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2008 Project Grantees Hold cursor over images for credits and captions. |
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The Academy of Vocal Arts
The Academy of Vocal Arts (AVA) was awarded $65,000 to produce the Philadelphia area premiere of Ottorino Respighi’s rarely performed 1934 opera La fiamma. Two concert performances with full orchestra will be offered at the Perelman Theater of the Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts in Philadelphia. The opera will feature AVA resident artists, including Angela Meade (soprano), Christopher Bolduc (baritone), Bryan Hymel (tenor), Ben Wager (bass), and Taylor Stayton (tenor), with the AVA Opera Orchestra conducted by Maestro Christofer Macatsoris. The project’s educational component includes a workshop and open dress rehearsal. The Academy of Vocal Arts (founded in 1934) provides tuition-free vocal training and opera experience to talented young singers who have the potential for international stature. AVA graduates include winners of prestigious vocal competitions, such as the Richard Tucker Foundation Award and the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions, and frequently perform on the major opera stages of the world. Each year AVA presents its resident artists in fully staged opera performances; recent productions have included Lucrezia Borgia, L’amico Fritz, Puccini’s Edgar and Le villi, Massanet’s La Navarraise, and the world premiere of Margaret Garwood’s The Scarlet Letter. http://www.avaopera.org/ |
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American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter
American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter received $21,000 in support of a residency with new music bassoonist Pascal Gallois at Temple University. Mr. Gallois will perform a public concert of music for solo bassoon and bassoon with piano (accompanied by pianist Charles Abramovic), including Luciano Berio’s Sequenza XII and U.S. premieres of works by Olga Neuwirth, Gyorgy Kurtag, and Bruno Mantovani, to be broadcast on the ACF Philadelphia Web cast: www.newmusicphiladelphia.com. Mr. Gallois will also offer a master class for ACF members and students. Founded in 1987, the Philadelphia Chapter of the American Composers Forum builds a visible presence for new music and local composers and performers, dedicating its activities to the spirit of collaboration and connection. Featured on NPR’s “All Things Considered,” the Chapter was credited for the growing interest and visibility of new music in Philadelphia. The Community Partners program continues to fund projects that place composers in residencies throughout the Philadelphia region, providing opportunities for Philadelphia composers to grow and learn. http://www.composersforum.org/chapters_about.cfm?oid=1457 |
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Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
The Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts was awarded $85,000 to produce programs of contemporary American music performed by the American Composers Orchestra (ACO). Now in its fourth year in residence at the Center, ACO will offer two concerts by their groundbreaking Orchestra Underground with guest musicians and artists, a New Music Reading of emerging Philadelphia composers, and educational and outreach activities including master classes and community lectures with guest artists and visiting composers. Featured composers include Fred Ho, Clint Needham, Greg Spears, Kamran Ince, Keeril Makan, David Schiff, Fang Man, Margaret Brouwer, Kati Agocs, and Rand Steiger. 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. http://www.annenbergcenter.org/ |
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Ars Nova Workshop
Ars Nova Workshop received $40,000 to present “Free/Form: Composer Portraits,” a six-concert series featuring the work of three composer/musicians: Andrew Hill (1937-2007), Julius Hemphill (1940-1995) and Anthony Braxton (1945- ). The series will feature rare appearances from past collaborators, new interpretations, and many Philadelphia debuts, all in an effort to present the compositional breadth of Hill, Hemphill, and Braxton. Performing artists taking part in the project are the Nels Cline Ensemble, trumpeter Ron Horton and Ensemble, pianist Ursula Oppens, the Daedalus String Quartet, the Rites Quartet, the Julius Hemphill Saxophone Choir, the Anthony Braxton Brass Quintet, the Anthony Braxton Trumpet Sextet, the Anthony Braxton Diamond Curtain Wall Trio, and Bobby Zankel and the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound. MacArthur Fellow Anthony Braxton will visit with a new ensemble and conduct two compositions performed only once to date: Composition 103 (for seven trumpets), which includes choreography for seven costumed instrumentalists, and one of Braxton’s seminal pieces, Composition 169 (for brass quintet). 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. http://www.arsnovaworkshop.com/ |
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Chamber Music Now!
