This just came across my desk. Poster going up soon. Dear SCI members, This year, the RED NOTE New Music Festival will be hosting a Composition Workshop for student composers, featuring distinguished guest faculty composer Lee Hyla, and guest artists Ensemble Dal Niente. 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: 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: finearts.illinoisstate.edu/rednote/REDNOTEposter.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 renowned Ensemble Dal Niente, and seminars with distinguished guest faculty composer Lee Hyla and resident faculty composers Martha Horst, Carl Schimmel, and Yao Chen. Invited participants will have the opportunity to compose a 5- to 10-minute piece for Ensemble Dal Niente. Each composition will be carefully rehearsed by the ensemble members 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 Hyla and the resident faculty composers will also attend the rehearsals, offering comments and suggestions. Participants will also 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. Evening concerts featuring innovative programming will provide enrichment as well as inspiration for participants. Faculty Lee Hyla Martha Horst Carl Schimmel Yao Chen Featured Performers Ensemble Dal Niente 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 Early Bird Tuition: $250 (by November 15, 2013) Full Tuition: $300 (by December 1, 2013) 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, 2013. * 6-8 selected applicants will be notified by email, by November 1, 2013. * The selected applicants must compose a new work scored for flute, clarinet, saxophone, violin, cello, and piano (or some subset of this ensemble). Score and parts to the new composition must be received by Ensemble Dal Niente no later than February 1, 2014. Alternatively, if the composition submitted with your application has NOT received a previous performance, and is scored for a subset of this ensemble, you may request that this piece be rehearsed and premiered in lieu of a new composition. * Questions? Please contact Chen Yao ([email protected], 309-438-5174).
Posted on: Wed, 04 Sep 2013 15:29:42 +0000