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From: "Mark Charette" <charette@-----.org>
Subj: [kl] FW: Competition/Conference announcement
Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 21:22:19 -0400
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From: E. Michael Richards [mailto:emrichards@-----.com]
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Subject: Competition/Conference announcement
Please share this announcement with your membership.
-E. Michael Richards
Associate Professor of Music
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
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COMPETITION for PERFORMERS:
MUSIC OF JAPAN TODAY 2003
April 4-6, 2003
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
http://home.sprintmail.com/~emrichards/MFJ2003.html
UMBC will host a three-day symposium of performances, lecture-recitals,
panel discussions, and paper presentations on topics that concern Japanese
music from the widest possible range of disciplines and expertise. Four
guest composers of international stature will participate in the symposium:
TOSHI ICHIYANAGI, who worked with John Cage in the early 1960’s in New York,
and introduced Japan to experimental music in 1961; JOJI YUASA, who was a
member of the jikken kobo with Toru Takemitsu in the 1950's and a Professor
of Music at the University of California, San Diego from 1981-94; AKIRA
NISHIMURA, who has received numerous international awards and commissions
for his music that is influenced by historic Japanese music and elements
from other Asian cultures; and TOKUHIDE NIIMI, who has received
international recognition for works that span musical genres from ballet, to
choral, to orchestral and chamber music, to music for traditional Japanese
instruments.
Performances during the symposium will include a broad range of works for
different genres (solo instrument, chamber music, choral, traditional
instruments) by Yuasa, Ichiyanagi, Nishimura, and Niimi, as well as the
winner of a composition competition. They will include the premiere of a new
work by Nishimura. The performers for these concerts will include RUCKUS
(the contemporary music ensemble at UMBC), faculty and students of the UMBC
Department of Music, and guest musicians from the Baltimore/Washington DC
area and other international new music centers.
This symposium is the fifth in a series of events since 1992 to address
Japanese and other Asian musics, organized by Tanosaki and Richards. Visit
the websites of the other four to view programs, abstracts, papers, and
lecture transcriptions - Asian Music in America: A Confluence of Two Worlds
(http://home.sprintmail.com/~emrichards/amia.html), and Music of Japan
Today: Tradition and Innovation I (1992), II (1994), and III (1997)
(http://home.sprintmail.com/~emrichards/musjapan.html).
***Competition for Performers***
The review committee welcomes a cassette tape or CD submission by performers
for a performance of a work by Yuasa, Ichiyanagi, Nishimura, or Niimi.
Winners will receive:
1) masterclass performance opportunity with the composer
2) a concert performance opportunity and honorarium
first prize = $500
second prize = $150
third prize = $100
3) CD recording
list of scores and publishers for this competition on the symposium
web-site.
Deadline for receipt is December 20, 2002
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Call for Scores, Tapes, Papers and/or Lecture/Recitals
**Papers**
abstracts of no more than 300 words on any topic relating to the theme of
the symposium. The review committee will take special interest in proposals
that address music and ideas of the guest composers (interdisciplinary
topics are welcome).
Deadline for receipt (hard copy or email Microsoft Word attachment) is
December 20, 2002 - 5 PM EST
***Lecture/Recitals***
30 minutes. cassette tape or CD of performance and short abstract (200
words). Deadline for receipt is December 20, 2002.
***Composition Competition***
Composers of any nationality are invited to submit a score(s) for a
performance by RUCKUS (Contemporary Music Ensemble of UMBC) at the
symposium. Submitted music should have some connection to the theme of the
symposium (tradition and innovation in music of Japan): this connection
could be the use of traditional Japanese music and/or aesthetic principles;
or/and the nationality of the composer (Japanese, Japanese-American, etc.)
1) scores should be written for any combination of the following players:
flute/piccolo/alto flute/bass flute
clarinet/bass clarinet
violin
cello
percussion
piano
2) scores must be accompanied by a one-paragraph description of how the
music is connected to the theme of the symposium
3) all submitted scores will be retained in the RUCKUS library at UMBC
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All submissions should be sent to the Directors:
Dr. Kazuko Tanosaki & Professor E. Michael Richards
Department of Music
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
1000 Hilltop Circle
Baltimore, MD 21250
phone = 410-455-3064
fax = 410-747-5632
email @-----.edu
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