Congratulations to Department Composition alumnus Joseph Bohigian and Ensemble Decipher on winning a MAP Fund Grant to create an evening-length work for live electronics, voice, and video projection with Ensemble Decipher and vocalist Khatchadour Khatchadourian about the life of the Georgian-born Soviet-Armenian visionary film director Sergei Parajanov.
MAP Fund is one of the longest running, private funding sources championing cultural equity and formal innovation in performance practices. Each MAP grant comprises a total of $31,000: $25,000 for grantee project development, $5,000 for grantee unrestricted support, and $1,000 microgrant for the grantee to direct to a peer artist of their choice.