New Amsterdam Presents is a registered 501 (c)(3) tax-exempt organization.  We rely on your generous support for our continued ability to bring you the cutting edge in genre-defying music.  Please read more below or watch the video to see why you should help support New Amsterdam Presents today.
video by Stephen Taylor

New Amsterdam Presents is a new, non-profit presenting organization that carries the mission and spirit of New Amsterdam Records into the live performance realm. For nearly five years, New Amsterdam Records, operating as a non-profit-model record label that distributed 80% of album revenues directly to artists, has released albums of sophisticated, viscerally-engaging, all-original music, made by musicians who bring the breadth of their musical experience into the playing, writing, and producing on their albums. New Amsterdam Presents was formed to bring that music directly to a live audience, widening the scope of projects we represent to include not just musicians from our label but encompassing artists from many different scenes, often working in collaborations across musical communities. We recently completed our first annual online fundraising drive, raising over $10k in a little over a week. To all those who contributed – thank you! Please see the full list of patrons below. For those interested in supporting our organization, please see the “donate” link/button below. Though we plan to have one dedicated online fundraiser per year, we eagerly accept donations year-round. As part of New Amsterdam Presents’ first official year, New Amsterdam is for the first time turning to the thousands of fans who have supported our artists — listening to records, attending live shows, and spreading the word by telling their friends, writing and blogging and posting and tweeting — and asking for your help in supporting this new endeavor.
    New Amsterdam Presents strives to:
  • Widen the reach of innovative, independent music that speaks to both classical and popular traditions
  • Curate innovative concerts that bring together likeminded artists from different communities
  • Build networks of broad-minded, creative presenters in partnerships to offer regional, national, and international tours
  • Raise the public’s awareness of new classical and mixed-genre music that is sophisticated, challenging and viscerally stimulating
  • Work with orchestras and other traditional classical music organizations to engage new audiences and develop new models of programming
New Amsterdam Presents makes our home in a wide variety of spaces: concert halls and clubs, indoors and outdoors, art spaces and universities, and anywhere that people are gathering together to listen. We’d love to come to your community and we need your help to get there.
Please make a tax-deductible donation by clicking on the following link:

 


 

Thank you for helping to make this vision a reality, and we look forward to seeing you at the concerts to come.

William Brittelle, Sarah Kirkland Snider, and Judd Greenstein
 

Co-Directors, New Amsterdam Presents

 

 

2011 Fundraiser Donors

We would like to thank the following individuals for their generous online donations to New Amsterdam Presents:

