Community Partners in Philadelphia grants support composer residencies with a wide range of community, cultural and educational organizations. The residencies challenge composers to create and perform new works that respond to the heritage, culture, and interests of the community, while engaging communities in the creative process of composition. The fall 2010 Community Partners deadline is September 13th 2010.

This nationally recognized composer-in-residence program is designed to enhance your musical worship. Your composer works with you and one or two other congregations, helping to bring personal meaning and an interfaith perspective to each community.

We are pleased to announce a new commission and residency opportunity, made possible by a partnership between the American Composers Forum (ACF), Children's Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota (Children's), and the Minnesota Boychoir.

Healing and Hope Through Song (HHTS) is designed to help patients and their families express their feelings and give voice to their stories through poetry and music. Through working in a residency setting at Children's (which has hospital campuses in both St. Paul and Minneapolis), the poet and composer will collaborate to create 4 new choral works, approximately 12 minutes in total duration, which will be premiered by the Minnesota Boychoir in Spring 2011. The poet and composer will work with appropriate staff at Children's to design residency activities and collaborate with participants to develop and create the new pieces.

The application deadline for this program has passed.

Each year, the McKnight Visiting Composer Program underwrites a Minnesota residency of at least eight weeks for two out-of-state composers. While in residence, the visiting artist collaborates on a project with a Minnesota performing, presenting, and/or community organization

Application deadline: March 26, 2011 (postmark).

The San Francisco Bay Area Chapter of the American Composers Forum is seeking a composer for a residency at Rafer Johnson Junior High School (RJJHS) in Kingsburg, California. Kingsburg, a rural community in the heart of the San Joaquin Valley.