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The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2012 Philadelphia Music Project Grant Recipients
Philadelphia, PA—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage has awarded $858,430 through the Philadelphia Music Project to nine music organizations in the Philadelphia area. Three of these organizations are first-time grantees as well as first-time applicants to the program. Through PMP’s grants, internationally renowned artists representing a broad range of musical forms and styles will visit the region over the next two seasons to participate in music programs that promise to attract and inspire a wide spectrum of audiences. Some of these upcoming concerts, festivals, and staged productions revisit and draw inspiration from seminal works of the past, while many invigorate long-standing musical traditions by crossing genres or looking to new models of presentation and performance.
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The Philadelphia Music Project announces revised professional development grant guidelines
PMP has revised its guidelines for professional development grants. Individual musicians, music presenters, and applied researchers in music, as well as leaders of non-profit music organizations, are now eligible to apply. Click here to view the revised guidelines.
The Philadelphia Music Project announces the third article in its American Impresario series
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George Wein at the 2010 Newport Jazz Festival
Photo Credit: LaNita Adams
The Philadelphia Music Project is pleased to the third in its series of articles under the banner American Impresario. The series will explore the careers and contributions of leading U.S. music curators whose creative work has profoundly influenced the field by giving listeners new ways to experience and understand music.
Click here to read the third article in the series, on George Wein, jazz pianist and founder of the Newport Jazz Festival, and many other events worldwide.
Click here to read the second article in the series on David Harrington, founder and Artistic Director of the Kronos Quartet.
Click here to read the first article in the series, on radio producer and new music expert John Schaefer.
The Philadelphia Music Project Presents:
New Frontiers in Music: Curating a Great Music Festival
with Bill Bragin, Ashley Capps, Rob Fields, Randy Raine-Reusch, and Keith Terry
This event has now passed.
Friday, February 10, 2012, 1:30–3:30 p.m.
followed by a reception
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
1608 Walnut Street, 18th Floor
Philadelphia, PA 19103
This event was offered free of charge. For more information, click here.
Ivoirian musician Dobet Gnahoré, guest artist in Montgomery County College's 2011 PMP-funded project. See photo info and more details below, and here.
Philadelphia Music Project 2012 Project Grant Applications
This year’s application deadline (1/17/2012) has passed. Awards will be announced soon.
Applicants who submitted Letters of Intent to Apply were notified by November 1, 2011, whether they were invited to submit a full application.
The Letter of Intent deadline for the next cycle will be Monday, September 17, 2012, 5 pm.
Click here to view and download the 2012 Project Grant application guidelines. Click here to enter the online application system.
New applicants (those who have never submitted a full application in the past) are encouraged to contact PMP to verify eligibility.
The Philadelphia Music Project Presents:
Crossing Cultures: New Frontiers in Violin Performance and Composition
with Lewis Kahn, Diane Monroe, Anuradha Sridhar, Nick Didkovsky, Rudresh Mahanthappa, and Huang Ruo
Friday, August 12, 2011
Curtis Institute of Music, Field Concert Hall
1726 Locust Street
Philadelphia, PA 19103
This event was offered free of charge. Find details here.
The Philadelphia Music Project announces a new series of articles: American Impresario
The Philadelphia Music Project is pleased to launch a new series of articles under the banner American Impresario. The series will explore the careers and contributions of leading U.S. music curators whose creative work has profoundly influenced the field by giving listeners new ways to experience and understand music. Click here to read the first article in the new series, on radio producer and new music expert John Schaefer.
Photo: John Schaefer, courtesy of www.therestisnoise.com/2007/04/djs_without_bor.html
The Philadelphia Music Project inaugurates podcasts of professional development events
PMP has mounted podcasts of four book lectures from noted authors Ben Ratliff, Alex Ross, Tom Moon, and Eric Booth, presented between 2007 and 2009. Click here to see descriptions of these PMP events, and to listen to or download the podcasts. Check this page for announcements of other podcasted events.
The Philadelphia Music Project and Bowerbird Present: Making It New--America's Avant-Garde Utopia
A Book Lecture & Panel Discussion
Making It New—America’s Avant-Garde Utopia:
Evenings for New Music, Buffalo, 1964–1980
Friday, June 10, 2011, 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Caplan Hall, Terra Building
211 S. Broad Street, 17th floor
Philadelphia, PA 19107
This event was offered free of charge. Find details here.
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2011 PMP Grant Recipients
May 25, 2011
Philadelphia Music Project Awards $664,500 to 10 Local Music Organizations
Philadelphia, PA—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced $664,500 in grants from the Philadelphia Music Project to 10 local music organizations.
See a list of grantees and project descriptions here.
Read the press release here.
PMP announces the launch of PhillySpaceFinder
November 17, 2010
PhillySpaceFinder is a free online database of creative spaces in the Greater Philadelphia region featuring more than 100 spaces available for rent for performances, rehearsals, meetings, auditions, special events, weddings and more.
PhillySpaceFinder was created through a partnership of the Greater Philadelphia Cultural Alliance, Dance USA/Philadelphia, the Theatre Alliance of Greater Philadelphia and The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage through the Philadelphia Music Project.
The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage Announces 2010 PMP Grant Recipients
May 25, 2010
Philadelphia Music Project Awards Over $1.1 Million to Eighteen Local Music Organizations
Philadelphia, PA—The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage announced $1,141,900 in grants from the Philadelphia Music Project to 18 local music organizations.
See a list of grantees and project descriptions here.
Read the press release here.
PMP Magazine’s new home:
PMP Magazine is a forum for journalists, musicians, and scholars to illuminate and contextualize the creative work undertaken by grantees of the Philadelphia Music Project.
New articles, interviews, and essays will be posted throughout the season.
Read archival issues of PMP here.
Photo at top: Ivoirian musician Dobet Gnahoré. Ms. Gnahoré will perform as part of Montgomery County Community College's Lively Art Series in the 2011-2012 season. Read more here.
Photo courtesy of Montgomery County Community College.
