Community Arts
Funding to commission and present a new work for voice and guitar by composer Daniel Nass. The new composition will be performed at three metro-area concerts in January 2013.
Tim J. Peterson: Director of Marketing and Operations, Cantus; Jeanne Junge: Artistic Director, Sounds of Hope; Anne Bertram: Managing Director, Theatre Unbound; Caitlin Hargarten: Managing Director, Stevens Square Center for the Arts; Walken Schweigert: Ensemble Member, Unseen Ghost Brigade; Peter Thompson: Artistic Director, Art Shanty Projects; Tanaegh Haddad: Arts Coordinator, Womens' Initiative for Self Empowerment; Christina Marie Ham: Playwright, The Playwrights' Center; Pete Driessen: Curator and Director, TuckUnder Projects.
Jill Anfang: City of Roseville assistant parks and recreation director; Heather Beal: free-lance architectural writer; Melissa Brechon: retired Carver County Library system director; Kathy Busch: realtor, Shakopee School Board member; Shelly Chamberlain: Minnesota Council of Nonprofits director of operations and human resources; Paul Creager: Gordon Parks High School teacher and administrator, Square Lake Film Festival director; Erika Eklund: Playwrights'Center director of external relations; Joan Elwell: Lakeshore Players Community Theatre Managing Director; Kristi Gaudette: Prior Lake-Savage school district program specialist; Peter Leggett: Walker West Music Academy executive director; Christine Murakami Noonan: Minnesota State Fair Foundation Project Manager; Rachel Smoka-Richardson: Childrens Theatre Company director of institutional giving; Margaret Rog: free-lance grant writer and organizational development consultant; Beth Starbuck: retired consultant; Dameun Strange: free-lance musician and composer; Melissa Wright: William Mitchell College of Law assistant director of Career and Professional Development.
ACHF Arts Access
Audiences with little exposure to classical music and contemporary composition will have excellent new opportunities, and a new piece of music will be commissioned and recorded.Audience surveys and audience size assessment.
Commissioned and performed a new piece of contemporary music for voice and guitar; 60% of audience surveyed reported this was their first time seeing this group, thus reaching new audiences.
Other, local or private