Virtual Brass Academy for Composers
Ensemble Musikfabrik presents an online winter academy exploring contemporary brass and bassoon composition. If composing is like painting, what could be better than having as many colors and techniques as possible at your disposal? Composing for these instruments is a vast field, and the best way to approach it is to learn from instrumentalists and composers who can draw on a wealth of experience.
The workshops and private lessons will be led by Milica Djordjević (composer), and the Ensemble Musikfabrik brass section and bassoonist: Christine Chapman (horn), Stephen Menotti (trombone), Maxime Morel (tuba), Marco Blaauw (trumpet) and Elise Jacoberger (bassoon).
The Virtual Brass Academy welcomes composers from all over the world. 15 will be selected to participate. The particular compositional challenge is to create a short piece, a miniature, focusing on developing one musical idea. The newly written pieces will be performed, presented, and recorded in a live-stream concert at the end of the courses at the Ensemble Musikfabrik studios in Cologne, Germany.
The program:
- individual coaching and group lessons with composition faculty
- seminars, individual coaching and group lessons with the brass and bassoon players
- online rehearsals and video/audio documentation of the concert for personal use
- certificate of participation
Course dates: December 16 – 18, 2024 & January 04 – 13, 2025
Deadline for Applications: over
Tuition: 250 €
Applicants are requested to submit the following materials:
- 2 scores (one for solo or small chamber music, one for any instrumentation)
- 1 recording (if available)
- Curriculum Vitae
- registration form
Opening concert (information to follow)
Closing concert (information to follow)
Links:
Elise Jacoberger © Danielle Liniger