Composers Cauldron
August 1-14
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Composers Cauldron Musicians: Ernest Rombout (oboe) Neva Özgen (kemençe) Nusret İspir (clarinet) Elena Cecconi (flute) Nikolos Dimopoulos (flute) Dimitris Leontzakos (clarinet) Cyrille van Poucke (trumpet) Erato Alakiozidou (piano) Jerfi Aji (piano) Amy Salsgiver (percussion) Ellen Jewett (violin) Özcan Ulucan (violin) Tuba Özkan (viyola), Greg Hesselink (cello) Ankara Üniversitesi Soloistleri (string quartet) Anatolia Ensemble (kemençe, kanun, ney) Composers: Stephen Hartke, Onur Türkmen, Kamran Ince |
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 East/West Silk-Road and North/ South Trade-Routes, Cappadocia provides a contextual backdrop for exploring exciting new trends in contemporary music; that of incorporating traditional musical material into the language of western composition. As 10-year veterans of the partnership between Amsterdam-based Nieuw Ensemble and Atlas Ensemble, Ernest Romboaut and Neva Özgen will lead workshops for performers of both classical western and classical Turkish traditions focused on developing new skills and extended techniques for interpretation. They will be assisted by members of the Anatolia Ensemble, all professors at the leading conservatory for Turkish Instruments in Istanbul who are also experienced performers in the notations of both systems. Kamran Ince and Onur Türkmen, both highly successful Turkish composers currently at the forefront of this movement, will lead seminars on the aesthetics and techniques involved with adopting elements from both traditional and western idioms. They will be joined by Stephen Hartke, a prominent and prolific American composer from the University of Southern California. With commissions from the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Carnegie Hall the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the National Symphony Orchestra, the Orpheus Chamber Orchestra, Chamber Music America, the Fromm Foundation, the Institute for American Music at the Eastman School of Music, Meet The Composer, the National Endowment for the Arts; as well as a recipient of the Rome Prize, two Koussevitzky Music Foundation Commission Grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, Hartke is considered one of the leading composers of his generation.
The 12 composers selected for this workshop will each have a 5 to 10 minute piece performed and recorded by ensembles including the performers listed above. There will be daily seminars and participants will receive private lessons from Stephen Hartke and Onur Turkmen. Participants will have ample time to compose a new work at the KK workshop and these new compositions will be recorded and videotaped in sessions at the end of the festival.
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Daily seminars will be held on topics such as: the Introduction to the theory and usage of makams and Ottoman rhythmic patterns, an Exploration of extended techniques and methods of notation for Strings, Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Piano, Percussion, Kanun, Ney, and Kemençe. Resident composers will present their music, explore current trends in composition and lead open discussions on participants' newly composed works.
Compositions can be submitted for solo instruments or for ensembles including any combination of:
Strings (no bass), Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Trumpet, Kanun and Kemençe, Piano, Percussion including: vibraphone, 2 tom toms, snare drum, bendir, darbuka, 2 cymbals, temple blocks (set of 5), bongos.
Application Deadline: June 15 (Decisions given by June 20)
PDFs of scores and parts for the 1st concert must be sent by July 1 to [email protected]
(works for readings and final recording sessions can be submitted and worked on at the festival).
Requested: CV and recent recording of composition
Course Fee: 500EU
Composer Cauldron Seminars:
August 2 Kamran Ince: Introductions with all participants and discussion of future directions of new music, particularly in Turkey
August 3 Onur Turkmen: Introduction to Makams; Theory and Practice
August 4 Ince, Turkmen and Anatolia Ensemble: Exploration of extended techniques and methods of notation- Kemence, Ney, Kanun
August 5 Ernest Romboaut and Neva Ozgen: 10 years with Atlas Ensemble- Explorations and new directions
August 6 Ernest Rombout, Elena Cecconi, Nikolos Dimopoulos and Dimitris Leontzakos: Extended wind techniques and notation- oboe, flute, clarinet
August 7 Onur Turkmen: Presentation of his work
August 8 Greg Hesselink: Microtonality for string players-discussion of methods and notation including music of Ben Johnson, Lachenmann and on
Harry Partch instruments
Güç Gülle: Rhythmic structures underlying Ottoman music
August 9 Stephen Hartke: Presentation of his work
August 10 Amy Salsgiver: Contemporary percussion techniques
August 11 and 12 Open session of new compositions from all participants
August 13 and 14 Readings and recordings of new compositions
The 12 composers selected for this workshop will each have a 5 to 10 minute piece performed and recorded by ensembles including the performers listed above. There will be daily seminars and participants will receive private lessons from Stephen Hartke and Onur Turkmen. Participants will have ample time to compose a new work at the KK workshop and these new compositions will be recorded and videotaped in sessions at the end of the festival.
Click here for 2011 live concerts
Daily seminars will be held on topics such as: the Introduction to the theory and usage of makams and Ottoman rhythmic patterns, an Exploration of extended techniques and methods of notation for Strings, Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Piano, Percussion, Kanun, Ney, and Kemençe. Resident composers will present their music, explore current trends in composition and lead open discussions on participants' newly composed works.
Compositions can be submitted for solo instruments or for ensembles including any combination of:
Strings (no bass), Clarinet, Oboe, Flute, Trumpet, Kanun and Kemençe, Piano, Percussion including: vibraphone, 2 tom toms, snare drum, bendir, darbuka, 2 cymbals, temple blocks (set of 5), bongos.
Application Deadline: June 15 (Decisions given by June 20)
PDFs of scores and parts for the 1st concert must be sent by July 1 to [email protected]
(works for readings and final recording sessions can be submitted and worked on at the festival).
Requested: CV and recent recording of composition
Course Fee: 500EU
Composer Cauldron Seminars:
August 2 Kamran Ince: Introductions with all participants and discussion of future directions of new music, particularly in Turkey
August 3 Onur Turkmen: Introduction to Makams; Theory and Practice
August 4 Ince, Turkmen and Anatolia Ensemble: Exploration of extended techniques and methods of notation- Kemence, Ney, Kanun
August 5 Ernest Romboaut and Neva Ozgen: 10 years with Atlas Ensemble- Explorations and new directions
August 6 Ernest Rombout, Elena Cecconi, Nikolos Dimopoulos and Dimitris Leontzakos: Extended wind techniques and notation- oboe, flute, clarinet
August 7 Onur Turkmen: Presentation of his work
August 8 Greg Hesselink: Microtonality for string players-discussion of methods and notation including music of Ben Johnson, Lachenmann and on
Harry Partch instruments
Güç Gülle: Rhythmic structures underlying Ottoman music
August 9 Stephen Hartke: Presentation of his work
August 10 Amy Salsgiver: Contemporary percussion techniques
August 11 and 12 Open session of new compositions from all participants
August 13 and 14 Readings and recordings of new compositions
