DE MUSICA 2010 (Beat Furrer)

 


INTERNATIONAL COMPOSITION COMPETITION

Franco Evangelisti 2010

NEW!!!

The competition deadline is extended
to August 20, 2010
(date of the postmark shall be proof of dispatch)

NUOVA CONSONANZA

MINISTERO PER I BENI E LE ATTIVITÀ CULTURALI

Direzione Generale
dello Spettacolo dal vivo


in collaboration with

Edizioni Suvini Zerboni

Rai Radio3

Conservatorio di Musica Santa Cecilia –

International Electroacustic Music Festival (EMUFEST)

Piano & Electronics


Associazione Nuova Consonanza, in collaboration with the Conservatorio di Musica di Santa Cecilia of Rome, Edizioni Suvini Zerboni and Rai Radio3, announces the XIII edition of the International “Franco Evangelisti” Composition Competition.


The 2010 Competition is dedicated to piano and electronics and is open to composers of any nationality and of any age.


Scores should be for Piano and Electronics.

The overall duration of the work should be from 7 (seven) to 15 (fifteen) minutes.

The piano can also be treated with live electronics and should be written in the score; the electronic part should be from 2 (two) to 8 (eight) channels.


The following material must be sent by the candidate to the Secretariat of Nuova Consonanza Festival:

1 - a complete description of the technical requirements for performing the work

2 - a version of the eventual part for sounds recorded on Cd or data Dvd with separate or interlaced tracks, AIS or WAV file format, 16 or 24 bit resolution and 44100 Hz or higher sampling rate;

3 - the score in printed form;

4 - optionally, a complete recording on Cd audio (two channels).of a performance of the work; a MIDI simulation of the work may also be sent if it has never been performed.

The composer undertakes to himself fill the role of technician/performer foreseen in the score or else to appoint his own technician. All the equipment required for live electronics must be supplied by the composer except for the microphones.


All the material indicated above must be sent in 5 (five) anonymous copies to the Association (viale Mazzini 134 – Scala B, 00195 Roma) not later than 15 July 2010 (certified by the post office stamp).

The compositions can have been performed already but must not have been published or awarded prizes in other competitions.

Composers can enter several works.

Each score must be characterized by a motto and accompanied by a sealed envelope, identified by the same motto, containing the personal data of the composer (forename, surname, date of birth, nationality, address, telephone number, e-mail if any, photocopy of identity card), a detailed curriculum vitae, the receipt confirming payment of the registration fee, a declaration certifying that the composition has not been awarded a prize in any other competition and the written permission for eventual radio broadcasting. The information requested must be in Italian, English or French.


The registration fee is 50 Euro for each composition entered.

The fee can be paid by:

  1. crediting post office account no. 99243008 in the name of Associazione Nuova Consonanza;

  2. crediting bank account in the name of Associazione Nuova Consonanza

IBAN IT 06 F 03002 03219 000010653285 – BIC SWIFT BROMITR1719 ;

  1. from abroad, a postal money order made out to Associazione Nuova Consonanza viale Mazzini 134 – Scala B, 00195 Rome Italy:

  2. payment on line (at the bottom of this web page)


Scores will not be returned but will be kept in the Archive of Nuova Consonanza.

The selected scores will be performed during the 47° Festival of Nuova Consonanza.

At the end of the concert, following the decision of the Jury which is not open to question, the winning composition will be announced and awarded the prize.


There will be a prize of 1.000 euro, divisible in the case of ex aequo. The winning composition will be published by Edizioni Suvini Zerboni and broadcast by Rai Radio3.


The Jury reserves its right (a) not to award any prize and (b) to give special mention to particularly meritorious works. Only the original Italian language text is legally valid: in the case of controversy, the sole competent court is the Court of Rome.

Info:

Nuova Consonanza

telephone and fax +39.06.3700323

info@nuovaconsonanza.it

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Jury
James Dashow (President – USA)
Raphaël Cendo (France)
Javier Leichman (Argentine)
Alessandro Cipriani (Italy)
Alessandro Sbordoni (Italy)

 

   

 

DE MUSICA 2010

Beat Furrer


De Musica ovvero la fabbrica della creatività

Associazione Nuova Consonanza Roma together with “ S.Cecilia” Conservatory of Music and German Academy Villa Massimo in Rome, are announcing the new edition of De musica, ovvero la fabbrica della creatività, composition - seminary and workshop held this year by swiss worldknown composer Beat Furrer.

The seminary with take place in Rome at the S.Cecilia Conservatory of Music between 13 and 17 december 2010.

 

The masterclass will explore aesthetical and technical aspects of modern music in general and especially refers to Beat Furrer’s music. Lectures will be concentrated on the analysis of works presented by the participants and analysis of some of Furrer’s compositions.
The stage will be concluded by the concert of 17 december entirely dedicated to Beat Furrer’s music, performed by the Algoritmo Ensemble, conducted by Marco Angius.

Seminary is open to about 20 students coming from italian and international Academies or Conservatories of Music and to composers with already awarded diploma, aged under 35 years.

Auditors are accepted as well.

Students and composers have to send their application (including address, name, surname, country, date of birth, place of residence and studies) together with a CV and one score to the following address before 20 november 2010:
by normal post: Associazione Nuova Consonanza Viale Giuseppe Mazzini 134 sc. B - 00195 ROMA (Italia) ( tel. +39.06.3700323) or by email: info@nuovaconsonanza.it (please send the score in A4)

For auditors score is not requested.

The selection of the candidatures will be done by the Associazione Nuova Consonanza in relation with available places. Selected participants have to complete their applications with the payment of the registration-fee, which is fixed in 70 Euro for active participants and 35 Euro for auditors.

(Entry fee is not to be payed by students coming from S.Cecilia Conservatory of Music and
L’Aquila Conservatory of Music).

DE MUSICA
ovvero la fabbrica della creatività

13 - 17 december
- S.Cecilia Conservatory of Music (via dei Greci 18) h 10/13 – 15/18
COMPOSITION WORKSHOP by Beat Furrer for young composers facing aesthetical and technical aspects of contemporary music and their interpretation, analysis and discussion about pieces presented by the students and analysis of Furrer’s works.

17 december
- Sala Casella (via Flaminia 118) – 21:00
Concert: Portrait Beat Furrer

 

BEAT FURRER

Beat Furrer was born in Schaffhausen (Switzerland) in 1954 and received his first musical training on piano at the Music School there. After moving to Vienna in 1975, he studied conducting with Otmar Suitner and composition with Roman Haubenstock Ramati at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst. In 1985 he founded the Klangforum Wien, which he directed until 1992, and with which he is still associated as conductor. Commissioned by the Vienna State Opera, he composed his first opera “Die Blinden”. “Narcissus” was premiered in 1994 as part of the Festival “steirischer herbst” at the Graz Opera. In 1996 he was composer-in-residence at the Lucerne Festival. His music theatre work “BEGEHREN” was premiered in Graz in 2001, the opera “invocation” in Zürich in 2003 and the sound theatre piece "FAMA" in Donaueschingen in 2005. In autumn 1991 Furrer became a full professor of composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Graz. He has been guest professor in composition at the Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Frankfurt since 2006. In 2004 he was awarded the Music Prize of the City of Vienna, and in 2005 became a member of the Academy of Arts in Berlin. He was awarded the Golden Lion at the Venice Biennale in 2006 for his work FAMA

 

 

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