🚨Attention Chicago! 🚨 We’re launching our second cycle of New Music Inc. - Chicago! With generous support from The Walder Foundation, NMI-Chicago will support 12 Chicago-based new music groups and organizations. Applications open Thursday, January 29th, 2026. Tap our link in bio for more info!

🚨Apps are OPEN for our 2026 Creator Fund! 🎶 Creator Fund offers grants to individual music creators working in any genre who need support to reach the next stage of their creative practice. 📍This cycle’s eligible regions are: Midwest, Northwest/Mid-Atlantic, and NY ➡️ Visit link in bio to apply

Congrats to the 10 LA-based orgs that are awardees for New Music Inc – LA! New Music Inc is a regional incubator program that helps small-budget, artist-led new music orgs at pivotal stages in their development. Learn more: bit.ly/nmincla2025

New Music USA is thrilled to announce the 83 awardees for the 2025 New Music Organization Fund! 🥳 The New Music Organization Fund provides grants to outstanding organizations. 🔗 Tap our link in bio to learn more about this year’s awardees and to explore playlists featuring their work!

New Music USA announces the appointment of Vanessa Rose as President & CEO. Rose, whose tenure begins on October 15, brings more than 20 years of leadership in nonprofit arts admin. Rose comes from the American Composers Forum, where she has led the organization since 2019. Read more - link in bio

🚨 Attention, artist-led music orgs in LA — applications for New Music Inc LA are NOW OPEN!🚨 🌴 We’re excited to bring our New Music Inc program to Los Angeles, with support from the Musicman Foundation and Perenchio Foundation. Tap our link in bio to apply!

🎉 Big news! We’re thrilled to announce the awardees of the 2025 New Music Creator Fund - CONGRATULATIONS to the 62 awardees from across the South, West, and New York who will receive a total of $224,000 in funding!

New Music USA announces The Thea Musgrave Performer-Composer Collaboration Grant, an endowed gift of $250k made possible through the generosity of composer Thea Musgrave and her husband, Peter Mark. Beginning in 2025, 1-2 grants of $10k will be awarded annually through the New Music Creator Fund.

After planes, hotels, rehearsal space - what can a chamber musician expect to recoup in real wages? And how can early-career artists build a career they love? Nick Photinos says to think of "making it" as a process, not a destination. @newmusicusa.bsky.social icareifyoulisten.com/2025/05/the-...

We’re thrilled to announce the launch of our New Music Inc program in Los Angeles, CA! New Music Inc LA will be open to Los Angeles-based music organization with an operating budget of less than $500,000. Link in bio to learn more!

Kicking off our Money Matters essay series, in collaboration with @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social, is mezzo-soprano Megan Ihnen with an overview of the nitty-gritty, brass-tacks financial practices that artists should know in order to build a sustainable career! Link in bio to read!

We’re thrilled to announce the debut performance of the 2025 Next Jazz Legacy cohort on May 14th at @thejazzgallery.bsky.social with TWO sets at 7:30pm and 9:30pm! Link in bio for tickets!

🎉 Big news! We are thrilled to announce the eight incredible 2025 #NextJazzLegacy awardees! 🎉 Congratulations to Alexandra Ridout, April May Webb, Brenda Navarrete Guzman, Carmen Quill, Chanelle Ignant, DoYeon Kim, Melissa Almaguer, and Nora Stanley on this outstanding achievement!

We are proud to announce the 2025 cycle of our New Music Organization Fund! Applications are open now! The fund offers grants to non-profit organizations, festivals, presenters, and venues that need support to sustain their programming of new music, nurturing of music creators, and other artists.

Join us for New Music USA’s second annual Table for 100 benefit on May 2, 2025! This special evening will honor Claire Chase and Valerie Coleman, and raise a heartfelt farewell toast to our President & CEO, Vanessa Reed Visit the link in our bio for additional information!

Call for articles! @icareifyoulisten.bsky.social and New Music Box of @newmusicusa.bsky.social are launching a new essay series, "Money Matters," which will look at the financial realities of being a working musician. Please share with your networks! icareifyoulisten.com/2025/01/call...

New Music USA announces today that President & CEO Vanessa Reed (@iamvanessareed) will leave the organization to become the first woman appointed as Chief Executive of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic (@liverpool_philharmonic) in the UK.

We’re thrilled to share that the National Endowment for the Arts has recommended New Music USA for a grant in the amount of $40,000! 🎉 This funding will support our digital resources and community convening activities for national connectivity and capacity building within the new music field.

Our hearts are heavy as we think about everyone impacted by the LA wildfires. This is a list of resources complied from our friends and those actively working to support those affected.

Ngl... composing sometimes has us like 😮‍💨 #WeAreNewMusic

Emerging from our holiday hibernation to remind you that our 2024 Next Jazz Legacy cohort is opening NYC Winter Jazzfest Manhattan Marathon at (le) poisson rouge on Friday, January 10 at 5pm, *one week from today* ! 🎟️ Get your tickets now – link in bio! 📷: Rachel Minto

Thrilled to see Amplifying Voices grantee Tyshawn Sorey and Next Jazz Legacy mentors Mary Halvorson, Ambrose Akinmusire, and Tomeka Reid listed among many great others in this article!