[Voxnovus] Vox Novus is calling for one-minute marimba solo or marimba and flute works for 15-Minutes-of-Fame

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Fifteen Minutes of Fame written for Laura Jordan and Sarah Carrier

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute marimba solo or marimba and flute works
for "15-Minutes-of-Fame: Laura Jordan and Sarah Carrier for the Composer's
Voice concert series. 15 one-minute pieces for marimba solo or marimba with
flute will be selected to be played continuously for a debut performance in
New York City on June 5, 2011 by Laura Jordan, marimba and Sarah Carrier,
flute for the Composer's Voice concert series. 

Submission guidelines: -Works must be submitted as a PDF file with a picture
of the composer, 50-word biography, and 50-word program note about the
piece. 
-Works must be one minute in length. No works over a minute will be
reviewed. 
-Works need to be submitted via email to: composersvoicesubmit at gmail.com by
April 1, 2011. 
-The 50-word biography and 50 word program notes must be pasted as text in
the email. 
-The composer's a picture must be attached as a jpg file.
-The score must be attached as a pdf. (performance notes should be included
with the score.)


Marimba: 
C2 (lowest note of the cello, 2 octaves below middle C)- c3 (5 octaves). 2
or 4 mallets only (no 6 mallet pieces). Standard technique, edge of bar,
dead strokes, etc. OK, no playing on resonators. 

Some small percussion (ie triangle, shakers, etc., small drum, chimes OK).
Please consider and allow time for mallet switch if marimba part calls for 4
mallets, in order to play triangle, etc. Woodblocks, small drum, etc., do
not necessarily require a mallet change. 

Flute:
Flute in C; alto; and piccolo Extended techniques are welcome as long as the
composers use the Robert Dick book to back up their multiphonic/quarter
tone/timbral trill, etc choices. Also, write the fingerings from Robert's
book into the part (at least for the first time any given
multiphonic/quarter tone of choice is used in the piece). 

The results will be announced by April 15th, 2011 on the Vox Novus website,
and composers of 15 accepted works will be notified by email. 

Laura Jordan: 
New York based percussionist Laura Jordan has performed in Europe, Canada,
Mexico and throughout the United States, in venues including Avery Fisher
Hall, Merkin Hall, the Massachusetts MoCa, the Skirball Center of Los
Angeles, the National Geographic in Washington, and the Universidad Nacional
Autonoma de Mexico. Local venues include the Player's Theater, Galapagos
Arts Space, the Triad, WMP Gallery, Tribeca Arts Center, Lehman College,
Public Assembly, People's Lounge, 40C lounge and others. 

Laura has been featured as a marimba/percussion soloist internationally, and
is an in-demand freelance chamber musician, orchestral player, drum set and
world percussion specialist in the New York tri-state area. A new music
activist and programmer, Laura has co-commissioned works by Martin Bresnick,
Lukas Ligeti and others as well as curated projects and concerts at venues
such as the Merkin Concert Hall, Mass MoCa, the Player's Theater, among
others. 

In 2010, she was selected as a fellow by the Bang on a Can organization,
which was founded by composers David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Michael Gordon.
She has participated in several festivals including the Paris Marimba
Competition and Perkumania festival in 2006, for which she received a
Peabody Career Grant, and the first Zeltsman "Princeton" Marimba festival in
2001, for which she received a Semans Art Fund Grant. In the 2009-10 season,
Laura served as the Artistic Director of the Takemitsu Project, which was
funded by a substantial Collaborative Performing Arts Grant from New York
University for which she wrote and was awarded. The grant also established a
composition competition for New York University students. Through the
project, she was able to present the New York Premiere of Takemitsu's
relatively forgotten Seasons (1970) for percussion quartet and magnetic
tape. 

Sarah Carrier: 
"Ms. Carrier combined thoughtful musicality with virtuosity in her
alternately energetic and delicate account of a flute line laden with light
multiphonics and unusual timbres."-Allan Kozinn, New YorkTimes. Sarah
Carrier is a New York City based flutist dedicated to the performance of
contemporary music. 

As a founding member of Syzygy New Music Collective, (hailed as "one of
2009's most promising groups" by Sequenza21) she has premiered numerous
works, and has made appearances on television and radio. While a graduate
student at New York University, she commissioned electronic composer Izzi
Ramkissoon to create the work Kill Switch for flute, cello, percussion, and
laptop, which she premiered at her Masters Recital and has since been
performed in venues throughout New York City. Also during her studies at
NYU, she performed David Taddie's Luminosity for C Flute, Alto Flute, and
Electronics as a Featured Soloist of the NYU New Music Soloists Concert,
resulting in an invitation to perform at the "Cross Currents"
Electro-Acoustic Music Festival at Penn State University, as well as the NYU
Music Technology Open House. She has performed in venues as varied as Walt
Disney Hall, Sydney Opera House, Merkin Hall, the Orange County Performing
Arts Center, Le Poisson Rouge, the Tank, Galapagos Art Space, and Issue
Project Room and has participated in the Institute and Festival for
Contemporary Performance at Mannes and the Gaudeamus Interpreters
Competition. 

Sarah is a winner of numerous competitions such as the National Flute
Association Masterclass Competition, Bob Cole Conservatory Scholarship
Competition, La Primavera Symphony Orchestra Concerto Competition and is a
recipient of the CSULB Dean's List Award, University of Oregon Graduate
Teaching Fellowship, and New York University Graduate Scholarship. She
completed her M.M. in Flute Performance at New York University under the
tutelage of Robert Dick and earned her B.M. in Flute Performance at the Bob
Cole Conservatory at California State University, Long Beach studying with
John Barcellona. Sarah has also performed for Jill Felber, William Bennett,
Denis Bouriakov, Louise di Tullio, Rena Urso, Paula Robison, Ransom Wilson,
Keith Underwood, and Bart Feller. As a passionate music educator, Sarah has
taught throughout Southern California, Oregon, and New York City, and has
presented masterclasses to flute students in rural areas of Hokkaido, Japan.