[Voxnovus] Call for works - Fifteen Minutes fo Fame - Zentripedal (violin and cello duo)

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Vox Novus is calling for one minute instrumental works for violin and cello
duet for a performance by Zentripetal on the Composer's Voice concert series
on April 24, 2011.

The one-minute violin and cello duets are to be inspired by and written
specifically for this project to be performed by the duo Zentripetal
featuring Lynn Bechtold on violin and Jen DeVore on cello.  Zentripedal is
up for adventurous works which included extended techniques, doubling on
percussion instruments, etc.

Works should be submitted as a PDF file with a picture of the composer,
50-word biography, and 50-word program note about the piece.
 
*    Works need to be submitted via email to composersvoicesubmit at gmail.com
by February 10.
*    Email submissions should include the 50-word bio and 50-word program
notes as text in an email.
*    The picture should be an attached jpg file, and the score should be an
attached PDF.
*    No works over a minute will be reviewed.
*    The results will be announced by February 28 on the Vox Novus website,
and composers of 15 accepted works will be notified by email.

Zentripetal has performed recitals and programs at Galapagos in DUMBO, the
Goethe Institut NYC, the Roerich Museum, the Players Theatre, and the Renee
Weiler Concert Hall at Greenwich House. Zentripetal will be performing
debuting new works and performing pieces from their upcoming cd due to be
released in the early fall. 

Violinist Lynn Bechtold has appeared in recital throughout the U.S., Canada,
Holland, and Switzerland. An advocate of contemporary music, she has worked
with composers such as Gloria Coates, George Crumb, John Harbison, and
Morton Subotnick, and has premiered works on the Princeton Composers' Series
and Composers Concordance. In 2001, she gave the premiere of "Violynn," a
work for violin and electronics written for her by Alvin Lucier. 

Cellist Jennifer DeVore has appeared at Lincoln Center, Merkin Hall, Zankel
Hall and Weill Hall and at the Musicorda, Yellow Barn and Spoleto festivals.
Groups she has played with include the Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra,
Ensemble Pi, the Jose Limon Dance Company, and the Metamorphosen Chamber
Orchestra. 
Heralded as "one of the most exciting voices in New Music" (The Wire), the
works of Lei Liang have been described by The New York Times as "hauntingly
beautiful and sonically colorful." The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship
and an Aaron Copland Award, Commissions/performances have come from the New
York Philharmonic, Heidelberger Philharmonisches Orchester, Taipei Chinese
Orchestra, Meet the Composer, Chamber Music America, the Arditti and
Shanghai Quartets.