Nov. 1 – 3, 2024 with [Switch~ Ensemble]
Made possible by the generous funding from the Fox Family Trust
The 7pm Sunday evening recital (in Recital Hall) of brand-new student compositions will be streamed live at IUMusicLive.
Additionally, the audience is invited to a reception following the concert in MC066.
[Switch~ Ensemble]
2024 Composers:
Daixuan Ai (Hunan, China); Sy Anderson (San Francisco, CA); Elijah Culp (Rochester, NY); Yuanning Gao (Philadelphia, PA); Ye-chong Jeon (Seoul, South Korea); Rowan Lemaster (Cincinnati, OH); Jake Rogus (Northbrook, IL); Coda Scheuer (Westlake, OH)
CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
IU composition majors are invited to express interest in being considered for participation in a weekend-long project called 48 Hours and consisting of an intense period of 48 hours in which students compose works for a visiting chamber ensemble after being given a composition “prompt” by the ensemble on Friday.
ELIGIBILITY & DETAILS
- Current enrollment as an IU JSoM composition major.
- Undergraduates must have status of Junior or higher.
- Graduate students must have completed at least one year at IU.
- Previous participants are ineligible.
- Students with important NME, Joshi and Vickers commissions are ineligible during the academic year they are having those works premiered.
- Participants will be chosen by the composition faculty, with the aim of involving as many students in this as possible over time; there will be a special emphasis on the involvement of undergraduates, though some graduate students will participate each year as well.
- 8 composers will be chosen to participate.
- duration limit is 5 minutes (of human performance time, not MIDI); no exception.
- composition is not to begin until the prompt is delivered on Friday.
SCHEDULE: Nov. 1 – 3, 2024
Friday, Nov. 1
10:00 am. Participant meeting (by Zoom). Participating composers are provided access to the requirements, rules, and restrictions pertaining to the event. Someone from the group will join the meeting to introduce the composition prompt.
10:30am. 48 Hour window opens; Participating composers can begin work.
Saturday, Nov. 2
9:00 am – 12:00 pm. Faculty Consultations by Zoom. Participating composers have the opportunity to meet participating composition professors of choice for up to 20 minutes to discuss their progress and decisions regarding the work. Sign up for times by 8:00am on the shared signup sheet.
1:00 pm – 2:45 pm. Ford Hall. [Switch~ Ensemble] Dress Rehearsal.
3:00 pm – 4:00 pm. Ford Hall. Guest Recital featuring [Switch~ Ensemble].
Program:
Julius Eastman: Buddha
Clara Iannotta: dead wasps in the jam-jar (i) for solo violin
Lisa Streich: ASCHE for cello & clarinet
Alex Mincek: Pendulum III for alto saxophone & piano
Gerard Pesson: Nocturnes en quatuor for violin, cello, clarinet, & piano
6:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Ensemble Consultations, MC066. Participating composers have the opportunity to meet with the ensemble for 15-25 minutes to discuss their progress and decisions regarding the work. Sign up for times by 1:00pm on the shared signup sheet.
Sunday, Nov. 3
10:30 am. Score Deadline. PDF of score ONLY (no individual parts needed) must be submitted electronically by 10:30am to a shared folder (link provided Friday). Scores should be formatted for portrait, and parts should be 7mm minimum for staves.
Filename begins with composer last name:
<last name>_<title>_<score>.pdf.
1:30 pm – 5:40 pm (MC040, 1:30-3:05; RH 4:00-5:40). Dress Rehearsal in concert order (alphabetical). Each participant will have approx. 25 minutes of rehearsal with the ensemble. Order and approx. time (be early): 1:30 Daixuan Ai; 1:55 Sy Anderson; 2:20 Elijah Culp; 2:45 Yuanning Gao; 3:05 BREAK; 4:00 Ye-chong Jeon; 4:25 Rowan Lemaster; 4:50 Jake Rogus; 5:15 Coda Scheuer; 5:40 END.
7:00 pm – 8:00 pm. Recital Hall. CONCERT/RECORDING. Live performances of the new works by [Switch~ Ensemble].
streamed at IUMusicLive.
8:00 pm – 9:00 pm. Post-concert vegan reception for all in MC066.
Oct. 27 – 29, 2023 with Hub New Music
Made possible by the generous funding from the Fox Family Trust
The 7pm Sunday evening recital (in Recital Hall) of brand-new student compositions will be streamed live at IUMusicLive.
Additionally, the audience is invited to a reception following the concert in MC070.
Hub New Music
2023 Composers:
Christian Courage Barda (Indianapolis, IN); KiMani Bridges (Louisville, KY); Addison Hightower (Bloomington, IN); Mil Carroll (Chicago, IL); Yao Hsiao (Keelung, Taiwan); Noah Burns (Joliet, IL); Em Singleton (Gainesville, FL); Elijah Buerk (Centralia, IL)
Nov. 4 – 6, 2022 with the PRISM Quartet
Made possible by the generous funding from the Fox Family Trust
The 7pm Sunday evening recital (in Recital Hall) of brand new student compositions will be streamed live at IUMusicLive.
Additionally, the audience is invited to a reception following the concert in MC066.
PRISM Quartet
2022 composers:
Jingyang Cui (Nanjing, China), Evan Fontaine (Greenfield, Indiana), Ben Hoppe (Glen Ellyn, Illinois), Hunter Johnson (Orlando, Florida), Eunji Lee (Seoul, South Korea), Edmund Song (Singapore), Linlin Wang (Changsha, Hunan, China)
Nov. 5-7, 2021 with the Spektral Quartet
Made possible by the generous funding from the Fox Family Trust
The 7pm Sunday evening recital (in Recital Hall) of brand new student compositions will be streamed live at IUMusicLive.
Additionally, the audience is invited to a reception following the concert in MC66.
2021 composers:
Younje Cho (MM, Seoul, South Korea), Xinglan Deng (BM, Shanghai, China), August Fackler (BM, Lakeside, Ohio), Jamey Guzman (BM, Sacramento, California), Luke Henry (BM, Memphis, Tennessee), Dustin Ledgard (BM, Newton, Massachusetts), Shuyu Lin (DM, Xiamen, China), Jonathan Rickert (BM, Bloomington, Indiana)
Nov. 6-8, 2020 with WET INK
Made possible by the generous funding from the Fox Family Trust
Streamed Concert: Sunday, November 8, 2020, 6pm: YouTube Live
Composers: Chase Fox (BM, Bethesda, MD), Yuseok Seol (DM, Incheon, South Korea), Oliver Kwapis (MM, Los Angeles, California), Alex Tedrow (BM, Shoals, Indiana), Walker Smith (BM, Knoxville, TN), Matthew Levin (BM, Munster, Indiana), Benjamin Rieke (BM, Naperville IL), Anne Liao (BM, Shantou, China), Daniel Nieberg (BM, San Diego, California), Anton Von Sehrwald (BM, Austin, Texas)
