Composition

Tutor: John Metcalf

With the Orion Orchestra

Applications are invited from aspiring professional composers of all ages and abilities; we may request information in support of your application. The course will consist of seminar groups and one to one sessions. Composers will also have the opportunity to prepare, prior to the course, a 5 minute work for The Orion Orchestra (www.orionorchestra.org.uk) to be rehearsed, read through and recorded by the Orion. Every composer will receive a demo CD of their work to take home with them.

The course offers the opportunity for aspiring professional composers of all ages and abilities to work with leading Welsh composer John Metcalf

(www.johnmetcalf.com).  There will be sessions for the full group, seminar groups to explore specific issues and one to one meetings.

Information about instuments groups will be available on application.  Precise information about your piece will be requested by June 30th and the composition should be brought to the course essentially complete and with all materials ready for rehearsal. The composer should, however, allow sufficient creative flexibility, supported where possible by notation software, to make changes as a result of seminar discussion or the rehearsal process. It is intended that every composer will receive a demo CD of their work to take home with them.

Early application is encouraged and Musicfest may, in certain instances, to ask you to supply scores and/or recordings to be reviewed in support of your application