Thank you - 2024 Gala & Creative Catalyst Awards

We are looking back at the 2024 Gala and Creative Catalyst Awards with joy and gratitude. Another heartfelt congratulations to Hollis King, Regina Carter, and the BMI Foundation, and to the incredible artists who lit up the evening!

With your generosity, we raised over $211,000 to support ACO's national EarShot composer advancement initiatives, definition-expanding commissions, career-defining performances, and creativity-based educational programs for NYC public school students. We are so grateful.

From the roof to the garden, the best part of the evening was sharing it with you! Under the city lights, clinking our glasses, and applauding the honorees and artists, it was a joy to be together as an ACO family. Thank you for uplifting the work of the incredible artists we support, and for making our hearts so full.

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With deep gratitude,

Curtis Stewart - Artistic Director

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All Gala photos

Credit: Alfred Kan

^{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.
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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.}