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Ars Nova Workshop
Ars Nova Workshop was awarded $45,000 to present “Free/Form: Composer Portraits,” a six-concert series that will feature the music of trumpeter Don Cherry and saxophonist Tim Berne. The series will showcase new arrangements, many Philadelphia premieres, and rare appearances from past and present collaborators in performances by the Ken Vandermark Large Ensemble; Karl Berger’s “In the Spirit of Don Cherry”; Steven Bernstein’s Millennial Territory Orchestra; Dave Douglas & Brass Ecstasy; Collide Quartet; Philadelphia-based pianist Matt Mitchell; and Adobe Probe and Big Satan, a large ensemble and trio led by Mr. Berne. Founded in 2000, Ars Nova Workshop is a Philadelphia non-profit jazz and experimental music presenting organization. ANW seeks to inform, inspire, and challenge listeners while elevating the role of jazz and experimental music in contemporary culture. Fervently upholding the jazz/Free Jazz continuums by supporting its musicians, composers, and improvisers, ANW events are a forum for discourse and new trends in contemporary music theories and practices. www.arsnovaworkshop.com
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Astral Artists
Astral Artists received $95,000 for a two-year residency with Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Aaron Jay Kernis. Astral will present Philadelphia premieres of several of Mr. Kernis’ works and the world premiere of a newly commissioned quartet for soprano, flute, viola, and harp. Mr. Kernis will conduct coaching sessions and master classes, as well as participate in “Meet the Composer” discussions. Mr. Kernis’ works will be performed by resident artists Michael Mizrahi and Di Wu (piano), cellist Susan Babini, soprano Disella Larusdottir, pianist Spencer Meyer, the Biava Quartet, harpist Bridget Kibbey, and flutist Jasmine Choi. They will be joined by guest clarinetist Igor Begelman, violist Teng Li, and Symphony in C (conducted by Rossen Milanov). Peter Dobrin and David Patrick Stearns will moderate public discussions with Mr. Kernis. Founded in 1992, the mission of Astral Artists is to discover the most promising classical musicians residing in the United States, assist their early professional development, and present their artistry to the community through concerts and outreach programs. Astral artists have performed with the Philadelphia, Moscow Symphony, and Montecarlo Orchestras and have appeared at major music festivals including Marlboro and Ravinia. www.astralartisticservices.org
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Choral Arts Society
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia was awarded $45,000 to present two concerts titled “Ancient Liturgies” and “Voice of Scotland.” Both will explore liturgical practice with a focus on mystical traditions, sacred and secular, ancient and contemporary. Matthew Glandorf will conduct seldom-heard works by Eric Whitacre, Jonathan Harvey, Arvo Pärt, Robert Carver, James MacMillan, and Philadelphia composer Joseph Castaldo. The project will also feature a lecture by Dr. Anne McGuire and performances by students from the University of the Arts Theater Department. The Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia is recognized for performing choral music that is designed to enrich, engage, educate, and inspire large and diverse audiences. The Choral Arts Society was the 2002 National Winner of Chorus America’s prestigious Margaret Hillis Award for Choral Excellence. Founded in 1982 and currently under the direction of Matthew Glandorf, Choral Arts has performed nearly 300 works by more than 100 composers. www.choralarts.com
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The Crossing
Chamber choir The Crossing received $25,000 to present its second “Month of Moderns,” a festival of contemporary choral music featuring three newly commissioned works by Lansing McLoskey, Paul Fowler, and 2008 Pulitzer Prize-winner David Lang. All three compositions will be based on the words of Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning poet Philip Levine. Mr. McLoskey’s work will feature the impressive Mander organ of the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill; Mr. Fowler will compose a work for unaccompanied choir; and Mr. Lang’s work for choir and strings will be performed with the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra. The Crossing was founded in 2005 by Donald Nally and a group of singers with whom he worked in previous ensembles in Philadelphia and Italy. Their purpose is specifically to perform new and modern choral music, including works by James MacMillan, Jonathan Dove, Judith Weir, Benjamin C.S. Boyle, Herbert Howells, Bruno Bettinelli, and Gian Carlo Menotti. www.crossingchoir.com
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Curtis Institute of Music
