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2007 Grantees Hold cursor over images for credits and captions. |
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Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Grant amount: $80,000 The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts will engage the American Composers Orchestra (ACO) in a residency that will bring ACO’s acclaimed “Orchestra Underground” programs to the Annenberg Center for a series of three new music concerts and accompanying educational and outreach activities. The concerts will feature compositions by Susie Ibarra, Terry Riley, Michael Tenzer, Ken Thomson, Uri Caine, Fred Ho, Steve Coleman, and Scott Johnson. Guest artists include Makoto Fujimura (visual artist), and Gutbucket (Ken Thomson’s punk-jazz-rock ensemble). Founded in 1971, the Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts is a leading non-profit, multi-disciplinary performance venue in Philadelphia offering a varied program of more than 170 performances each year through its professional performing arts arm, Penn Presents. Serving the University of Pennsylvania and the greater Delaware Valley region as a comprehensive performing arts center, the Annenberg Center is distinguished by a broad-based program of music, theatre, dance, arts education, and outreach for adults and young people, attracting over 175,000 people annually. http://www.annenbergcenter.org/ |
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Ars Nova Workshop
Grant amount: $13,000 Ars Nova Workshop (ANW) will present “Le poeme de la femme,” a five-program concert series intended to explore issues of gender, ethnicity, history, contemporary politics, and experimental musical practices. “Le poeme de la femme” will showcase divergent musical traditions and provide independent female voices with a forum for cultural discourse. The series will feature the Susie Ibarra Ensemble, the Marilyn Crispell Trio, Jenny Scheinman's Ensemble, the Min Xio-Fen Trio, and the Zeena Parkins Trio performing improvised as well as composed works. Founded in 2000, Ars Nova Workshop 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. http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/ |
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Astral Artistic Services
Grant amount: $30,000 Astral Artistic Services will commission and present “Future Directions: New Music for Emerging Artists” featuring world premiere performances of new chamber works by composers Paul Schoenfield and Yevgeniy Sharlat. The programs will celebrate Astral’s 15th anniversary, and will feature resident Astral artists Jose Franch-Ballester (clarinet), Andrius Zlabys (piano), and guest artists Pavel Ilyashov (violin), Anton Jivaev (viola), and Wendy Warner (cello). Founded in 1992, the mission of Astral Artistic Services 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. http://www.astralartisticservices.org/ |
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Chamber Music Now
Grant amount: $10,000 Chamber Music Now will present “To Turn a Phrase,” pairing four Philadelphia authors and composers to create new works for chamber ensemble, electronics, video projection, and narrator. The collaborating pairs are: Paul Epstein (composer) and Tony Olsen (author); Richard Belcastro (composer) and Carla Spataro (author); Stratis Minikakas (composer) and Sandy Crimmins (author); and Gene Coleman (composer) and Tom Teti (author). The resulting works will be premiered by Josh Kovach (clarinet), Hanna Khoury (violin), Miguel Rojas (cello), and Tom Teti (actor). Founded in 2002, Chamber Music Now (CMN) is dedicated to the presentation of contemporary chamber music. CMN’s multi-disciplinary approach to programming seeks to expand the boundaries of the chamber arts, providing both artists and audiences alike with a stimulating and challenging concert experience. http://www.chambermusicnow.org/ |
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Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Grant amount: $120,000 The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia will commission and premiere new works by Terry Riley and Sir John Tavener in partnership with San Francisco’s New Century Chamber Orchestra. Riley’s new work, part of his “Abbeyozzud” project (a series of 26 pieces for guitar), will feature the composer on piano, guitarists David Tanenbaum and Gyan Riley, and violinist Krista Bennion Feeney. Tavener’s new work, inspired by the poetry of Jean Biès, will be scored for voice, timpani, and string orchestra, and feature mezzo-soprano Sarah Connolly. Philadelphia performances will take place at the Perelman Theater in the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. A founding resident company of The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia is a 33-member ensemble led by Ignat Solzhenitsyn, now in his third season as Music Director. The Orchestra, founded in 1964 by Marc Mostovoy, has a well-established reputation for distinguished performances of repertoire from the Baroque period through the twenty-first century. http://www.chamberorchestraofphiladelphia.org |
