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Sound Encounters 2007: A Performance Workshop for Contemporary Music

An intensive performance workshop exploring 20th and 21st century music. The seminar will open on June 13 with a faculty concert featuring the music of composer in residence Kenji Bunch. Participants will receive daily coachings and masterclasses with members of the faculty on selected solo and chamber music repertoire culminating in two student concerts on Sunday, June 17, 2007.

The repertoire will encompass a broad range of contemporary chamber and solo music with special emphasis on the works of Kenji Bunch, who will offer a Friday evening lecture in addition to coachings on his music throughout the workshop. Suggested works will be listed on the website (www.soundencounters.info), but additional suggestions from participants accepted into the workshop are also welcomed.

Violinists, violists, cellists, pianists, flutists and clarinetists may apply as individuals or as pre-formed ensembles comprised of any combination of the aforementioned instruments. String quartets, woodwind quintets and piano trios are also encouraged to apply.

While composers are welcome to attend Sound Encounters as auditors, they are also invited to apply under the "composer" category and submit for consideration their own works written for any combination of the instrumentation represented amongst the Sound Encounters faculty. One of the afternoon group sessions at the workshop will be devoted to a public reading by the faculty and subsequent interactive discussion of the chosen composers' works. A recording of this session will be made available to participating composers, but cannot be used for commercial purposes.

Auditors are invited to attend any or all of the workshops, with special encouragement given to composers, who will have an opportunity to share a meal and informal discussion with Kenji Bunch. Auditors may also be performers who only wish to observe and not participate in the workshops. If time permits, auditors may also sign up for private lessons with the faculty at NEC's current studio rate of $89 per hour.

Please click here to go to the NEC Summer School Home Page. Sound Encounters is listed under Institutes.

PRELIMINARY SCHEDULE:

Wednesday, June 13, 2007
11:00 a.m. Registration and sign-in
12:00 Noon Orientation; faculty welcome, distribution of schedules
1:00 - 5:00 p.m. Faculty rehearsals (students may watch, practice or rehearse)
8:00 p.m. Faculty concert

Thursday, June 14, 2007
10:00am - 1:00 p.m. Coachings and lessons
2:00pm - 5:00 p.m. Group masterclass or coachings and lessons
Evening for individual practice and rehearsals

Friday, June 15, 2007
10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m. Coachings and lessons
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Lunch and discussion for composers with Kenji Bunch
3:00 - 6:00 p.m. Composer readings and interactive discussions
7:30 p.m. Lecture and discussion with Kenji Bunch

Saturday, June 16, 2007
10:00 -1:00 p.m. Coachings and lessons
2:00 - 5:00 p.m. Group masterclass or coachings and lessons
8:00 p.m. All-workshop dinner

Sunday, June 17, 2007
8:00 -11:30 a.m. Sound checks
12:00 noon Student concert
3:00 p.m. Student concert

APPLICATION PROCEDURE:
Admission is on a first-come, first -served basis. Applications will be accepted from advanced students and professionals age 18 or higher. Applicants must submit a CD consisting of two (2) contrasting works or movements, one of which must have been written after 1950. (No minidisks, cassettes or videos will be accepted.) Applicants must also submit a resume, two (2) letters of recommendation, and a choice of repertoire they are interested in studying and performing. Please send all application materials to:

Carol Rodland
New England Conservatory of Music
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, Massachusetts, 02115 USA

Applications are to be received no later than April 15, 2007; notification of acceptance will be mailed by April 30, 2007. Participants accepted into the workshop are expected to arrive already having learned the music they will perform or study.

HOUSING:
Available at a nearby campus; call the Margaret Ulmer, Summer School Director at 617-585-1126 or e-mail mulmer@newenglandconservatory.edu for more information.

FINANCIAL AID:
Available. Please include a statement of need in with your application.

REGISTRATION:
Performing participants: upon acceptance, please download a registration form at: www.newenglandconservatory.edu/summer/forms_registration.html. Auditors and day-pass attendees may register by downloading a form from the site above, or by using the NEC Summer School registration form in the catalogue. For questions on application or registration: call Margaret Ulmer, Summer School Director, at 617-585-1126 or e-mail mulmer@newenglandconservatory.edu

TUITION:

• 2 SEC credits (individuals): $950
• Non-credit (individuals): $790
• Early-bird non-credit discounted tuition for individuals (registered/paid by May 15): $720
• Ensembles: $895
• Early-bird discounted tuition for ensembles (registered, paid by May 15): $845
• Composers: $475
• Early-bird discounted tuition for composers (registered, paid by May 15): $435
• Auditors: $370
• Day passes: $105
• plus NEC registration fee: $30

* all parties attending (including each ensemble member) must pay the registration fee*