Compose Yourself! Reading of New Student Works
The American Composers Orchestra Education Department wraps up its Winter semester of Compose Yourself! with a reading of new student works on Friday January 30th, 1:30-3:30pm at the Yamaha Showroom (689 Fifth Ave., 3rd Fl - entrance on 54th Street).
Compose Yourself! is an opportunity for ambitious high school composers to develop their skills and find their voice through regular classes, readings, and special activities such as attending ACO rehearsals.
Our upcoming reading session will also feature one composer each from Celia Cruz High School for Music in the Bronx, Frank Sinatra HS for the Arts in Queens, and Talent Unlimited HS in Manhattan. This past semester ACO provided each of these schools with introductory composition classes taught by Education Director, Kevin James.
Our many thanks to the Yamaha Corporation for providing us with a beautiful venue for these reading sessions.
American Composers Orchestra is grateful to the many organizations that make its programs possible including Arthur F. & Alice E. Adams Charitable Fund, Altman Foundation, Amphion Foundation, Benevity, Aaron Copland Fund for Music, BMI Foundation, BMI, Inc., Charity Navigator's Giving Basket, Cheswatyr Foundation, Edward T. Cone Foundation, Communities Foundation of Texas, The Gladys Krieble Delmas Foundation, Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University, Fan Fox and Leslie R. Samuels Foundation, Ford Foundation’s Good Neighbor Committee, Give Lively, Francis B. Goelet Charitable Trust, Fromm Music Foundation, Steven R. Gerber Trust, G. Schirmer/Wise Music Foundation, The Hearst Foundation, Howard Gilman Foundation, The Adele and John Gray Endowment Fund, Jephson Educational Trusts, Jerome Foundation, MacMillan Family Foundation, Mellon Foundation, New Music USA’s Organization Fund, The New York Community Trust (Musical Arts Fund, Clara Lewisohn Rossin Trust, and Edward and Sally Van Lier Fund), Pacific Harmony Foundation, Paypal Giving Fund, Rexford Fund, Sphinx Venture Fund, TD Charitable Foundation, Turrell Fund, UKOGF Foundation, Virginia B. Toulmin Foundation.
Corporate gifts to match employee contributions are made by Goldman Sachs, Deutsche Bank, Triton Container International Incorporated of North America, and Neiman Marcus.
Public funds are provided by the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and the New York State Council on the Arts with the support of Governor Kathy Hochul and the New York State Legislature, Office of Brooklyn Borough President Reynoso, and the National Endowment for the Arts.
