The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia
Commissions: Terry Riley and Sir John Tavener
2007 Grantee
$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
Terry Riley, Photo by C. Felver