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48 Hours

Nov. 5-7, 2021 with the Spektral Quartet

Made possible by 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)

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.  The ensemble for 2021 is Chicago-based Spektral Quartet.

DEADLINE:  August 31, noon

If you are interested in being considered for this project, please send an email to David Dzubay by August 31 (noon).

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.
  • approx. 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. 5-7, 2021

In advance of this weekend (during October, likely), the Spektral Quartet will visit our Wednesday Forum to discuss composing for string quartet (via Zoom).

Friday, Nov. 5

11:30 am.   Participant meeting. 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.

12:00 pm.   48 Hour window opens; Participating composers can begin work.

Saturday, Nov. 6

1:00 pm – 4:00 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 noon on the shared signup sheet.

2:00 pm – 5:00 pm. Ensemble Consultations, MC66.  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 1:00 on the shared signup sheet.

8:00, Auer Hall.  Guest Recital featuring the Spektral Quartet; music by Dutilleux, Debussy, and Thorvaldsdottir.

Sunday, Nov. 7

12:00 pm. Score Deadline.  PDF of the score must be submitted electronically by 12:00pm to a shared folder (link provided Friday).  Scores should be formatted for portrait legal size and 7mm minimum for staves.  Filename begins with composer last name:

<last name>_<title>_<score>.pdf.

No parts will be required; the quartet will read the scores from iPads.

1:30 pm – 5:30 pm, MA452 1:30-2:30; RH 2:30-5:30. Dress Rehearsal in concert order (alphabetical).  Each participant will have approx. 25 minutes of rehearsal with the quartet.  Order and approx. time (be early): 1:30 Younje Cho, 1:55 Xinglan Deng; 2:20 BREAK; 2:40 August Fackler;  3:05 Jamey Guzman, 3:30 Luke Henry; 3:55 Dustin Ledgard; 4:20 BREAK; 4:35 Shuyu Lin; 5:00 Jonathan Rickert

7:00 pm, Recital Hall. CONCERT/RECORDING. Live performances of the new works by Spektral Quartet.
streamed at IUMusicLive.

~8:00 pm post-concert reception for all in MC066

Nov. 6-8, 2020 with WET INK

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)