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RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop

 RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop
Summary:Composition Workshop
Deadline: 15 October 2017
Date Posted: 20 September 2017
Details: The RED NOTE New Music Festival Composition Workshop will help composers widen their creative perspectives and hone their craft through open rehearsals with guest performers Onix Ensamble, and seminars with distinguished guest faculty composers William Bolcom and Gabriela Lena Frank, and resident faculty composers Martha Horst, Roy Magnuson, and Carl Schimmel. Invited participants will each compose a 5- to 10-minute piece for Onix Ensamble. Each composition will be carefully rehearsed during the Festival, and will be premiered at a formal concert. Each composer will receive a recording of his or her piece. Professor Bolcom, Ms. Frank, and the resident faculty composers will also attend 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 have the opportunity to meet with the faculty composers individually or as part of group lessons. Each day of the Festival culminates in an evening concert featuring contemporary music performed by the guest ensembles or members of the School of Music faculty.

Guest Composers
William Bolcom
Gabriela Lena Frank

Guest Artists
Onix Ensamble

Faculty
Martha Horst
Roy Magnuson
Carl Schimmel

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 student composers at no extra cost, to a room at the Marriott hotel near campus for a discounted rate. We will facilitate room shares and transportation to reduce lodging costs.

TUITION
$300 (due by November 30, 2017)

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 this link.
• The submitted pdf’s and audio files must be free of names and identifying marks.
• No application fee is required. However, 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 link on the RED NOTE homepage.
• SUBMISSION DEADLINE: October 15, 2017.
• 6-8 selected applicants will be notified by email, by November 15, 2017.
• The selected applicants must each compose a new work for Onix Ensamble. Score and parts to the new composition must be received by Festival Director, Roy Magnuson, no later than February 15, 2018. Alternatively, if the composition submitted with your application has NOT received a previous performance, and is scored for a subset of Onix Ensamble’s available instrumentation, you may request that this piece be rehearsed and premiered in lieu of a new composition

Questions? Please contact Roy Magnuson (rdmagnu@ilstu.edu).
Web Site:finearts.illinoisstate.edu/red-note/workshop/
Email:rdmagnu@ilstu.edu