Category: performance grants
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Congratulations to the 2018 Performance Grant Winners!
The 2018 WPA Performance Grant cycle brought a record number of applicants, exciting and diverse concerts to consider, and many wonderful programs to anticipate throughout the years of 2019 and 2020! As in the past, the strongest applicants programmed works by more than one composer, included works by both contemporary as well as historic composers,…
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Linda Luebke Strings Festival & Meira Warshauer
This weekend (September 29-30) is the 2018 Linda Luebke Strings Festival in Terre Haute, Indiana. The Festival offers a unique experience for strings students to grow in their musicianship through small ensemble experience, music theory, dance, composition, development of technique, and camaraderie with other like-minded young people. The two day festival also offers workshops for…
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Announcing WPA Performance Grant Winners!
Congratulations to our latest round of Performance Grant winners! Since establishing Performance Grants in 2012 each cycle has seen a larger number of applicants and a greater diversity of programming. The strongest applications were for plans to perform works by more than one composer, included one historic and one contemporary composer, and exciting outreach. We…
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Willamette Falls Plays Wittry
This Sunday, June 4, the Willamette Falls Symphony in Oregon City, Oregon will perform Mist by Diane Wittry. The ensemble, which is lead by Dr. Mark Perlman, is a nonprofit community orchestra, and we are delighted to support this performance with a WPA Performance Grant. Wittry is primarily recognized internationally as conductor and clinician, guiding young composers…