Application forms are now available for the 2010 CANZ Nelson Composers Workshop. The Workshop will run from July 4-8 and will be convened by Carol Shortis and Anton Killin.

Click here to go to the Workshop page on the CANZ website and download the application form. The deadline for applications is Friday 7 May.

The Wagner Society in Queensland Inc invites composers who are permanent residents of Australia or New Zealand to create an instrumental chamber work to celebrate the 2013 bicentenary of the birth of Richard Wagner (1813-1883).

Submitted works must have been composed specifically for the 2013 Wagner Bicentenary Composition Competition, must not previously have had a public performance or have been commercially recorded. They must not have received an award from another competition for composition.

The applicant will be required to declare that the music is the applicant’s own original work.

Eligibility: The Wagner Bicentenary Composition Competition is open to living composers of any age permanently resident in either Australia or New Zealand at the time of entry into the competition.

Website: www.wagnersociety.com

Deadline for entries: 30 June 2012

Jack Body has been invited to participate in the IAMIC -sponsored Virtual Composer in Residence programme. He will begin his month-long residency on February 15, 2010 together with his Austrian co-virtual resident composer Katharina Klement.

Through the Virtual Composer In Residence Programme, IAMIC aims to share, network and publish information about composers and their work and processes more widely, enabling the world-wide community of composers and audience members to connect with them through a virtula and interactive environment. IAMIC is making a special space available on their website and inviting a pair of composers to use this space to explore each others work and processes. The composers can use the website space to ‘chat’, exchange ideas, thoughts, links, music: scores, audio, video as digital files, possible projects and so on. Colleagues and audience members from around the world have the opportunity to join in the conversation through comments on this IAMIC webpage.

Jack Body is one of New Zealand’s most senior composers with a long and varied musical output across all genres. He has a particular interest in the music of other cultures and in bringing these into a relationship with traditional Western European music through transcription and electroacoustic elements. A leading educator, innovator and entrepreneur he has been responsible for many projects connecting musicians and musical cultures around the world.

Jack and Katharina are the second IAMIC Virtual Composers in Residence. The inaugural residents were John McLachlan (Ireland) and Lucien Posman(Belgium).

Source: www.sounz.org.nz

The New Zealand School of Music, a joint venture of Massey University and Victoria University of Wellington, seeks applicants for a temporary appointment as Visiting Lecturer in Composition and Orchestration. The position will be based at the Kelburn campus (part of Victoria University) in Wellington, New Zealand’s capital city, for the second trimester of the 2010 academic year (July–November 2010).

Click here for the role description and here for further details. Applications close 8 March.

Call for proposals

The APO wish to call for proposals from NZ composers for a special project in 2010 – 11

Every year the APO invites composers to submit pieces to be workshopped and recorded under the mentorship of the APO’s Composer-in-Residence. For 2010 the APO is offering six NZ composers the opportunity to write a work for actor and orchestra.

APO Composer-in-Residence, John Psathas, will provide support for composers over the composition process.
Instrumentation available is 3*3*3*3*/4331/T, 2 perc, hrp, piano/celeste, strings.

To apply, please send the following by 1 March 2010.

• completed application form
• two scores of your own compositions which you feel represent the best of your orchestral writing
• outlining commentary of your idea for a new piece involving actor and orchestra. This could include a script outline, general theme summary or other dramatic ideas

Please note that all applicants need to have time available to complete the draft of their new work by 15 April 2010 for the first piano read-through. Also please be aware that this opportunity is not open to pieces that have already been composed. The six composers will be selected by the APO.

2010 workshop session times, all at the Philharmonia Hall:

26 April: piano read-through
8 June: first orchestral read-through and workshop of pieces
10-11 Sept: workshop and recording sessions with the APO

2011 – pieces will be programmed into an APO concert

You should only apply if you are definitely able to attend all the above workshop session times.

Click here to download the entry form.

MAZSALACA, 8th-16th OF AUGUST, 2010

The international meeting of young composers is a tradition which goes back to 2002 and was started by the composer Andris Dzen?tis and his companions. For the three first times the workshop took place in the Castle of Dundaga, which is connected to many legends, but now, for the second time already, it is being organized in Mazsalaca – a small town in the north of Latvia, next to the snaky river Salaca.

The workshop is deliberately not being organized in cities – this is a possibility for technologically oversaturated and instantaneous demand-oriented people to feel themselves and to reconsider their spiritual values by being in simple or one could even say primitive conditions, by experiencing a modest and slow way of living. At the same time this one week is being dedicated to intense discussions, training, composing, presentations, individual training with lecturers, making new acquaintances, and enjoying the serene life.

