American Bach Soloists, San Francisco, California
Grant for artist’s fees relating to the American Bach Society’s Fourth International Young Artists Bach Competition in June 2004. The Competition, which is held biannually, is dedicated to fostering participation in the field of early music for both audiences and performers alike.
        $2,000.00

Aurora Theater Company, Berkeley, California
General support for 2003-2004 production season for Aurora Theater in Berkeley. The Company, founded by prominent Bay Area actress Barbara Oliver, is often described as "chamber theater" because of its intimate performance space and its emphasis on subtlety, shadings of feelings and ensemble responsiveness. A new performing space which will increase audience capacity to 150 is being constructed in Berkeley in the Arts District. The group offers acting opportunities to talented Bay Area performers and its company has the highest percentage of equity actors in the Bay Area.
        $12,500.00

California Shakespeare Festival, Berkeley, California
Grant to support Festival's New Works / New Communities project. This grant will assist in creating a play Hamlet: Blood in the Brain. Elsinore will be relocated to the drug-infested world of an impoverished Oakland community in the late 1980's. The play will be developed over two years with collaboration with the Oakland community and use Oakland based artists and will explore how Shakespeare's Hamlet translates into contemporary forms like Hip Hop, Solo Performance and Spoken Word.
        $5,000.00

Chanticleer, San Francisco, California
Grant to support a commissioned work to explore the life of the 12th Century Abbess Hildegarde Von Bingen - visionary, composer, poet, dramatist, herbalist, moralist and physician - in a theatrical presentation directed by Francesca Zambello. The playwright is Donna DiNovelli and will have the twelve members of the Chanticleer Chorus represent the twelve cardinals in Rome who met to determine whether Hildegarde Von Bingen would be admitted to sainthood. The music will be chosen from Von Bingen’s own works and other music based on her texts. Three pieces will be especially composed for the work.
       $15,000.00

Chinese Culture Foundation, San Francisco, California
Grant to support the preservation and promotion of Cantonese Opera in the United States. Two programs are involved: the maintenance of a regular Cantonese Opera class at the Chinese Culture Center, as well as annual Mother’s Day performances to share with the general public.
       $8,500.00

Glyndebourne Productions, Lewes, England
Grant to assist in the staging and presentation of Handel's Rodlinda for Glyndebourne's 2004 summer festival season.
        $25,000.00

Merola Opera Program, San Francisco, California
Grant for support for of 2004 presentation of Don Pasquale. This organization develops young singers by giving them opportunities to perform in various operatic settings as well as having roles in main stage San Francisco Opera productions.
        $25,000.00

Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Ashland, Oregon
Grant to co-sponsor the Festival’s 2004 season's production of Oedipius Complex, a world premiere of an original adaptation of the Oedipius Story by Tony award-winning playwright and director Frank Galati, who will also direct the piece.
        $25,000.00

San Francisco Opera, San Francisco, California
General support for 2004 season.
       $75,000.00

Santa Fe Opera, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Final installment of five year grant totaling $250,000.00 for the presentation of rarely presented operas and premieres of modern operas at Santa Fe. For the 2004 season, this grant will support Handel’s Agrippina.
       $50,000.00

Santa Cruz Chorale, Santa Cruz, California
General support for reknown Chorale and its various performances in Santa Cruz.
        $2,000.00

TOTAL: $245,000.00