The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage
Ars Nova Workshop
Composer Portraits: Ancient to the Future (and Beyond)
2010 Grantee
$45,000
Ars Nova Workshop was awarded $45,000 for Composer Portraits: Ancient to the Future (and Beyond), a six-concert series featuring music by composers and multi-instrumentalists Henry Threadgill and Roscoe Mitchell, champions of avant-garde jazz, and early members of the a Chicago-based Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians (AACM). The project will include performances by the Collide Saxophone Quartet, Ethel (string quartet), International Contemporary Ensemble, S.E.M. Ensemble, The Sound Ensemble (with Roscoe Mitchell), Tyshawn Sorey Ensemble,Threadgill’s Zooid, and a program of music by Fieldwork, a trio consisting of pianist Vijay Iyer, alto saxophonist Steve Lehman, and drummer Tyshawn Sorey, accomplished composers and key disciples of the AACM.
Photo: Henry Threadgill