AMERICAN COMPOSERS ORCHESTRA INC
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Mission Statement
American Composers Orchestra (ACO), founded in 1977, is dedicated to the creation, celebration, performance, and promotion of orchestral music by American composers. With a commitment to diversity, disruption, and discovery, ACO produces concerts, middle school through college composer education programs, and composer advancement programs to foster a community of creators, audiences, performers, collaborators, and funders.
About This Cause
ACO identifies and develops talent, performs established composers, champions those who are lesser-known, and increases regional, national, and international awareness of the infinite variety of American orchestral music, reflecting gender, racial, ethnic, geographic, stylistic, and age diversity. ACO has performed music by 800 American composers, including over 350 world premieres and newly commissioned works. ACO recordings are available on ARGO, CRI, ECM, Point, Phoenix USA, MusicMasters, Nonesuch, Tzadik, New World Records, InstantEncore, Amazon, Spotify, and Apple Music. Now encompassing all of ACO’s composer advancement initiatives, EarShot is the first ongoing, systematic program for developing relationships between composers and orchestras on the national level. Through orchestral readings, CoLABoratory fellowships, consortium commissions, and professional development, EarShot ensures a vibrant musical future by investing in creativity today. Serving over 350 composers since inception, EarShot had its beginnings in NYC with its own Readings in 1991 (carrying the name Whitaker and then Underwood) and expanded in 2008 to national Readings offered in partnership with orchestras across the country in collaboration with the League of American Orchestras, New Music USA, and American Composers Forum. EarShot has also included other programs such as Jazz Composers Orchestra Institute, CoLABoratory, Pathways, and more. Readings composers have gone on to win every major composition award, including the Pulitzer, Grammy, Grawemeyer, American Academy of Arts and Letters, and Rome Prizes. Since 1999, ACO has brought composers and musical teaching artists into New York City public schools through its Sonic Spark educational programs (formerly known as Music Factory). Sonic Spark aims to leverage composition as a platform for creativity and creativity as a platform for achievement in all areas of a student’s life. Students in Brooklyn, Bronx, Manhattan, and Queens work directly with professional composers to create and perform original music. ACO also offers intensive Compose Yourself! seminars, during which high school and college composers participate in hands-on composition classes, culminating in a performance of student compositions played by ACO’s professional musicians. ACO has received numerous awards for its work, including those from the American Academy of Arts and Letters and BMI, recognizing the orchestra’s outstanding contribution to American music. ASCAP has awarded ACO its annual prize for adventurous programming 35 times, singling out ACO as “the orchestra that has done the most for new American music in the United States.” In addition, ACO received the inaugural MetLife Award for Excellence in Audience Engagement and a proclamation from the New York City Council.