This week, the National Endowment for the Arts announced more than $27 million in grants that will help provide all Americans with the opportunity to participate in and experience the arts, support local economies, and preserve American heritage while embracing new forms of creative expression. Kronos Performing Arts Association is grateful to receive an Art Works grant to support the organization’s fifth annual self-produced Kronos Festival. Art Works is the NEA’s principal grantmaking program. Learn more >

We are planning to announce the details of Kronos Festival 2019 soon. It is being held this year on May 30, May 31 and June 1 at the SFJAZZ Center in San Francisco, California. This year’s festival artist-in-residence is Valérie Sainte-Agathe, the artistic director of the San Francisco Girls Chorus. Stay tuned for more…

Thank you to the Recording Academy for recognizing Landfall, Kronos’ Nonesuch Records album with Laurie Anderson, with the 2019 Grammy Award for Best Chamber Music/Small Ensemble Performance. Congratulations to all of the winners and nominees.

We’d like to thank Scott Fraser who recorded, edited, mixed and co-produced this recording, as well as David Bither, Robert Hurwitz, and the entire Nonesuch team. Thank you also to Jacob Garchik, who was instrumental in realizing the piece, and Pomegranate Arts, which co-produced the live multimedia performances with Kronos Performing Arts Association (KPAA). We are deeply grateful for the support we received from the organizations who commissioned Landfall – Adelaide Festival, Australia; Barbican, London; Clarice Smith Performing Arts Center, University of Maryland, College Park; Peak Performances @ Montclair State (NJ); Perth International Arts Festival, Australia; Stanford Live, Stanford University; and Texas Performing Arts at The University of Texas at Austin. Thank you, as well, to the National Endowment for the Arts and KPAA’s board members and donors for their support, and to all those who presented the work.

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