Black House Collective provides musicians and composers the opportunity to collaborate, develop and support each other and the creation of new music. Through its workshops, composition competitions, festivals and productions, Black House has established itself as a voice of young new music. Black House Collective and artistic director Hunter Long have been recognized through grants from the Ann & Gordon Getty Foundation, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation, Charlotte Street Foundation, and the Arts Council of Metropolitan Kansas City.
Hunter Long, Artistic Director
Hunter Long is an active Kansas City-based composer/performer/producer. Most recently, he was selected as a resident composer in the 2014 Montreal Contemporary Music Lab and the Banff Centre Performance Today classical music residency. In 2006 he was a resident at the Banff Workshop for Jazz and Creative Music.
Long founded Black House Collective in 2009, when he was awarded a studio residency with the Charlotte Street Foundation Urban Culture Project, and has served as the artistic director of the collective for the past five years, managing a range of new music projects, including workshops, composition competitions, guest artist programs and stage productions.
For more information, please write to blackhouseimprov (at) gmail.com.