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As a graduate cellist, I am carving out a career, and I am finding my style niche tending to lean
towards the performance of contemporary works for cello, solo, concerti, etc. This present call
for scores is for solo cello works. I cannot express how eager I am to simply find composers who
are willing to write for this instrument and it is and shall be a delight to work on new music and
find ways to perform them. I wish to champion anything written for me.
I'll tell you a little about myself. As I said I am a grad student studying cello, and I am working
towards being a performer in this niche etc. I live in Duluth, Minnesota. I do have performance
opportunity at school, but I have to make my recitals off-campus. I enjoy playing at open-mic
nights, and putting on quirky, but serious recitals. I enjoy monologuing about what I'm about to
play, and my recitals tend to have over-arching themes, or sometimes they are just kitchen-sink
smorgasbords, but I really enjoy performing.
I won't restrict your scores with any formal or thematic or developmental instructions etc. Be
yourself, and I will find a place to play and record your work! It may not be at a paying, highclass, snooty establishment, NPR might never hear of it! but, I will execute it seriously for I
believe music must move forward and continue to do so and I wish to be part of that as a cellist,
a composer, and a collaborator.
Send me any form, length, style - I will quickly enter the work into my repertoire and do it
justice. Just so you know: I am not afraid of things like Penderecki, Lutoslawski, twelve-tone, or
even music like Kaija Saariaho. Just recently I won a concerto competition with the Rautavaara
cello concerto. I love music that isn't predictably romantic in tonality or style! I just ask that it
be a seriously composed work (not excluding composition styles that tend towards
improvisation! I tend to write that way myself).
Composers should email their scores as PDF files to tenge009@d.umn.edu
Deadline: 23 May 20
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Seeking Chamber & Solo Works for Florida Concert Series (AIRE)
The New Music Conflagration is currently seeking contemporary concert works for chamber and
solo instrumentation.
Composers may submit, for consideration, no more than 6 scores for one full season. Works may
be for up to six musicians of any combination of the following: 2 violins, viola, cello, contrabass
(includes electric bass) flute, clarinet, bassoon, horn, trombone, saxophone duo, solo voice
(SATB), piano (includes synthesizer), percussion, harp, guitar, ukulele. Compositions may include
fixed media. Duration must be less than 16 minutes. Works selected for performance on the
concert series will be recorded via video or audio, and will be made available for the composers
download. At least two rehearsals of works will take place before a public performance is given.
Composers submissions must include a brief biography (not to exceed 150-200 words), a photo,
and a PDF score. Live recordings of the work are optional, but strongly recommended.
Submissions should be sent tothenewmusicconflagration@gmail.com with a subject line in
the following format: NMC- Composition Submission. The email must include the name of the
composer and the title of the composition. If a composers work is chosen for performance on
the series, he/she is responsible for sending PDFs of complete parts in a timely fashion. Chosen
works that are not scheduled for the current concert season due to an inability to find local
performers will be archived for a subsequent season. Any other score not selected for the
concert series will be destroyed.
Please direct any questions regarding submissions
to thenewmusicconflagration@gmail.com.
Web site: http://thenewmusiccon
Tell us why your piece is exciting to you, or what you think the audience should know before
hearing it.
Provide us with a clear, correct, and legible PDF of the score.
If recordings are available, please provide us with a link where we can go listen to the piece.
Please DO NOT send us recordings directly.
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