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Tanner Porter

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ABOUT

Photograph by Titilayo Ayangade // titilayoandco.com

Photograph by Titilayo Ayangade // titilayoandco.com

BIOGRAPHY

Tanner Porter is a composer-performer and songwriter. In her “original art songs that are by turns seductive and confessional” (Steve Smith, The New Yorker), Tanner explores her passion for storytelling, often framing her work within the imagery of the California coast she grew up on. Tanner’s orchestral works have been commissioned by the Albany Symphony Orchestra (conductor David Alan Miller), the New York Youth Symphony (conductor Michael Repper), Nu Deco Ensemble (conductor Jacomo Bairos), and the Phillips Exeter Academy choir and chamber orchestra (conductor Rohan Smith), among others. Tanner contributed the music for Claudia Schreier’s ballet “Slipstream,” commissioned by the Boston Ballet (music direction by Mischa Santora), and is thrilled to be collaborating with Schreier on “Kin,” a new work for the San Francisco Ballet, to be premiered in 2023. As an arranger, Tanner orchestrated Grammy award-winning songwriter Aoife O’Donovan’s “America, Come” for premiere with the Orlando Philharmonic (conductor Eric Jacobsen), and co-arranged Holst’s “The Planets” for the Bridgeport Symphony and Dance Heginbotham (music direction by Jacobsen). Tanner was a 2022 Early Career Musician in Residence at Dumbarton Oaks, and has attended the Aspen Music Festival, Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music, and the Norfolk Chamber Music Festival. Her works have been presented at Carnegie Hall, the Prototype Festival, the Miami Light Box, the Mizzou International Composers Festival, New Music Detroit’s Strange Beautiful Music, New Music Gathering, and the American Composers Orchestras Connecting ACO Community virtual series. She was a 2019 recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters Charles Ives Scholarship. Her most recent album of songs, The Summer Sinks, was recorded with LA-based studio Oak House Recording and can be heard on all streaming platforms. Tanner holds degrees in composition from the University of Michigan’s SMTD (BM) and the Yale School of Music (MM). She is a member of ANTiCX collective.

Nu Deco Ensemble

Nu Deco Ensemble

Nu Deco Ensemble

Nu Deco Ensemble

Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Photo by Ford Forqurean

Stony Brook Contemporary Chamber Players, Photo by Ford Forqurean

Strange Beautiful Music 9, Willo Collective ft. Tanner Porter. Photography by Peaks Media.

Strange Beautiful Music 9, Willo Collective ft. Tanner Porter. Photography by Peaks Media.

New Music New Haven, "Nothing On Me" Premiere

New Music New Haven, "Nothing On Me" Premiere

New Music New Haven

New Music New Haven

Threads All Arts Festival, photography by Theo Shear.

Threads All Arts Festival, photography by Theo Shear.

BIDA with Ensoleil and caller Jack Mitchell, photo by Annika Socolofsky

BIDA with Ensoleil and caller Jack Mitchell, photo by Annika Socolofsky

CONTACT

To purchase scores and for general inquiries please email: 
tannerporter.music@gmail.com

SHOWS

Feb4

San Francisco Ballet: Schreier Next@90

Saturday, February 4 @ 2:00PMSat, Feb 4 @ 2:00PM

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA

Premiere of "Kin," a new ballet by Claudia Schreier with music by Tanner Porter, commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet. Next@90 Festival: Blanc / Schreier / Possokhov Premieres.

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Feb5

San Francisco Ballet: Schreier Next@90

Sunday, February 5 @ 2:00PMSun, Feb 5 @ 2:00PM

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA

Premiere of "Kin," a new ballet by Claudia Schreier with music by Tanner Porter, commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet. Next@90 Festival: Blanc / Schreier / Possokhov Premieres.

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Feb7

San Francisco Ballet: Schreier Next@90

Tuesday, February 7 @ 7:30PMTue, Feb 7 @ 7:30PM

War Memorial Opera House, San Francisco, CA

Premiere of "Kin," a new ballet by Claudia Schreier with music by Tanner Porter, commissioned by the San Francisco Ballet. Next@90 Festival: Blanc / Schreier / Possokhov Premieres.

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Mar18

Midcoast Symphony Orchestra

Saturday, March 18 @ 7:00PMSat, Mar 18 @ 7:00PM

Riverfront-Franco Center, Lewiston, ME

"Tried and True, Plus a Newer Crew" Hiroya Miura, Guest Conductor

Program: Tanner Porter: Propellers in the Sun / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner” / Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4 / Florence Price: Symphony No. 3

Concert length with intermission: approximately 2 hours

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Mar19

Midcoast Symphony Orchestra

Sunday, March 19 @ 2:30PMSun, Mar 19 @ 2:30PM

Orion Performing Arts Center, Lewiston, ME

"Tried and True, Plus a Newer Crew" Hiroya Miura, Guest Conductor

Program: Tanner Porter: Propellers in the Sun / Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart: Symphony No. 35 in D major, K. 385, “Haffner” / Arcangelo Corelli: Concerto Grosso, Op. 6, No. 4 / Florence Price: Symphony No. 3

Concert length with intermission: approximately 2 hours

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