WHY NEW MUSIC
Every time has its own ethos: the music of our time resonates with who we are and what we experience—it breathes the same air we do.
WHY US
We have been sharing musical adventures with audiences since 1971. We search next door and around the world to find the best in contemporary musical art – offering listeners the deepest spiritual, intellectual, and emotional experience possible through our concerts, events, and outreach in the Bay Area.
The group serves as the hub of a growing artistic community that embraces outstanding composers working in a variety of contemporary styles, as well as performing musicians and other artists, all involved in the evolution of a new body of repertoire. Our programming mission, therefore, is primarily contemporary and forward looking rather than historical.
Become part of a new music community as international as the San Francisco Bay Area, and connect with living composers from around the world.
WAYS TO GIVE
1. Donate online, by phone, or by mail.
To donate online, click here.
By phone: 415.278.9566
By mail: SFCMP
55 New Montgomery, Suite 708
San Francisco CA 94105
2. Sponsor a concert.
Help to underwrite a specific performance with a gift of $1,500 or more.
Contact by email–
cblanding@sfcmp.org
or call 415.278.9541
3. Inspire a corporate Matching Gift
If you work for a corporation, your employer may have a program to help support the organization that you volunteer for or donate to. Please ask!
4. Donate stock shares.
This is a very tax-smart way to give. Please call for brokerage account transfer number.
415.278.9566
5. Donate in-kind gifts.
Host an event in your home, volunteer in our office, provide rehearsal space, photography, printing services, equipment, etc.
6. Give to our Endowment Fund.
Help secure the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players’ future by giving to the Endowment Fund. The investment income from the Endowment is used to support the ensemble’s annual operations, but the principle remains intact in perpetuity.
For more info, call 415.278.9566.
7. Arrange a Planned Gift.
Make a provision for the San Francisco Contemporary Music Players in your will. We will be glad to discuss how we can help to carry out your long term philanthropic goals.
Contact by email–
cblanding@sfcmp.org
or call 415.278.9541
8. Purchase a work of art.
Donations are tax-deductible
INSTITUTIONAL SUPPORTERS
Government:
Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation through USArtists International with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
National Endowment for the Arts
San Francisco Hotel Tax/Grants for the Arts Program
Foundations:
Aaron Copland Fund for Music
Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University
American Composers Forum, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter*
BMI Foundation
The Mervyn L. Brenner Foundation
The French-American Fund for Contemporary Music, a program of FACE with support from Cultural Services of the French Embassy, CulturesFrance, SACEM and the Florence Gould Foundation
Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation
William and Flora Hewlett Foundation
Istituto Italiano di Cultura
Bernard Osher Foundation
Pro Helvetia, the Swiss Arts Council
San Francisco Foundation
Consulate General of Switzerland in San Francisco
Phyllis C. Wattis Foundation
Wells Fargo Foundation
Zellerbach Family Foundation
Corporations:
Bank America Foundation
IBM Foundation
Levi Strauss Foundation
Chevron Corporation
Vivendi
*The Northern California Composers Commissioning Program provides support for composers’ careers while helping forge new connections between composers, performers and presenters. This program of the American Composers Forum, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter, is supported by the San Francisco Foundation through its Fund for Artists, and by individual donors.
