The San Francisco Contemporary Music Players (SFCMP), is a unionized ensemble of twenty-four highly skilled musicians. SFCMP nourishes the creation and dissemination of new works through world-class contemporary music performances, commissions, and community outreach. SFCMP features the work of iconic and emerging composers while shining a spotlight on California artists. SFCMP performs the music of composers from across cultures and stylistic traditions who are creating a vast and vital 21st-century musical language. SFCMP is one of the most active ensembles in the United States dedicated to contemporary music and plays an important role in the regional and national cultural landscape. The most longstanding, continually-performing, new music ensemble outside the East Coast, SFCMP has greatly contributed to the art form and the contemporary music sector.