Collage New Music and the Longy School of Music Present

Collage Composers Colloquium (CCC)

Saturday, October 5, 2024, 10am-5pm

Longy School of Music of Bard College
27 Garden St. Cambridge

FEATURING MENTOR COMPOSERS

Juri Seo, Associate Professor, Princeton University

Wang Lu, Associate Professor, Brown University

Alexandra du Bois, Chair of Composition, Longy School of Music

Join Collage New Music on Saturday, October 5, 2024, for an event-filled day that brings together composers in the greater Boston region for workshops and talks. The day provides opportunities for composers to meet and share ideas with each other, and benefit from observations on their own music by guest composers Juri Seo (Princeton University) and Wang Lu (Brown University), as well as Longy composition faculty Alexandra du Bois (Chair of Composition and Theory).

Registered participants may submit a recent work to be considered for workshop/critique sessions with Juri Seo, Wang Lu and Alexandra du Bois. From the applications, several composers’ works will be chosen for discussion. All registered participants will receive admission to the CCC, pizza lunch, and a ticket for the following day’s pre-concert talk and season-opening concert. While registration for the CCC will remain open on a rolling basis, entries must be submitted by September 20, 2024, to be considered for the masterclass.

Schedule

10:00-12:00 Workshop Session 1 with Wang Lu and Alexandra du Bois
12:00-1:00. Lunch
1:00-2:00 Wang Lu and Juri Seo speak on their music
2:00-2:20 Break/Snacks
2:20-4:40 Workshop Session 2 with Juri Seo

ELIGIBILITY

The Colloquium is open to composers of any age and educational background.

REGISTRATION PROCEDURES

All submissions should be submitted electronically via the application form below.

To have your score considered for the composition masterclass, you must apply by September 20th.

Please include the following:

Full score in PDF format. (Works should be no more than 12 minutes in length)
A recording of a performance of the composition (MP3 or WAV format). Excerpts of the works chosen will be played and discussed at the masterclass. MIDI/computer realization recordings are allowed.
Your contact information, including name, institutional affiliation, address, email, and a brief bio.

Each registered participant who submits a composition will be notified as to whether their work will be discussed at the workshop.

All registered participants will be part of the seminar discussion.

Any composer who applies/registers is guaranteed acceptance to the Colloquium, but only a select number will be invited to present their music at the workshop sessions (they will be notified by October 1). You do not need to apply to the Colloquium in order to attend the day as a non-presenting participant.

Admission to the Colloquium is with a $15 Participant fee, payable online. See more information below.

Fees

There is no fee to apply!

The fee to attend the colloquium is $15 admission for all participants.

What you get with a participant fee:

Attend the entire day of the Collage Composers Colloquium (Oct. 5)
Free pizza lunch with other participants (Oct. 5)
Free tickets for Collage’s Season Opening Concert (Sunday, October 6; Pre-Concert talk at 6:30pm, Concert at 7:30pm)
Free Post-Concert reception (Oct. 6)

For more information or questions, please email info@collagenewmusic.org.