CALL FOR SCORES – CABRILLO COMPOSERS WORKSHOP – DEADLINE MARCH 1st, 2007
If you are a composer 30-years-old or younger, you are invited to submit an orchestral score for consideration for the 2007 Cabrillo Composers Workshop, July 27 through August 1.
Led by Maestro Marin Alsop, the Cabrillo Conductors'/Composers' Workshop brings together leading faculty, the award-winning Cabrillo Festival Orchestra, and early career conductors and composers for a professional training program which focuses on the creation and performance of new music. The five-day program is held in downtown Santa Cruz, California, and involves 3 selected composers, 7 participating conductors, and up to 13 auditing conductors.
Now in its seventh season, this workshop is presented in collaboration with the international Conductors Guild. Maestro Alsop and Gustav Meier serve as faculty for the Conductors Workshop sessions, and composer Michael Daugherty joins them as faculty for the Composers Workshop. All student conductors and composers participate for the full five days of the program, which takes place in the context of the Cabrillo Orchestra's rehearsal and performance schedule.
Selected composers will have their work conducted by participating conductors, under the direction of Marin Alsop, and performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra. Three dedicated rehearsals will take place, culminating with an "In the Works" concert where each piece will receive two performances. Composers will receive recordings from each rehearsal and the final concert. Composing faculty Michael Daugherty will offer guidance and seminars throughout, other Festival composers-in-residence will participate, and direct feedback will be offered from the players and conductors.
Further details about the program and the submission process are outlined below.
Composers are invited to submit one score, recording on CD (if available, MIDI versions are acceptable), and resume to arrive no later than March 1st, to the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music, 104 Walnut Avenue, Suite 206, Santa Cruz, CA 95060. If you have any questions or wish to discuss the program in greater detail, please feel free to contact Ellen Primack, Executive Director of the Cabrillo Festival at 831.426.6966 or via email at ellen@cabrillomusic.org.
CABRILLO CONDUCTORS/COMPOSERS TRAINING WORKSHOPS
July 27 through August 1, 2007 in Santa Cruz, California
Presented by Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music & The Conductors Guild
FACULTY:
Composer Michael Daugherty, and Conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier;
with additional participation by Festival composers-in-residence.
PARTICIPANTS:
3 participating composers, 7 participating conductors, 13 auditing conductors
COMPOSERS WORKSHOP REHEARSALS/PERFORMANCES:
3 rehearsals
1 concert: features 2 performances of each 7-minute work (or movement or portion of a work) by three participating composers, August 1. Performed by members of the Cabrillo Festival Orchestra conducted by participating conductors. Each composer will receive recordings of their work from each rehearsal and the final performance.
2007 INSTRUMENTATION FOR COMPOSERS WORKSHOP:
5 violin I - 4 violin II - 3 violas - 3 cellos - 2 basses
2 flutes (1 dbl pic & 1 dbl alto) - 2 oboes (1 dbl eng horn) -
2 clarinet (1 dbl e-flat & 1 dbl bass) - 2 bassoons (1 dbl contra)
2 horns - 2 trumpets - 2 trombones - 1 tuba
1 tympani – up to 4 percussion - harp - keyboard
PARTICIPATION FEE: $250 tuition fee paid to Conductors Guild
HOUSING: Hotel accommodations are available at a group rate, and information will be relayed to selected composers.
$1250 Fellowships are offered to each composer to offset out-of-pocket expenses.
INVITED COMPOSERS are requested to send:
1. a short curriculum vitae
2. one score which you believe might fit the project, along with a recording OR a score representative of your work (w/ recording) should you intend to compose a new piece for the program. (Selected composers will be required to submit final scores and parts to arrive no later than June 12, 2007.)
Please submit materials to arrive no later than MARCH 1st - to:
Attn: Composers Workshop Coordinator
Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music
104 Walnut Avenue, Suite 206
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
PLEASE NOTE: If you wish to have your materials returned, please indicate so by including a self-addressed, stamped envelope to accommodate their mailing.
3. email your intent to apply to ellen@cabrillomusic.org or contact the CABRILLO FESTIVAL OFFICES at 831.426.6966.
Notification will take place on April 2, 2007.
THANK YOU!
Sponsored, in part, by the National Endowment for the Arts 