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UCLA Library has announced the 2026 recipients of the Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music, awarding grants to eight UCLA faculty and student music projects. The selected projects span a wide range of creative activity, including new operas, cross-genre compositions, experimental collaborations and community-oriented performances. Each will receive funding between $1,000 and $3,500
The Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music was established at the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library in the 1990s. Since 2012, the fund has supported public performances, programming, and scholarly research. These approaches enhance how the Music Library engages meaningfully with students, faculty and the broader music communities in Los Angeles and the world.
New works or commissions may be published in the Music Library’s Contemporary Music Score Collection, the first global open-access repository of new music published by a library and the largest of its kind.
The Davise Fund Awards selection committee included Blair Black, music teaching and research services librarian; Ciara Brewer, music access services assistant; Jamie Hazlitt, director of Arts, Music, and Powell libraries, and Matthew Vest, music inquiry and research librarian.
Other funding opportunities through the Hugo and Christine Davise Fund for Contemporary Music include Resonate: An Open Access Call for Scores Series, which will be open for submissions later this year.
More information about the Walter H. Rubsamen Music Library.
Header photo: Liminality of Timbral Composition < > Improvisation, Intangible & Ulrich Krieger. Photo credit: Robert Reigle / Laura Agudelo Cuartas