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UMKC announces summer Composition Workshop for young composers
The UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance has just announced a Composition Workshop, a new summer opportunity for students between the ages of 14 and 20, to take place June 20-25, 2010 in Kansas City. Zhou Long, Paul Rudy, James Mobberley and Ingrid Stölzel will help kick off this exciting engagement for young composers.
The UMKC Conservatory of Music and Dance has just announced a Composition Workshop, a new summer opportunity for students between the ages of 14 and 20, to take place June 20-25, 2010 in Kansas City. Zhou Long, Paul Rudy, James Mobberley, Mara Gibson and Ingrid Stölzel will help kick off this exciting engagement for young composers.
The intensive weeklong event will jump-start on June 20 at 3 p.m. with a concert in White Recital Hall featuring the Kansas City based ensemble, Quadrivium followed by orientation and group placement. Each day, students will listen to contemporary music as well as the great achievements of the past, interact with faculty composers and performers and participate in mentoring sessions and composing. Each evening there will be concerts featuring performances by cellist, Daniel Saenz, KcEMA (Kansas City Electronic Music Alliance), the Kinsella/Gitter/Borja Trio, and faculty from UMKC's Cello Days, in addition to Quadrivium. In these concerts, pieces by all members of the UMKC composition faculty will be performed along with many other prominent and inventive composers.
No prior composition experience is required of students, but participants should be experienced musicians. Composers will be grouped based on ability and background level. Participants are free to submit small chamber or solo works when they apply for consideration for performance in the final recital on Friday evening, June 25.
On campus housing is available during the week and encouraged. Slots are available on a first come first serve basis with the final deadline of application April 21.
For more details about the program, UMKC and application, please visit: http://conservatory.umkc.edu/community_academy/compo_workshop.aspx
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