Innova Recordings

{{Short description|Record label}}

{{Other uses|Innova (disambiguation)}}

{{Infobox record label

| name = Innova Recordings

| image = Innova_Recordings_logo.png

| image_size = 100

| parent = American Composers Forum

| founded = {{start date|1982}}

| genre = Various

| country = U.S.

| location = St. Paul, Minnesota

| website = {{URL|www.innova.mu}}

}}

Innova Recordings is the independent record label of the non-profit American Composers Forum based in St. Paul, Minnesota. It was founded in 1982 to document the winners of the McKnight Fellowship offered by its parent organization, the Minnesota (now American) Composers Forum.

During its early years, it produced several sampler LPs featuring the work of Minnesota composers, many of whom have since gone on to national prominence,{{citation needed|date=July 2016}} such as Eric Stokes, Ann Millikan, Libby Larsen, Paul Schoenfield, and Stephen Paulus. With the advent of the compact disc, Innova began releasing highlights from the top ensembles, such as the Dale Warland Singers, Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra, and the Alexander String Quartet, that had been on the Composers Forum concert seasons.

The label produces between 25 and 40 CDs and DVDs per year. There are currently over 460 titles in the catalog covering the fields of classical music, experimental, electronic,

{{cite web| url=https://archive.org/detailsMcMaguireInterviewOnOutsightRadioHours| title=Interview on Outsight Radio Hours| date=2011-11-20| publisher=Outsight Radio Hours| access-date=2012-01-08}} jazz, and world music. It is best known for its series of releases featuring Harry Partch{{Citation | last = Wolk | first = Douglas | title = Harry Partch: Opening Into Enclosure | newspaper = CMJ New Music Monthly | page = 6 | date = May 1996 | url = https://books.google.com/books?id=OS0EAAAAMBAJ&q=minnesota&pg=PA1978 | access-date = 19 April 2015 }} and Henry Brant. The label was awarded an endowment by the McKnight Foundation.