Dear Friends of BNMI,

This Fall, The Boston New Music Initiative is hosting our annual fundraiser to support our concert New England Legacies: The Boston Six Re-imagined. All donations up to $1,000 will be matched by a generous patron! 100% of all donations directly support BNMI's program of activities, and all BNMI directors and staff are volunteers.

Our goal for this year is to raise over $2,000 to support our concert which will happen at 8pm on May 30 at the Somerville Music Spaces. Over the course of its first sixteen seasons, BNMI has grown into an international force in fostering the creation and performance of contemporary concert music. It maintains a comprehensive focus on improving the industry by actively promoting performers and composers at all stages of their careers and reaching new and broader audiences who can discover the vast array of interesting, innovative new works being created by today’s living composers and realized by a collection of exceptionally fearless, talented performers. 

BNMI’s mission encompasses four primary activities:

• Networking and Professional Development: The Salon Series and Composer Interview Series allows composers, performers and audience members to engage directly with their peers in a welcoming and intimate environment. 
• Commissioning: BNMI has performed twelve commissioned works to date by internationally-acclaimed composers, winners of our annual commissioning competition: Ghost Notes, by Panayiotis Kokoras; Labyrinth Song, by Nicola Straffelini; Altered States, by Travis Alford; After the Rain, by Lonnie Hevia; Kindling by Charles Peck; Living in Color by Alex Berko; Prisms and Mirrors by Paul Novak; On the Nature of Things by Andrew Davis; and Grooves and Whispers Book 2 by Luis Quintana, Make Way for Ducklings by Yangfan Xu, NOTGRIR by Artur Akshelyan. The winner of the thirteenth annual competition is Lingbo Ma, whose new work will be premiered at the May concert. 
• Collaboration: In addition to working with many talented individual performers and ensembles as part of BNMI’s concert series, the organization’s scope has extended throughout New England through its participation in events outside of the concert series. We shared a weekend of concerts in 2022 with the Cambridge Chamber Singers. BNMI’s core ensemble performed and participated in the PARMA Music Festival held in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, in 2013 and 2014, and in the Westfield Festival of New Music in March 2014 at Westfield State University. BNMI seeks to continue expanding its mission and activities to new audiences throughout the region and beyond.  In the past BNMI has collaborated with Luminarium Dance Company, Boston Opera Collaborative, and New England based visual artists. We also participated in the first three Boston New Music Festivals.  BNMI's aim is to frequently collaborate with groups across disciplines for future seasons, including dance, film, theatre and opera.
  
• Programming: Entering our seventeenth concert season, we have programmed the works of over 300 different living composers, including over 65 world premiere performances, in venues ranging from art galleries to performer's living rooms, to large concert halls. BNMI features a core ensemble, as well as a significant list of guest artists, consisting of some of today’s most exciting young performers within the Boston area. One of our ongoing goals is to compensate these highly talented and dedicated musicians with rates on par with their abilities. BNMI is also committed to programming music from underrepresented groups such as women, trans, black, indigenous and latinx composers.
  

Our ambitious plans for future seasons are entirely dependent upon our success with fundraising events and we rely on public support in order for that to happen! If you would like to help us meet our goal, you may mail a check to the address below.

The Boston New Music Initiative, Inc. 

P.O. Box 400420

Cambridge, MA 02140

Sincerely,
The Boston New Music Initiative, Inc.