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Kennedy lived in Santa Fe from 1999 to 2012, where he founded Santa Fe New Music. From 2002-2005, he served as artist President/Chair of the American Music Center. Kennedy had a long association with Spoleto Festival USA, leading the contemporary music component since 1990 and over time, assuming a wider role in the orchestra and opera programs.
For 17 days and nights each spring, Spoleto Festival USA fills Charleston, South Carolinas historic theaters, churches, and outdoor spaces with over 120 performances by renowned artists as well as emerging performers in disciplines ranging from opera, theater, music theater, dance, and chamber, symphonic, choral, and jazz music, as well as the visual arts.
May 30, 2022 · Jamez McCorkle, center, as the title character in Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels’s “Omar.”. Leigh Webber/Spoleto Festival USA. By Joshua Barone. May 30, 2022. CHARLESTON, S.C. — Wander ...
Jan 27, 2023 · The 2023 season underscores the unique essence of Spoleto Festival USA: an innovative, multidisciplinary performing arts festival. “Spoleto has a rich legacy of drawing multihyphenates—artists who are boundless inventors, eager to explore new expressions through collaboration and experimentation,” says Mena Mark Hanna, the Festival’s General Director & CEO.
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Mary Jane Jacob is an American curator, writer, and educator from Chicago, Illinois. She is a professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and is the Executive Director of Exhibitions and Exhibition Studies. She has held posts as Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and at the Museum of Contemporary Art ...
Feb 11, 2022 · American composer and multi-instrumentalist Tyshawn Sorey is on the festival’s music roster, too, launching a new jazz trio and taking the conductor’s podium with the Spoleto Festival USA ...
