The Fritz Reiner Center for Contemporary Music, an administrative unit of Columbia University’s Faculty of Arts and Sciences, is based within the Department of Music. The Center supports and encourages ensembles, organizations, and individuals devoted to making contemporary music, including the creation of music and music-related creative forms, concert presentation, scholarship, performer and composer residencies, recordings, conferences, archival and curatorial work, education, and other activities. The notion of contemporary music understood by the Center includes diversities of approach, style, methodology, gender, ethnicity, and cultural provenance.