An evening of music and conversation in honor of Tania León
Please join us for this intimate fundraising event to support The Harlem Chamber Players and our work, including community and educational programs. Many of our concerts are free and open to the public, and when we do charge admission, ticket prices cover less than 20% of the costs of producing the concert. We need your support to continue bringing live affordable and accessible music uptown.
Join us for music and an informal conversation with the Pulitzer Prize winning composer and Kennedy Center honoree Tania León. This evening will include performances by members of The Harlem Chamber Players and light fare. Founder and executive director Liz Player will interview Tania León. Bring your own question to a brief Q&A session with the audience!
FEATURING
Tania León, guest of honor
Ashley Horne, violin
Claire Chan, violin
William Frampton, viola
Wayne Smith, cello
Empanadas, wines, and dessert will be served.
RSVP no later than October 20th.
TICKETS
Tickets start at $200.
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There is a limited number of subsidized tickets for first-time attendees to a Harlem Chamber Players event and for students. Please email us for more info. Tickets will be available soon.
ABOUT TANIA LEÓN
Tania León (b. Havana, Cuba) is highly regarded as a composer, conductor, educator, and advisor to arts organizations. Her orchestral work Stride, commissioned by the New York Philharmonic, was awarded the 2021 Pulitzer Prize in Music. In 2022, she was named a recipient of the 45th Annual Kennedy Center Honors for lifetime artistic achievements. In 2023, she was awarded the Michael Ludwig Nemmers Prize in Music Composition from Northwestern University. Most recently, León became the London Philharmonic Orchestra’s next Composer-in-Residence—a post she will hold for two seasons, beginning in September 2023. She will also held Carnegie Hall’s Richard and Barbara Debs Composer’s Chair for its 2023-2024 season.
A founding member and first Music Director of the Dance Theatre of Harlem, León instituted the Brooklyn Philharmonic Community Concert Series, co-founded the American Composers Orchestra’s Sonidos de las Américas Festivals, was New Music Advisor to the New York Philharmonic, and is the founder/Artistic Director of Composers Now, a presenting, commissioning and advocacy organization for living composers.
Honors include the New York Governor’s Lifetime Achievement, inductions into the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and fellowship awards from ASCAP Victor Herbert Award and The Koussevitzky Music and Guggenheim Foundations, among others. She also received a proclamation for Composers Now by New York City Mayor, and the MadWoman Festival Award in Music (Spain).
León has received Honorary Doctorate Degrees from Colgate University, Oberlin, SUNY Purchase College, and The Curtis Institute of Music, and served as U.S. Artistic Ambassador of American Culture in Madrid, Spain. A CUNY Distinguished Professor Emerita, she was awarded a 2018 United States Artists Fellowship, Chamber Music America’s 2022 National Service Award, and Harvard University’s 2022 Luise Vosgerchian Teaching Award. In 2023, Columbia University’s Rare Book & Manuscript Library acquired Tania’s León’s archive.
