[Voxnovus] NM421 > January 10, 2014 - Composer's Voice Starting Out Small for 2014 - 60x60 Dance Montreal

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> POSTCARD: Violintusoribus

Vox Novus Calendar

> PERFORMANCE: STARTING OUT SMALL

Composer's Voice featuring: a small consortium
January 12, 2014

> PERFORMANCE: 60x60 Dance - Montreal Canada

January 15, 2014
OPPORTUNITIES

> Fifteen Minutes of Fame - call for works for solo speaking voice

> Composer's Site - new opportunities

> Composer's Site - expiring opportunities

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Violintusoribus

Violintusoribus
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The etymology of a musical instrument is often as fascinating as the sound
it produces. The word violin, for example, comes from the Medieval Latin
word violintusoribus, meaning "violent noisemaker." Indeed, many early
violins were specifically designed with fighting in mind. Due to unreceptive
audiences, performing music in those days was extremely hazardous - maybe
even more so than today. (Okay, probably not that hazardous.)

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Upcoming Performances

Composer's Voice
<http://www.voxnovus.com/img/Composers_Voice_logo_2012.jpg> a very small
consortium <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/a_very_small_consortium.jpg>


STARTING OUT SMALL
<http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/program/14-01-12.htm>


Sunday, January 12, 2014 - 1:00 pm


Sunday, January 12, 2014 (New York, New York) Composer's Voice starts out
small for 2014 with the ensemble a very small consortium. This Composer's
Voice concert features the ensemble and their 15 one-minute miniatures with
the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project.

Based in Wisconsin, Green Bay, a very small consortium comes to New York
City to be a "small" part of the big city. The ensemble is dedicated to the
performance of miniature masterpieces; doing more with less. They get to the
point by doing small music, but have large plans. a very small consortium
consists of Courtney Sherman, soprano; Lada Gaines, soprano saxophone; Adam
Gaines, trumpet, Michelle McQuade Dewhirst, horn; David Severtson, piano;
Michael Dewhirst, cello.

John Edward Cantrell
<http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/John_Edward_Cantrell.jpg> Michelle
McQuade Dewhirst
<http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Michelle_McQuade_Dewhirst.jpg> Adam
Gaines <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Adam_Gaines.jpg> Ladislava
Gaines <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Ladislava_Gaines.jpg> Courtney
Sherman <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Courtney_Sherman.jpg>

Fifteen Minutes of Fame is 15 one-minute acoustic works by different
composers. Fifteen Minutes of Fame gives a variety of new music by living
composers to audiences hungry to hear what is being created in today's music
scene.

Courtney Sherman and a very small consortium and will be performing the 15
one-minute works form the composers: Dominic Blake, David Bohn, Scott
Brickman, Ethan Helm, Traci Mendel, David A. Miller, Nicholaus Meyers,
Alexander Nohai-Seaman, Sandra Emiline Goss Norell, Eurydice V. Osterman,
Akmal Parwez, David J. Ramsey, Jr., Brennan Stokes, Phil Taylor, and Douglas
Wagone.

Courtney Sherman
<http://www.voxnovus.com/img/Fifteen_Minutes_of_Fame_logo_new.jpg>

"...the 15 Minutes of Fame project of Vox Novus is a godsend. It organizes
competitions whereby ensembles commission worldwide calls for submissions of
approximately one-minute pieces, and then select their 15 favorites for
premieres. " - NY Music Culture Examiner

".the pieces are performed in quick succession and each has a character of
its own, the audience is treated to a kaleidoscope of styles; in turn
textural and tonal, avant-garde and neo-romantic... the entire smorgasbord
of contemporary idioms was playing a game of musical chairs, so to speak,
and the effect was thrilling. " - Damjan Rakonjac, Artificialist

the ensemble will also be performing the longer works of Zach Seely and Jeff
Weston

Zach Seely <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Zach_Seely.jpg>

Zach Seely is a composer, conductor, and guitarist/improvisor from New York.
He is currently a master's student at Bowling Green State University in
Ohio, majoring in music composition and studying with Elainie Lillios.
Zach's primary composition teachers have included Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf,
Arthur Kampela, and Annette LeSiege. His music often explores silence
coupled with complex rhythms and a wide range of timbres employed through
the use of extended-techniques. When describing his compositional goals,
Zach says "I want my music to be honest. It serves as an extension of my
life, which is my ultimate artwork." More information about his work can be
found on www.zachmusicseely.com

