Announcing the 2026 Alfred Nash Patterson Award Recipients

Choral Arts New England is delighted to announce the funding of 15 project grants totaling $33,000. Award recipients represent choral organizations from five of the six New England states. 

The 2026 Alfred Nash Patterson Grants will be used to fund initiatives to expand choral opportunities across New England, as well as unique performances of pieces that give insight into important perspectives — traditional and contemporary Yiddish music, Alzheimer’s Stories, Trans Requiem, and Anthracite Fields, to name just a few.

Learn about this year’s inspiring award recipients!

David Hoose Commissioning Grant

Building on 45 years of supporting choral compositions and performances throughout the region, Choral Arts New England (CANE) is pleased to now offer the David Hoose Commissioning Grant, a biennial $5,000 grant supporting the commission of meaningful new choral music with instrumental accompaniment. This grant supports new compositions that explore choral music’s unique capacity to help us understand our history, reflect on our present, and envision our future.

“Choral music, especially serious choral music, is confrontational. Music is not here to please or to make us feel good. Nor is it here to soothe or to respond to our specific needs. Its power lies not in giving answers, but in asking questions. And in order to ask searching questions so that we might have a chance of answering them for ourselves, the music must be of a high order.”
 —David Hoose, 2008 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient