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EarShot Partners
EarShot
brings together the resources and experience of the nation's leading
organizations devoted to the support of new
American orchestral music.
 The American Composers Forum is committed to supporting composers and developing
new markets for their music. Through granting, commissioning, and
performance programs, the Forum provides composers at all stages of
their careers with valuable resources for professional and artistic
development. By linking communities with composers and performers,
the Forum fosters a demand for new music, enriches communities, and
helps develop the next generation of composers, musicians, and music patrons.
 The League of American
Orchestras leads, encourages, and supports America's orchestras while
communicating to the public the value and importance of orchestras
and the music they perform. The League's vision is to be a
transformative and unifying force for the orchestra field - a
catalyst for understanding and innovation, a place for conversations
that matter, and a champion for orchestras. The League
provides a wealth of services, meaningful information, learning and
leadership opportunities, and grass-roots advocacy to its diverse
membership, which encompasses nearly 1,000 member symphony, chamber,
youth, and collegiate orchestras of all sizes, and links a national
network of thousands of instrumentalists, conductors, managers, board
members, volunteers, staff members, and business partners.
 New
Music USA was officially created on November 8, 2011, as the result of the
merger between the American Music Center and Meet The Composer. Its
mission to increase opportunities for composers, performers, and audiences
is advanced through two basic kinds of activity: Support and Promotion. By
providing financial and other support, it enables composers and other
musical artists to create the new work that is the beating heart of our
musical culture. Through its strong and evolving new media dimensions, it
seeks to bring more attention to the field and engage a broad audience of
potential listeners. New Music USA is designed to build upon the combined
and interconnected strengths of AMC and MTC. AMC, founded in 1939 by
composers Marion Bauer, Aaron Copland, Howard Hanson, Harrison Kerr, Otto
Luening, and Quincy Porter, was dedicated to building a national community
of artists, organizations, and audiences creating, performing, and
enjoying new American music. Over the past decade, AMC concentrated on
advocacy for the community through a variety of online initiatives and
also continued to support the community through grant programs, an array
of information services, and by engaging with the broader performing arts
field. MTC was founded in 1974 as a project of the New York State Council
on the Arts. Led by the visionary composer John Duffy, MTC soon became an
independent organization dedicated to the idea of composers as active
professionals with a central role in our country’s musical culture. In the
more than thirty years since, MTC grew to become a truly national
organization, serving composers and audiences in all fifty states and
promoting a thrillingly broad range of new music. MTC’s core
programs—which include Commissioning Music/USA, Music Alive, and MetLife
Creative Connections—are all continuing, as are NewMusicBox and
Counterstream Radio (both originally AMC programs) under the New Music USA
umbrella. Maintaining a strong online presence as well as an active
network of worldwide contacts, which includes serving as the official
United States member of the
International Association of Music Information Centres
(IAMIC), New Music USA aims to bring the music created in this country to
a global audience.
 American
Composers Orchestra (ACO) is the only orchestra in the world
dedicated to the creation, performance, preservation and promulgation
of music by American composers. ACO identifies
today's brightest emerging composers, champions prominent established
composers as well as those lesser-known, and increases regional,
national and international awareness of the infinite variety of
American orchestral music, reflecting geographic, stylistic, and
temporal diversity. ACO also serves as an incubator of ideas,
research and talent, as a catalyst for growth and change among
orchestras, and as an advocate for American composers and their
music.
To date, ACO has performed music by 500 American composers,
including more than 100 world premieres and newly commissioned works.
In pursuit of
its singular mission, ACO maintains an unparalleled range of
activities including an annual concert series at Carnegie Hall,
commissions, recordings, radio broadcasts, educational programs, new
music reading sessions, composer residencies and fellowships, as well
as special projects designed to advance the field. |
