The NEW YORK COMPOSERS CIRCLE is an artistic and educational organization dedicated to the creation and performance of new music, and the development of new audiences. Its members are composers and performers whose activities include concerts of new music, monthly salons where composers play and discuss new works and works in progress and hear talks and presentations by various members of the new-music community. We also hold an annual composition competition open only to nonmembers, and a program of outreach concerts to benefit the broader community and to attract new concert audiences.