Posted on August 27, 2012

Carnegie Hall Receives $4 Million From Mellon Foundation

Carnegie Hall has announced a two-year, $4 million grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation in support of a wide range of artistic and educational initiatives.

The grant will help fund citywide Carnegie Hall festivals, including "Voices from Latin America," a month-long celebration that will explore the region's diverse music and cultures through more than seventy events; commissions of more than twenty-five new works; and radio and digital broadcasts of Carnegie Hall performances. The grant also will support the Digital Archives Project, a multiyear initiative to conserve and digitize historic paper and audiovisual holdings, as well as the creation of new online music education resources to be made available for free through the Weill Music Institute's Online Resource Center.

"We are enormously grateful for this inspiring support from the Mellon Foundation, which will have tremendous impact as we work to encourage audiences to expand their artistic horizons, serve a greater number of people through technology, and seek to play a role in supporting the future of music through education and the creation of new works," said Clive Gillinson, executive and artistic director of Carnegie Hall. "With the collective impact of programs like these, we continue to reimagine what Carnegie Hall can mean in the twenty-first century, realizing the meaningful contributions it can make to people's lives through music."