[Voxnovus] Hichiriki Workshop for composers with hichiriki player Thomas Piercy

[Robert Voisey]

Looking for composers to workshop their pieces for hichiriki with Thomas
Piercy
Deadline: May 21st, 2021

Vox Novus is looking for composers to workshop their 1-3 minute works
composed for hichiriki. Selected works will be work shopped with Thomas
Piercy online with Virtual Concert Halls on June 24th, 2021 at 2:00 PM
Eastern U.S. Time. (GMT-4)

Works should be short and can be still in progress to completion.

There is a $1.50 submission fee. If selected, composers will be asked to
pay $15 to participate in the workshop. The workshop will be held online at
Virtual Concert Halls.

Composers can expect a reading of their work by Thomas Piercy and
approximately 10 minutes of feedback, guidance, suggestions, and best
practices regarding writing for the hichiriki. No more than 8 composers
will be participating in a single workshop session and the session will be
a maximum of 90 minutes. After all of the composers have been workshopped
there will be a brief question and answer period.

To participate in the workshop being presented with Virtual Concert Halls,
composers will need to have a good connection to the internet. Composers
will also need a webcam, microphone, and preferably headphones. No extra
software besides a web browser will be needed.

Composers can visit Thomas Piercy’s website Hichiriki page which has
playing samples and instructions for composing for Hichiriki.
http://www.thomaspiercy.com/hichiriki-3173131717.html

Composers are also strongly encouraged to participate and workshop their
works in preparation for Thomas Piercy’s call for works for
Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame for the Hichiriki.
Guidelines:
-Works are for hichiriki solo.
-Works and work samples should be 1-3 minutes in length
-Composers may submit multiple works for review.
-Works need to be submitted online at https://www.newmusicengine.org/
https://www.newmusicengine.org/categories/Looking-for-composers-to-works...
-You will need to provide a maximum 100 word biography and 100 word program
notes.
-You will be able to upload a score as a PDF file
-A $1.50 submission fee can be paid on PayPal at the following link:
http://www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/workshop/
-If selected, composers will be asked for $15 to register and participate
in the workshop.
-Deadline for submission is May 21st, 2021 Composers will be contacted to
register for the online class.

Thomas Piercy
Thomas Piercy is a critically acclaimed musician with orchestral, concerto,
solo and chamber music appearances throughout the Americas, Europe and
Asia. His performances have been described by critics as "passionate,"
"pulling out all the stops," "the best Piazzolla in NYC," and by the New
York Times as "brilliant," "playing with refinement and flair" and "evoking
a panache in the contemporary works." He studied at the Juilliard School
and Mannes College of Music. He studied clarinet extensively with the
English clarinetist Gervase De Peyer; additional studies were with Kalmen
Opperman and Leon Russianoff. Hichiriki studies were with Hitomi Nakamura
in Tokyo. A versatile artist defying categorization - the clarinetist on
the Emmy Award-winning Juno Baby CD and DVDs; performing Mozart with
mezzo-soprano Frederica von Stade; playing Broadway songs with Raoul Julia;
working with the composer Leonard Bernstein; appearing in a KRS-ONE rap
music video; performing concert improvisations with jazz pianist Donal Fox;
premiering new works; recording with members of Maroon 5 - as an
instrumentalist, he has performed and recorded for Broadway and
Off-Broadway, commercial recordings, television, radio, videos, and movie
soundtracks. Mr. Piercy has performed at many acclaimed concerts halls
including Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Kennedy Center, the Dame Myra
Hess Memorial Concert Series (Chicago, Illinois), Centre Pompidou (Paris,
France), Wigmore Hall (London, England), Accademia di Santa Cecilia (Rome,
Italy) and Tokyo Opera City Hall (Tokyo, Japan). He has performed and
premiered over 200 compositions written for him, including works from
emerging composers to composers that have won such prominent awards as the
Takemitsu Prize, the Geneva Composition Prize, the Grammy Award, the Latin
Grammy Award, and the Pulitzer Prize.  He has had arrangements and
transcriptions published by Boosey & Hawkes, and contributed to clarinet
study books and clarinet compositions published by Carl Fischer, Inc., and
Baron Publishing. Recordings available on such labels as the Albany,
Capstone, Changing Tones, DGA, NJSF and Tonada labels.
More information at www/ThomasPiercy.com.
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