Our Organization

Founded in 1990 by late jazz artist Paul Nash, the Manhattan New Music Project (MNMP) has steadily advanced its dual mission to educate audiences in jazz and improvisational music forms, while offering student populations opportunities to experience hands-on art-making. Through performances, recordings, and collaborations, MNMP has sought to cross traditional musical boundaries and initiate imaginative projects in public spaces that seek to reach and build new audiences for experimental music.

MNMP provides professional development and artist-in-residence programs to public schools in all five boroughs of New York City. Through student-created work, we instill the value of art for art's sake, as well as integrate the five major arts disciplines (music, dance, drama, visual arts and creative writing) into standard classroom curricula.

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