Entrepreneurial Grants
Articulating a vision, creating a work plan, identifying target audiences, crafting a marketing strategy, and figuring out how to balance a budget are all important skills that musicians need to make their work live sustainably in the world. Our students have the advantage of getting a head start.
The Entrepreneurial Grant program empowers students to execute their unique programmatic ideas, by arming them with a pot of money and a cadre of advisors to support them along the way. This program is not necessarily about funding “the next big thing,” it’s about enabling students to build skills and networks so that the next time they have a great idea (and there certainly will be a next time) they will also have the toolkit to realize it.
As you browse the project profiles below, you will find that our students are not only creating new opportunities for audiences to engage with and appreciate music, but new pathways for their own careers.
For more information and to start the application process, contact Maria Finkelmeier, EM Program Manager.
Spring 2013 Grant Projects
Mathilde Geismar: Académie Anglicorde
Maureen Heflinger, Gwen Buttemer, Chris Gamboa: Project Heckelmith
Mattia Maurée: Printing Service
Colin Thurmond: GTX: Extreme Guitar Technique
Emileigh Vandiver: Project Panama 2013
Fall 2012 Grant Projects
Katherine Balch: The Loveliest Afternoon of the Year
Brad Barrett: Development of ear-training application
Henrique Eisenmass: NEC Meets the World: ETHNIC Jam Sessions
Maria Rindenello-Parker & Soo Han: Soo & Maria
Jussi Reijonen: un Tour in Finland
Akenya Seymour: NEC: Underground
Spring 2012 Grant Projects
Robyn Bollinger: Project Paganini
Etienne Gara: VivaClassica Festival
Tyler Gilmore: A Rambling Stretch
Neal Markowski: New Music and the WWII Relocation Camps
Lauren Nelson: Residency in Jacmel, Haiti
Rachel Panitch: Rhode Island Fiddle Project Summer Camp
Michael Sachs: Foreground Music Collective
Fall 2011 Grant Projects
Athena Adamopoulos and Colin Thurmond: toUch Performance Art
Jason Belcher: The Music of Burr Van Nostrand
Jennifer Kessler, Aisha Bowden, and Charles Burchell: Inside Out Group Action Project
Joseph Kromholz and Debbie Pae: Music for Food 2011–2012
Katy Lafleur: Gradient Us Ensemble
Laura Soto-Bayomi: NEC Production of Into the Woods
Vanessa Wheeler: Nonce Ensemble
Summer 2011 Grant Projects
Beth McDonald: August Noise JP
Nell Shaw Cohen: Beyond the Notes
Eden MacAdam-Somer: Notorious Folk in Israel
Helen Sherrah-Davies: Residency in Ramallah
Leah Hennessy: Sight & Sound Festival
Spring 2011 Grant Projects
Michael Dahlberg: Parlor Night
Elisabeth Erenberg: Sounding the Stories
Andres Lopera, Cecilia Huerta: Boston Latin-American Orchestra
Peter Negroponte: Improvisers Anonymous series
Albert Oppenheimer: Chiron Competition
Vanessa Wheeler: NEC Composers Lab Ensemble
Fall 2010 Grant Projects
Celia Hatton, Kayleigh Miller: Music for Food for Music
Joan Arnau Pamies: NEC Young Composers Forum
Colin Thurmond: Sound Innovation Festival
Summer 2010 Grant Projects
Samantha Angstman: Burlington Ensemble
Jennifer Berg: Oboe Reed Crafting Masterclasses
Nell Shaw Cohen: Georgia O’Keeffe Video
Daniel Hawkins: The Secret History
Melanie Leinbach: Evening of SongBenefit Concert
Amir Milstein: Sounds and Signs
Peter Negroponte: Burlington Other Music Festival
2013-04-09
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