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Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
Grant amount: $30,000 Under the artistic direction of Matthew Glandorf, the Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia will produce a concert titled “A Baroque Festival of Lights.” The program will feature the music of Salamone Rossi, the first Jewish composer to write polyphonic settings of the Sacred Service, and a newly commissioned Cantata for Hanukkah by Philadelphia composer David Ludwig. The Choral Arts Society will be accompanied by an ensemble of period instruments. 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. Choral Arts' 100-voice symphonic chorus is comprised of volunteer singers as well as a 16-voice professional core. Founded in 1982 and currently under the direction of Matthew Glandorf, Choral Arts has performed nearly 200 works by more than 100 composers. http://www.choralarts.com/ |
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Curtis Institute of Music
Grant amount: $60,000 The Curtis Institute of Music will present the Curtis Opera Theatre’s Philadelphia premiere of Osvaldo Golijov’s debut opera “Ainadamar,” which is based on the life of Margarita Xirgu, the Catalan actress who collaborated frequently with Spanish poet and dramatist Federico García Lorca. The production will feature Curtis Institute students Layla Claire (soprano), Katherine Lerner (mezzo-soprano), Amanda Majeski (soprano), Brian Porter (tenor), and Evan Hughes (bass-baritone). Guest artists will include Chas Rader-Shieber (director), Corrado Rovaris (conductor), Mark Barton (lighting designer), and David Zinn (set and costume designer). Five performances will be presented at the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts. 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. http://www.curtis.edu/ |
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International House
Grant amount: $30,000 International House Philadelphia will produce “Out There,” a new five-concert series showcasing radical and exploratory music from around the world. Presented in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop, each program will offer a representative look into the progressive musical legacy of a specific ethnicity or country, encouraging dialogue about culture and representation in American society. The series will feature John Zorn's Electric Masada, the Otomo Yoshihide Ensemble, Huntsville with Ivar Grydeland, Tonny Kluften, Ingar Zach, the Misha Mengelberg/Han Bennink Quartet, and the Tony Oxley Ensemble. Founded in 1910, International House Philadelphia is an independent, non-profit organization housing nearly 1,200 students, scholars, and interns from over 65 countries. International House presents public programs to over 30,000 Philadelphia area residents throughout the year through its Film + Music series, dance and theater performances, art exhibits, and cultural festivals, enabling 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. http://www.ihousephilly.org/
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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Grant amount: $60,000 Kimmel Center Presents will produce three concerts as part of its “Fresh Ink” series, designed to spotlight the work of artists and composers in the avant-garde of contemporary classical music. The series will feature the Philadelphia debut of So Percussion, a program by Ethel (string quartet), and an evening of music by Phil Kline including the Philadelphia premieres of two songs cycles, “Zippo Songs” and “Fear and Loathing,” with guest artists Todd Reynolds (violin), Dave Cossin (percussion), Theo Bleckman (vocals), and Wilbur Pauley (vocals). Kimmel Center, Inc.’s mission is to operate a world-class performing arts center that engages and serves a broad audience throughout the Greater Philadelphia region. Kimmel Center achieves its mission by presenting artistic and educational programming of the highest quality that serves diverse audiences and brings world-renowned artists to Philadelphia. The Center’s facilities include Verizon Hall, Perelman Theater, Commonwealth Plaza, Innovation Studio, the Merck Arts Education Center, and several ancillary spaces. The Center’s facilities host eight resident companies: The Philadelphia Orchestra, Peter Nero and the Philly Pops, Philadanco, The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society, American Theater Arts for Youth, the Opera Company of Philadelphia, and the Pennsylvania Ballet. http://www.kimmelcenter.org/ |