Curtis Institute of Music was awarded $100,000 to mount a fully-staged production of Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra performed by the Curtis Opera Theatre. Maestro George Manahan will conduct three performances at the Kimmel Center’s Perelman Theater featuring soprano Layla Claire, mezzo-soprano Tammy Coil, baritone Kevin Ray, tenor Joshua Stewart, the Curtis Symphony Orchestra, and choristers from the Opera Company of Philadelphia. Chas Rader Shieber will direct, Mark Barton will design the lights, and David Zinn will create sets and costumes. Antony and Cleopatra will be presented in collaboration with the Opera Company of Philadelphia and Kimmel Center Presents. The Curtis Institute of Music trains exceptionally gifted young musicians for careers as performing artists. Founded by Mary Louise Curtis Bok in 1924, the Curtis Institute offers merit-based full-tuition scholarships to all its students, who train with today’s most respected artists and teachers, including Richard Danielpour, Leon Fleisher, Pamela Frank, Mikael Eliasen, Gary Graffman, Jennifer Higdon, Ida Kavafian, Seymour Lipkin, Edgar Meyer, Otto-Werner Mueller, Ned Rorem, Aaron Rosand, Joseph Silverstein, Ignat Solzhenitsyn, members of the Guarneri Quartet and many of the principal players of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Enrollment is small (about 160 students per year), and is based on the musicians needed for a symphony orchestra, opera department, and select programs in piano, organ, harpsichord, composition, and conducting. www.curtis.edu
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International House Philadelphia
International House Philadelphia received $45,000 to present “Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited,” a four-concert series that will feature some of the leading and founding figures of the Free Jazz Movement. The series will pay homage to a generation of iconoclasts while revisiting a historic moment defined by intense artistic experimentation and political upheaval. “Anti-Jazz,” presented in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop, will feature performances by Marshall Allen and the Sun Ra Arkestra; Bill Dixon and the Exploding Star Orchestra; Bobby Bradford, Frode Gjerstad, and Circulasione Totale Orchestra; and the Art Ensemble of Chicago. Founded in 1910, International House Philadelphia is an independent, non-profit organization housing over 1,000 students and professional trainees from over 80 countries and presenting public programs to over 30,000 Philadelphia area residents throughout the year. Film + Music @ International House, dance and theater performances, art exhibits and cultural festivals enable area audiences to explore their own roots and learn about the heritage of others. International House provides more than 150 cultural, educational and social programs that assist its residents and other international students and scholars with their adjustment to American society and life in Philadelphia, while encouraging cross-cultural understanding and leadership skills. www.ihousephilly.org
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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts was awarded $100,000 for its new music series Fresh Ink. The series will include Philadelphia debuts by Kristjan Järvi conducting the Absolute Ensemble, the string quartet Brooklyn Rider, and the trio 2 Foot Yard. Fresh Ink will also feature pianist Simone Dinnerstein, cellist Matt Haimovitz, and the return of the Kronos and JACK Quartets. JACK will be co-presented by Bowerbird. Fresh Ink concerts will offer the U.S. premiere of a new string quartet by Matthias Pintscher and 20 regional premieres of works by Mike Block, Charles Coleman, Philip Glass, Matt Haimovitz, Matt Herskowitz, Colin Jacobsen, Carla Kihlstedt, Jeff Myers, Gene Pritsker, Serge Provost, Christopher Rouse, Ana Sokolovic, Steven Stucky, Gilles Tremblay, and Luna Pearl Woolf. The series will also feature compositions by Elliott Carter, Osvaldo Golijov, Steve Reich, Wolfgang Rihm, Amon Tobin, Aleksandra Vrebalov, and Ramallah Underground. Kimmel Center Inc’s mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience from throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. Since its debut in 2001, the Center has established itself as one of the premier East Coast destinations for internationally-renowned performers of music and dance. Kimmel Center, Inc. owns, manages, supports and maintains The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, which includes Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Innovation Studio and the Merck Arts Education Center. Kimmel Center, Inc. also manages the Academy of Music, owned by the Philadelphia Orchestra Association. The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts and the Academy of Music serve as home to eight Resident Company performing arts organizations, including The Philadelphia Orchestra, Opera Company of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Ballet, Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, American Theater Arts for Youth, PHILADANCO, Philadelphia Chamber Music Society and Peter Nero and the Philly Pops®. www.kimmelcenter.org
