Outreach Grants The following grants have been awarded: 2010 (July 1 2009 through June 30 2010) Bronx Opera Hampstead Stage Co. Bronx Arts Ensemble Chelsea Opera Underworld Productions Americas Music Center (Global Communications) Margarita Kreine, violinist Interfaith Committee of Remembrance Collegium Westchester 2009 Melodia Woman's Choir of NYC 2008 Prospect Theatre Fractured Atlas (For Underworld Productions) Bronx Opera Company Unique Projects 2007 Bronx Opera Company Fractured Atlas (For the Five Boroughs Concert Series) 2006 Music Conservatory of Westchester 2004-05 Lisa Bielawa composer commission (Performance at Alice Tully Hall) Grant given to the Bronx Opera Company for its education program, which introduces opera to public school children in the Bronx. Grant given to the LaByrinth Theater Company for partial support of its sign-interpreted performances of Sailor's Song by John Patrick Shanley. These funds were used to hire an interpreter and provide deeply discounted tickets for hearing-impaired patrons. Grant given to the Riverdale Choral Society for expenses related to the world premiere performance of James Bassi's Four Latin Psalms on May 21 ,2005. 2003-04 Grant given to the Gotham Chamber Opera to help provide remuneration to promising young singers who will perform in February 2004 in the American premiere of Die schwarze Spinne (The Black Widow) by Heinrich Sutermeister. Grant given to the Bronx Arts Ensemble to support its arts-in-education programs for Bronx schools during the 2003-04 academic year. Grant given to David Rosenmeyer, pianist/conductor, enabling him to participate in the International Vocal Arts Institute held in Tel Aviv, Israel, in the Summer of 2003. Donation to the Hoff-Barthelson Music School (in Scarsdale, NY) of a 1950 Knabe upright piano. 2002 Grant given to the Interfaith Committee of Remembrance for presentation of a new orchestral holocaust piece by Orlando Garcia at a concert at the Cathedral of St. John the Devine in 2003. Grant given to the Lehman College Art Gallery for workshops offered to children in public schools throughout the Bronx. Grant given to the Riverdale YM-YWHA for support of its teen theater company, the Riverdale Rising Stars. Grant given to the New Rochelle High School Theater Workshop for assistance to drama students participating in the American High School Theatre Festival in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August 2003. Grant given to The Colleagues Theatre Company for its scholarship program in theatrical craftsmanship. 2001 Donation of Kimball piano to the Westchester Conservatory of Music in White Plains, NY. Grant given to the Soesterberg International Music Festival (held in July 2001 in The Netherlands) to assist talented musicians from the United States by taking music lessons with the finest teachers and performing. The students who benefited from our grant were: Grainne Hope, cello Taisiya Pushkar, piano William McDaniel, piano Adam Willumsen, viola Sean Neillenger, cello Noah Willumsen, cello 2000-01 Grant given grant to the Westchester Conservatory of Music to establish the Joyce Dutka Arts Foundation Performing Arts Series. Grant given grant to the Anti-Defamation League for its "Youth in Unity" program that teaches tolerance through music. David Rimelis is the creator and director of this program. Grant given challenge grant to the Riverdale YM-YWHA to purchase a piano for its music school. Grant given grant to La Clevique Kids Opera Company for 4th and 5th graders to write and produce an original opera.