Chamber Music Now! received $20,000 to commission and present a program of four new works in partnership with the Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site (ESP). The commissioned pieces by Philadelphia-based composers Philip Maneval, David Laganella, Richard Brodhead, and Richard Belcastro will take their inspiration from the history of this Philadelphia landmark. The works will be premiered by Ensemble CMN! inside the cellblock walls of the ESP. Ensemble CMN! features Josh Kovach (clarinet), Hanna Khoury (violin), Miguel Rojas (cello), Gabe Globus-Hoenich (percussion), and Rachael Garcia (soprano). Founded in 2002 by two composers, Chamber Music Now! is in its sixth year of providing the Philadelphia community with original concert productions. CMN has presented 18 productions and premiered 36 new works written for its concert series, many by young composers. CMN designs its concert themes and collaborative efforts to attract a broad range of new listeners and to re-shape the image of chamber music in the community. The concert series provides a platform to present established and emerging local artists, as well as unique talent from around the globe. http://www.chambermusicnow.org/ |
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International House Philadelphia
International House Philadelphia received $40,000 to present “Tete-a-tete” in collaboration with Ars Nova Workshop. The five-concert series features duo performances by Tony Conrad and John Cale, Pharoah Sanders and Hamid Drake, Mats Gustaffson and Thurston Moore, The Paul Bley Duo, and Kieran Hebden and Steve Reid. Collectively, this series of duets showcases a cross-section of experimental, improvisational, and exploratory music from the past 40 years. 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. http://www.ihousephilly.org/ |
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Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
The Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts received $70,000 in support of the sixth season of Fresh Ink, a series that spotlights the work of contemporary composers and performing artists. For the 2008-09 season, the Center will continue the series with three concerts: Grammy-nominated Imani Winds, the Bang on a Can All-Stars, and the Philadelphia debut of New York’s Alarm Will Sound. The concerts will include one world premiere of a new work by Blue Note jazz pianist Jason Moran titled “Cane,” as well as five Philadelphia premieres, including two by Glen Kotche, drummer for the indie band Wilco. 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®. http://www.kimmelcenter.org/ |
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Network for New Music
Network for New Music was awarded $40,000 to commission six new works for the Network Ensemble. This project seeks to illuminate connections between music and visual art, and will pair composers Richard Brodhead and David Laganella with artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts; composers Kyle Bartlett and Gene Coleman with artists from NEXUS/foundation for today’s art; composer Andrea Clearfield with visual artist Maureen Drdak at the University of the Arts; and composer Todd Reynolds with visual designer Laurie Olinder and filmmaker Bill Morrison as part of Peregrine Arts’ “Hidden City” festival. A supplemental educational program will allow composers and visual artists from the University of the Arts to generate a new mural in collaboration with Philadelphia’s Mural Arts Program. Since 1984, Network for New Music has produced, presented and commissioned over 530 new works. Winners of the 2001 ASCAP Award for Adventurous Programming, Network for New Music has collaborated with the League of Composers/ISCM, Phrenic New Ballet, poets Sonia Sanchez and Stephen Dunn, Temple University, the University of the Arts, and many other artists and institutions. The group has commissioned composers of international reputation including Milton Babbitt, Donald Martino, Jennifer Higdon, James Primosch, Gerald Levinson, Libby Larsen, Maurice Wright, Bernard Rands, Philip Maneval, Augusta Read Thomas, Mario Davidovsky, Melinda Wagner, Richard Wernick, Thomas Whitman, Eric Moe, David Rakowski, Andrea Clearfield, Chen Yi, Jennifer Barker, Adam Wernick, George Walker, Steven Mackey, Shulamit Ran, Robert Capanna, Zhou Long, George Tsontakis, Sebastian Currier, and many others. The Network Ensemble draws two-thirds of its members from the Philadelphia Orchestra, as well as from The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia, faculty members of leading universities, and guest artists from the region. http://www.networkfornewmusic.org/