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Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia received $45,000 to perform the regional premiere of Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina at Girard College Chapel under the baton of Artistic Director Alan Harler. Joining them will be the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, soprano Heidi Grant Murphy, and baritone Nathaniel Webster. Taller Puertorriqueno—a North Kensington organization dedicated to preserving, developing, and celebrating the arts of Puerto Rico, Latin America, and the Caribbean—will facilitate educational events with their constituents and Mr. Sierra. One of Philadelphia’s oldest avocational choruses, Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia provides audiences with innovative programming that embraces the finest choral music of many cultures, traditions, periods and styles, including commissions of new choral works. Founded in 1874, the Mendelssohn Club’s rich musical history includes the American premiere of Mahler’s Eighth Symphony and the Philadelphia premieres of Brahms’s Ein Deutches Requiem and Britten’s War Requiem. www.mcchorus.org
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Montgomery County Community College
Montgomery County Community College was awarded $52,000 in support of “Sabor Latino: A Caribbean Journey,” a four-concert series featuring David Sanchez, Paquito D’Rivera, the Spanish Harlem Orchestra, and Marlon Simon. The project will explore Latin jazz, including the many styles of salsa, merengue, rumba, son, mambo, bomba, and plena. Residency activities include school performances at Eisenhower and Pottstown Middle Schools; a master-class with Paquito D’Rivera for area jazz students; lecture demonstrations with the Spanish Harlem Orchestra; and a week-long school residency by Marlon Simon culminating in a community concert in Pottstown. The cultural mission of Montgomery County Community College is to serve as a focal point for cultural activities, providing public access to the arts for county residents through presenting and educational activities. Over its 21-year history, MCCC’s Lively Arts Series has introduced audiences to the work of exemplary artists representing a variety of performing mediums from different cultural traditions. Recent seasons have included performances by Ron Carter, Mose Allison, Cephus & Wiggins, Meredith Monk, and Abbey Lincoln. www.mc3.edu/livelyarts
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Opera Company of Philadelphia
Opera Company of Philadelphia received $100,000 to present the East Coast premiere of Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul at the Academy of Music. Composed in 2002, Tea uses the elements of the Japanese and Chinese tea ceremonies (water, fire, paper, and ceramic) to tell a tragic love story. Composer Tan Dun will conduct the first two performances, and David Hayes will conduct the remaining three. Bass Kirk Eichelberger will sing the role of the Emporer. The Opera Company will also welcome several artists from the 2007 Sante Fe Opera American premiere: director Amon Miyamoto; soprano Kelly Kaduce; tenor Roger Honeywell; mezzo-soprano Nancy Maultsby; baritone Haijing Fu; and percussionists Haruka Fujii, Chihiro Shibayama, and Yuri Yamashita. Rounding out the cast are nine baritones from the Opera Company of Philadelphia Chorus. Rumi Matsui will design the set and Masatomo Ota the costumes. The project features an artist lecture at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. Formed in 1975, the Opera Company of Philadelphia is committed to delivering outstanding productions of traditional and new repertoire. The Opera Company of Philadelphia is the city’s only professional producer of grand opera. With four main-stage productions each season, the Opera Company makes its home at the regal and historic Academy of Music, America’s oldest opera house. www.operaphilly.com
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Orchestra 2001
Orchestra 2001 was awarded $45,000 to commission and premiere works by three composers. 2004 Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Moravec will write a new violin concerto for soloist Maria Bachmann. Guggenheim Fellow Robert Maggio will compose a work for chamber orchestra as a companion to Samuel Barber’s Knoxville: Summer of 1915 for a Barber centennial celebration. Pulitzer Prize-winner George Crumb will complete one final song for his monumental American Songbook series, which O2001 has premiered over the past several seasons, to be performed by soprano Ann Crumb with excerpts from all six American Songbooks at the Kimmel Center, Swarthmore College’s Lang Concert Hall, and West Chester University. Orchestra 2001 was founded in 1988 as ensemble-in-residence at Swarthmore College. In June of 2007, the American Symphony Orchestra League and ASCAP recognized O2001 and Artistic Director James Freeman as outstanding leaders of new music in the United States with an Award for Adventurous Programming. O2001 has presented over 80 world premieres, including works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers George Crumb, Gunther Schuller, and Melinda Wagner. In addition, the organization has presented 105 Philadelphia-area premieres, 205 works by 125 different American composers, and 135 works by 60 different Philadelphia-area composers. www.orchestra2001.org
