April 2019
The Kitchen
$5,000 Grant
In support of Wadada Leo Smith’s Rosa Parks: Pure Love. An Oratorio of Seven Songs to be performed at The Kitchen April 26–28. With vocalists, musicians, live video performance and butoh dance.
Website: Wadada Leo Smith
Website: Wadada Leo Smith at The Kitchen
Photo: Jimmy Katz
April 2019
24th Vision Festival
$10,000 Grant
In support of Andrew Cyrille, the 2019 Lifetime Achievement Honoree at the 24th Vision Festival at Roulette from June 11–16.
Website: 24th Vision Festival
January 2019
Paula Shocron
$8,500 Travel Grant
Paula Shocron is a pianist, composer, improviser, performer, music activist, and educator residing in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Her trio has performed internationally. Her achievement of a mature sonic vocabulary culminated with her acclaimed 2017 release Tensegridad with drummer Pablo Diaz, and bassist Germán Lamonega on the Hat Hut record label.
Website: Paula Shacron
photo: Pablo Díaz
January 2019
Cantaloupe Music
$7,000 Recording Grant
In support of the forthcoming Cantaloupe Music release of John Luther Adams’ Become Desert.
Cantaloupe Music is the record label created and launched in March 2001 by the three founders of New York’s legendary Bang on a Can organization—composers Michael Gordon, David Lang and Julia Wolfe—with Bang on a Can managing director Kenny Savelson.
Website: Cantaloupe Music
January 2019
Digital Art Committee, Whitney Museum
$12,500
The Digital Art Committee is devoted to strengthening and expanding the Whitney Museum of American Art’s collection of artworks that use digital technologies as medium, engaging with the aesthetic, cultural, social or political impact of these technologies.
Mr. Bielecki and the RDBF are credited with three works currently on view at the Whitney exhibition Programmed
Website: The Whitney Museum of American Art
January 2019
Andrew Lamb
$3,000 Grant
In support of Andrew Lamb’s Circadian Spheres Of Light Project encompassing music with original compositions, dance interpretations, spontaneous visual art, poetry/spoken word, and a magician. Mr. Lamb’s project is designed to help those living with autism, dementia, and post traumatic stress disorder, and invite them to share in a moment of creative energy with a general audience.
Website: Andrew Lamb on Can-Do Musos