Jeff Weston <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Jeff_Weston.jpg>

Jeff Weston (b. 1986) composes music at the University of Pittsburgh, where
he works toward a PhD. His music is concentrated on exploring modes of
expressivity through the interactions of balance, repetition, space and
physicality. Teachers have included Amy Williams, Eric Moe, Louis
Andriessen, Christopher Dietz, Mikel Kuehn and Elainie Lillios. Weston has
garnered performances and fellowships at such venues as the International
Young Composers' Forum, Cal State University New Music Festival, Red Note
New Music Festival, North American Saxophone Alliance National Conference,
Contagious Sounds Series, Iowa Composers' Forum, Bowling Green State
University New Music Festival, University of Alberta NCounters Festival,
University of Toronto, soundSCAPE Festival in Maccagno, Italy and Radio
France.

Completing the concert will be performances from saxophonists: Geoffrey
Landman, Kristen McKeon, and Erin Rogers With compositions by Kristen McKeon
and Viola Yip.

Geoffrey Landman <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Geoffrey_Landman.jpg>

Saxophonist Geoffrey Landman is a performer, teacher, and advocate of the
saxophone and new music. Having performed across North America, France,
Germany, Scotland, Switzerland, Thailand, and in some of New York City's
most well-known music venues, he has collaborated with ensembles such as
Either/Or, Talea Ensemble, the Metropolis Ensemble, Fireworks Ensemble,
Opera Cabal, and is a founding member and soprano chair of the New Thread
Quartet. Geoffrey has won many competitions including Yamaha Young
Performing Artist Competition, as well as prizes at the Fischoff National
Chamber Music Competition.

Kristen McKeon <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Kristen_McKeon.jpg>

Kristen McKeon appearances include performances at the Navy Band Saxophone
Symposium, the New England Saxophone Symposium, the Aeolus International
Wind Competition in Dusseldorf, Germany, a world premiere of Gabriel
Lubell's He Guards the Vision of the Sunset Sky for Solo Saxophone and
String Quintet at the 2010 North American Saxophone Alliance Biennial
Conference, and the 2012 World Saxophone Conference in St. Andrews,
Scotland. Kristen has enjoyed opportunities to be billed on several concert
series including Carmel Music Society's Summer Subscription Series in
Carmel, California, thingNY's "Seven Immediacies Series", the New England
Conservatory Composers' Series, and the Composers Now Festival in New York,
NY..

Erin Rogers <http://www.voxnovus.com/member/pic/Erin_Rogers.jpg>

Composer and saxophonist Erin Rogers is dedicated to the compositional
process while specializing in improvisatory performance practice and the
interpretation and proliferation of new music. Her works have been performed
worldwide at the Circulo de Bellas Artes, Madrid; Museum Concert Hall,
Taiwan; Le Cite Universitaire, Paris; and at the World Saxophone Congress in
St. Andrews, Scotland. Erin is a composer and founding member of thingNY. An
established saxophonist, Erin has toured worldwide as a soloist, chamber
musician, and guest artist, with performances ranging from solo recitals in
France, to instrumental pop shows in South Korea, to cover bands in
Australia. She regularly teams up with chamber, pop and indie groups in New
York City, headlining the scene's hottest venues including The Stone, Cake
Shop, The Bitter End, and Le Poisson Rouge.

Viola Yip <http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Viola_Yip.jpg>

A native of Hong Kong, Viola Yip is a New York-based composer and performer,
who tries to find the boundaries and push them in her sound world. Her
compositions are not limited to acoustic music, electronic music, graphic
scores and structured improvisations. Recent works have appeared in ArtX at
Bowling Green State University, Women Composers Festival of Hartford,
Ravinia Festival, Fresh Inc Festival, soundSCAPE Festival, TEDXSMU,
University of Florida, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, NASA
saxophone conference, ThingNY spam v3.0 concert, Quiet City concert, Vox
Novus Concert, Musicarama concert series (Hong Kong) and PAUSA Art House
(Buffalo). Her teachers include Richard Carrick, Christopher Coleman,
Christopher Keyes, Derek Johnson, Christopher Dietz and Elainie Lillios. The
materclasses/ individual lessons with Josh Levine, David Rakowski, Amy Beth
Kirsten, Daniel Peter Biro, Claus-Steffen Mahnkopf has also imposed a
significant influence on her music. As a new music advocate, she performs
contemporary works regularly as a pianist, speaker and improviser. Her
recent interest falls on using her own voice as an instrument and exploring
the expressivity and musicality of the human natural voice.

