Premiere Recording Grant

Ars Nova Workshop

2008

$25,000

The experimental music presenter Ars Nova Workshop received Center support to produce five recordings on the record label High Two. The recordings featured Spanish Fly (Steven Bernstein, slide trumpet/valve trumpet; Marcus Rojas, tuba; Dave Tronzo, electric guitar) performing music by Bernstein; Min Xiao-Fen Asian Trio (Min Xiao-Fen, pipa; Okkyung Lee, cello; Satoshi Takeishi, percussion) performing "Return of the Dragon Suite" by Xiao-Fen; Pew Fellow and jazz musician Marshall Allen with drummer Louis Moholo performing their original music; alto saxophonist John Tchicai, guitarist Mary Halvorson, and drummer Ches Smith performing their own compositions; and the Scorch Trio (R. Björkenheim, electric guitar; I. Håker Flaten, double bass; P. Nilssen-Love, drums) performing their own music.

Recipients

Ars Nova Workshop

Performance

Music

Event

Departure and Discovery Panel Discussion

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will hold a panel discussion exploring the effect that accumulated knowledge and experience has on artistic creation.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Roger LaMay

Roger LaMay is general manager at WXPN (88.5 FM), a public radio station operated by the University of Pennsylvania.

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Grants & Grantees

Lydie Breeze Trilogy

The world premiere of Tony Award-winning playwright John Guare's Lydie Breeze Trilogy, an epic trilogy about an American family, set between the Civil War and the birth of 20th-century industrialism, will be performed in a consecutive cycle for the first time.

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The Space Between the Notes Jazz Workshop with John Harbison

Composer John Harbison leads a jazz workshop with area students and professional musicians.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Drexel University Westphal College

Drexel University's Antoinette Westphal College of Media Arts & Design fosters the study, exploration, and management of the arts: media, design, the performing, and visual.

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Endless Shout: Jumatatu Poe's Let 'im Move You: A Study and This Is a Success

The Institute of Contemporary Art presents a performance of Pew Fellow Jumatatu Poe’s Let ‘im Move You, organized by Danielle Goldman.

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Partners for Sacred Places: Playing and Preserving November 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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News

Making Ideas Happen: Program Directors on What Lies at the Heart of a Strong Center Grant Application

As the Center opens the 2020 grants cycle, we asked Bill Bissell, director of Performance, and Bill Adair, director of Exhibitions & Public Interpretation, to share some insights into the Center’s grant-making process.

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Grants & Grantees

The Anchoress

The world premiere of composer Ludwig's song cycle for soprano, presented by the Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, will channel the voice and inner life of an imagined medieval "anchoress," bridging Renaissance and contemporary musical languages.

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GRANTS & GRANTEES

Merián Soto

Over her 40-year career in performance, Merián Soto (Pew Fellow, 2015) has focused on investigating the living body and its relationship to consciousness. Her conceptual and process-based pieces work towards, in the artist's words, "a dance of the future, a dance of healing, transformation, and transcendence."

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Close Music for Bodies

Michael Kiley presents an immersive, participatory vocal performance, developed from the sounds and movements of eight individual bodies.

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Grants & Grantees

Operetta

FringeArts presented the US premiere of Operetta by acclaimed playwright Witold Gombrowicz, directed by Michał Zadara, with new music by Leszek Możdżer.

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The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal

Thaddeus Phillips uses his two years on a telenovela as the jumping off point in The Incredibly Dangerous Astonishing Lucrative and Potentially Completely TRUE Adventures of Barry Seal.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Arun Ramamurthy

Arun Ramamurthy is a violinist, composer, and artistic director of Brooklyn Raga Massive, a collective of forward-thinking musicians rooted in and inspired by the classical music of India.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Jessie Montgomery

Jessie Montgomery is a violinist, composer, and music educator, who currently serves as composer-educator for the Albany Symphony Orchestra.

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Kyle deCamp

Kyle deCamp is a cross-media performance artist whose work investigates the intersections of art, history, space, and individual lives.

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Gender, Traditions and Techniques in Flamenco

Michelle Heffner Hayes will provide context for the development of flamenco as a technique, its gendered conventions, and the standardization of its norms.

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NY Phil Biennial Presents Julia Wolfe's Anthracite Fields with the Bang on a Can All-Stars

Originally commissioned by Mendelssohn Club, for world premiere performances in Philadelphia in April 2014, the Bang on a Can All-Stars will perform Wolfe's new work as part of the upcoming NY Phil Biennial.

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Grants & Grantees

Crimean Tatar Cultural Recovery

Research into Crimean Tatar choreography through an engagement with indigenous choreographers in Lviv, Ukraine expands the repertoire of this American-Ukrainian dance ensemble.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

Kip Lornell

Since 1992, Kip Lornell has taught courses in American music and ethnomusicology at George Washington University, and has served on the university's Africana Studies program committee.

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