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Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Grant amount: $80,000 As part of its 2007 summer series, The Mann Center for the Performing Arts will present “Congo Square,” a cross-cultural musical collaboration between Wynton Marsalis and the Ghanaian drum master Yacub Addy. “Congo Square” will honor and explore the memory of the public square in New Orleans where, from the mid-1700’s to the late 1800’s, slaves gathered on Sunday afternoons to perform African songs and dances, heralding the birth of American jazz at the turn of the century. “Congo Square” will feature Wynton Marsalis, the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra, and Yacub Addy with his ensemble Odadaa! Originally founded as the summer home of the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Mann Center for the Performing Arts is the only outdoor cultural arts venue in the Philadelphia region and one of the largest of its kind in the nation. Each summer, the Mann Center presents a diverse range of popular, classical, and contemporary musical, theatrical, operatic, dance, and cinematic programs. http://www.manncenter.org/ |
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Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
Grant amount: $30,000 Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia will present a concert featuring the Philadelphia premieres of John Adams’ “On the Transmigration of Souls” and Karol Szymanowski’s “Stabat Mater,” as well as a performance of James Primosch’s “Fire-Memory/River-Memory.” Conducted by Artistic Director Alan Harler and accompanied by the Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, Mendelssohn Club will be joined by guest artists Bel Canto Children’s Chorus, Karen Slack (soprano), Meredith Arwady (contralto), and Jonathan Beyer (baritone). 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. http://www.mcchorus.org/ |
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Opera North
Grant amount: $30,000 Opera North will present “An African American Triptych,” featuring concert productions of three operas by African American composers: “A Bayou Legend” by William Grant Still, “Blake” by H. Leslie Adams, and the world premiere of “Egypt’s Nights” by Leslie Savoy Burrs and librettist Barbara Chase-Ribaud. “An African American Triptych” will feature soloists Carmen Balthrop (soprano), Issachah Savage (tenor), Takesha Meshe Kizart (soprano), N. Cameron Chandler (bass/baritone), Lisa Edwards-Burrs (soprano), and guest artists Diane Monroe (violin), Gerald Veasley (bass), Mogauwane Mahoele (percussion), George Burton (piano), and the Voices of Gwynedd under the baton of Dr. Kay George Roberts. Opera North, founded in 1974 as Opera Ebony, is a non-profit cultural organization whose mission is to create performance opportunities for gifted minority classical concert artists, and to make opera available to more racially diverse audiences. Opera North’s productions have included Aida, Carmen, The Marriage of Figaro, II Trovatore, La Boheme, Don Pasquale, and Susannah. In addition, Opera North has developed an educational program in which it offers performances and lectures within the Philadelphia and suburban school districts. http://operanorth.com/ |
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Orchestra 2001
Grant amount: $30,000 Orchestra 2001 will produce “Radical Exoticism,” a series featuring six 20th- and 21st-century musical works that explore modernist musical exoticism across several cultures. The project features a world premiere of George Crumb’s “American Songbook V;” the area premiere of Valerie Coleman’s “Afro-Cuban Concerto” featuring the Imani Winds; a French set comprising area premieres of works by Pierre Boulez, Olivier Messiaen, and Henri Dutilleux; and a 1920s concert-jazz classic by Darius Milhaud. Artistic Director James Freeman will conduct Orchestra 2001 with guest artists Gilbert Kalish (piano), Freda Herseth (mezzo-soprano), Jamie Van Eyck (mezzo-soprano), and Patrick Mason (baritone). Orchestra 2001 is dedicated to premiering, performing, and promoting the music of 20th- and 21st-century composers, providing a major voice for contemporary music in the classical continuum, and reaching out to regional and international audiences through recordings and tours. Recent highlights include four fully staged operas; works by 25 American composers, including 11 premieres; Shostakovich’s colossal Fourteenth Symphony in the first American performance of the composer’s alternate version of the work with texts in the original languages; and four performances and a recording of Gerald Levinson’s Time and the Bell. http://www.orchestra2001.org/ |
