Mission and Values

Founded in 2006 to identify and support the work of emerging and established composers and their multi-media collaborators, Beth Morrison Projects encourages risk-taking, creating a structure for developing new work that is unique to the artist and where artists feel safe to experiment and push boundaries. In four years time, the company’s critically acclaimed work has been seen throughout the United States, Europe, and Asia in some of the world’s premier venues, including Lincoln Center, Brooklyn Academy of Music, The Kitchen, Performance Space 122, the Estates National Theater of Prague, The Seoul Performing Arts Festival, New York Public Library Live!, The Dia: Beacon Museum, The New York Musical Theater Festival, Le Poisson Rouge, Music on McDougal, and The Walker Art Center. BMP has garnered support from the Map fund, Department of Cultural Affairs, Puffin Foundation, the Goldman Foundation, the Anna Sosenko Assist Trust, the Barbara Bell Cumming Foundation, and The Trust for Mutual Understanding, and has received critical acclaim from The New York Times, The New Yorker, Time Out New York, Variety, National Public Radio, and New York Magazine.

"Opera has been getting a new lease on life as of late thanks to the ingenious and intrepid producer Beth Morrison." —WQXR, New York City's Classical Radio

"Producer Beth Morrison eschews the opera house to play on her own terms. This opera producer, a job title she's created and defined, tells how the filed is changing and how now is a better time than ever to explore your own entrepreneurial spirit." —Classical Singer Magazine

"Beth Morrison, a producer who specializes in facilitating ambitious avant-garde collaborations … deserve[s] credit for envisioning new possibilities and finding ways to facilitate their realization.” —The New York Times, April, 2010

“Over the past few years, she and her company, Beth Morrison Projects, have developed a reputation for the kind of passionate advocacy that’s able to turn artists’ craziest ideas into box office successes.” —The New York Observer, April 27, 2010

“Morrison is a big underground force on the New York scene, developing events that transcend styles and genres. ” —The New Yorker, May 25, 2010

“Beth Morrison, advocate/activist for new opera ...” —Steve Swartz, dotdotdot music

“... Beth Morrison Projects, the enterprising outfit ...” —David Cote, Time Out New York

“It is the mission of Beth Morrison Projects to inspire and enable artists, and Beth feels lucky to get to do it on a daily basis. ” —Mann About Town, March 2009

“Bright, important new-opera producer, Beth Morrison ...” —Steve Smith, of Time Out New York and The New York Times – Tweeted March, 2010