Miscellaneous Grants
2010 - The JACK Quartet at Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad
A grant to Carlsbad Music Guild, Inc. to fund a concert of the JACK Quartet at Schulman Auditorium, Dove Library, Carlsbad, CA. The program includes one of the Xenakis Quartets - their DVD of which has received rave reviews - and a new work commissioned earlier by the Foundation.
2009 - Monday Evening Concerts
Working through composer Aaron Helgeson, a nominal grant was given in December to assist in travel costs for Alicia Teyssier to perform at MEC and to record Aaron’s lastest work for a small ensemble.
2009 - TALEA Ensemble
This Ensemble received a $1000 grant to perform a tribute to Stockhausen in NYC on September 24, 2009. This novel concert featured: Anthony Cheung, piano; Alex Lipowski, percussion; and Victor Adan, sound engineer.
2009 - Ross Karre
A recent graduate with DMA at UCSD, this outstanding percussionist is actively engaged in fostering his own performance career as well as that of Ensemble xii - an outgrowth of the Lucerne Ensemble promoted by conductor, Pierre Boulez. He also performed with the prestigious Red Fish/Blue Fish ensemble. Ross was awarded a stipend to prepare a lecture and demonstration on the “Role of Percussion in Contemporary Music”.
www.rosskarre.synchronismproject.com
2009 - Martin Iddon
Martin received his Doctorate from Cambridge and was awarded a commissioning grant of $1000 to compose an original String Trio to be performed at the Spring Festival, 2010 of Either/Or Ensemble in New York City. Dr. Iddon is a well-known musicologist and writer at the University of Lancaster and this commission with performance represents the first major introduction of his talents as a composer in New York City. His acoustic music is already familiar to those in California.
http://martiniddon.posterous.com/
2009 - Eliot Gattegno
Eliot won the prestigious Kranichsteiner Preis at IMD, Darmstadt in July, 2008 for his performances on the saxophone. He was given a small stipend to perform a Bach ’Partita’ originally scored for flute at Harry’s lecture for the Carlsbad Music Guild and to discuss new performance techniques on the ‘sax’.
2009 - EnsembleXII
The Foundation committed $2500 to this group to present two-weeks of recordings and concerts at UCSD in August This residency is sponsored in part by UCSD and other international organizations as well as the Foundation
2009 - Symposium
A weekend in late January devoted to discussions about music and especially Steven Takasugi’s take on Musil’s “Der Fliegenpapier”, with Jezek Prize Winner Trevor Bača and noted musicologist/composer Martin Iddon. On Saturday evening a bevy of performers and composers from UCSD provided broad based input to various issues of contemporary music.
2008 - Aaron Helgeson
A grant of $1000 was given this bright, talented composer to enable him to attend the Acanthes Festival in Metz (France) where he will join in work-shops, lectures and discussions as well as be present as an active participant by invitation to compose a new work for piano and percussion.
2008 - Matthew Jenkins
A grant of $1000 was awarded to this young percussionist and composer to assist in his travel expenses to Vienna in November, 2008, at the invitation of Wien Moderne to perform as soloist and in ensemble at their prestigious new music Festival.
2008 - Carlsbad Music Guild
A grant of $2500 was given to this new organization to continue Harry’s lectures on ‘Opera Appreciation” and “Music in Your Life” at Schulman Auditorium, Carlsbad, California.
2008 - HiFi New Music Festival
A grant of $1000 was given to Michael Ibrahim and Adam Mizra, co-founders and co-producers of this innovative new music festival in New York City held during the month of April. A provocative series of concerts in various venues and featuring an assortment of known, up-and-coming ensembles has garnered critical acclaim for its avant garde programing. (Elliot Carter at the piano)
2007 - ‘Opera is Grand’ Lecture Series
A grant of $2500 was given to Carlsbad Dove Library to allow continuation of Dr. Eiler’s well-received lectures on Opera Appreciation and “Music in Your Life” in Carlsbad.
2007 - Nicholas DeMaison/Opera Cabal
As a follow-on to an earlier concert performance of his new opera this year, Nicholas received a $3000 grant to put on a fully-staged version of the opera in October.
2007 - Christine Southworth
Under the auspices of the Carlsbad Music Festival in September, Christine was selected by the Calder Quartet to receive a co-sponsored $3000 commission from the Foundation.
2007 - RIOT Ensemble
In July, this new Ensemble’s premiere concert at Tenri Center, NYC, featured Michael Ibrahim (sax); Oren Fader (guitar) and Eric Wubbels (accordian) in an exciting evening of new music written especially for this unusual mix.
www.michaelibrahim.com
2007 - Nicholas DeMaison/Opera Cabal
Opera Cabal is a Chicago-based collective of musicians, writers and artists focused upon the creation and production of experimental music and theater. Nick was awarded $3500 to fund their first effort, “Collusions: Chicago (2007)” - a three day festival of new art, music, theater and film in April.
2007- Jack Quartet
This energetic quartet is gaining international fame as out-standing performers of avant garde music. In April, the Quartet received a modest grant to assist in their concert at “The Box” in NYC, assaying the difficult Lachenmann 3rd String Quartet.
2007 - Matthew Jenkins
This enterprising young composer/percussionist received $1000 in addition to $1500 from American Composers Forum to embark on a solo percussion tour along the Pacific Coast - using the venues of University of California.
2006 - Encinitas Community Center
In November, with a matching grant of $1500 from the City of Encinitas, the Foundation presented two concerts featuring the piano talents of Dr. Luciane Cardassi, and violinist Christopher Otto - offering several World and West Coast premieres.
2006 - Carlsbad Music Festival
Selected from over 50 scores by the Calder Quartet, Ryan Carter’s new string quartet, “Grip,” received a $500 commissioning grant from The Foundation. “Grip” went on to win the Ettelson Prize in 2007.
