Chuck Iwanusa

I am incredibly excited and humbled to share that my upcoming recording project, Together Again for the First Time, has been recognized nationally with a 2026 New Music USA Creator Fund award!

New Music USA’s Creator Fund supports…

I am thrilled and honored to announce that I have been awarded a prestigious Pathways to Jazz grant.

Pathways To Jazz, a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit organization, began in 2014 when founder Alan Cogen, with the support of Program Manager Sarah…

Award-winning composer Chuck Iwanusa & the New York City-based Chuck Iwanusa Jazz Orchestra will premiere The Mystic Suite: a 3-movement composition for jazz orchestra. The piece, commissioned by the Statewide Community Regrants Program, is a tribute to his long-time…

The BMI 33rd annual Jazz Composers Workshop Summer Showcase Concert, held at Dizzy’s Club – Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City on June 13, 2022, featured the world premiere of Chuck Iwanusa’s composition No Man’s Land. His…

It is my great privilege to announce that I am the co-recipient of this year's BMI Charlie Parker Jazz Composition Award and the Manny Albam Jazz Commission. I am honored to share this award with a wonderful, emerging composer…

I am proud to announce that my composition “Tone Deaf Little Weasel” will be performed at the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop 32nd Summer Showcase Concert.

The free concert will be hosted in collaboration with the American Society for Music Arrangers…

The premier performance of my latest composition, Tone Deaf Little Weasel, was indefinitely postponed due to the Covid-19 pandemic quarantine and subsequent cancellation of the 2020 BMI Jazz Composers Workshop Annual Recital.

Although the cancellation was a disappointment, it…

This year marks the 45th Anniversary of the CI Jazz Machine - the most exciting, musical, and dedicated assemblage of musicians with whom I have ever had the privilege to work. Comprised of some of the best musicians from across…

You have meticulously finished writing the music, booked the performance, contracted the musicians and scheduled the rehearsals. All that remains is to print the parts. What could go wrong?

Thanks to modern music notation software, parts preparation has become less…

This year marks the 32nd year of the BMI Jazz Composers Workshop and I am excited to once again be a participant. The workshop was founded by internationally acclaimed composers Bob Brookmeyer and Manny Albam, and author Burt Korall, to…

Professor Alan Green, Head Librarian for Music and Dance at The Ohio State University Libraries, has invited me to archive my compositions and early recordings in a newly established Collection within the library.

The Schumacher Contemporary American Music Collection is…