The Wallace Alexander Gerbode and William and Flora Hewlett foundations have announced the six recipients of the 2010 Composer Collaboration Awards. The awards, the last to be made through the three-year, $1.35 million initiative, support collaborations by California artists in contemporary dance, theater, and music.

The recipients will each receive $75,000 for the creation and world premiere of a new work created in collaboration with another California artist. All commissioned musical works will have their premieres in Bay Area public performances between December 2011 and June 2013.

This year's awards were given to the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music for The Hidden World of Girls, a multimedia symphonic collaboration by Laura Karpman and the Kitchen Sisters; the Corporation of the Fine Arts Museums for Off the Walls, a new jazz composition for aerial dance by Sarah Wilson and aerial dance company Catch Me Bird; the Jewish Community Center of San Francisco for Mu, a multimedia, multidisciplinary work by composer Mark Izu and choreographer Kimi Okada; Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, for the creation of Voces del Deserto, by Guillermo Galindo and chamber ensemble Quinteto Latino; the San Francisco Girls Chorus for Holy Daughters, a cantata for treble chorus, chamber orchestra, and vocal soloists by Gabriela Lena Frank and librettist Nilo Cruz; and Z Space Studio, for a new musical performance piece by Marcus Shelby and co-creator Margo Hall.

"The Gerbode Foundation is excited to support adventuresome, gifted California composers in their collaborations to create singular new works to pique our curiosity and through which to experience our world," said Thomas C. Layton, president of the Gerbode Foundation. "These collaborations display a wide-ranging diversity and breadth of imagination — from a multimedia symphonic production about the childhood secrets and experiences that girls carry into their adulthood, to a piece about the complex journeys of immigrants coming to the United States to seek better lives, to a jazz composition performed by an aerial dance company inside, outside, and on an architectural prize-winning museum."