Etienne Abelin, Charles Adler, Karen E. Allen, Scott Anderson, Dan Auerbach, Melanie Bailey, Sarah Baird Knight, Amanda Baker, Marc Barreda, Morgan Barth, Nathaniel Bellows, Dominique Bennett, Paul R Betz, Gregory Beyer, David Bloom, Susan and Mark Bloom, Owen Boger, Jenni Bowman, William Bragin, Ethan Braun, Douglas Brittelle, John Brown, Ryan Brown, Dashon Burton, Left Business Observer, Daphne Carr, Eileen Carr, David Carter, Ryan Carter, Seth Christenfeld, Mark Chu-Carroll, Allan Clayton, Leah Coloff, Eric Cook, Glenn Cornett, Nicolas Cusworth, Andrew Cyr, Daves VeryBusy Creative, Thomas Deneuville, Peter Dodds, Ellen Elliot, Rachael Elliott, William Espinet III, Randy Ezratty, Jeffrey F Roberts, Joshua Frankel, Matt Frey, Kimball Gallagher, Amy Garapic, Brian D. Garrett, Elizabeth Gately, Marla and Nick Gentile, Louis Goetz, Stephen Gorbos, Kai Gross, Matthew Guerrieri, Jere D. Hammond, Kathleen Harkey, Wilmot Harkey, John J. Hart, Franklin Hecker, Anne Hege, April Higgins, Donald Hindle, Masumi Hirosawa, Marc Hoffman, Carla Hung, Fredi Anne Hurwitz, Peter Ireland, Georgina Javor, Ian Jones, Olivia Karlin, Hollace D. Kelley, Starlee Kine, Mary and Jim Kirley, Jessica Kopcho, Ole Kragelund Rasmussen, Emily Krell, Michael Krippendorf, Alan L. Kazlow, Andrea La Rose, Diane Landau, Douglas Lanier, Michael Lebrund, Andrew Lee, T. Martin Lesh, John Lister, Son Lux, Ed Martin, Matthew Matros, Patricia McChesney, Dustin McMahan, Michael I. Mitelman,Michael Mizrahi, Paula Mlyn, Nicholas Morandi, Timothy Munro, Ruben Naeff, Mio Nakamura, Donald Nazareth, Hugh Nicoll, Alan Nisselson, Eleanor Nussbaum, Tawnie Olson, Magik Orchestra, Michael Ornstein, Melina Packer, Mary Jo Pagano, Molly Pearson, Marcella Prieto, Eric Prindle, Dana R. Rogers, Alicia Rabins, Joseph Raulerson, Jody Redhage, Lee Rice Epstein, Christopher Richardson, David Robertson, Ian Robertson, Todd T. Rogers, Brian Rosen, Mary Rowell, Stefan Rowniak, John S Wessler, Kamala Sankaram, Zoe Saunders, Susan Scheid, Judith Scheinberg, Matthew Schlatter, Caitlin Schmid, Brook M. Scott, John W. Scott, Susan Sharer, Caroline Shaw, Jon and Robert Shaw, Martin Sher, Aaron Siegel, Randall Sims, Anne Slocum, Benjamin Smeal, Matthew Smith, Gregory Spears, Jacklyn Stein, Michael Steinberg, Michael Stempler, Sumesh Thakur, Molly Thompson, Philippa Thompson, Cameron Tonkinwise, Ertan Torgul, Jason Toth, Tyler Versluis, Kirsten Volness, Janie Waldman, George Wallace, Stefan Weisman, Brad Wells, Trudy Whitman, James Yarbrough, Fabio Zanni, Markus Zeindlinger,

 

 

Artist Testimonials

“New Amsterdam has not only become the focal point but the primary support network of the new music community. Through New Amsterdam I was able to tour extensively throughout America and Europe, and collaborate with some of my favorite musicians on the Ecstatic Music Festival. Given the fragile and ever-changing nature of the music industry, I don’t know that I would have bothered go on tour without an organization like New Amsterdam to back me up. For the first time in my life I feel that I am have significant support for my most ambitious and far-reaching ideas.” – Missy Mazzoli, Composer/Performer, Victoire

“By championing artists at the start of their professional careers, New Amsterdam has succeeded in building previously unimagined pathways between the diverse creative scene in Brooklyn and the broader musical community. New Amsterdam is a source of a new energy and can-do optimism that has already changed how young composers think about their music, their careers, and their audiences. This is a great time for new classical music, and New Amsterdam seems determined to tell the world.” – Gregory Spears, Composer, Requiem

“The NewAm organization has been a tremendous source of help and exposure for me over the years. They think big, and always seem to deliver cutting-edge music in unique and unexpected settings. They have a rare vision, integrity, and a dogged persistence that creates opportunities for musicians to share their work with new audiences worldwide. They’ve fast become an essential part of the budding scene of genre-bending groups in NYC and continue to bring together some of the most interesting programming I know of.” – Sam Sadigursky, Composer/Performer/Bandleader

“New Amsterdam is a vital cooperative that provides a viable outlet for composers and artists whose work does not readily conform to the molds provided by other popular and institutionalized arts organizations.” – Andrew McKenna Lee, Composer/Performer

“New Amsterdam Records has become akin to a force of nature in just a few years. As a system of people organized toward a common cause, New Amsterdam is a wonderful example of success reached through collectivity of creative vision. I, for one, am immensely grateful to be a part of the community.” – Jody Redhage, Composer/Performer

“New Amsterdam Records provides a platform and a community for engaged contemporary musicians and music audiences to gather around the same fire and share with and learn from each other.” – Greg Beyer, Performer, Due East