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Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society received $75,000 to present 12 public performances, each of which will feature a world or regional premiere performed by leading ensembles and recital artists. Composers whose works will receive world premiere performances include Charles Abramovic, Kyle Bartlett, Jan Krzywicki, and Richard Wernick, with regional premieres by Mario Davidovsky, Tigran Mansurian, Charles Wuorinen, Donald Martino, Stephen Hartke, John Adams, James MacMillan, and David Dzubay. The performers will include oboist Richard Woodhams; the Juilliard, Brentano, Takács, Orion, and St. Lawrence String Quartets; guitarist Jason Vieaux; violist Kim Kashkashian; pianist Peter Serkin; Trio Cavatina; the Dolce Suono ensemble; and Counter)Induction, a composer/performer collective. The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) was created so that people from all walks of life could enjoy world-renowned chamber music and recital artists. PCMS serves this mission through its unique policy of affordable ticket pricing – enabling audiences to hear the Guarneri, Emerson, Juilliard and Tokyo Quartets, recitalists Richard Goode and Midori, and many other leading musicians for just $23 per ticket or less. Since its founding in 1986, PCMS has presented more than 900 concerts by 375 ensembles and recitalists, and it has commissioned more than 35 new works. Today’s annual program consists of more than 60 performances and 50 educational events. www.pcmsconcerts.org
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art was awarded $45,000 to commission renowned saxophonist/composer Wayne Shorter for a work inspired by the Museum’s East Asian art collection, to be performed by the Wayne Shorter Quartet (Shorter plus pianist Danilo Perez, bassist John Patitucci, and drummer Brian Blade) on PMA’s Art After 5 series. Chartered in 1876, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is among the largest art museums in the United States and houses collections of works from around the world. The museum’s Friday evening music series, Art After 5, features performances by acclaimed jazz artists, including the Philadelphia debuts of the Maria Schneider Jazz Orchestra and Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra. In its 2008-2009 season, Art After 5 commissioned and presented a new work by pianist Jason Moran inspired by the Museum’s fall 2008 exhibition “Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.” www.philamuseum.org/artafter5
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The Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra received $100,000 to offer the first Philadelphia performances of two recently composed works by Richard Danielpour and Bright Sheng. Mr. Danielpour’s A Woman’s Life is based on text by Maya Angelou and was co-commissioned by the Philadelphia Orchestra and the Pittsburgh Symphony. Performances will feature soprano soloist Angela Brown under the baton of Rossen Milanov. Mr. Sheng’s The Phoenix (2004) will feature soprano Shana Blake Hill, conducted by Maestro Charles Dutoit. The American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter will facilitate residency activities with Mr. Danielpour and area composers and students. Founded in 1900, The Philadelphia Orchestra has distinguished itself as one of the leading orchestras in the world through a century of acclaimed performances, historic international tours, best-selling recordings, and its record of innovation in recording technologies. The Philadelphia Orchestra annually touches the lives of more than one million music lovers worldwide through its performances, publications, recordings, and broadcasts. The Orchestra presents a subscription season in Philadelphia each year from September to May, in addition to education and community partnership programs, and appears annually at Carnegie Hall. Its summer schedule includes an outdoor series at Philadelphia’s Mann Center for the Performing Arts, free Neighborhood Concerts, and residencies at Saratoga Performing Arts Center in upstate New York, and the Bravo! Vail Valley Music Festival. www.philorch.org
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The Philadelphia Singers
