[Voxnovus] Lehner String Quartet Looking for Composers to Produce their String Quartets

[Robert Voisey]

Lehner String Quartet Looking for Composers to Produce their String
Quartets

Vox Novus in collaboration with Virtual Concert Halls is looking for
composers who are interested in supporting a performance and LIVE online
video recording of their string quarters. Selected composers will have
their string quartet presented on a special Composer’s Voice online
concert hosted by Virtual Concert Halls and broadcasted LIVE online to 5
streaming platforms: Youtube, Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch, and Periscope.
All performances will be archived on their related platforms.

Composers will be featured LIVE online during the concert to present
themselves and describe their works to the audience. A host will
introduce the musicians and the composers.

In order to present this online publication of their works, composers
will be asked to sign and agree to a consent form for online publication
and promotion. Agreements will be non-exclusive for all parties.

The deadline to submit scores is February 8, 2021.

Composers need to submit their string quartets online to New Music
Engine.

There is a $30 submission fee to be paid to Vox Novus using the PayPal
button on this webpage

Selected composers have a $1100 production fee to cover musician fees
and broadcasting costs.

Composers will receive 2 online rehearsals (30 minutes each) and
performance of your string quartet broadcasted live online to YouTube,
Facebook, Vimeo, Twitch and Periscope by Virtual Concert Halls. You will
have a video and audio copy your work with non-exclusive rights to do
with what you wish. (All artists and producers are expected to be
credited in publications.)

Guidelines:

Works need to be a maximum of 15 minutes in length.

Scores need to be submitted as a PDF file including all parts.

An Audio Realization sound file of the work as MP3 is required..

Works need to be submitted by February 8, 2021.

150 word biography.

150 word program notes.

Selected composers are required to participate for the online
performance with an interview and presentation of their piece.

Selected composers will also be asked to sign a consent form for public
online performance.

Composers selected for digital publication will be required to sign a
publication agreement.

Guidelines:

Work written for string quartet (Violin 1, Violin 2. Viola, and Cello)

Work needs to be less than 15 minutes in length.

There is a submission fee of $30

Deadline for work is February 8, 2021

Work must be submitted to newmusicengine.org

Composers will be asked to register to New Music Engine and provide the
following:

-Biography

-Program Notes

-Score as a PDF file - PDF score must include all 4 instrument parts

-Audio Realization of the work uploaded as MP3 file

-$30 submission fee (Merchant Transaction ID from your PayPal receipt to
Vox Novus)

Lehner String Quartet

Natasha Bogachek, violin
Zino Bogachek, violin
Philippe Chao, viola
Igor Zubkovsky, cello

The string quartet is composed of four talented musicians who are
members of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (Washington National
Opera): Violinists Natasha Bogachek and Zino Bogachek, violist Philippe
Chao, and cellist Igor Zubkovsky. Each are accomplished performers in
their own right, they have a history of performing together to bring
music to audiences around the world. Virtual Concert Halls and Vox Novus
are proud to feature these string players to present new music by living
composers.

Violinist Natasha Bogachek, a native of Russia, received her B.M. and
M.M. degrees from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory and
continued her studies at the Peabody Conservatory. Iin the United
States, she has appeared as a soloist with the National Symphony,
Knoxville Symphony, Centennial Philharmonic, and Eclipse Chamber
Orchestras, and performed with various chamber music groups throughout
the country. Ms. Bogachek was a member of the Knoxville Symphony and the
North Carolina Symphony prior to joining the National Symphony Orchestra
in September 2000.

www.kennedy-center.org/artists/b/bo-bz/natasha-bogachek/

Ukranian-born American violinist Zino Bogachek has received broad
critical acclaim for his technical facility and emotional
expressiveness. Known for his uncompromising individuality and
wide-ranging musical interests, he has performed extensively as a
soloist, recitalist and chamber music collaborator throughout the former
USSR, Poland, Austria, Mexico, Italy and the U.S. Mr. Bogachek was
Principal Second Violin of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra before
joining the the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra in 1999.

www.kennedy-center.org/artists/b/bo-bz/zino-bogachek/

Philippe Chao enjoys a wide-ranging career as an orchestral, solo and
collaborative performer as well as a respected teacher and coach. A
tenured member of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, he also
performs as Principal Violist with The Post-Classical Ensemble and as an
extra musician with the National, Detroit, and Baltimore Symphonies. He
spends his summers as a member of the Grand Teton Music Festival in
Jackson, Wyoming. As part of the Cappelletti-Chao Duo has performed
throughout the country in a variety of venues from concert halls to
music festivals to salon concert series’ and have appeared on live
radio. His decade-long collaboration has resulted in several works
having being written specially for the duo, including Divertimento by
the renowned American composer, Adolphus Hailstork.

www.kennedy-center.org/artists/c/ca-cn/philippe-chao/

Igor Zubkovsky started playing cello in his native Russia. He first
appeared as a soloist with the Minsk State Philharmonic Orchestra at the
age of twelve, performing the Haydn C Major Cello Concerto. Later, he
studied at the Moscow Conservatory with Natalia Shakhovskaya, the Gold
Medalist of the 1962 Tchaikovsky Competition. Mr. Zubkovsky won top
prizes at international competitions, including the International Cello
Competition in Minsk, Belarus (II prize), and the Tansman Competition in
Lodz, Poland (Grand Prix). Since 2003, Mr. Zubkovsky has been a member
of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra, and continues to perform
extensively as a soloist and chamber musician. He has appeared at Merkin
Concert Hall in New York and the prestigious Newport Music Festival. He
is the author of numerous arrangements and transcriptions of duets and
trios featuring the cello. He premiered the Cello Sonata by Isaac
Mikhnovsky.

www.kennedy-center.org/artists/z/zo-zz/igor-zubkovsky/
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