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Orchestra 2001
In its 20th anniversary season, Orchestra 2001 was awarded $40,000 to present “An Opera, an Operetta, and a Songbook,” which offers three perspectives of orchestral vocal composition: “A Scandal in Bohemia,” a chamber opera by Thomas Whitman in collaboration with librettist Nathalie Anderson based on a story by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; “Tides,” an operetta by Ronald G. Vigue; and “American Songbook VI: Voices from the Morning of the Earth” by Pulitzer-prize winning composer George Crumb. The pieces will be premiered with guest artists Ann Crumb (soprano), Randall Scarlata (baritone), Markus Beam (baritone), Laura Heimes (soprano), Julian Rodescu (bass), and Ben Wager (bass-baritone). Orchestra 2001 was founded in 1988 as ensemble-in-residence at Swarthmore College in Swarthmore, PA. 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. 02001 has presented over 70 world premieres, including works by Pulitzer Prize-winning composers George Crumb, Gunther Schuller, and Melinda Wagner. In addition, the organization has presented 95 Philadelphia-area premieres, 200 works by 115 different American composers, and 125 works by 53 different Philadelphia-area composers. http://www.orchestra2001.org/ |
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The Painted Bride Art Center
The Painted Bride Art Center received $50,000 to commission composer, bandleader, and jazz drummer John Hollenbeck to create and perform a new work with his Large Ensemble. Hollenbeck will also generate new work in collaboration with 10 selected Philadelphia musicians in a two-week residency program. Founded in 1969, the Painted Bride Art Center collaborates with emerging and established artists to create, produce and present innovative work that affirms the intrinsic value of all cultures and celebrates the transformative power of the arts. The Bride is a 250-seat theater and gallery located in the Old City neighborhood of Philadelphia serving over 20,000 people annually. Recognized nationally as a premier venue for dance, jazz, poetry, spoken word, theater, world music, and visual arts, the Bride presents an average of sixty to eighty events a year through the following series and programs: Dance with the Bride; Jazz on Vine (Philadelphia’s longest, continually running jazz series); World Music; Performance in the Present Tense; and Gallery Exhibitions. http://www.paintedbride.org/ |
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Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society was awarded $65,000 to present “First Soundings,” ten concerts featuring eight Philadelphia and two world premiere performances by the Emerson, Orion, Muir, Brentano, Juilliard and Daedalus String Quartets, violinist James Ehnes, a wind ensemble from the New York Philharmonic, Elizabeth Hainen (principal harpist of the Philadelphia Orchestra), pianist Lydia Artymiw, and flutist Carol Wincenc. Composers whose works will be presented include Thomas Adés, Lukas Foss, David Horne, Lee Hyla, Aaron Kernis, Lowell Lieberman, Melinda Wagner, Robert Capanna, Richard Wernick, and David Maslanka. The Orion Quartet will offer a master class at Settlement Music School; the Emerson Quartet will offer one at Temple University. The Philadelphia Chamber Music Society 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 $22.50 per ticket or less. Since its founding in 1986, PCMS has presented some 700 concerts by 375 ensembles and recitalists, and commissioned more than 30 new works. Today’s annual program consists of more than 60 performances and 50 educational events. http://www.philadelphiachambermusic.org/ |
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Philadelphia Classical Symphony
The Philadelphia Classical Symphony received $80,000 over two years to commission composers Curt Cacioppo and Maurice Wright to write works for “Reawakenings of American Indian Music—New Music based on the Culture of the Lenape Indians.” These pieces will be performed with programs of American music to be presented at the Church of St. Luke and the Epiphany and Haverford College. The composers will also participate in a series of educational school workshops and concerts presented at the Washington Elementary School and the Shawmont School. The Philadelphia Classical Symphony was established in 1993 to foster an appreciation for classical music among new and diverse audiences, as well as to provide a more relaxed, inviting performance format for concertgoers. In an effort to engage audiences, Symphony events are organized around thematic programs and historical practices and frequently include elements of audience participation and interdisciplinary collaboration. http://www.classicalsymphony.org/ |
