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Composers' Forum
The Composers’ Forum, under the direction of
Senior Composer-in-Residence Donald
Crockett, involves both participants and
faculty at the Conference in contemporary music.
Composers-in-Residence
The Conference invites a Composer-in-Residence to attend each of Weeks 1, 2, and 3 and commissions the Composer-in-Residence to write a chamber work specifically for a participant group to
prepare for performance at a Participant Recital. Previously composed works by
these composers are performed by faculty groups on the Conference Concert Series as well.
Composers-in-Residence coach participant
groups both on their own commissioned works and on other works in the chamber
music literature.
The Composers-in-Residence for 2009 are Lisa Bielawa (Week 1), Daniel Godfrey (Week 2), and John Fitz Rogers (Week 3).
Past Composers-in-Residence at the Conference include
the first three recipients
of the prestigious Charles Ives Living Award from the American Academy of Arts
and Letters: Martin Bresnick, Chen Yi, and Stephen Hartke.
Composition Fellows
The Conference also invites a
Composition Fellow to attend each of Weeks 1, 2, and 3 as participants. Each Composition Fellow has a work
prepared and performed by a participant group and has opportunities throughout
the week to work with the Composer-in-Residence and to have chamber works read
and critiqued.
The Composition Fellows for 2009 are Aaron Gervais, Eric Merten, and Alex Miller.
Acknowledgements
The Conference is supported in part by the
Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia University and the
National Endowment for the Arts. Composers' Forum residencies are funded in part
through Meet The Composer's MetLife Creative Connections program. |