Past Seed Money Grant Recipients

2021

Aram Tchobanian, tenor

Canta Libre Chamber Ensemble

Hypercube Ensemble

Jeremy Huw Williams, baritone

Joel Braun, double bass

Marsyas Trio

Quintocracy Wind Quintet

2020

Audrey Wright

Ginevra Petrucci

Rose Hegele with Julia Scott Carey

Thomas Piercy

Moonkyung Lee, violin, and Jang Heum Bae, guitar

Roger Morelló Ros, cello

Luca Quintavalle, harspichord

2019

Alexander Wu

Encontro Internacional de Cordas (Rafael Torralvo, Director)

Max Lifchitz, piano (North/South Consonance)

Roberta Swedien

The Kaplan Duo (Nanette Solomon & Iris Kaplan Rosenthal)

2018

Anna Lorraine Tonna, mezzo-soprano & Isabel Perez Dobarro, piano

eGALitarian

Kinga Augustyn, violin

Tamara Lorenzo Gabeiras

2017

Anna Cromwell

Calliope Brass Quintet

Elisabeth Blair (Compass New Music) & Kristen Mather de Andrade, clarinet (Vent Nouveau)

Encontro Internacional de Cordas (Rafael Torralvo, Director)

Flannery Cunningham (curator-Unheard-of//Ensemble)

George Georgiou, clarinet

Karen Bentley Pollick

Margaret Lucia

The InterXchange Ensemble (Melanie Mitrano & Gerson Galante)

2016

Ana Cervantes, piano

Anna Lorraine Tonna & Isabel Perez Dobarro

Elizaveta Sanicheva (curator)

Heartland Marimba Festival

Iktus Duo

Miolina – Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold, violins

Paracademia Center, Milica Paranosic

Trio Casals

2015

2 Flutes: Laura Falzon and Pamela Sklar

Alla Borzova, soprano (Borzova-Tonna )

Carol Sudhalter, saxophone

Duo Montagnard, Joseph Murphy

Ensemble Mise-En, Moon Young Ha (curator)

Kindred Spirits, Anne Phillips (curator)

Parthenia Consort

The Boston New Music Initiative

The Curiosity Cabinet, Whitney George (curator)

2014

2 Flutes: Laura Falzon & Pamela Sklar

Eva Ingolf, violin

Feminine Musique (Tammy Hensrud & Korliss Uecker)

Miolina – Mioi Takeda & Lynn Bechtold, violins

Women Composers Festival of Hartford

2013

Chai-Lun Yueh, baritone

Ensemble Mise-En, Moon Young Ha (curator)

Max Lifchitz, piano (North/South Consonance)

Nailah Nombeko-Composer’s Voice (curator)

Orchestra da Camera of San Anselmo & San Domenico School (Ann Krinitsky, MD)

The Aviva Players, Mira J Spektor

The Borzova- Fousteris Vocal Duo

The Nouveau Classical Project, Sugar Vendil (curator)

Women Composers Festival of Hartford

2012

Danielle Freeman, vocalist

Max Lifchitz, piano (North/South Consonance)

Union of Composers & Musicologists of Armenia

Vox Novus, Robert Voisey-Composer’s Voice (curator)

2011

The Aviva Players, Mira J Spektor

neoLIT

Sara Paar, soprano

Third Wheel Trio

2010

Alphabet Soup Productions, Marie Incontrera (curator)

Monmouth Conservatory of Music, Vladislav Kovalsky, Exec Dir

neoLIT

2009

Double Entendre Music Ensemble

Englewinds

ISSA Sonus Ensemble

Max Lifchitz, piano (North/South Consonance)

Ricochet Duo (Jane Boxall & Rose Chancler)

2008

Basso Moderno Duo (Allan Von Schenkel & Kristen Williams)

Englewinds

2007

Ana Milosavljevic

Light and Sound Series

Max Lifchitz, piano (North/South Consonance)

Second Instrumental Unit

Siri Howard

2006

Ensemble TOKI

Jade String Trio

Melanie Mitrano

Nina Assimakopoulos (Laurels Project)

2005

The Azure Ensemble

Nietzsche Ensemble

Quintet of the Americas

Silsbee Project, Sarah Meneely-Kyder (curator)

2004

Ana Milosavljevic

The Aviva Players, Mira J Spektor

CASE Arts Group, Inc.

Claudia Knafo, piano

2003

Claudia Knafo, piano

Françoise Vanhecke

Nina Assimakopoulos (Laurels Project)