Founded in 1972, The Philadelphia Singers is a professional choral ensemble that engages and inspires a broad range of audiences in the Philadelphia region with compelling concert experiences featuring performances of choral masterpieces and contemporary works. The Singers has a special commitment to preserve and strengthen America’s rich choral heritage through performances, commissions, and music education. www.philadelphiasingers.org
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Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band received $45,000 to produce two programs exploring contrasts among Iberian musical cultures in the mid-17th century. The first, to be performed with the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia, will recreate music from a Marian Vespers as it would have been celebrated in Lisbon during the reign of John IV. This Vespers will follow the rubrics of a service, with the appropriate psalms, hymns, motets and antiphons by 17th-century Portuguese composers, including Rebelo, Melgás, and Correa. The second will feature Spanish theater music by Juan Hidalgo. Songs, dances, and selections based on musical cues from the plays of Lope de Vega (and reconstructed by Piffaro member Grant Herreid) will be performed by soprano Ellen Hargis; dancer and violinist Julie Andrijeski; and plucked string players Patrick O’Brien, Scott Pauley, and Daniel Swenberg. Piffaro will also be joined by cornettist Kiri Tollaksen, and wind players Mack Ramsey and Erik Schmalz. Piffaro, the Renaissance Band brings to its audiences historically informed performances of music from the late Medieval, Renaissance, and early Baroque periods, in the manner of the civic, court, and chapel wind bands that existed between 1450 and 1650. The ensemble has toured extensively throughout the US and Europe. Piffaro has had successive recording contracts with Newport Classic, Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv Produktion, Wyndham Hill, Passacaille, and Dorian Recordings. www.piffaro.com
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SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society
SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society was awarded $21,500 to present “Instrumental Maestros of Indian Classical Music,” a three-part series featuring a Carnatic saxophone concert by Kadri Gopalnath; a Carnatic chitraveena concert by N. Ravikiran; and a jugalbandi (fusion) concert featuring Shashank Subramanyam playing the flute in the Carnatic style and Ustad Shahid Parvez playing the sitar in the Hindustani style, presented in collaboration with the Painted Bride Art Center. Founded in 1986, SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society, is a volunteer-run organization dedicated to presenting Indian classical music and dance programs. Over the past 20 years, SRUTI has presented artists such as sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar (as part of the organization’s tenth anniversary celebration) and Sudha Raghunathan, one of the world’s most acclaimed Carnatic vocalists. www.sruti.org
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Tempesta di Mare
Tempesta di Mare received $45,000 to perform Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Lamentationes pro hebdomana sancta for ATB soli and chamber ensemble at Old St. Joseph’s Church and the Presbyterian Church of Chestnut Hill, both in Philadelphia. The Lamentationes emerge as through-composed solo cantatas, set in aria, arioso, and recitative structures, along with extensive, florid melismas that mark the Hebrew letters for Latin verses. The performance, which will feature guest artists alto Lorie Gratis; tenor Aaron Sheehan; and baritone Sumner Thompson, will be recorded for subsequent broadcast on local, national, and overseas radio. Tempesta di Mare performs Baroque music on Baroque instruments with repertoire that ranges from opera with full orchestra to chamber music. The ensemble was founded in 1996, and its debut CD of recorder sonatas by Veracini, released that year on PGM, received BBC Music Magazine’s highest marks. Tempesta’s Greater Philadelphia Concert Series has enjoyed a rapid rise to prominence since its launch in 2002. Tempesta has toured from Oregon to Prague. National broadcasts of performances include NPR’s Performance Today, Sunday Baroque, and Harmonia. Concerts are carried locally on WHYY-91FM’s Showcase and video of recent performances can be seen on WYBE Public Television. WHYY-TV12 has also produced three short documentaries about the group. www.tempestadimare.org
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Warriors of the Wonderful Sound
Warriors of the Wonderful Sound was founded in 2001 to support, promote, and encourage compositions, performances, recordings, interdisciplinary collaborations, and educational activities devoted to 21st-century jazz. In 2008, WWS, in collaboration with local avant-jazz series SciFiPhilly, established its first commissioning project for young composers/improvisers.
