Author: Carl Schimmel
Subject: RED NOTE New Music Festival - Student Composition Workshop
Dear SCI members,
In addition to the Composition Competition, the RED NOTE New Music Festival will be hosting a Composition Workshop for student composers, featuring distinguished guest faculty composer Steven Stucky, and guest artists Momenta Quartet and the City of Tomorrow. If you teach music composition at the college level, please share this information with your students. Full details can be found below this message, and at this website:
http://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/rednote/workshop.shtml
A pdf version of the RED NOTE New Music Festival brochure, which provides information on both the Workshop and the Composition Competition, can be found here:
http://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/rednote/2015REDNOTEbrochure.pdf
The application deadline is October 15th.
Best, Carl Schimmel
RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop
The RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop will help composers widen their creative perspectives and hone their craft through open rehearsals with guest ensembles Momenta Quartet and the City of Tomorrow, and seminars with distinguished guest faculty composer Steven Stucky and resident faculty composers Martha Horst and Carl Schimmel. Invited participants will have the opportunity to compose a 5- to 10-minute piece for Momenta Quartet (string quartet), the City of Tomorrow (woodwind quintet), or a mixed instrumentation comprised of members from these two ensembles. Each composition will be carefully rehearsed by the ensembles during the Festival, and will be premiered at a formal concert at the Festival. Each composer will receive a recording of his or her piece. Professor Stucky and the resident faculty composers will also attend the rehearsals, offering comments and suggestions. Participants will discuss their compositional ideas, techniques and aesthetics with the faculty and other fellows. In addition, each student composer will also have the opportunity to meet with the faculty composers individually. Each day of the Festival culminates in an evening concert featuring contemporary music performed by the Momenta Quartet, the City of Tomorrow, or members of the School of Music faculty.
Faculty Steven Stucky Martha Horst
Carl Schimmel
Featured Performers Momenta Quartet The City of Tomorrow
Eligibility Applicants must be graduate or undergraduate students.
Dining and Housing Dinners will be organized and paid for by the RED NOTE New Music Festival. Workshop participants will be responsible for their other meals, and for their own lodging. Normal, Illinois is a university town with many dining options within walking distance. RED NOTE will assist workshop participants in finding appropriate lodging; options range from staying with one of our graduate student composers at no extra cost, to a room at the new Marriott hotel next door for a discounted rate. We will facilitate room shares and transportation, to reduce lodging costs.
Tuition $300 (by November 15, 2014)
Refund Policy We do not offer refunds for our workshop. All fees are non-refundable.
How to Apply * Submit an ANONYMOUS pdf and audio file (mp3 or MIDI) of your best work for chamber ensemble, via the link on the RED NOTE webpage.
* Exceptions to the mp3/MIDI requirement may be made in the case of works which use unconventional notation.
* The submitted pdfs and audio files must be free of names and identifying marks.
* Please note that if you would like to submit your work in the Composition Competition you must submit it again separately via the Composition Competition page.
* SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2014.
* 6-8 selected applicants will be notified by email, by November 1, 2014.
* The selected applicants must each compose a new work for string quartet, woodwind quintet, or mixed instrumentation (instrumentation will be assigned based in part on composer preference). Score and parts to the new composition must be received by Festival director Carl Schimmel no later than February 1, 2015. Alternatively, if the composition submitted with your application has NOT received a previous performance, and is scored for a subset of these two ensembles, you may request that this piece be rehearsed and premiered in lieu of a new composition.
* Questions? Please contact Carl Schimmel (rednote at ilstu.edu).
Subject: RED NOTE New Music Festival - Student Composition Workshop
Dear SCI members,
In addition to the Composition Competition, the RED NOTE New Music Festival will be hosting a Composition Workshop for student composers, featuring distinguished guest faculty composer Steven Stucky, and guest artists Momenta Quartet and the City of Tomorrow. If you teach music composition at the college level, please share this information with your students. Full details can be found below this message, and at this website:
http://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/rednote/workshop.shtml
A pdf version of the RED NOTE New Music Festival brochure, which provides information on both the Workshop and the Composition Competition, can be found here:
http://finearts.illinoisstate.edu/rednote/2015REDNOTEbrochure.pdf
The application deadline is October 15th.
Best, Carl Schimmel
RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop
The RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop will help composers widen their creative perspectives and hone their craft through open rehearsals with guest ensembles Momenta Quartet and the City of Tomorrow, and seminars with distinguished guest faculty composer Steven Stucky and resident faculty composers Martha Horst and Carl Schimmel. Invited participants will have the opportunity to compose a 5- to 10-minute piece for Momenta Quartet (string quartet), the City of Tomorrow (woodwind quintet), or a mixed instrumentation comprised of members from these two ensembles. Each composition will be carefully rehearsed by the ensembles during the Festival, and will be premiered at a formal concert at the Festival. Each composer will receive a recording of his or her piece. Professor Stucky and the resident faculty composers will also attend the rehearsals, offering comments and suggestions. Participants will discuss their compositional ideas, techniques and aesthetics with the faculty and other fellows. In addition, each student composer will also have the opportunity to meet with the faculty composers individually. Each day of the Festival culminates in an evening concert featuring contemporary music performed by the Momenta Quartet, the City of Tomorrow, or members of the School of Music faculty.
Faculty Steven Stucky Martha Horst
Carl Schimmel
Featured Performers Momenta Quartet The City of Tomorrow
Eligibility Applicants must be graduate or undergraduate students.
Dining and Housing Dinners will be organized and paid for by the RED NOTE New Music Festival. Workshop participants will be responsible for their other meals, and for their own lodging. Normal, Illinois is a university town with many dining options within walking distance. RED NOTE will assist workshop participants in finding appropriate lodging; options range from staying with one of our graduate student composers at no extra cost, to a room at the new Marriott hotel next door for a discounted rate. We will facilitate room shares and transportation, to reduce lodging costs.
Tuition $300 (by November 15, 2014)
Refund Policy We do not offer refunds for our workshop. All fees are non-refundable.
How to Apply * Submit an ANONYMOUS pdf and audio file (mp3 or MIDI) of your best work for chamber ensemble, via the link on the RED NOTE webpage.
* Exceptions to the mp3/MIDI requirement may be made in the case of works which use unconventional notation.
* The submitted pdfs and audio files must be free of names and identifying marks.
* Please note that if you would like to submit your work in the Composition Competition you must submit it again separately via the Composition Competition page.
* SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2014.
* 6-8 selected applicants will be notified by email, by November 1, 2014.
* The selected applicants must each compose a new work for string quartet, woodwind quintet, or mixed instrumentation (instrumentation will be assigned based in part on composer preference). Score and parts to the new composition must be received by Festival director Carl Schimmel no later than February 1, 2015. Alternatively, if the composition submitted with your application has NOT received a previous performance, and is scored for a subset of these two ensembles, you may request that this piece be rehearsed and premiered in lieu of a new composition.
* Questions? Please contact Carl Schimmel (rednote at ilstu.edu).