One of the premier showcases for promising composers, Composer's Voice
Concert Series is an opportunity for contemporary composers and musicians to
express their musical aesthetic and personal "voice." Composer's Voice has
presented over 100 concerts in New York City and scores of performances in
venues throughout the world.

"[Vox Novus offers] the presentation of serious works by established and
emerging composers. Those voices should be heard, and they can even be
reheard on the Vox Novus website (http://www.VoxNovus.com)..." - New Music
Connoisseur

<http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/program/14-01-12.htm> Click here to
see the concert program

Composer <http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/program/14-01-12.htm> 's
Voice Concert
Sunday, January 12, 2014 1:00 pm
Jan Hus Church
351 East 74th Street
(between First and Second Avenues) New York, New York FREE ADMISSION

60x60 Dance <http://www.voxnovus.com/img/60x60_Dance_logo_2012-250.jpg>


60x60 Dance <http://www.voxnovus.com/60x60>


Wednesday
January 15, 2014
6:00 PM


Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 6:00 PM at D.B. Clarke Theatre, Hall Building
(H-0050), 1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W., Sir George Williams campus in
Montreal, Canada will host 60x60 Dance. Free of charge. Everyone welcome.

Sixty musical works, 60 seconds or less, played in succession for a total of
60 minutes, with a giant clock keeping count.

That's 60x60, an event concept that's spread across the world in the decade
since it was created to showcase a maximum amount of new music to the
largest possible audience. Initially featuring music only, the format lends
itself to collaborations with artists from other disciplines such as video
and dance, each work of which also lasts 60 seconds.

On January 15, the departments of Music, Theatre and Contemporary Dance will
be joining forces at the D.B. Clarke Theatre to present a unique version of
60x60 that includes theatre and dance elements.

It's a multi-sensory production/performance," says Eldad Tsabary, an
assistant professor in the music department and former Canadian director of
60x60 who brought the event to Concordia.

"The opportunity to work with artists of other media is very inspiring," he
says. "It's interesting to see dance, theatre and electroacoustic students
discussing and using the same terms - such as 'texture' - but meaning
different things. This process expands their concepts of creativity."

Juried musical works will be arranged into a macro-composition exactly one
hour long and then uploaded, in sequence, to a private webpage. The
participating dance and theatre students will choose the pieces they want to
interpret by visiting the page to listen to the music and reading the brief
descriptions of the composers and the works.

Several 60x60 events have been held at Concordia since 2008, including the
Canadian debut in 2009 of 60x60 Dance, for which dance students
choreographed works to accompany each composition, and the first 60x60
+Dance +Theatre event 2013.

Wednesday, January 15, 2014, 6:00 PM
D.B. Clarke Theatre, Hall Building (H-0050)
1455 De Maisonneuve Blvd. W.,
Sir George Williams campus
Montreal, Canada
FREE ADMISSION



Calendar

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<http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/> Composer's Voice
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<http://www.voxnovus.com/resources/American_Composer_Timeline.htm> American
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Opportunities

Fifteen Minutes of Fame
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<http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/>
Fifteen Minutes of Fame

CALL FOR SCORES


Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Viola Yip - Dedication


Deadline: January 11, 2013


Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces for solo speaking voice composed
for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame: Viola Yip - Dedication to be performed May 11,
2014 for the Composer's Voice concert series at the Jan Hus Church in New
York City. The one-minute pieces are to be written specifically for this
project, which will be performed by Viola Yip. We are looking for a set of
15 one-minute creative and adventurous pieces for solo speaking voice for
the concert. As the speaking voice is the natural instrument of human
beings, composers are encouraged to explore what that instrument allows us
to express. The theme of this call is Dedication. The composer can interpret
this freely!

<http://www.voxnovus.com/composer/pic/Viola_Yip.jpg>


Viola Yip

Viola Yip, a native of Hong Kong, is a Brooklyn-based composer and
performer, who tries to find the boundaries and push the boundaries in her
imaginary sound world. As a new music advocate, she also performs
contemporary works regularly as a pianist and an improviser. Her recent
interest falls on using human natural voice as an instrument and explore its
expressivity and musicality.

<http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/#14-01-11-dedication>
Click here for more details

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