[Voxnovus] Call for Submissions - Collaboration & Accompaniment

[New Voice in New Music]

Call for Submissions - Collaboration & Accompaniment
https://www.newmusicengine.org/categories/Collaboration--Accompaniment-with-Andrew-White-2024/index.html

Composer's Voice Features baritone Andrew White

Vox Novus is calling for works for baritone Andrew White and electronic 
accompaniment.

This event will happen live online broadcasted to several video 
streaming platforms with a possibility of an audio video recording

The main purpose and goal of this online event is to foster and broaden 
the art song genre. This event creates an opportunity for composers to 
express their "Voice" or e musical ideas as well as explore and 
experiment with accompaniment through the digital video medium. 
Composers are encouraged to be experimental or just compose outside 
their comfort zone to create works for this project.

Any accompaniment is applicable including instrumental realizations, 
field recordings, or electronic and/or synthesized soundscapes. Special 
emphasis will be given to immersive pieces.

Our secondary purpose of this project is to introduce Andrew White to 
new composers and those composers to Andrew White. It is also a chance 
to introduce living composers to audiences giving them a chance to talk 
about their work and how they go about creating it. Besides the 
performance of the works, Andrew White will lead a discussion with the 
selected composers speaking about their compositions and careers.

The online performance will take place on April 6, 2024 2:30 PM EDT 
(UTC-4)

Collaboration and accompaniment is an online project of the Composer's 
Voice concert series empowering living composers and the musicians who 
champion new music.

Composer's Voice is a Vox Novus project.

Guidelines:

Works need to be 10 minutes or less in length

Scores need to be submitted as a PDF

An electronic accompaniment is required. (Any accompaniment is 
applicable including instrumental realizations, recordings, or 
electronic and/or synthesized soundscapes.)

Works need to be submitted by February 16, 2024

Work must be submitted to newmusicengine.org Composers will be asked to 
register to New Music Engine and provide the following:

Headshot of the composer

200 word biography

200 word program notes

Score as a PDF file

Electronic Accompaniment as an audio file

Audio Realization of the work uploaded as an audio file

Selected composers are required to participate online with an interview 
and dialogue with the host and artist

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

Works need to be written for baritone voice and electronic accompaniment

Baritone Andrew White

Dr. Andrew White currently serves on the voice faculty of the University 
of Nebraska at Kearney. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters Degree, as 
well as an Artist Diploma and Doctorate from The Cleveland Institute of 
Music/Case Western Reserve University. Previous faculty positions 
include Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The University of Akron, 
Hiram College, Lake Erie College, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory 
of Music, and Ashland University. In 1995 he made his New York debut in 
Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in a program devoted to the songs of 
Frederick Koch with the composer at the piano. Ken Smith of New York 
Concert Review hailed Andrew White as "a formidable interpreter" Every 
song composer should be so lucky with collaborators."

You can find performances of his work here:

https://youtu.be/SK1IC4w91Us?si=_iYeiHirBAoxS7gl

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z6Vv_KW-4hY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5FBzW7lYR7Q