Collaborators & Colleagues

Robert Porco

Updated
30 Nov 2016

A conductor of opera and of choral-and-orchestral works, Robert Porco has been the director of choruses for the Cleveland Orchestra since 1998, and has directed the Cincinnati May Festival Chorus since 1989. Porco teaches doctorate-level conducting as an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, IN, where he acted as chair of the choral department from 1980–98. He served as a Center music panelist in 2011 and a music LOI panelist in 2012.

References

Cleveland Orchestra website

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

Tan Dun's "Tea: A Mirror of Soul"

Opera Philadelphia presented the East Coast premiere of Tan Dun's 2002 opera, which uses elements of Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies to tell a tragic love story.

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Lee Tusman

Lee Tusman is an independent curator based in Philadelphia whose projects straddle the intersection of ideas that are socially-based and urban in nature, with a focus on contemporary new media.

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Music, Word, and Art in the Age of Cervantes Symposium

Piffaro holds a symposium exploring music, poetry, and art in the Spanish Golden Age, and its relation to Miguel de Cervantes' Don Quixote.

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Mike Bullock

Mike Bullock is a composer, improviser, and media artist whose work encompasses electro-acoustic improvisation, video, synthesizer, voice, contrabass, and bass guitar.

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Sounds of the Circle

A new evening-length suite by master jazz musician Odean Pope evokes the “distinctive sonic environment” of North Philadelphia and the mid-20th-century innovators who helped build Philadelphia’s jazz legacy.

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John Schaefer

WNYC radio producer John Schaefer hosts Soundcheck, a show featuring daily live music and criticism, and was the first to be profiled in the Center's American Impresario series.

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The Crossing presents Seven Responses

The Crossing commissions 15-minute musical pieces by seven leading composers, created in response to 17th-century composer Dieterich Buxtehude's Jesu Membra Nostri, a series of seven German Baroque cantatas.

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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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Mahler 100/Schoenberg 60

Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series marked the centennial of Gustav Mahler's death and the 60th anniversary of the death of Arnold Schoenberg with a two-season commissioning project.

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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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Philadelphia Assembled Performances

As part of its multi-part project Philadelphia Assembled, the Philadelphia Museum of Art presents a number of performances related to the project’s underlying themes.

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The Case of Chen Shimei, The Wild Boar Forest, and The Jade Bracelet

The Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society presented three traditional Beijing operas, two dramas and a love story, featuring three leading performing artists from China.

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WXPN, University of Pennsylvania

WXPN (88.5 FM) is a nationally recognized public radio station operated by the University of Pennsylvania, with a focus on rock, blues, roots, and folk music.

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American Sublime

Bowerbird produced a multi-day festival featuring works composed by Morton Feldman, as well as programs presented with the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the Rotunda.

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Philadelphia Sinfonia Youth Orchestra Performs John Harbison's *Thanks, Victor*

A string quartet drawn from the Philadelphia Sinfonia youth orchestra performs John Harbison's Thanks, Victor.

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El Viaje (The Journey)

Percussionist Pablo Batista will blend traditional Afro-Cuban rhythms and contemporary Western instrumentation, Afro-Caribbean choreography and evocative multi-media imagery in a performance that will tell a story of the spiritual and cultural resilience of those forced to emigrate from Africa to the Americas and re-establish themselves with dignity.

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Nana Korantema Ayeboafo

"The pulsating energy that we get from drums have a way of connecting us to everything else in the universe," says Nana Korantema Ayeboafo, a 2008 Pew Fellow.

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News

Temple Contemporary’s Symphony for a Broken Orchestra Makes Headlines in The New York Times, The Guardian, and More

Symphony for a Broken Orchestra has received extensive national and local media coverage, including reviews and interviews in The New York Times, NPR, and The Atlantic, among others.

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Tina Davidson

Tina Davidson is a composer and a 1992 Pew Fellow.

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