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Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Grant amount: $60,000 The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society will produce “Voices of Our Time,” a special series of concerts featuring Philadelphia premieres of recent works by Lera Auerbach, George Benjamin, Elliott Carter, Gabriela Frank, Kevin Puts, Kaija Saariaha, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Joan Tower, Erkki-Sven Tüür, and John Zorn. Performing artists include the Brentano, Emerson, Johannes, Miro, Mendelssohn, and Tokyo Quartets; pianists Pierre-Laurent Aimard and Jonathan Biss; and violinists Timothy Fain and Leila Josefowicz. The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society (PCMS) was formed to make exceptional international artists and ensembles widely available to people throughout the Greater Philadelphia region through affordable ticket pricing. Since its founding in 1986, PCMS has presented over 600 concerts of masterworks, rarely-heard repertoire, and newly-composed music performed by some of the leading artists in the world. Currently, PCMS’ annual program consists of more than 60 performances and 50 educational events. http://www.philadelphiachambermusic.org/ |
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Philadelphia Folklore Project
Grant amount: $30,000 The Philadelphia Folklore Project will continue its Musicians-in-Residence program, which will explore the distinctive Ukrainian-Jewish klezmer repertoire of the Hoffman Watts family, music popularized in Philadelphia from the 1920s through the 1950s. The project will culminate in a concert featuring Elaine and her trumpeter daughter Susan Hoffman Watts, Andy Statman, Hankus Netsky, Henry Sapoznik, Rachel Lemisch, Jim Guttmann, and Josh Dolgin; among them, descendants of three of the most prominent Philadelphia klezmer families. The ensemble will perform arrangements from the “Dead Sea Scrolls” of klezmer: hand-written folios of music scored by Joseph Hoffman (c.1910) and newly arranged by Susan Watts. A documentary of the project will be broadcast on WHYY-TV12. The Philadelphia Folklore Project (PFP) is a 20-year-old public interest urban folk-life agency committed to sustaining community-based folk arts in our region. PFP works for cultural equity, offering public education in the folk arts through school- and community center-based long-term teaching residencies; technical assistance services such as grant-writing workshops for artists; community projects like performance salons, concerts, and exhibitions; and documentary resources such as publications, videos/DVDs, and an archive housing a record of Philadelphia folk and traditional arts. PFP is committed to the practice of investing in, and spurring investment in, the cultural infrastructure and folk-life activities of local communities, and conducts ongoing ethnographic research into local arts, history, and culture. http://www.folkloreproject.org/ |
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
Grant amount: $30,000 The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present the Philadelphia debuts of the Gotham Jazz Orchestra and the Maria Schneider Orchestra as part of the Museum’s “Art After 5” series. The Museum will commission and present the world premiere of a new work by Gotham Artistic Director Mike Holober and present regional premieres of recent works by Grammy Award-winning composer Maria Schneider. 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 presents a Friday evening jazz series, “Art After 5,” that features performances by acclaimed jazz artists. http://www.philamuseum.org/ |
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Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Grant amount: $30,000 Piffaro, The Renaissance Band will present a Vespers program for Epiphany that combines 16th-century hymns, chants, and chorale settings by Johann Walther, Michael Praetorius, and Jacob Regnart with newly commissioned psalm settings, a Magnificat, and instrumental motets by Philadelphia composer Kile Smith, bringing the Renaissance tradition of wind playing in liturgical settings into the 21st-century. The Crossing, a 20-voice ensemble directed by Donald Nally, will join Piffaro’s eight wind players. 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 U.S. and Europe. Piffaro has had successive recording contracts with Newport Classic, Deutsche Grammophon’s Archiv Produktion, and Dorian Recordings, and has released eight recordings. http://www.piffaro.com/
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Relâche
