Thursday, December 20, 2007

More good news on the grants front

This month has been a good one for me... I just found out that the Argosy Foundation Contemporary Music Fund has awarded a generous grant to the Low End String Quartet to commission new music (from me). The kind folks at Argosy also funded a proposal from the American Composers Forum (one of my day-jobs) to launch a new small-grants program for local composers. There's nothing else like that in the area, so it will make a big difference, I think. But wait, that's not all! They also funded a proposal from Step Afrika to continue working with me. Exciting stuff. Looks like I get to start 2008 as a nearly full-time composer. Woo hoo!

3 comments:

jen said...

so who did you sleep with at this argosy thing?

i'm such a kidder, i kid! congratulations!

the new cd is great, by the way.

Jon Morris (Matis) said...

thanks!

Unknown said...

Jen, don't you think if Jon knew how to sleep his way to the top he'd already be a rock star :). I keep telling him...