2006 - Luciane Cardassi
Brazilian-born pianist, Luciane Cardassi was given a grant of $1000 to assist her after receiving her PhD from UCSD and returning to her native land. A prospective teaching career in Brazil was foiled by red-tape, so Luciane returned to North America and is now active at Banff, Canada. www.lucianecardassi.com
2006 - Grants for IMD
Two talented composers received grants in kind for tuition, room and board to attend the Summer Courses at Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt, Germany. Harry feels it important to continue the imaginative work of Helmut Lachenman by assuring that emerging composers attend these important seminars. His attendance in 2006 led to funding ‘Der Staubachpreis’ 2008 and then the ‘Staubach Honoraria”, 2010 at IMD
2006/2005 - Either/Or Ensemble
In April of each year, a grant of $1250 was given to assist the Either/Or Ensemble with its Spring Festival.
2005 - Carlsbad Music Festival The Carlsbad Music Festival received a $250 grant to help put on the first Festival. The Foundation has continued to support the Festival in 2006 and 2007 by offering grants for new musical compositions selected by the Calder Quartet.
2005 - Richard Snow
A native of Alabama and working on his PhD in composition at UCSD, at the time, “Rick” received a new laptop computer as a grant-in-kind. Harry also offered time and funds to assist Rick in setting up his new ensemble, “Wave-link” and funding the first several concerts of this group in San Diego and Encinitas. Rick is currently teaching at Tulane University.
2005 - Sequitur Enemble
A grant of $6000 was given to fund the performance of a multimedia work at Merkin Concert Hall. NYC.
2004 - Christopher Tonkin
Chris is a native ‘aussie’ and received a new laptop computer as a grant-in-kind prior to leaving for Paris to study at IRCAM for one year. He distinguishes himself in computer-centered compositions and received his PhD from UCSD in 2007.
2010 - Ekmeles Ensemble
A small grant was offered as ‘seed money’ to fund the first concert of
this talented group of vocalists to specialize in new, unusual and rarely-heard works.
2010 - TALEA Ensemble at “Bang on the Can” Festival, NYC
The Talea Ensemble is headlining this prestigious New York event with a performance of “Professor Bad Trip” by Romitelli and received a grant to
assist in its production costs - continuing its quest to bring the very best
from Europe to the USA.
2011 - TALEA Ensemble
A grant of $1500 was awarded to assist in bringing the music of Danish composers, Bent Sorensen and Hans Abrahamsen, to NYC. This concert is co-produced by the Consulate General of Denmark in New York and Scandanavia House
2011 - Ross Karre
A grant of $1500 was given to Ross to assist in his ambitious international tour of high profile events in Europe and Australia featuring premieres of up-and-coming composers and performances of such masters as Xenakis, Manuory, Grisey, etc.
2011 - Jon Hepfer
A grant of $1000 was given Jon to assist in the expenses for his project to interview and record one-on-one conversations with some of the great percussionists of the mid-1900’s throughout Europe. Jon will commence his Doctoral Studies at UCSD in September, 2011
2011 - TALEA Ensemble
In association with Internationales Musikinstitut Darmstadt (IMD), this group of musicians is one of the five ensembles selected to perform at their Summer Courses, 2012. In addition to working with and performing with one of the Staubach Honorarium winners, a grant of $5000 was given to assist transportation costs for 15 musicians featured in TALEA’s premiere in Germany with Romitelli’s “Index of Metals’ on July 19, 2012 as part of the IMD featured concerts.
2011 - Ensemble 61
A grant of $1000 was given to Ensemble 61 to assist in their ambitious project “Across the Divide” in a series of concerts bringing music of outstanding French and German composers, including Dr. Hans Thomalla, to Wisconsin, Illinois and Missouri.
2011 Ekmeles
A grant of $600 was given for the premiere of a work of just intonation in a micro-tonal scale for seven voices by composer, Randy Gibson, on November 16 under the auspices of ‘Music at First”. We enabled this outstanding ensemble with its first performance and they have met and exceeded our expectations ever since.
..... and more breakfasts, brunches, lunches and dinners, drinks and demi-tasses, visits and vacations, time outs and trips, discussions and debates with the above and others yet to be added to the list than can be counted. Great fun all !
2012 Martin Iddon, PhD
A travel stipend was offered to Dr. Iddon to fund his participation in symposia at the inaugural Harvard Summer Composition Institute to be conducted from August 13 thru 27, 2012 under the auspices of Harvard University.
2012 TALEA Ensemble at Harvard Summer Institute for Composition.
A grant of $5000 was awarded Talea Ensemble for travel and subsistence costs involved with their participation as ‘ensemble in residence’ for the inaugural offering of this exceptional opportunity for young composers of the world at Harvard University. Admission to the final concerts and symposia is free and open to the public.
2012 Carlsbad Music Guiid, Inc.
A series of grants in 2011 and 2012 were awarded to the Carlsbad Music Guild for rental of Schulman Auditorium, Dove Library, Carlsbad, CA - venue for its continuing free lectures on Opera and Classical composers.
2011 - Kobe Van Cauwenburghe
Kobe received a small stipend to prepare an MP3 file of a new solo guitar piece written by composer, Stefan Beyer. Kobe’s special talent has made him internationally acknowledged as an outstanding performer.
2012 Yeung-ping Chen
As a PhD candidate in Composition at UCSD, Ping was given a grant of $1000 to cover transportation costs to attend the workshops and concerts at IEMA (Inter-tertiary Young Composers Platform) at the Goethe Institute, Hong Kong, in February during which his recent work Trace of Solar Luminosity will be performed by Ensemble Modern.