GRANTS & GRANTEES

Toby Twining

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

References

Toby Twining's website

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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Apollo at Play by Tempesta di Mare

Philadelphia's baroque orchestra plays French orchestral music written for the theater.

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Matthew Levy

Levy's performance practice and compositions bridge modern classical music with rhythmic and improvisatory aspects of jazz, guided by his dedication to exploring the saxophone's genre-defying capabilities.

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Stephanie Richards

Stephanie Richards is an avant-garde trumpeter and composer who has become a prominent voice in the New York experimental scene, collaborating with improvisational pioneers including Henry Threadgill, Butch Morris, John Zorn, Laurie Anderson, and Anthony Braxton.

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Jason Moran Commission Project

An original composition by jazz pianist Jason Moran was developed in conjunction with the exhibition Gee's Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.

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Elaine Hoffman Watts

Elaine Hoffman Watts was a klezmer musician and a 2000 Pew Fellow in folk and traditional arts.

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Questions of Practice

What if an Art Collection Were Treated Like a Choreographic or Musical Score?

For the Philadelphia Museum of Art’s 2016 “Museum as Score” symposium, curator Carlos Basualdo contemplates the idea of a museum as a choreographic score.

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Facing Front: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to performances, the two-week period includes workshops on June 19–20.

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Gospel Roots of Rock and Soul: Fairfield Four & The Campbell Brothers

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First Soundings

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

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Julius Eastman: That Which Is Fundamental

In conjunction with In Search of Eastman, exploring the possibilities associated with presenting the work of Julius Eastman (1940–90), Bowerbird presents a weekend of free events introducing the life and work of the composer.

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Then and Now: Jazz Cubano

Montgomery County Community College presented a series of concerts and programs focusing on the Afro-Cuban influence in jazz.

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Daniel Bernard Roumain

Daniel Bernard Roumain is a composer, violinist, and bandleader who combines his classical training with hip-hop and Haitian influences.

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Music for Saxophones: Heritage/Evolution

This 30th-anniversary project was PRISM Quartet's most ambitious to date, consisting of six new commissions and world premiere performances by prominent jazz saxophonists/composers.

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Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa

The PRISM Quartet presents the world premiere of new works composed and performed by Steve Lehman and Rudresh Mahanthappa.

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Advancement Grant: Philadelphia Chamber Music Society

The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will research and develop new business models that respond to shifting trends in audience behaviors.

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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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Centrala

Founded in 2013 by Michał Zadara, Centrala is a theater company based in Warsaw, Poland.

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Liberian Women's Chorus for Change

The members of the Liberian Women's Chorus for Change will adapt existing folk songs and write new ones in traditional styles, in the hopes of subverting historical narratives in which women are blamed, stigmatized, or victimized.

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Great Black Music

Ars Nova Workshop presented a concert series featuring music by composers and multi-instrumentalists Henry Threadgill and Roscoe Mitchell, champions of avant-garde jazz.

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