Genres Music

Living Concert Series

Mad haPPy

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

The Sustainable Living Concert Series, now shortened to Living Concert Series was actually inspired by the stated purpose of the Puffin and Puffin West Foundations in the funding of projects that use Art to cultivate a progressive cultural vision. Read More

Mother Me

Mary Prescott

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

An interdisciplinary performance that explores the complex relationships, psychology and sociology surrounding motherhood. Read More

Ye Are Many-They Are Few

Mathews, Norman

Year Grant Awarded: 2012

A composition for four singers and piano about social and civil justice. The text is by 8 writers, including the composer, but the centerpiece of the text uses selected stanzas from Shelley's Mask of Anarchy. Read More

Music Connects Lives

Moonlight Serenade

Year Grant Awarded: 2011

Moonlight Serenade has made it their mission to enrich the quality of life for seniors and people with disabilities in nursing homes, senior living facilities and independent senior groups by presenting concerts of fine classical music. Read More

Noli Me Tángere

Muñeses, Matthew

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

Noli Me Tángere is a forthcoming recording for jazz quintet/sextet by Filipino-American saxophonist Matthew Muñeses. The project draws upon musical elements from American and Filipino cultures, and draws inspiration from the writings of Filipino national hero, José Rizal. Read More

Soy Sefardi: A Concert Celebrating the Jews of Spain (2014)

Murad, Nicole

Year Grant Awarded: 2013

New York based duo, soprano Nicole Murad and guitarist Eric B. Davis, will take you on a journey as you listen to the beautiful melodies and language of the Sephardim reflecting an oral tradition that spans a period over 500 years. Read More

My Old Friend Death

Music for Your Inbox

Year Grant Awarded: 2022

Music for Your Inbox premiered My Old Friend Death, a music composition by Nat Evans, alongside visual art by Maria Maea. The two artworks relate death from the pandemic with ecosystem death, and were presented on Music for Your Inbox's virtual art series. Read More

Giving One Tenth Community Dinner

Off The Rock, LLC

Year Grant Awarded: 2021

My company Off The Rock, LLC partnered with organizations Giving One Tenth Community Garden, I'm So Yoga and Artillery Creative Cannon to provide a community dinner event for an underserved neighborhood in Newark, NJ Read More

Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga

Parade of One

Year Grant Awarded: 2016

In 2017, Jeremy Danneman and Sophie Nzayisenga released their collaborative album, Honey Wine, with famed bassist William Parker and percussionist Tim Keiper. The album has been very well-received in the press, and the group has been invited to perform at the 2021 Krakow Jewish Culture Fest. Read More

Passage Theatre Company

Passage Theatre Company

Year Grant Awarded: 2006

Passage Theatre Company received a grant from the Puffin Foundation to support two public performances of Vince de Mura’s new electronic sonic symphony, “For Lost Words.” Inspired by the Pulitzer Prize winning poet Yusef Komunyakaa’s, Vietnam opus, Read More