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Biographies,
2009 Grant Panel
Vinson Cole, tenor Robert Garfias, anthropologist/ ethnomusicologist Paul Hostetter, conductor/ percussionist An avid instrumentalist, Mr. Hostetter performed as a percussionist/timpanist with the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra with whom he toured and recorded extensively (earning a Grammy Award) as well as with the American Symphony Orchestra and the New York Philharmonic. As a soloist he has appeared with the Little Orchestra Society, the American Symphony Orchestra, the Florida State University Symphony, and the contemporary music ensemble Music Mobile. Education remains a passion for Mr. Hostetter. He has served as an advisor to Carnegie Hall for their successful Link-up Series. A tireless advocate for minority representation in classical music, he helped to found and create the Music Advancement Program of the Juilliard School, which provides holistic musical training for children of color. In addition he has been a guest conductor for the Manhattan School of Music’s Graduate Orchestral Performance Program and has presented master classes at the Mannes School of Music, the Peabody Conservatory, the Juilliard School of Music, the University of Michigan, William Paterson University, and the University of San Paulo. Jennifer Koh, violinist Ms. Koh records regularly for the American Cedille label and has released four discs to date; she most recently released String Poetic, a Grammy-nominated recording with world premieres of works by Jennifer Higdon and Lou Harrison as well as music by John Adams and Carl Ruggles. Since the 1994–95 season, when she won the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow, the Concert Artists Guild Competition, and the Avery Fisher Career Grant, Ms. Koh has been heard with leading orchestras and conductors around the world, including the New York Philharmonic, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Cleveland Orchestra, Philadelphia Orchestra, Baltimore Symphony, the Chicago Symphony, the Cincinnati Symphony, the National Symphony Orchestra, New Jersey Symphony, the Detroit Symphony, Houston Symphony, the New World Symphony, and Montreal Symphony. Abroad, she has appeared with the Czech Philharmonic, the BBC London Symphony, the BBC Scottish Symphony, BBC National Orchestra of Wales, Iceland Symphony, the Helsinki Philharmonic, the Lahti Symphony, Moscow Radio Symphony, the Brandenburg Ensemble, and the Singapore Symphony. A prolific recitalist, Ms. Koh appears frequently at major music centers and festivals including Carnegie Hall, The Kennedy Center, The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia, Marlboro, Wolf Trap, Spoleto, and The Festival International de Lanaudiere in Canada. A committed educator, Ms. Koh has also won high praise for her performances in classrooms throughout the United States under her innovative Music Messenger outreach program. Now in its sixth year, the program continues to form an important part of her musical activities. Born in Chicago of Korean parents, Ms. Koh currently resides in New York City. She is a graduate of Oberlin College and an alumna of the Curtis Institute, where she worked extensively with Jaime Laredo and Felix Galimir. Michael Orlove, Program Director, City of Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs Robert Page, conductor/ choral music specialist Mr. Page’s choirs can be heard on 40 discs issued on major labels. Receiving eight Grammy nominations, he won Grammy awards for his recordings of Orff’s Carmina Burana (Cleveland Orchestra) and Catulli Carmina (Philadelphia Orchestra), a Grand Prix du Disc for Gershwin’s Porgy and Bess (Cleveland Orchestra), and a Prix Mondial de Montreux for his world-premiere recording of the Shostakovich Symphony No. 13, Babi Yar (Philadelphia Orchestra). Mr. Page has conducted or has been associated with the world premieres and/or commissions of many major works. These include the first performances in America of the Penderecki Utrenja and the Shostakovich Babi Yar. World premieres include the Penderecki Paradise Lost, an opera jointly commissioned by the Chicago Lyric Opera and La Scala, for which Page prepared the Chicago Lyric Chorus for