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Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Philadelphia Museum of Art was awarded $40,000 to commission an original composition by jazz pianist Jason Moran, to be developed around the Museum’s fall 2008 exhibition “Gee’s Bend: The Architecture of the Quilt.” The new composition will be performed by Jason Moran and The Bandwagon (Nasheet Waits, drums, and Tarus Mateen, bass) as part of the Museum’s “Art After 5” music programming. Moran will also present a public lecture/performance about his compositional process and its intersection with the visual arts. 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. In its 2007-08 season, “Art After 5” hosted the Philadelphia debuts of the Maria Schneider Orchestra and Mike Holober and the Gotham Jazz Orchestra. http://www.philamuseum.org/artafter5/ |
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Philadelphia Orchestra
The Philadelphia Orchestra Association was awarded $85,000 to support a Krzysztof Penderecki Week in October 2008, honoring the composer’s 75th birthday year. Mr. Penderecki will join the Philadelphia Orchestra for a variety of events, including: the mainland- U.S. premiere of his Concerto Grosso for three cellos and orchestra performed by cellists Arto Noras, Daniel Muller-Schott, and Han-Na Chang in the Kimmel Center’s Verizon Hall; a performance of his chamber work by members of The Philadelphia Orchestra and Arto Noras; pre-concert lectures; and a Composer-to-Composer discussion, open to the public and presented in collaboration with the American Composers Forum. 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 and outreach. 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. http://www.philorch.org/ |
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Piffaro, The Renaissance Band
Piffaro, The Renaissance Band received $40,000 to present a midnight mass service featuring Claudin de Sermisy’s Missa voulant Honneur interspersed by French noël tunes and settings, as well as a nativity play based on the noël texts. By bringing the noëls and the play into a liturgical setting, Piffaro is following a tradition associated with the Christmas season that harkens back to medieval times. Piffaro will be joined by guest soloists Laura Heimes (soprano) and Philip Anderson (tenor), and actors Mark Jaster and Sabrina Mandell. The performance will incorporate images and text from a 1520s noel manuscript housed in the Rare Books Collection of the Free Library of Philadelphia. 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. http://www.piffaro.com/
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Slought Foundation
The Slought Foundation received $20,000 to present Soundfield@Slought in collaboration with Soundfield, NFP. Soundfield@Slought features international and local artists in five concerts with related educational programs. Guest artists include Austrian sound artist and composer Werner Moebius in a program of multimedia works; German composer Michael Maierhof with Philadelphia’s Ensemble Noamnesia; American composer and vocal artist Theo Bleckmann; Ensemble On-Line Vienna; and Taiwan’s Chai Found Music Workshop playing music by Hwang Long Pan and Chao-Ming Tung. Slought Foundation encourages new futures for contemporary life through programs featuring international artists and theorists. Since opening in Philadelphia in 2002 adjacent to the University of Pennsylvania, Slought Foundation has featured international figures such as Dennis Oppenheim, Werner Herzog, Helene Cixous, Hermann Nitsch, William Anastasi, Arakawa + Gins, Braco Dimitrijevic, and Lorand Hegyi. The Foundation is situated at the forefront of cultural production in North America and has presented hundreds of exhibitions, events and performances, trade publications, and has a significant internet presence featuring extensive audio recordings. http://slought.org/ |
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SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society
SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society was awarded $18,000 to present “Showcasing the Modern Masters of Carnatic Music,” a series of three concerts featuring vocalist Sanjay Subramaniam, violinists Dr. Mysore Manjunath & Mysore Nagaraj, and vocal duo Ranjani and Gayatri in programs showcasing classical music of Southern India. 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. http://www.sruti.org/ |
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Tempesta di Mare
Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra Tempesta di Mare received $40,000 to present “From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow” in collaboration with The Philadelphia Singers. The program features J.S. Bach’s rarely performed “Trauer-Ode” along with the modern world premiere of John Blow’s “With Cheerful Hearts,” an ode for New Year’s Day transcribed from the sole surviving manuscript at the British Museum. 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. http://www.tempestadimare.org/
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The University of the Arts
The University of the Arts was awarded $63,785 to present “Clifford Brown: Impact and Influence,” a concert series to celebrate the music and life of the Philadelphia-area jazz trumpeter and composer in collaboration with the Philadelphia Jazz Heritage Project. The series will feature former Clifford Brown band members Benny Golson and Lou Donaldson and their bands, as well as Terence Blanchard performing contemporary jazz selections that showcase the continuing legacy, impact, and influence of Brown’s music. Marcus Belgrave and the Lars Halle Jazz Orchestra will perform pieces from Brown’s historic repertoire and the world premiere of a newly-commissioned work by John Fedchock. Participating artists will also present master classes and workshops to regional music students. The University of the Arts is the nation’s first and only university dedicated to the visual, performing and communication arts. Its 2,300 students are enrolled in undergraduate and graduate programs on its campus in the heart of Philadelphia’s Avenue of the Arts. Its history as a leader in educating creative individuals spans more than 130 years. http://www.uarts.edu/
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Biographies,
2008 Grant Panel
Harolyn Blackwell, Soprano Bill Bragin, Director of Public Programming, Lincoln Center Zhou Long, composer, Visiting Professor, University of Missouri at Kansas City Greg Osby, composer and jazz saxophonist, Blue Note recording artist Ethel Raim, Artistic Director, Center for Traditional Music and Dance Stanley Ritchie, violinist, early music specialist, Professor, Indiana University He has appeared as soloist or conductor with a number of major Early Music orchestras, among them the Academy of Ancient Music, Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, the Handel and Haydn Society Orchestra, and the New York Collegium. In July 2006 he directed orchestral concerts in the Accademia di Musica Antica in Bruneck, Italy, and the Skalholt Summer Festival in Iceland. His recordings include Vivaldi's Op.11 Violin Concertos with Hogwood and the Academy of Ancient Music (Oiseau Lyre), the Mozart piano quartets, the complete piano trios of Mozart and Schubert, as a member of The Mozartean Players, and a CD of 17th Century music for three violins and continuo entitled Three Parts upon a Ground, with John Holloway, Andrew Manze, Nigel North and John Toll (all for Harmonia Mundi USA), and selected Concerti and Serenate of Francesco Antonio Bonporti, with Bloomington Baroque (Dorian Discovery). Robert Shafer, Artistic Director, City Choir of Washington A student of the distinguished Nadia Boulanger, Shafer has received acclaim as a composer as well; he won first prize in composition at the American Conservatory, Fontainebleau, France, in 1969, and his works have been performed throughout the United States and Europe. Active as a teacher, Shafer taught at James Madison High School from 1968 to 1975, producing one of the finest madrigal groups in the country. He has been Artist-in-Residence and Professor of Music at the Conservatory of Music of Shenandoah University in Winchester, Virginia, since 1983. In 1989, he was honored by the Virginia Council on Higher Education with an Outstanding Faculty Award for his outstanding public service, research, and teaching, the first teacher in the arts to receive this award. http://www.thecitychoirofwashington.org/ Rand Steiger, composer/conductor, Professor, University of California, San Diego |
Project Grantees
2008 Project Grantees
