opensound: Composing for Amateur Musicians Join Emory Southwick (Music Sales and Catalogue Manager for Contemporary Music for All - CoMA)
- 15 Sep 2025, midnight, Online, Worldwide, None, Find out more and register:
Description
Free online workshop open to composers of all levels. Welcome to the word of open-scoring for community-music makers. Join Emory Southwick (Music Sales and Catalogue Manager for Contemporary Music for All - CoMA), as they share tips, ideas and examples gathered across CoMA's 32 years of commissioning, on how to write engaging, collaborative and high quality music for amateur and community musicians.
6-7pm including approx. 40 min talk with a Q&A session at the end. Please note that although we try to wrap-up opensound sessions by 7pm, they often run over by 5-10 mins.
Biography
Biography
Emory Southwick (they/them) is an artist, musician and facilitator based in Durham, UK. Emory joined Contemporary Music for All (CoMA)just before graduating with a First-Class BA with Honours in Music, specialising in composition and analysis, from Durham University in 2023. Now their work focusses on curating open score works at CoMA, with a specific emphasis on diversifying the contemporary music canon and helping more people access contemporary music.
© 2025 by Emory Southwick
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