Tempesta di Mare, a baroque orchestra founded and directed by Gwyn Roberts in Penn’s department of music, received a major grant from the Pew Center for Arts & Heritage for a 2017 project, Reclaiming Telemann. This award of $195,000 (plus a 20% administrative supplement) is Tempesta di Mare’s seventh Pew project grant. It will fund the orchestra’s 11th CD for Chandos Records. It will also fund the Tempesta di Mare’s multidisciplinary week of events, planned for October 2017, exploring of the life, times and oeuvre of German baroque composer Georg Philipp Telemann.

Ms. Roberts is also the director of Penn Early Music Ensembles in the School of Arts & Sciences at Penn.