Six (6) residencies will be awarded, each providing a suitable workspace for three months plus a stipend. In addition, each hosting facility will present a free public program featuring their resident composers' work (that's a built-in audience!).
Queens-based composers take note: four of the six residencies are open only to Queens residents and will be hosted by cultural facilities in Queens.
One of last year's winners, Matt Schickele, describes how his Con Edison Musicians' Residency helped his career:
"My residency at Flushing Town Hall in 2009 gave me the time and space, both physically and mentally, to complete the chamber opera that had until then been written in whatever niches of time I could find. Now the opera, which would have taken me ages to finish without the residency, is already being performed."
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