tmf commissions • furthering our unique mission

Krasa-Schaechter Fund Commission artist Stephen Feigenbaum

Hawthorne String Quartet performs music from Terezin at a Yom HaShoah candle-lighting and concert.

ongoing commissions

TMF has commissioned more than thirty new works inspired by the Terezín artists and story. In addition to our regular ongoing commissions, we have two special commissions programs:

liberarte

In 2015, we launched our LiberArte project, honoring the 70th anniversary of the liberation of the Nazi camps and the end of WWII.  TMF executive Director Mark Ludwig commissioned eighty-two poems about freedom from sixty-three of the world's most renowned poets, and commissioned significant emerging composers to set these works to music.

krasa-schaechter

The Krasa-Schaechter Fund awards commissions to young Czech and American composers in honor of survivor Edgar Krasa and in memory of Raphael Schaechter, who directed the infamous Terezín Verdi Requiem performances of 1943.This fund is a living memorial and tribute to this inspiring chapter of musical resistance. The Advisory Board for the Krasa-Schaecter Fund includes Anthony Fogg, Christopher Hogwood, and Robert Spano, and is chaired by Mark Ludwig. Recent and upcoming projects supported by the Krasa-Schaechter Commission Fund include awarding commissions to composers Vit Zouhar and Stephen Feigenbaum (Yale, class of 2011).

“With Verdi’s Requiem, we could sing to the Nazis what we were not allowed to say in Terezín.”
—Edgar Krasa.