Grant amount: $30,000 As part of its “Future Sounds” series, Relâche will commission and premiere new works by composers Christian Wolff, Galen Brown, and Randall Woolf. The pieces will explore a range of musical aesthetics, including aleatory, minimalism, alternative pop/electronica, and avant-bop. Relâche is a new music ensemble with a unique sound – flute, oboe, clarinet/sax, bassoon, piano, percussion, viola, and bass – first established in 1979. The players of Relâche are classically trained, but often explore sounds from outside of Western classical traditions, such as jazz, free improvisation, electronica, world music, and film music. To date, Relâche has performed more than 550 concerts, commissioned over 150 new works from composers including Robert Ashley, Gavin Bryars, John Cage, Uri Caine, Philip Glass, and Pauline Oliveros, and recorded four CDs. http://www.relache.org/ |
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Slought Foundation
Grant amount: $10,000 Slought Foundation will present “Soundfield@Slought” in collaboration with Soundfield, NFP. A four-part concert and educational series exploring international experimental music, “Soundfield@Slought” will feature French violist Vincent Royer and Philadelphia’s Ensemble Noamnesia performing music by Luc Ferrari; Rome’s Ossatura with Ensemble Noamnesia realizing graphic scores by Anthony Braxton; Europe’s Polwechsel performing electro-acoustic compositions; and Ensemble N_JP with American and Japanese musicians playing music and video compositions by Gene Coleman. Slought Foundation encourages new futures for contemporary life through programs featuring international artists and theorists. Since opening in Philadelphia in 2002, Slought Foundation has produced and presented over 200 public programs exploring interventionist approaches to cultural production in North America. Programs have featured Dennis Oppenheim, Helene Cixous, Hermann Nitsch, William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, and Lorand Hegyi. http://www.slought.org/ |
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SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society
Grant amount: $15,000 SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society will present “Mosaic of South Indian Classical Music,’ a series of concerts representing the tapestry of various forms, schools, and styles of vocal and instrumental music found in southern India. The artists featured include Veenai Jayanthi Kumaresh, a veena player, and Nithyasree Mahadevan and the Malladi Brothers, who are Carnatic music vocalists. SRUTI, the India Music and Dance Society, has earned a reputation as a premium organization presenting artists of high caliber. Founded in 1986, SRUTI has organized well over 100 concerts with the participation of about 350 distinguished artists. Highlights of performances presented by SRUTI include a Tenth Anniversary concert by the sitar maestro Pandit Ravi Shankar. http://www.sruti.org/ |
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Tempesta di Mare “No Strings Attached: Love and Death with Music and Puppets”
Grant amount: $30,000 Philadelphia Baroque orchestra Tempesta di Mare will perform “No Strings Attached: Love and Death with Music and Puppets,” an evening of narrative works for vocalists and chamber ensemble with original puppet staging by Mock Turtle Marionette Theater. Monteverdi’s ”Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda” and Handel’s “Tra le fiamme” are two of the works that will be performed with guests Marguerite Krull (soprano), Aaron Sheehan (tenor), and David Newman (baritone). The concert will be broadcast on WHYY-91FM. Tempesta di Mare performs Baroque music on period instruments with repertoire that ranges from staged opera with full orchestra to chamber music. The ensemble was founded in 1996, and its debut CD that year of Veracini recorder sonatas 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. The group has toured from Oregon to Prague, and national broadcasts of its performances include NPR’s Performance Today, Sunday Baroque and Harmonia, as well as locally on WHYY-91FM's Showcase and WYBE Public Television. WHYY-TV12 has also produced a three-documentary series about the group. Tempesta di Mare records for the British label Chandos. http://www.tempestadimare.org/ |
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2007 Grant Panel
Martin Bresnick, Professor of Composition, Yale University Charles Calmer, Artistic Administrator, Oregon Symphony Kip Lornell, Professor of Music, George Washington University Robert Porco, Director of Choruses, The Cleveland Orchestra Janet See, Flautist George Shirley, Professor of Voice; Director of Vocal Arts Division, University of Michigan Limor Tomer, Adjunct Curator of Performing Arts, Whitney Museum; Executive Producer, Music Department, WNYC Public Radio Steve Wilson, Saxophonist
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2008 Premiere Recording Grantees
2007 Project Grantees
