The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Network for New Music
2008 Premiere Recording Grantee
$18,420
Network for New Music was awarded $18,420 to produce a recording for Albany Records featuring chamber music by Bernard Rands, including Scherzi; Walcott Songs; Sans Voix Parmi les Voix/Prelude; and now again-fragments from Sappho. Guest artist: Janice Felty, mezzo soprano
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/
Bernard Rands, photo by Jack Mitchell