The first four international workshops have gained a certain reputation both regionally and internationally and have gathered more than 50 participants from different corners of the world, 13 lecturers – internationally known composers from 7 countries.

THEME

Chamber music nowadays. Classics, innovation, aesthetics, boundaries.

LECTURERS
David Lang (USA)

Pär Lindgren (Sweden)

Richard Ayres (The Netherlands)

RESIDING MUSICIANS
Ensemble Aleph (France)

String quartet ReDo (Latvia)

PARTICIPATION IN WORKSHOP

In order to participate in the workshop the candidates have to prepare mp3 audio recordings (advisable length – 5 to 10 minutes) of two or three previously composed chamber music pieces (for two or more instruments), which, together with scores in digital format (pdf), a detailed CV and a photo, must be sent by e-mail to the workshop organizers until the 15th of February, 2010.

E-mail: dundagaworkshop@gmail.com
The examining commission, which is composed of lecturers and participants of ensemble Aleph, will evaluate the submitted materials and will choose 10 active workshop participants. The results will be published by the 15th of May, 2010.

According to the commissions’ decision five of the chosen participants will be asked to compose for the ensemble Aleph, the other five for the string quartet ReDo. These pieces will be performed in the gala concert.
The chosen participants will have to conclude and send the compositions to Aleph and ReDo no later than the 5th of July, 2010.

The pieces must be conceptually finished by then. The workshop will be devoted to working together with lecturers and musicians in order to sharpen up the details and introduce realistic modifications.

The internationally determined age limit is 35 years. However, the organizers prefer not to object if this limit is exceeded.

There are also 10 places intended for observers. In this case there is no need to participate in the competition to be able to join the workshop. The service will be equal and it will be possible to attend the group work sessions, however the observer’s compositions will not be performed as well as the active participants will always be prior when it comes to individual training.

From the Centre for Music and Multimedia, Royal College of Music, London

PRESS RELEASE #01 – Jan 2010

Composers and songwriters generate significant cultural and economic wealth, so understanding their lifelong educational and training needs is crucial. For this reason a major survey of composers has been launched by the Royal College of Music’s Centre for Music and Multimedia. The survey seeks to investigate the appropriateness and effectiveness of training and education opportunities for music composers, both in prospect and retrospect. It will capture the experiences of a large number and wide range of composers and songwriters across Europe and beyond, in order to lobby for better opportunities and resources to study the art and craft of composing, including lifelong learning.

The survey has been developed by Professor David Burnand, Head of the CMM at the Royal College of Music, London; with support and advice from colleagues in the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, the Contemporary Music Centre Ireland, the National University of Ireland at Maynooth, Leiden University Academy of Creative and Performing Arts, and the University of Hertfordshire.

Survey link:
http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/composing

Contact:
All enquiries to: dburnand@rcm.ac.uk

For the upcoming International Summer Course for New Music Darmstadt (July 17th to 31st, 2010) young composers are requested to submit ensemble pieces (preferably composed within the last two years) for the project ENSEMBLE 2010.

The works selected by a jury of four will be rehearsed by young ensembles par-ticipating in the project, together with the composers and renowned coaches like the conductor Lucas Vis, and will be presented in concerts. The composers selected will receive a partial scholarship to attend the Summer Course.

Applications must be send by April 15th, 2010 (as determined by the post-mark). Age limit at the time of the submission deadline is 35 years.

Detailed participation and instrumentation requirements can be found from January 2010 on www.imd.darmstadt.de.

26th Music Biennale Zagreb 7-17 April 2011

A half-century anniversary - 50 years of Music Biennale Zagreb

Deadline for submissions is 1st of August, 2010

Members of the International Society for Contemporary Music as well as music publishers and individual artists are encouraged to submit their works according to the detailed instructions and criteria described in the call for works. Read more.

Are you a composer, born after September 6, 1979? Submit an application to the Gaudeamus Music Week and compete for the Gaudeamus Prize 2010: a commission worth €4550.

Deadline for submissions for the Gaudeamus Music Week is 31st of January 2010.

There are 5 categories: orchestra, chamber music, Javanese gamelan ensemble, electronic music and organ (Only works can be entered which suit the disposition of one of the 4 organs at www.orgelpark.nl and compete also for en extra prize)

Read more at www.musicweek.nl