more information about the Con Edison Musicians' Residency: Composition Program, including complete Guidelines and an Application form, visit nycPASpaces.org. Questions may be addressed to [email protected].
Mail materials to:
NYC Performing Arts Spaces
c/o Fractured Atlas
248 West 35th Street, Suite 1202
New York, NY 10001
