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!

"Building Better Boards Workshop" with Chorus America

As a chorus board member or administrative or artistic leader, your job is to help your chorus meet its artistic and strategic goals. But how do you know if your board is doing the right work?

This day-long interactive workshop, led by Christopher Eanes, President & CEO of Chorus America, will help you build a board that’s focused, attracts the right talent, and provides the resources your organization needs to thrive. Whether your board is just starting out or has been governing for decades, you’ll unlock the next level in effectiveness and engagement.

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.

"Let us not lose sight of those who, as individuals or institutions, have helped us make music, who agree with us that music, especially choral music, may be the best evidence of eternal life, not in the heavenly sense, but in the awareness that when we sing, we bring music to life, and that same music brings life to others in return."
   — Richard Coffey, 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award recipient