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 singing is one of the great human social experiences. People singing together under inspired leadership share the experience of living in great music, and in so doing are in touch with one another closely, warmly and openly."
    — Phyllis Curtin, soprano soloist and teacher at Tanglewood and Boston University