Charlotte Blake Alston is a highly sought after, nationally acclaimed storyteller, narrator,librettist, and singer who performs in venues throughout North America and abroad. The 2018-2019 season will mark her 28th consecutive season as periodic Host and Narrator on the Philadelphia Orchestra’s Family and school concerts and her 25th as the host of Sound All [...Read More]
Chen's incredible musicality and interpretive skills have resulted in overwhelming international acclaim as a solo interpreter of her instrument. Beyond that, with Chinese, American and European orchestras Chen was the first to bring the erhu into the symphonic concert hall, performing as a featured soloist. Her playing brought a new sound and excitement to [...Read More]
Udi Bar-David, ARTolerance Founder and Artistic Director, Cellist with the Philadelphia Orchestra Udi Bar-David is widely considered one of the most versatile cellists in the world, performing on international stages with both classical and ethnic musicians. Udi studied in Tel-Aviv, with Leonard Rose at the Juilliard School, and Orchestral Conducting at Curtis Institute of Music. Udi [...Read More]
Multi-faceted percussionist, Rolando Morales-Matos is a well sought after Latin, Jazz and Classical musician. He has toured worldwide performing at the major jazz festivals and venues as a percussionist of Ron Carter Foursight Quartet, as well as appearing with artists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Dave Samuels, Dave Valentine, Willie Colon, among others. Rolando has [...Read More]
Of Navajo-Ute heritage, R. Carlos Nakai is the world’s premier performer of the Native American flute. As an artist, he is an adventurer and risk taker, always giving his musical imagination free rein. Nakai is also an iconoclastic traditionalist who views his cultural heritage not only as a source and inspiration, but also a [...Read More]
Keila Pérez-Vega is a 2015 BFA University of the Arts graduate where she received extensive training in ballet, modern, jazz and improvisation. In 2012, Keila became a principal dancer at Eleone Dance Theatre where she remained for 3 years. Post-graduation, Keila settled in Philadelphia, worked as a freelance artist and was a part of Dance Iquail in [...Read More]
Leo Sarbanes is a sophomore music major at Penn. Leo was fascinated by ARTolerance performance earlier in 2017 and the potential to communicate across art mediums for a unique, deeply emotional experience. He was very interested to learn more about the different styles of music with which Udi Bar-David has engaged over the years [...Read More]
The YMCA Jerusalem Youth Chorus is a music and dialogue program for Israeli and Palestinian teens from East and West Jerusalem. Through the co-creation of music and the sharing of stories, the chorus seeks to empower youth in Jerusalem and inspire singers and listeners around the world to work for peace. The chorus, now in [...Read More]
ARTolerance seeks to create common ground between peoples of different national, cultural, social, and religious backgrounds using artistic tools and processes. Experiencing harmony and dissonance and exploring musical modes of different cultures through improvisation require mindfulness and compassionate listening, qualities that are essential to creating dialogue. Through our proposed platform, Dialogue in [...Read More]
