Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston is a musician-led
American orchestra
An orchestra (; ) is a large instrumental ensemble typical of classical music, which combines instruments from different families.
There are typically four main sections of instruments:
* bowed string instruments, such as the violin, viola, c ...
based in
Newton, Massachusetts
Newton is a city in Middlesex County, Massachusetts, United States. It is approximately west of downtown Boston. Newton resembles a patchwork of thirteen villages, without a city center. According to the 2020 U.S. Census, the population of Ne ...
. It is one of only four co-operative orchestras in the
US. It had a long-time association with composer and conductor
Gunther Schuller
Gunther Alexander Schuller (November 22, 1925June 21, 2015) was an American composer, conductor, horn player, author, historian, educator, publisher, and jazz musician.
Biography and works
Early years
Schuller was born in Queens, New York City ...
, with
Isaiah Jackson
Isaiah Allen Jackson (born 22 January 1945) is an American conductor who served a seven-year term as conductor of the Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston, of which he has been named Conductor Emeritus. He was the first African-American to be a ...
as ''Conductor emeritus'' and, since 2000,
Gisele Ben-Dor as ''Conductor emerita''. Recently, Kevin Rhodes has been the orchestra's principal conductor.
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra was founded in 1978 by a group of young freelance musicians who gathered around conductor and
Harvard chaplain Larry Hill.
The orchestra received the 1994
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) award for adventurous programming of contemporary music.
Other cooperative orchestras include the
London Philharmonic Orchestra, th
Halifax Music Co-Op Spain's
l’Orquestra Simfònica del VallèsThe Heart of England Co-operative Concert Orchestra and the
Santa Fe Symphony.
See also
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Artist-run initiative
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*
Artist cooperative
An artist cooperative (also co-operative or co-op) is an autonomous visual arts organization, enterprise, or association jointly owned and democratically controlled by its members. Artist cooperatives are legal entities organized as non-capital sto ...
*
Worker cooperative
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Conductorless orchestra
The conductorless orchestra, sometimes referred to as a self-conducted orchestra or unconducted orchestra, is an instrumental ensemble that functions as an orchestra but is not led or directed by a conductor. Most conductorless orchestras are sma ...
(a related category but note that Pro Arte itself does have a conductor)
References
External links
Pro Arte Chamber Orchestra of Boston website
Musical groups established in 1978
Orchestras based in Massachusetts
Organizations based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
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