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

Yuval Sharon

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

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Bobby Zankel

Bobby Zankel is a musician and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Julia Wolfe

Composer Julia Wolfe, whose music is inspired by the folk, classical, and rock genres, is co-founder of New York's music collective Bang on a Can.

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Raga Samay Festival

Crossroads Music presented a 24-hour marathon concert of Hindustani (North Indian classical) music, featuring leading musicians from India and the United States.

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Samuel Barber's Antony and Cleopatra

The Curtis Institute of Music mounted this fully staged production, presented in collaboration with Opera Philadelphia and Kimmel Center Presents.

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Lisa Bielawa

Composer and vocalist Lisa Bielawa is a 2009 Rome Prize winner in musical composition and a 2017 recipient of the Music Award of the American Academy of Arts & Letters.

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News

Taylor Mac’s A 24-Decade History of Popular Music Gets “Philadelphianized” at the Kimmel Center, June 2 & 9

On June 2 and 9, The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts presents the Philadelphia premiere of MacArthur fellow Taylor Mac’s epic performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music.

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Event

Aniara: fragments of time and space at Finnish National Opera

The Crossing’s choral-theater work Aniara: fragments of time and space plays at the Finnish National Opera in Helsinki, Finland.

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Saayujya (The Merging)

Two of India's preeminent artists, Carnatic vocalist T.M. Krishna and bharata natyam dancer Priyadarsini Govind, will fuse classical South Indian music and dance in a world premiere that is the culmination of a two-year artistic collaboration, and is inspired by themes of liberty and freedom drawn from Philadelphia's history.

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Nikki Appino

Nikki Appino is a multidisciplinary theater artist and filmmaker.

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Event

Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music: Part I

Part I of Taylor Mac's performance work A 24-Decade History of Popular Music covers 12 decades from 1776–1896 as part of the 2018 Philadelphia International Festival of the Arts.

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Rehearsing Philadelphia, new commission by Ari Benjamin Meyers

Under the direction of composer and artist Ari Benjamin Meyers, artists from various creative practices come together for a collaborative performance project that highlights the ability of sound and art to connect audiences across Philadelphia.

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1734–1735: A Season in the Life of J.S. Bach

A recreation of 18 rarely-performed cantatas by Johann Sebastian Bach will be performed as originally intended: in an arc spanning the Christian church calendar and the seasons.

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Ars Nova's New Paths Festival Presents Mats Gustafsson's Swedish Azz at the American Swedish Historical Museum

Swedish saxophonist-composer Mats Gustaffson leads the United States debut of Swedish Azz, an all-Swedish ensemble.

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Matt Saunders

Matt Saunders (Pew Fellow, 2014) is a multidisciplinary theater artist whose practice is rooted in set design.

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Departure and Discovery: New Directions at the Apex of Creativity

A trio of concerts from the world-acclaimed pianist Jonathan Biss, tenor Mark Padmore, violist Hsin-Yun Huang, and the Brentano String Quartet provided new insights on the forms of expression found in the late stages of the lives of nine great composers, including Bach, Kurtág, Mozart, and Schubert.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Ari Benjamin Meyers

Ari Benjamin Meyers is a US-born, Berlin-based composer and visual artist whose work aims to explore the relationship between performer and audience and the performative, social, and ephemeral nature of music.

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Event

Tempesta di Mare presents Purcell, Charpentier & ¡zarzuela!

Tempesta di Mare continues their two-season exploration of rarely-performed French orchestral music written for the theater.

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Toni Shapiro-Phim

Toni Shapiro-Phim is a cultural anthropologist with a specialization in the arts of Southeast Asia.

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Event

Making/Breaking the Binary: Suzanne Ciani in Concert

Curator Kelsey Halliday Johnson presents a concert by electronic music pioneer Suzanne Ciani.

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