Founded in 2005 to bring top classical music artists to homeless shelters and hailed in a New York Times feature article “Just three blocks from Lincoln Center…The concerts have an air of authenticity and directness that sometimes does not exist in concert halls,” Music Kitchen has presented over 100 concerts, nearly 200 top emerging and established artists, including Emanuel Ax, Glenn Dicterow, Carter Brey, and reached over 18,000 homeless shelter clients.

In celebration of the 18,000 clients served, the 100th concert, and the upcoming 15th season in March of 2020, Music Kitchen proudly launched “Forgotten Voices,” a composite song cycle featuring incidental comments by homeless shelter clients from the first 100 concerts, set to music by 15 of the most celebrated established and emerging composers of our time, featuring Courtney Bryan, Jon Grier, Kelly Hall-Tompkins, James Lee, Tania Leon, Beata Moon, Paul Moravec, Angelica Negron, Kevin Puts, Steve Sandberg, Jeff Scott, Joel Thompson, Errollyn Wallen, and Ellen Taaffe Zwilich. will culminate in a major public concert of the complete song cycle in the Spring of 2020.