American Composers Forum, Washington DC Chapter
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$100: hires a professional musician to perform at a New Music Salon event;
$500: underwrites a professional development workshop for composers;
$1500: funds a community-based residency project
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ACF-DC doesn’t just bring new and cutting edge music to Washington; it wants Washington to be part of how that music is made. So it challenges composers to design projects that involve the city they live in - as Lauren Bernofsky did when she composed "Anacostia Journal" based on her residency with the Earth Conservation Corps whose members were cleaning up the banks of the Anacostia River, or creating a curriculum in ensemble improvisation in conjunction with the students of the Sitar Arts Center, where a New Music Salon also provides one of the only regional venues for composers to self-produce performances of their work. The Forum is now in residence at Joe's Movement Emporium, a new multi-use arts facility in Mt. Rainier, MD, where it offers its own brand of support to emerging artists – fostering a palette of strategic partnerships between composers and the region’s arts institutions, and presenting composers’ works (alongside that of international artists) to the public. ACF-DC teaches us that new music is not a “luxury” but a vital component of the arts landscape – igniting interest and enthusiasm across the boundaries of age, race, and class. Your support brings new music into the most surprising places!
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