GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tyrone Brown

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

References

Tyrone Brown at the Dreambox Media website

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Documenting & Interpreting the Philly Jazz Legacy

A discovery process brings together the region’s three major jazz organizations—Jazz Bridge, Philadelphia Jazz Project, and Philadelphia Clef Club—to explore how to meaningfully preserve, interpret, and share Philadelphia’s expansive jazz history.

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Inspired by the Spiritual

Astral Artists celebrated its 20th-anniversary season with a concert of commissioned works by three noted African-American composers: Alvin Singleton, David Sanford, and Evelyn Simpson-Curenton.

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul: Kick-Off Event with Film Screening

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Breath Beneath

PRISM Quartet presents a pilot performance for its discovery project Breath Beneath—an investigation of the artistic possibilities that arise at the intersection of saxophone music, technology, and durational visual art.

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Rudresh Mahanthappa

Rudresh Mahanthappa is a saxophonist and composer who hybridizes progressive jazz and South Indian classical music.

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Harris Eisenstadt

Harris Eisenstadt is a drummer, composer, and bandleader who has studied with respected names in jazz and improvised music, as well as in West African and Cuban drumming.

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PRISM Quartet: Color Theory Workshops

PRISM Quartet's Center-funded project Color Theory features a series of performances, lectures, and workshops that investigate the concept of "musical color."

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Matthew Dirst

Matthew Dirst is a conductor, harpsichordist, organist, and music pedagogue. He is founder and artistic director of Ars Lyrica Houston.

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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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Diane Monroe: Violin Woman, African Dreams Performances

Composer, violinist, and 2018 Pew Fellow Diane Monroe presents the premiere of Violin Woman, African Dreams, an evening-length suite.

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King Britt

King Britt is on a journey, exploring the patchwork of rhythmic textures from many urban dance music cultures: deep house, hip-hop, broken beat, nu-jazz, funk, and afro-tech.

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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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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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Pablo Batista

Over the course of his 30-year career, percussionist and 2000 Pew Fellow Pablo Batista has performed, recorded, and toured with a range of leading jazz, R&B, Latin, pop, and gospel artists including Bono, George Howard, Alicia Keyes, Gerald Levert, Jeffrey Osborne, Eddie Palmieri, Teddy Pendergrass, Diane Reeves, Grover Washington, Jr., Musiq, Manny Oquendo's Conjunto Libre, and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

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Ars Nova's New Paths Festival Presents Ken Vandermark's Made to Break Ensemble at the Barnes

MacArthur Fellow Ken Vandermark and the Made to Break Ensemble premiere a piece inspired by the Barnes Foundation's collection.

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From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow

Tempesta di Mare presented a concert series of baroque interpretations in collaboration with the Philadelphia Singers.

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Uri Caine

Uri Caine is an award-winning composer and pianist, and a 2003 Pew Fellow.

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Potluck and Dance Party with Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys

WXPN's yearlong project explores the origins and evolution of zydeco, a form of African-American roots music that blends Cajun traditions, blues, and R&B. On Saturday, December 13, Zydeco Crossroads and Allons Danser welcome zydeco musicians Rosie Ledet & the Zydeco Playboys to Norristown's Holy Saviour Club for a holiday potluck and dance party.

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Gospel Roots of Rock & Soul

Live performances, a radio documentary series, and a media-rich website explore the roots of gospel and its influence on secular popular music.

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Peter Paulsen

Peter Paulsen is a classical and jazz performer, both of which influence his composition style, and a 2007 Pew Fellow.

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