ANALOG arts is a collective of two dozen international artists. Established in 2004, ANALOG produces a wide variety of projects each year, drawing on the interests and expertise of its members. With backgrounds ranging from classical music to film, ANALOG’s members inspire an incredible diversity of programming, from concerts and festivals to recordings and films.

 

Initially performing as the ANALOG music ensemble in 2001, the group’s first concert was organized by two trumpeters who sought to continue their creative collaboration, though separated by some 400 miles. That first performance in a one-room stone church deep in the Maryland countryside planted the seeds of an idea that would finally take root with the creation of ANALOG arts three years later.

 

That year, ANALOG established ARTSaha!, a new music festival based in Omaha. In 2007, ANALOG produced the first version of its Iron Composer contest, which has now grown into a national composition competition. As a non-profit corporation, funding for ANALOG’s programs has come from Meet the Composer, the Nebraska Arts Council, the Nebraska Humanities Council, as well as corporations like Microsoft and Fidelity Insurance. ANALOG’s institutional partners include WCLV FM 104.9, Baldwin-Wallace College, the University of Nebraska at Omaha, and the Bemis Center for the Arts.