A Composer's Portrait

Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia

2010

$75,000

The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia presented A Composer's Portrait, featuring a commissioned work by American composer and electric guitarist Steven Mackey, conducted by Music Director Dirk Brosse. Mackey's awards include a Guggenheim fellowship, a Charles Ives Scholarship from the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, and two awards from the Kennedy Center for the performing arts. He participated in post-concert discussions, a workshop, and a composer forum presented in collaboration with the Curtis Institute, University of the Arts, and the American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter.

Collaborators & Colleagues

Susie Ibarra

Susie Ibarra is known for her innovative style and cultural dialogue as a composer, improviser, percussionist, and humanitarian.

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Fred Hersch

Fred Hersch is an improviser, composer, educator, recording artist, and a twelve-time Grammy Award nominee.

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Grants & Grantees

Philadelphia Freedom Festival

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will present this civil rights-inspired festival, which will include the world premiere of a new 20-minute work by noted composer and Pew Fellow Uri Caine.

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Yuval Sharon

Yuval Sharon is founder (in 2010) and artistic director of The Industry, a Los Angeles-based production company.

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Enduring Exile

An exploration of the Shiraz Arts Festival, a significant yet under-recognized event held annually in Iran from 1967 to 1977, informs future exhibitions and programs examining the festival’s history and artistic legacy.

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El Viaje (The Journey): Work-in-Progress Preview

Percussionist and Pew Fellow Pablo Batista presents a work-in-progress showing of his forthcoming Center-funded project El Viaje (The Journey), as part of The Barnes Foundation's Free First Sunday series.

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Muhal Meets the Wonderful Sound

Warriors of the Wonderful Sound commissioned and premiered a composition from Muhal Richard Abrams, co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

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Rinde Eckert

Rinde Eckert is a writer, composer, librettist, musician, singer, actor, and director whose theater, musical theater, and dance theater pieces have been performed throughout the US and abroad.

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Brett Bailey: Macbeth Performances and Residency

South African theater artist Brett Bailey will visit Philadelphia for a three-week residency and a presentation of his adaptation of Verdi's opera Macbeth, set in the Democratic Republic of Congo, presented in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia.

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Lovers (for Philadelphia)

Composer and guitarist Nels Cline curates a concert experience inspired by Philadelphia’s rich musical history and Cline’s acclaimed concept recording, Lovers, performed by a specially assembled jazz orchestra.

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OutBeat Jazz Festival: Fred Hersch Trio

The William Way LGBT Community Center presents *OutBeat: America's First Queer Jazz Festival*. The Festival continues with the Fred Hersch Trio.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jennifer Monson

Choreographer and performer Jennifer Monson is the founder of New York City-based iLAND: Interdisciplinary Laboratory for Art, Nature, and Dance.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Orchestra 2001

Orchestra 2001 is dedicated to performing and promoting the music of the 20th and 21st centuries.

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Comédie et Tragédie:

Tempesta di Mare performs two of its orchestral rediscoveries from the French high baroque: Jean-Philippe Rameau's Les Fêtes de Polymnie, and Jean-Marie Leclair's Scylla et Glaucus.

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News

Coming to a Stage Near You: Performances from The Wilma Theater, Kyle “JustSole” Clark, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, and More

A number of Center-funded performances take the stage this spring.

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Milford Graves: A Mind-Body Deal

An exhibition and interpretation of Milford Graves’ artistic laboratory as a living, interactive theater shed light on a lifetime of multidisciplinary creative work from this icon of the free jazz movement.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving October Concert

Partners for Sacred Places presents a free community concert inspired by the importance of the pipe organ as a center of community and musical life.

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That Which is Fundamental: Predicated. + A Recollection. Exhibitions

Bowerbird presents two exhibitions curated by Pew Fellow Tiona McClodden that explore the work and legacy of the late African American composer Julius Eastman.

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The Confluence of Hindustani and Carnatic Music

The highlight of a year-long 25th anniversary celebration, Sruti presented two concerts that explored the confluence of Hindustani and Carnatic classical music.

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First Soundings

A series of ten concerts featured eight Philadelphia premieres and two world premieres.

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