CMA’s jazz ensembles and presenters create and present new works, bring jazz to communities across the country, and reach new audiences with imaginative programming.
Grants and Awards Recipients
CMA’s jazz ensembles and presenters create and present new works, bring jazz to communities across the country, and reach new audiences with imaginative programming.
Performance Plus
Chamber Music America’s Performance Plus program provides grants to U.S. based female-led jazz ensembles to engage an experienced jazz artist-educator for six evaluative listening sessions with the goal of enhancing the ensemble’s performance. The listening sessions will culminate in a recording session resulting in a high-quality demo for use by the grantee ensemble.
New Jazz Works
Presenter Consortium for Jazz
Residency Partnership Program
The Residency Partnership Program supports professional ensembles and presenters in building audiences for classical, contemporary, and jazz chamber music through residency projects. The program funds activities that take place in community settings and that are not part of a regular concert series.
French-American Jazz Exchange Program
From 2006 to 2011, CMA’s French American Jazz Exchange program brought musicians in the U.S. and France together, fostering innovative composition, performance, educational, and recording projects.
Richard J. Bogomolny National Service Award
Outstanding individuals in the ensemble music field (from Elliott Carter and the members of the Kronos Quartet to Billy Taylor and Chick Corea) have received CMA’s National Service Award. Named in honor of CMA’s visionary board chairman Richard J. Bogomolny, the award has been presented annually since 1980 to those who have made lasting, significant contributions to chamber music.
CMAcclaim
The annual CMAcclaim award brings national recognition to individuals, ensembles, presenters and other organizations whose chamber music activities have had a significant cultural impact in their locality or region.
CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming
From 1987 to 2016, Chamber Music America and ASCAP (American Society of Composers, Authors, and Publishers) jointly recognized 285 ensembles, presenters, and festivals from across the country with the CMA/ASCAP Awards for Adventurous Programming for innovative approaches to presenting contemporary music for small ensembles.
Visionary Award
Chamber Music America’s Board of Directors created the Visionary Award to recognize ensemble music professionals who have led the field in creative thinking and innovation.
