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Knight New Media Center

With a $5 million endowment grant in 2008, New World Symphony established the Knight New Media Center in its Frank Gehry-designed campus, the New World Center. With extraordinary flexibility, it has become a laboratory for generating new ideas about the way music is taught, presented and experienced. The facility is a natural home for the Knight New Media Center.

Working within the Knight New Media Center and guided by NWS Artistic Director Stéphane Denève and NWS Co-Founder and Artistic Director Laureate Michael Tilson Thomas, NWS staff and partners have followed their imaginations into the digital future. Always forward-facing, they have created multi-genre artistic content, educational dialogue and distribution concepts that are only possible in a digital environment. Examples include WALLCAST® concerts, Making the Right Choices: A John Cage Celebration, Project 305, New Work and the teaching platforms MUSAIC and NWS Connect. The Knight New Media Center is beyond a physical space. It is a state of mind, fueled by ingenuity. It has made the Knight Foundation synonymous with inventive applications of digital technology.

Knight Foundation and New World Symphony: Reimagining Classical Music in the Digital Age.