Founded in 2001, the Native American Composers Apprenticeship Project (NACAP) is an outreach program of the Grand Canyon Music Festival that is dedicated to teaching Native American young people to compose concert music. Each year, young musicians work with a Native American composer and a string quartetin residence in partnership with their school's music program. For the 2011 season, the Sphinx Organization's Catalyst Quartet participated as NACAP's fist Fellowship Ensemble.
In 2007 New York's WNYC aired a feature about the project on its program Soundcheck.[1]
NACAP is a winner of Arizona Governor's Arts Award for Arts in Education and is a 2011 semi-finalist for the President's Council on the Arts and the Humanities Coming up Taller Award.
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