Composers Cauldron
Dates: August 7-13 2015
The Composers Cauldron provides a forum for young composers to refine their compositions, explore new ideas, work with performers and hear their music played by great players in amazing venues. Benefitting from the historical nexus point of the Silk-Road, Cappadocia provides a contextual backdrop for exploring exciting new trends in contemporary music including incorporating traditional musical material into the language of western composition. There will also be an option for mixed electroacoustic composition including sessions demonstrating the basics of performer/electronics interaction .
Composers Kurt Rohde, professor at the University of California- Davis and recent recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Tolga Yayalar, graduate of Harvard and currently on the faculty at Bilkent University will offer lessons and coaching for performances of the new works. Reuben de Lautour will give seminars on sonic arts and electronics, and Onur Türkmen will lead seminars along with Turkish traditional performers for notation and extended techniques for Turkish instruments as well as Makamsal theory (Turkish microtonal theory).
The 8 composers selected for this workshop will each have a 5 to 10 minute piece performed and recorded by ensembles including the performers listed below. Compositions can be submitted for solo instruments or for any ensemble combination including these instruments. There will be daily seminars and participants will receive private lessons.
Seminar topics will include:
-Makam theory and the aesthetics and techniques involved with adopting these elements into composition
-Live electronics processing; incorporating fixed media; issues in sound propagation and approaches to sound spatialisation; notational conventions.
-Exploration of extended techniques and methods of notation for the various instruments included in the list above
Composition Teachers
(Click on the names to see the short biographies)
Kurt Rohde
Tolga Yayalar
Reuben de Lautour
Onur Türkmen
Musicians and Instruments for Ensembles:
violin: Ellen Jewett, Özcan Ulucan, William Harvey
viola: Ali Başeğmezler, Tuba Özkan
cello: Carol Ou, Elinor Frey
5-string cello: Elinor Frey
clarinet: Sacha Rattle
flute: Cem Önertürk
oboe: Demre Erdem
piano: Jerfi Aji, Çağdaş Özkan, Zeynep Özsuca
percussion: Amy Salsgiver
Glockenspiel, crotales (2 octaves), 3 Tom toms, snare drum, suspended cymbal, 2 wood blocks, bendir (frame drum). More small instruments available on request. *MIDI option is available for other mallet instrument sounds.
kemence :Nermin Kaygusuz
baglama: Cenk Guray
conductor: Orhun Orhon
Click here for Youtube link from past year
Dates: August 7-13 2015
Application Deadline: June 1, 2015
Notice of Acceptance given: June 8, 2015
Applications will continue to be accepted after this deadline
until the course is full.
Admission Fee: 200 Euro
Application form for admission, payment and general terms: APPLICATION FORM
Requested for admission: CV and recent recording of composition
Composers selected for this workshop will need to submit their new scores to us no later that July 7, 2015.
For questions and details: [email protected] or +90 533 060 0931
The Composers Cauldron provides a forum for young composers to refine their compositions, explore new ideas, work with performers and hear their music played by great players in amazing venues. Benefitting from the historical nexus point of the Silk-Road, Cappadocia provides a contextual backdrop for exploring exciting new trends in contemporary music including incorporating traditional musical material into the language of western composition. There will also be an option for mixed electroacoustic composition including sessions demonstrating the basics of performer/electronics interaction .
Composers Kurt Rohde, professor at the University of California- Davis and recent recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and Tolga Yayalar, graduate of Harvard and currently on the faculty at Bilkent University will offer lessons and coaching for performances of the new works. Reuben de Lautour will give seminars on sonic arts and electronics, and Onur Türkmen will lead seminars along with Turkish traditional performers for notation and extended techniques for Turkish instruments as well as Makamsal theory (Turkish microtonal theory).
The 8 composers selected for this workshop will each have a 5 to 10 minute piece performed and recorded by ensembles including the performers listed below. Compositions can be submitted for solo instruments or for any ensemble combination including these instruments. There will be daily seminars and participants will receive private lessons.
Seminar topics will include:
-Makam theory and the aesthetics and techniques involved with adopting these elements into composition
-Live electronics processing; incorporating fixed media; issues in sound propagation and approaches to sound spatialisation; notational conventions.
-Exploration of extended techniques and methods of notation for the various instruments included in the list above
Composition Teachers
(Click on the names to see the short biographies)
Kurt Rohde
Tolga Yayalar
Reuben de Lautour
Onur Türkmen
Musicians and Instruments for Ensembles:
violin: Ellen Jewett, Özcan Ulucan, William Harvey
viola: Ali Başeğmezler, Tuba Özkan
cello: Carol Ou, Elinor Frey
5-string cello: Elinor Frey
clarinet: Sacha Rattle
flute: Cem Önertürk
oboe: Demre Erdem
piano: Jerfi Aji, Çağdaş Özkan, Zeynep Özsuca
percussion: Amy Salsgiver
Glockenspiel, crotales (2 octaves), 3 Tom toms, snare drum, suspended cymbal, 2 wood blocks, bendir (frame drum). More small instruments available on request. *MIDI option is available for other mallet instrument sounds.
kemence :Nermin Kaygusuz
baglama: Cenk Guray
conductor: Orhun Orhon
Click here for Youtube link from past year
Dates: August 7-13 2015
Application Deadline: June 1, 2015
Notice of Acceptance given: June 8, 2015
Applications will continue to be accepted after this deadline
until the course is full.
Admission Fee: 200 Euro
Application form for admission, payment and general terms: APPLICATION FORM
Requested for admission: CV and recent recording of composition
Composers selected for this workshop will need to submit their new scores to us no later that July 7, 2015.
For questions and details: [email protected] or +90 533 060 0931