The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Grants Awarded
2012
Massenet's Don Quichotte
$120,000
Arab Music Concert Series
$70,000
Cage: Evolving Chance
$70,000
Raga Samay Festival
$70,000
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
BIG SING/Julia Wolfe
$70,000
The Harbison Project
$70,000
Silent Night
$200,000
SRUTI, the India Music & Dance Society
Sounds of India: Influences and Integration of Folk Melodies in Carnatic Music
$53,300
University of Pennsylvania—WXPN
Mississippi Blues Project
$135,130
2011
Spiritual Voyages
$70,000
The Gulf (between you and me)
$70,000
International House Philadelphia
Sonic Arts Union
$70,000
Montgomery County Community College
Africa, The Call and Response
$70,000
Skins & Songs
$70,000
Irish Traditional Music: Influences from the West of Ireland
$70,000
Rodin Commission Project
$70,000
Music in New Spain
$70,000
Sruti, the India Music and Dance Society
The Confluence of Hindustani and Carnatic Music
$49,500
Warriors of the Wonderful Sound
Muhal Meets the Wonderful Sound
$55,000
2010
American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter
SoundExchange
$45,000
Great Black Music
$45,000
American Sublime
$25,000
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
A Composer’s Portrait
$75,000
The Cunning Little Vixen
$100,000
Dolce Suono Chamber Music Concert Series
Mahler 100/Schoenberg 60
$65,900
Mann Center for the Performing Arts
An Imaginary Tale of Facts
$100,000
Montgomery County Community College
Blues at the Crossroads
$56,000
Trade Winds: New Music Explores Asia
$45,000
Phaedra
$100,000
Dave Holland Big Band
$60,000
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Next Generation Project
$75,000
Philadelphia Chinese Opera Society
The Case of Chen Shimei, The Wild Boar Forest, and The Jade Bracelet
$30,000
Philadelphia Live Arts Festival/Philly Fringe
Bang on a Can Marathon
$100,000
New Commissions based on Ellsworth Kelly’s Seine
$60,000
A Royal Christening
$45,000
Tempesta di Mare, Philadelphia Baroque Orchestra
Johann Friedrich Fasch Premieres
$90,000
Seneca Sounds
$25,000
2009
Free/Form: Composer Portraits
$45,000
Aaron Jay Kernis Residency
$95,000
The Mystical Experience
$45,000
Samuel Barber’s Antony and Cleopatra
$100,000
International House Philadelphia
Anti-Jazz: The New Thing Revisited
$45,000
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Fresh Ink 2009-10 Season
$100,000
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
Roberto Sierra’s Missa Latina
$45,000
Montgomery County Community College
Sabor Latino: A Caribbean Journey
$52,000
Tan Dun’s Tea: A Mirror of Soul
$100,000
Three Premieres!
$45,000
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Engage 2.0 Premiere Project
$75,000
Wayne Shorter Commissioning Project
$45,000
Music from a Golden Era: 17th Century Portugal and Spain
$45,000
SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society
Instrumental Maestros of Indian Classical Music
$21,500
Jan Dismas Zelenka’s Lamentations for Holy Week
$45,000
Month of Moderns
$25,000
Philadelphia Firsts
$100,000
Glass Persephone and Reich Variations
$45,000
Warriors of the Wonderful Sound
The Wizards of the Saxophone Meet the Warriors of the Wonderful Sound: Creating a 21st-Century Jazz Vocabulary
$50,000
2008
American Composers Forum, Philadelphia Chapter
ACF Philadelphia Presents: Pascal Gallois
$21,000
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Orchestra Underground
$85,000
Premiere Recording Grantee
$25,000
Ars Nova Workshop
Cell Block: Stories of the Eastern State Penitentiary
$20,000
International House Philadelphia
Tete-a-tete
$40,000
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Fresh Ink 2008-09 Season
$70,000
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
Premiere Recording Grantee
$25,000
2008 Premiere Recording Grantee
$18,420
Music and the Visual Arts: 6 New Commissions
$40,000
An Opera, an Operetta, and a Songbook
$40,000
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
First Soundings
$65,000
Philadelphia Classical Symphony
Re-awakenings of American Indian Music
$80,000
Jason Moran Commission Project
$40,000
Penderecki Week
$85,000
2008 Premiere Recording Grantee
$25,000
Nouvelle, Nouvelle: A 16th century French Christmas midnight mass
$40,000
Soundfield@Slought
$20,000
SRUTI, The India Music & Dance Society
Showcasing the Modern Masters of Carnatic Music
$18,000
From Wealth of Tears to Cheerful Hearts: Odes by Bach and Blow
$40,000
La fiamma
$65,000
The Hollenbeck Commission
$50,000
Clifford Brown: Impact and Influence
$63,785
2007
Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts
Orchestra Underground
$80,000
Le poeme de la femme
$13,000
To Turn a Phrase
$10,000
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Commissions: Terry Riley and Sir John Tavener
$120,000
Choral Arts Society of Philadelphia
A Baroque Festival of Lights
$30,000
Ainadamar
$60,000
Out There
$30,000
Kimmel Center for the Performing Arts
Fresh Ink
$60,000
Mann Center for the Performing Arts
Congo Square
$80,000
Mendelssohn Club of Philadelphia
On the Transmigration of Souls
$30,000
An African American Triptych
$30,000
Radical Exoticism
$30,000
Philadelphia Chamber Music Society
Voices of Our Time
$60,000
Musicians-In-Residence
$30,000
Jazz Orchestra Debuts and Premieres
$30,000
A 21st-century Epiphany Vespers
$30,000
Future Sounds
$30,000
Soundfield@Slought
$10,000
SRUTI, The India Music and Dance Society
Mosaic of South Indian Classical Music
Grant amount: $15,000
No Strings Attached: Love and Death with Music and Puppets
$30,000
2006
Beatrice et Benedict
$60,000
