Genres Music

Sharon Katz & The Peace Train
Katz, Sharon
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
Sharon Katz and her colleagueWendy Quick, ran workshops in Teaneck Middle and High Schools in 2012 to encourage children to resolve their conflicts peacefully. The workshops culminated in a performance at the Puffin showcasing the childrens' talents Read More
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- Website: www.SharonKatz.com

Recitations in Movement
Lamprea, Stephanie
Year Grant Awarded: 2018
Recitations in Movement is an interdisciplinary performance of George Aperghis' 14 Recitations. This show seeks to express the sufferings of domestic abuse victims through the interaction of movement and voice. Proceeds are donated to Rosie's Place, a battered women's shelter in Boston, MA. Read More
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- Website: http://www.stephanielamprea.com

MendelsSongs: Stories of a Neighborhood
Loeb, Alison
Year Grant Awarded: 2010
True stories of the German Jews of Washington Heights (and one Catholic) in a live, multimedia theatrical concert set to Felix Mendelssohn's "Songs without Words" by award-winning lyricist Alison Loeb. Read More
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- Website: http://www.mendelssongs.com

Living Concert Series
Mad haPPy
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
The Sustainable Living Concert Series, now shortened to Living Concert Series was actually inspired by the stated purpose of the Puffin and Puffin West Foundations in the funding of projects that use Art to cultivate a progressive cultural vision. Read More
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- Website: http://www.madhappy.com

Ye Are Many-They Are Few
Mathews, Norman
Year Grant Awarded: 2012
A composition for four singers and piano about social and civil justice. The text is by 8 writers, including the composer, but the centerpiece of the text uses selected stanzas from Shelley's Mask of Anarchy. Read More
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- Website: http://www.normanmathews.com

Music Connects Lives
Moonlight Serenade
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Moonlight Serenade has made it their mission to enrich the quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities in nursing homes, senior living facilities and independent senior groups by presenting concerts of fine classical music. Read More
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- Website: http://www.Moonlightmusic.us

Soy Sefardi: A Concert Celebrating the Jews of Spain (2014)
Murad, Nicole
Year Grant Awarded: 2013
New York based duo, soprano Nicole Murad and guitarist Eric B. Davis, will take you on a journey as you listen to the beautiful melodies and language of the Sephardim reflecting an oral tradition that spans a period over 500 years. Read More
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- Website: http://www.epresskitz.com/nicolemurad

Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga
Parade of One
Year Grant Awarded: 2016
In 2017, Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga released their collaborative album, Honey Wine, with famed bassist William Parker and percussionist Tim Keiper. The album has been very well-received in the press, and the group has been invited to perform at the 2021 Krakow Jewish Culture Fest. Read More
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- Website: www.paradeofone.org

Passage Theatre Company
Passage Theatre Company
Year Grant Awarded: 2006
Passage Theatre Company received a grant from the Puffin Foundation to support two public performances of Vince de Mura’s new electronic sonic symphony, “For Lost Words.” Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa’s, Vietnam opus, Read More

The Lazarus Rose
Rael, Christopher
Year Grant Awarded: 2011
Centuries-old Sephardic Jewish songs arranged and performed by contemporary world music chamber ensemble with instruments from India, Andalusia, Turkey, string orchestra and a chorus of soaring voices, a diasporic experience in the age of technology. Read More
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- Website: www.chrisrael.com