performances in Chicago and Milan. Page has presented Pittsburgh with the first performances of William Schuman’s Concerto on Old English Rounds for Viola and Orchestra, the Shostakovich Babi Yar, and Leonardo Balada’s Torquemada, and as Music Director of The Mendelssohn Choir of Pittsburgh, commissioned An American Oratorio by Ned Rorem. Mr. Page has served on the choral, festival, and overview panels of the National Endowment for the Arts. He is a founding member of Chorus America, the service organization for independent choruses, and served as its president for three years. Shulamit Ran, composer In addition to receiving the Pulitzer Prize in 1991, Ms. Ran has been awarded most major honors given to composers in the U.S., including two fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, grants and commissions from the Koussevitzky Foundation at the Library of Congress, the National Endowment for the Arts, the Fromm Music Foundation, Chamber Music America, the American Academy and Institute for Arts and Letters, first prize in the Kennedy Center-Friedheim Awards competition for orchestral music, and many more. Her music has been played by leading performing organizations including the Chicago Symphony, the Cleveland Orchestra, the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Israel Philharmonic, the New York Philharmonic, the American Composers Orchestra, The Orchestra of St. Luke’s, the Baltimore Symphony, the National Symphony, the Contemporary Chamber Players of the University of Chicago, the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande, the Jerusalem Orchestra, the vocal ensemble Chanticleer, and various others. Ms. Ran’s chamber and solo works are regularly performed by leading ensembles in the U.S. and elsewhere. She is an elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, where she is now serving a three-year term as Vice President for Music, and of the American Academy of Arts and Science. The recipient of five honorary doctorates, her works are published by Theodore Presser Company and by the Israeli Music Institute and recorded on more than a dozen different labels. Tim Ries, saxophonist/ composer Mr. Ries has written over 100 compositions in both the jazz and classical idioms. As a concerto soloist, he has appeared with orchestras nationwide, including the Detroit and Dallas Symphonies and the Cleveland Orchestra. Mr. Ries also performed the American premiere of Takashi Yoshimatsu’s Cyberbird Concerto with the Brooklyn Philharmonic at Carnegie Hall. A graduate of the University of North Texas and the University of Michigan, Mr. Ries has served on the faculties of The New School, City College of New York, the Mannes College of Music, Rutgers University, New Jersey City University, and currently serves as Professor of Jazz Studies at the University of Toronto. He frequently travels internationally to jazz festivals, conferences, and conservatories, conducting master classes and clinics in saxophone technique, composition, and improvisation. Artistic Advisors to the Panel: Lyle Nordstrom, lutenist, early music specialist Nordstrom's performances also have received international attention. He is founder and co-director of "The Musicians of Swanne Alley," the well-known Elizabethan music ensemble with whom he has recorded on the Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi and Focus labels. With that ensemble and others he has performed several times at the Boston Early Music Festival, the Utrecht Early Music Festival, the Bath Festival, several times on "St. Paul Sunday", as well as German, Danish, French and English radio and television. His arrangements of music for Swanne Alley were used in the MGM movie Rob Roy. Nordstrom also is founder and artistic director of the Atlanta Baroque Orchestra that performs throughout the Southeast. In addition to his performances and recordings, he has published several articles on lute-related subjects, and written a book on the 16th-century wire-strung bandora. He is editor of the Lute Society of America Scholarly Editions project. He is past president of the Atlanta Early Music Alliance. Bell Yung, Chinese music specialist
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Project Grantees
2009 Project Grantees
