Genres Music

Flight Lessons

Crooks, Deborah

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"Flight Lessons" is a two-act, 17-song, six-character folk opera about Peregrine Falcons and humans living at the intersection of wild and urban habitats. The narrative follows the lives of a breeding pair of Peregrine Falcons and the humans with whom they interact after one of the birds is shot. Read More

Exiles and Emigres in Hollywood

Ensemble for These Times

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

A recording of music by émigré composers who fled the Third Reich for Hollywood and changed movie music as we know it. Read More

No More Walks in the Wood: Songs about Trees

Hinchliffe, Margaret

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

"No More Walks in the Wood" is an initiative to commission new classical works for voice and piano by Texas-based artists on the topic of trees and nature in Texas. Composers and poets wrote new music and texts, which were performed on a recital tour in Nacogdoches, Fort Worth, and Houston. Read More

Infinitesimal

Infinitesimal

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Based on groundbreaking research about near-death experiences, Infinitesimal blurs the boundaries between science, memoir, theater, and music, transmuting chamber opera into an expansive sonic landscape. Infinitesimal was composed and performed by pianist Nicole Brancato and baritone Jeremy Weiss. Read More

The Prisoner

Musiqa

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

In April 2025, Musiqa and Asia Society Texas Center present the world premiere of the chamber version of Karim Al-Zand’s The Prisoner, a gripping song cycle recounting Adnan Latif’s harrowing story of imprisonment, resilience, and injustice at Guantánamo Bay. Read More

Generación Perdida

Sosa, Jorge

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Generación Perdida, based on the book by the Mexican poet, and journalist Javier Moro Hernandez, is a monodrama for mezzo-soprano about the more than 100,000 people who have been forcibly disappeared as a direct result of the futile war on drugs. Read More

Earth Songs

West Michigan Choral Lab

Year Grant Awarded: 2024

Earth Songs by West Michigan Choral Lab featured music and art by living composers and artists from Michigan as well as pieces from diverse preexisting choral traditions and poetry to promote climate justice and sustainability. Read More