74th Season
July 29-August 12, 2018
The Composers Conference, guided for nearly 50 years by Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Mario Davidovsky, offers a unique opportunity for emerging composers, professional musicians, amateur chamber players, and conservatory-level instrumentalists and singers to come together as colleagues, audience, teachers and students in an atmosphere of fertile creativity and concentrated, high-level music making.
NEW VENUE AND DATES ANNOUNCED! The Composers Conference 2018 will take place at Brandeis University July 29-August 12, 2018. Applications for Composer Fellows, the Chamber Music Workshop, and the Contemporary Performance Institute open in January 2018.
The Conference
"Fertile creativity and concentrated, high-level music making"
The Composer Fellows participate in intensive seminars and public colloquia, and each has a work publicly performed and professionally recorded by the Conference Ensemble. The Chamber Music Workshop offers amateur musicians daily coachings, workshops, masterclasses, ensemble readings, performance opportunities and evening concerts. Students in the Contemporary Performance Institute study, rehearse, and perform challenging repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries. Concerts at the Conference feature classics and rarities from the 18th-21st centuries including music of the Composer Fellows and faculty.
Introducing the CPI
Fred Sherry, Director
A group of conservatory-level students will be selected to study, rehearse, and perform challenging repertoire from the 20th and 21st centuries. Applications will be accepted from singers, violin, viola, cello, contrabass, flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, horn, percussion and piano. Pre-formed groups may also apply.
