About APNM

MISSION STATEMENT

APNM was founded in 1975 by Jacques-Louis Monod as a community of American composers with the purpose of sharing common musical values and creating a network of professional support. APNM fosters the compositional creativity of its members by offering performances of their music, publication services, and promotional visibility.

APNM offers publishing services through the Subito Music Corp. APNM composers are published, but fully maintain their copyright, keeping half of their royalties, and are free from any contractual obligations. APNM promotes its member catalog through its website.

APNM presents concerts of members' music at New York City venues at least twice per year, partnering with virtuosic performers and ensembles including members of Argento and Ensemble Pi. APNM holds an annual Composition Call for Scores Contest, seeking public submissions, particularly from emerging composers. Winners are rewarded with performance and membership.

We are pleased to provide you and your institution or organization with biographic and descriptive information about our composers and the works with which they have selected to represent themselves.

BRIEF HISTORY

Founded in 1975 by composer and conductor Jacques-Louis Monod, the Association for the Promotion of New Music is a national composer consortium whose purpose it is to make available a broad and significant range of contemporary musical compositions through publication, distribution, sales, and public performance. APNM maintains a catalog of members' works including biographies, titles, instrumentation, and the duration of works.

APNM was originally affiliated with the publisher Boelke-Bomart and presented concerts at The Guild of Composers which was directed and conducted by Mr. Monod. We are currently affiliated with BMI, ASCAP, and since 1998, Subito Music Corporation which assumes the responsibility of printing and distributing members' scores at reasonable rates. In 2009 we resumed giving concerts with performers from Ensemble Pi under the direction of Idith Meshulam and with the Second Instrumental Unit under the direction of David Fulmer. We currently present two concerts a year at the Tenri Cultural Institute in downtown Manhattan and at the DiMenna Center. We have given two tribute concerts honoring composers Milton Babbitt and Mario Davidovsky.

APNM is currently in the process of expanding its concert series by planning to increase the number of concerts per season and present them in a variety of venues with expanded instrumentation. APNM hosts an active website which features recordings from these concerts as well as sound samples from the works of our members.