Diversity and Belonging: Unsung Keyboard Stories – Funding Opportunities

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Wednesday, January 26 to Sunday, January 30, 2022
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, Michigan USA

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Performers and presenters

a. Kola Owolabi, organ, “The Black Muse: Organ Repertoire by Composers of African Heritage,” $2000 [fully funded by Lee Ridgway]

b. Leah Claiborne, piano, “Composers of the African Diaspora,” $2000

c. Karen Walwyn, pianist, composer, $3500 recital, $1500 masterclass [$4000 funded by U-M; $1000 remaining]

d. Connor Chee, Navajo composer, commission of Chee’s Sandpaintings
- Transportation & honorarium, $1000
- Commission, $4000 [fully funded by John Hogikyan, Barbara Kaye, Allana Frear, Fred and Laurie Blum, Tracey Baetzel, Kyung Kim, Margaret Evans and Henry Buchtel, Gale Kramer, Jeff Chase, Joel Howell, Linda Samuelson, Ann Arbor Area Piano Teachers Guild Foundation, Bob Weisman, Rick Cieslak, Bernie and Barb Banet, Music Teacher National Association Teacher Enrichment Grant, and Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra.]
e. Ana María Otamendi and Horacio Contreras perform and discuss works of Reinaldo Moya and other Venezuelan composers amidst a humanitarian crisis in their homeland. Followed by a panel discussion with Latin American Music Initiative co-founders Maria Castillo & Régulo Stabilito and journalist Marielba Núñez. [U-M School of Music funding; remaining total $7500, can be shared among donors].

f. Presenter Ana Avila, investigative journalist, Collaborative Investigative Composing (CIC) reporter of violence against women in Mexico, $300

g. Presenter Tracie Mauriello, investigative journalist, CIC reporter of DACA issues for Mexican immigrants, and school shootings, $300

h. Jazz luminary Ellen Rowe and her all-women jazz octet perform Rowe’s newest works that honor women trailblazers; jazz masterclass [Jazz department funded $3500; $6140 remaining; can be shared among donors]

i. Leon Chisholm, plenary speaker, $3000 [fully funded by Kimberly Marshall]

j. Kira Thurman, plenary speaker, $500

k. Underground Railroad tour, $1250

Conference attendance subsidies, $10,000

[$2000 sponsored by Matthew Dirst]

a. Call for Papers awardees, $5000

b. Student attendees, $5000

SphinxConnect (Detroit) registration for conference participants, $2000

[$300 sponsored by Tiffany Ng; $1700 remaining]

Preserve D&B conference innovations via video and print archives, $9000

[awaiting funding]

Commission a new keyboard work by a BIPOC, womxn, or LGBTQIA2S+ composer to be premiered at the conference

[Completed. $1000 for Karen Walwyn, funded by Pamela Ruiter-Feenstra; $2000 for Connor Chee’s carillon piece funded by Tiffany Ng.]