CONDUCTOR/COMPOSER WORKSHOPS


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 18 auditing conductors.

Now in its ninth 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.

APPLICATION for 2008 CONDUCTORS WORKSHOP IS NOW AVAILABLE THROUGH THE CONDUCTORS GUILD WEBSITE:  Click here


NOW CLOSED:
2008 COMPOSERS WORKSHOP CALL FOR SCORES – DEADLINE FEBRUARY 29
If you are a composer 30-years-old or younger, you are invited to submit an orchestral score for consideration for the 2008 Cabrillo Composers Workshop, July 25 through July 30.

Led by Maestra 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 18 auditing conductors.

Now in its eighth season, this workshop is presented in collaboration with the international Conductors Guild. Maestra Alsop and Maestro Gustav Meier serve as faculty for the Conductors Workshop sessions, and composers Michael Daugherty and John Corigliano join 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 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 ONLY, recording on CD (if available, MIDI versions are acceptable), and a resume to arrive no later than February 29th, 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.


2008 CABRILLO CONDUCTORS/COMPOSERS TRAINING WORKSHOPS
July 25 through July 30, 2008 in Santa Cruz, California
Presented by Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music & The Conductors Guild

FACULTY:
Composers Michael Daugherty and John Corigliano, and Conductors Marin Alsop and Gustav Meier;
with additional participation by Festival composers-in-residence.

PARTICIPANTS:
3 participating composers, 7 participating conductors, 18 auditing conductors

COMPOSERS WORKSHOP REHEARSALS/PERFORMANCES:
3 rehearsals
1 concert: features 2 performances of each work of no more than 7-minutes; or a movement or portion of a work) by three participating composers, July 30. 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.

2008 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: Information on hotel accommodations will be relayed to selected composers.
$1250 Fellowships are offered to each composer to help offset out-of-pocket expenses.

COMPOSERS are requested to:
1. send a short curriculum vitae
2. send one score which you believe might fit the project along with a recording, OR a score representative of your work (w/ recording) if 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, 2008.)

Please submit materials to arrive no later than FEBRUARY 29th - 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, 2008.