Robert Hammond is the Co-Founder and President of Friends of the High Line. With Joshua David, he is responsible for taking the High Line (www.thehighline.org), a 1.5 mile abandoned rail line on Manhattan’s West Side, from the brink of demolition to the opening of the park in 2009. www.roberthammond.com
Lisa Bielawa is a composer, vocalist and Co-Founder of the MATA Festival in New York City, which celebrates the work of young composers from around the world. She has received commissions and performances from Carnegie Hall, the Minnesota Orchestra and the Cambridge Symphony Orchestra, among others, and can be heard on the Tzadik, Nonesuch, Orange Mountain Music, and BMOP/sound labels. www.lisabielawa.net
Bielawa and Hammond are both winners of the 2009-10 Rome Prize Fellowship of the American Academy in Rome, and will be in residence in Rome until July 2010.
Soprano Susan Narucki is one of the outstanding performers of her generation, and has earned critical acclaim for performances and recordings of the music of our time. A Grammy award winner, she has been a soloist with major orchestras and conductors, given the world premiere of numerous innovative operas. www.susannarucki.net
Brooklyn Rider String Quartet:
Johnny Gandelsman and Colin Jacobsen, violins
Nicholas Cords, viola
Eric Jacobsen, cello
Blue Chamber Orchestra:
Enrico Blatti, maestro concertatore
Valerio Borgianelli Spina, contractor
Rossella Montanari and Miriam De Vero, flutes
Raffaele Covello, clarinet
Giovanni Cretoni, oboe
Andrea Camilli and Francesco Catania, trumpets
Remo Izzi, horn
Luigino Leonardi, trombone
TEVERETERNO is an international nonprofit organization, which produces cultural events that promote the potential of Rome’s Tiber River. Through public programming, dynamic planning and community outreach, TEVERETERNO seeks to protect and revitalize the Tiber. Encouraging responsible urban development and the river’s ecological health, TEVERETERNO seeks to restore the historical bond between Tiber and city. www.tevereterno.it
TEVERETERNO was founded in the US and Italy in 2004 with a vision for the Tiber River as an integrated, expansive corridor of public space running the entire length of the City of Rome. The first project on the Tiber began in 2005 with the establishment of a lively public commons, the Piazza Tevere, on a central section of the river between Ponte Sisto and Ponte Mazzini. Five years of onsite cultural programming (2005-present) have drawn the public to the river and demonstrated its potential, bringing the Tiber to life through the vibrant work of contemporary Italian, American and international artists.
Ultimately, TEVERETERNO strives to be a community development project with a clear emphasis on the environment and cultural programming that re-imagines Rome’s public space and relationship to its Tiber River, while providing continuity for an international network of like-minded urban planning projects.
American Academy in Rome
Established in 1894 by architect Charles Follen McKim and chartered as a private institution by an act of Congress in 1905, the American Academy in Rome is a leading American overseas center for independent study and advanced research in the arts and humanities. Each year, through a national juried competition, the Academy offers up to 30 Rome Prize fellowships in architecture, design, historic preservation and conservation, landscape architecture, literature, musical composition, visual arts, and in humanistic approaches to ancient studies, medieval studies, Renaissance and early modern studies, and modern Italian studies. The annual application deadline is 1 November. Rome Prize winners are joined by a select group of residents invited by the Academy and international affiliate program members. For more information, please visit www.aarome.org
Chance Encounter on the Tiber was made possible thanks to:
Pershing Square Foundation/ Bill and Karen Ackman
Amanda Burden
The Catherine C. Marron Foundation
Joyce Menschel
Charles C. Butt
Joshua C. Klausner and Hyatt A. Bass
R. Martin Chavez
Philip and Shelley Fox Aarons, Herbert Bielawa and Sandra Soderlund, Capalino + Company and James Capalino, Adele Chatfield-Taylor and John Guare, Bruce & Janet Flohr, Alice Waters, Bronson van Wyck
Leonard Barkan, Keith Baptista, Robert and Ina Caro, Stephan Jaklitsch, Martin Goldray, David Gordon, Todd Gordon and Susan Feder, Yen Ha, William Jonas Hibsher, Mario Palumbo, Darren Walker
Robert Kirzinger, Marc Kushner, Maline McCalla, Lisa Singer Moran, David Pagliano, Josh Sirefman, Cameron Smith, Eileen V. Green, Tara Morris and Jessica Dalrymple
Volunteers:
Nathalie Sienkiewicz , Project Coordinator
Nancy Boyd, Lorenzo Gnozzi, Silvia Romualdi, Elena Tomassi, Gianluigi Misurelli, Matteo Zenardi, Eleonora Pieroni, Giulio Felet, Federico Faini, Federica DeFelici, Eleonora Gaspodini, Giulia Levi della Vida, Alessandra De Angelis, Tiziana Cannizzaro, Valentina Anselmi, Leocadia Ammendoia, Nora Bujdoso, Francesca Bifulco, Alessandra Capolei, Mike Beck, Daniele Feriozzi, Julia Rooney, Hyun Jin Ahn
