Symphony Number One Call for Scores
| Symphony Number One Call for Scores | |
| Summary: | Opportunity to write for Chamber Orchestra |
| Deadline: | 30 November 2015 |
| Date Posted: | 11 November 2015 |
| Details: |
Symphony Number One is the east coast's newest chamber orchestra. Conducted by Music Director Jordan Randall Smith, Symphony Number One uses a flexible, repertoire-driven instrumentation. Symphony Number One is composed of some of the world’s most gifted musicians, dedicated to preparing and performing substantial new compositions. Symphony Number One is pleased to announce its second Call For Scores. Symphony Number One vigorously promotes the composition and prolific performance of contemporary music by encouraging compositions scored for the same or similar instrumentation as well-established masterworks of the past 500 years. In this way, further performances of new works become more practically feasible to program, bringing these works to a wider audience. To that end, selected composers will be invited to compose a new work for chamber orchestra to be rehearsed, performed, and recorded on concerts of the 2016-2017 season of Symphony Number One. From the submitted scores, two winners will be selected to compose an extended work for orchestra (25-55 minutes). The two works will be programmed, one each, across two concerts of Symphony Number One's 2016-2017 season and the instrumentation will be based on the instrumentation of the extant repertoire on the program (possible repertoire includes, but is not limited to: Reich, Double Sextet (version for 12 live musicians); Strauss, Symphonie "The Happy Workshop"; Ives, Symphony No. 3. The composer will collaborate with Symphony Number One as to a suitable instrumentation, with the ability to use a subset of available instruments, and some possibility for augmenting the available instrumentation with one or possibly two requested instruments. They will be rehearsed, performed, and recorded live by Symphony Number One. A number of additional opportunities for career advancement may be possible. Recent featured composer Andrew Boss received a lengthy review full of praise in the Baltimore Sun. A substantial opportunity for international exposure for upcoming composer Jonathan Russell will be announced on or around November 10. Compositions will be evaluated by a panel of composers, conductors, and other musicians on the basis of artistic merit, craft, and, where applicable, the likelihood that a complete work will be prepared in time. The winners will be expected to deliver a finished work with ample time remaining for the musicians to prepare the work to the highest possible artistic standard (minimum of eight weeks before first rehearsal; delivery date will be no earlier than August 1, 2016 and no later than December 1, 2016. Score and parts may be delivered digitally; the composer may also elect to print, bind, and deliver them at his/her own expense. |
| Web Site: | symphno1.org/call-for-scores/ |
