GRANTS & GRANTEES

Tyrone Brown

2003 PEW FELLOW

Updated
30 Nov 2016

Pew Fellow, 2003
Music

References

Tyrone Brown at the Dreambox Media website

Collaborators & Colleagues

Jace Clayton

Composer Jace Clayton, also known as DJ /rupture, uses an interdisciplinary approach to focus on how sound, memory, and public space interact, with an emphasis on the global South.

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Event

That Which Is Fundamental Concerts

Bowerbird presents a multi-concert retrospective of the late African American composer Julius Eastman.

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John Blake, Jr.

John Blake, Jr. (1947–2014, Pew Fellow, 2010) took his inspiration as a contemporary jazz violinist and composer from some of the genre's greats.

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Susan Lankin-Watts

Susan Lankin-Watts (Pew Fellow, 2015) is a singer, trumpet player, composer, and arranger whose complex arrangements draw from tradition, the poetry of her great-grandfather, and a desire to give new voice to the art form and create klezmer culture for a younger generation.

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Africa, the Call and Response

Montgomery County Community College presented four concerts with African popular artists who derive their music from native traditions while incorporating western instruments and techniques.

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Muhal Meets the Wonderful Sound

Warriors of the Wonderful Sound commissioned and premiered a composition from Muhal Richard Abrams, co-founder of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians.

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David Ludwig

Ludwig's contemporary classical compositions for a range of instrumental ensembles, voice, theater, and film play with style and genre and address topics ranging from climate change to religious traditions.

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Event

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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Philadelphia Freedom Festival: Sing Freedom Sing Festival Finale Concert

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will premiere a new work by Philadelphia composer Uri Caine, performed by the Philadelphia Orchestra, guest soloists, a 250-voice gospel choir, and praise dancers.

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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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Facing Front: Lectures and Performances by Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion (second set)

Anna Drozdowski hosts European duo Jonathan Burrows and Matteo Fargion for a two-week retrospective of their collaborative career. In addition to their performances, the two-week period includes discussions on June 26–27.

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Collaborators & Colleagues

George E. Lewis

A 2002 MacArthur Fellow and early member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, George Lewis is the Edwin H. Case Professor of American Music at Columbia University.

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PRISM Quartet Master Class and Panel Discussion with Rudresh Mahanthappa, Steve Lehman, and John Schaefer

This event features saxophonists/composers Mahanthappa and Lehman, and WNYC's John Schaefer, as they address the unique challenges of collaborating across genres.

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Grants & Grantees

Advancement Grant: Curtis Institute of Music

Curtis will design and implement a new curriculum that provides graduates with the entrepreneurial and business skills necessary to forge effective careers within the rapidly changing classical music field, including coaching in how to produce, promote, and present their own music in innovative ways.

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Bobby Zankel

Bobby Zankel is a musician and a 1996 Pew Fellow.

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Event

Heritage/Evolution: The PRISM Quartet with Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón at Symphony Space

The PRISM Quartet presents the New York performance of new works composed and performed by Tim Ries and Miguel Zenón.

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Ars Nova Workshop

Ars Nova Workshop, a free jazz and experimental music presenter, has programmed nearly 700 events since 2000, often in atypical settings.

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Philadelphia Freedom Festival

The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will present this civil rights-inspired festival, which will include the world premiere of a new 20-minute work by noted composer and Pew Fellow Uri Caine.

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Taylor Mac: A 24-Decade History of Popular Music

In its Philadelphia premiere, Taylor Mac’s Pulitzer Prize-nominated performance work journeys through 240 years of US history and popular songs, staged in two 12-hour installments.

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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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