Opportunity
for Composers
Composers
of Internet2 (CI2):
A Technology-Enabled Composition Contest
Wheaton College
in Norton, Massachusetts, the University
of Alabama at Birmingham, and the National
Institute for Technology & Liberal Education invite young
composers to participate in an exciting new competition!
This inaugural "call
for compositions" seeks works for unaccompanied cello in celebration
of Dr. Ronald Crutcher, Wheaton's new president and cellist. Mr. Craig
Hultgren, cellist and activist for new music, will perform and record
all the winning works.
Winners will receive feedback
from professional composers and cellists via Internet 2 videoconferences.
If they desire it, they will be allowed revision time before the professional
recordings are made.In addition to receiving expert guidance, participants
will benefit from interacting with members of a community of practice,
exposure to a variety of careers, and access a broad listening audience.
Timeline:
* Submission deadline: January 3, 2005
* Winners announced: mid-February
* Coaching sessions: March
* Performances via Internet2: June
Contacts:
* Ahmed Madkour (amadkour@wheatonma.edu)
* Colleen Wheeler (cwheeler@wheatonma.edu)
For more information
about Internet 2 see http://www.internet2.edu/
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