Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Iwona Glinka, flutes

	Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Iwona Glinka, flutes
Summary:	Solo Flute Competition
Deadline:	19 September 2015
Date Posted:	30 June 2015
Details:	Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Iwona Glinka, flutes Deadline: September 19, 2015 Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Iwona Glinka, flutes to be premiered on March 19, 2016 at the German Evangelical Church in Athens, Greece. Guidelines: -Works are for solo flute only: piccolo, flute in C, alto, or bass flute -Works should be composed specifically for this call and performer. -All pieces must be premieres. -No works over a minute will be reviewed. -Multiple submissions are not accepted. Send your best work! -Works need to be submitted online at www.MusicAvatar.org -You will need to register with Music Avatar for free to submit your work online. -When registering make sure to upload a profile picture. -After logging in to Music Avatar, select the opportunity named " Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Iwona Glinka, flutes " and press the "submit" button to start the submission process. -You will need to provide a maximum 50-word biography and 50-word program notes. -You will be able to upload a score as a PDF file (You may also upload an audio file; however it is not required.) -Must include the dedication to Iwona Glinka on the score. -Performance notes should be included in the score. -Composers who have been awarded to the Hall of Fifteen Minutes of Fame arenot eligible Results will be announced via the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame website and the new music newsletter: NM421 www.NM421.com More can be found at: www.Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame.com About Iwona Glinka Iwona Glinka was born in Kwidzyn, Poland. At the age of 18 she graduated from the Music Lyceum in Gdansk with a Flute Diploma (Highest Distinction), with a parallel specialization on teaching. She continued her studies at the Music Academy of Gdansk, Poland. She graduated from the Academy in 1994 with the degree of Master of Music in Performance (flute). Between 1991 and 1994, on the Baloise Holding Scholarship, she attended the Summer Courses of the Music Academy of Lenk in Switzerland with Peter-Lukas Graf. In 1992, on a scholarship from the Mayor of the City of Darmstadt in Germany, she attended the Ferienkurse f�r Neue Musik where she studied with Pierre-Yves Artaud. In 1996 there followed a further period of studies at the Accademia Internationale Superiore di Musica in Biella, Italy, again with Peter-Lukas Graf and later at the Ecole Normale de Musique in Paris, France, with Pierre-Yves Artaud. She has given dozens of solo recitals with classical and contemporary repertoire and has appeared as Principal Flautist with orchestras and chamber ensembles in Greece as well as Russia, Italy, Switzerland, Poland, and the US. She has developed a great interest in New Music, which since 1994 has resulted in over one hundred world premi�res of works by Australian, Belgian, British, Canadian, Greek, German, Polish and US composers, more than one hundred of them commissioned by and written especially for her. In 1995, Iwona Glinka has made Athens, Greece, her home. She teaches flute and chamber music at the Municipal Conservatories of Patras and Glyfada and at the Mantzaros Conservatory in Athens. She is Principal Flautist of the Athens Symphony Orchestra and a core member of the Hellenic Contemporary Music Ensemble. In addition to touring on a regular basis, she was chosen as a featured performer for the Canadian Flute association Convention (2015, Toronto, Canada), 5th and 10th Sacred Music of Patmos (2005 and 2010, Greece), Electro Media Works (2008, Athens, Greece), International James Galway Flute Festival (2007, Weggis, Switzerland), 3rd and 4th Mediterranean Contemporary Music Days (2005 and 2006, Istanbul, Turkey), 3rd Flute Festival (2006, Madison, USA), Archanes Festival (2002, Greece), Days of Contemporary Music (2002, Athens, Greece), Schoenberg Festival (2001, Athens, Greece), International Flute Festival (1997, Rome, Italy), International Computer Music Conference (1997, Thessaloniki, Greece). In 2012, she received major grants from the RVW Trust, the Britten-Pears Foundation and the Alberta Foundation for the Arts to commission new works from Roger Redgate (UK) and Piotr Grella-Mozejko (Canada), respectively. Iwona Glinka has recorded extensively and appears on a dozen CDs available on the European, and US labels such as BMG, Irida, Magni, Mercury and others. In May 2009, she obtained a Doctor of Philosophy in Music Performance (flute) from the Academy of Music in Cracow, Poland, for her dissertation on and a recital of Brian Ferneyhough�s complete flute music. In 2012, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Musicology by the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece, for her research on contemporary Greek music for solo flute. In "Projection for Flute Alone," a first-class exercise in the uses of "bent" notes, multiphon�ics, and other modernities, com�poser Panayiotis Liaropoulos seemed equally smitten with the flute as it has existed everywhere, from high-art to "primitive� .... Iwona Glinka gave it a stunning performance. Richard Buell / Boston Globe / USA / February 2002 Her musicality and utter control of subtle nuances revealed a sophisticated musician of great taste. Carlo Vincetti Frizzo / Composer USA / Fall 2002 ... simply brilliant ... Avant-garde & Beyond, CJSR Radio 88.5 FM (Edmonton, Alberta,Canada)
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