About New Music Bay Area

New Music Bay Area was formed around 1990 by composers, musicians and new music lovers in the Bay Area and for the first decade of its life was know as the 20th Century FORUM.

The primary objectives of New Music Bay Area are:

• To provide performance opportunities and related services to composers, performers and presenters of new musical, mixed media and performance art works in the San Francisco Bay Area.
• To provide music education and related services for the purpose of promoting contemporary music in the community.
• To stimulate interest in and community support for the works of local composers.
• To encourage composers and performers to participate in the production of new works.

We accomplish these goals by a mixture of activities including the organization of concerts, calls for scores of new music, and the regular publication of a calendar of events and newsletters in both print and on the Web. We are well known for our printed calendar of events, the Music of Changes, as well as the concerts we sponsor such as the popular Chapel of the Chimes event held each year during the summer solstice and featuring contemporary composers in an otherworldly setting.

The members of New Music Bay Area would like to thank the California Arts Council for its generous support over the past decade.