Development Opportunity for Scottish Composers
Deadline: 2 Sep 2024
sound and Contemporary Music for All (CoMA) are delighted to announce that following two successful co-commissions in 2023, we will again offer this exciting new development opportunity for Scottish composers in 2024. This opportunity will involve writing a new piece for one of sound's youth new music groups Get Creative Ensemble, with the support of composer Hannah Kendall.
sound is a new music incubator based in North East Scotland, which aims to increase access to new music, encourage excellence and experimentation, and nurture talent. It achieves this through a variety of activities including the annual soundfestival, a year-round composer support programme, a youth programme, and other learning and engagement activities.
CoMA is a participatory new music charity, with a vision for contemporary music to be open to everyone, celebrating participation in new music-making as a meaningful and essential part of our lives. Our mission is to create a culture of musical participation and collaboration. It establishes environments for amateur, emerging and acclaimed music-makers of all backgrounds and abilities to build musical communities and new repertoires.
Get Creative is sound’s creative music making programme for young people in North East Scotland aged 8-18 years. Get Creative offers regular creative music-making workshops throughout the year, providing young people with the opportunity to gain musical skills, experience playing in an ensemble, and foster a wider understanding of creative music making with experienced musicians and composers.
Get Creative is split into two groups:
Creative Orchestra (participants aged 8-11)
Creative Ensemble (participants aged 12-18)
Opportunity description
One emerging Scottish composer will have the opportunity to develop a short work scored for mixed ensemble forces in our Creative Ensemble.
Creative Ensemble (participants aged 12-18)
Flexible score – e.g. high instruments, mid instruments, low instruments and percussion.
Notation suitable for the mixed level of the group (currently grade 2-7).
Length: around 5-6 minutes.
The new work will be performed at Aberdeen Performing Arts’ Light the Blue Festival in June 2025, and following that may be used by other youth CoMA groups and possibly as a tool to aid new music education in schools.
For more information and to apply please visit the link to our website.
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