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12th Annual NewMusic@ECU Festival
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ANNOUNCING THE WINNER OF THE
2012 NewMusic@ECU Festival
ORCHESTRA COMPOSITION COMPETITION

      The judges for the Annual NewMusic@ECU Festival Orchestra Composition Competition were truly delighted to have the opportunity to review so many wonderful entries.  The variety of musical styles, and the diversity of composers’ backgrounds offered exposure to many gifted composers, and we are thrilled to know that wonderfully vital works are being written today in this medium.
       Although it has become a cliché, it is no less true to say that the quality of the submissions was truly astonishing.  The competition’s judges struggled to choose a single work from among many, many fine pieces which are appropriate for this ensemble.
       We are delighted to announce that Seasonal Affective Disorder, by Jessica Rudman of Brooklyn, NY will be performed at the 2012 NewMusic@ECU Festival, on the evening of Saturday, March 17, 2012 in Wright Auditorium, on the campus of East Carolina University in Greenville, NC.
       Jessica Rudman is active in the Connecticut new music community as a composer, concert organizer, and educator.  She is a founding member of The Hartford Sound Alliance (a local composer-performer collective) and is deeply involved in the Annual Greater Hartford Women Composers Festival, for which she was a co-recipient of a Women’s Education and Leadership Fund Grant from the University in Hartford. In previous years, she has also served as the director of Public Works, The Hartt School’s semi-annual student composer concert.  Ms. Rudman is a faculty member at The Hartt School, Central Connecticut State University, and the Connecticut Inter-District Music Composition Program.
       Ms. Rudman has been the recipient of various awards and honors including the Omaha Symphony’s New Music Symposium Score Call (2008), the Brander Wyatt Morrison Prize in Music (2004), the A&D Burton Scholarship for Music Composition(2007), the University of Hartford Regents’ Honor Award (2007), a Women’s Education and Leadership Fund Grant (2007).  Recently, her work Napoleon Complex was awarded first prize in the Con/un/drum Percussion Competition.  As a theorist, Ms. Rudman has presented her paper, “Hidden Complexity: Rhythmic Processes in Ligeti’s Arc-en-ciel” at meetings of the New England Conference of Music Theorists, the West Coast Conference ofMusic Theory and Analysis, and SCI (Region V conference). She has also served as a peer reviewer for the online journal, Search.
       Ms. Rudman holds a B.A. with Distinction in Music from the University of Virginia, a M.M. in Music Composition from The Hartt School, and an A.D. in Music Composition, also from Hartt.  Her teachers have included Narcis Bonet, Matthew Burtner, Robert Carl, Stephen Gryc, Gilda Lyons, Ingram Marshall, Walter Ross, and Larry Alan Smith.  Ms. Rudman has also participated in masterclasses with Bright Sheng, Paul Moravec, George Tsontakis, and JosephSchwantner, and has attended festivals including the Wintergreen Summer Music Academy, the European Musical Alliance Summer Composition Program, Music07,Nevada Encounters of New Music, and the Bard Conductor’s Institute.
      

Guidelines for the
2013 NewMusic@ECU Festival
Orchestral Composition Competition

This composition competition is open to all composers, regardless of age, nationality or institutional affiliation.

For consideration, the following materials must be received by December 1, 2012:

Scores (a maximum of two works; two copies of each submission) professional quality score(s), meeting guidelines noted below:

  • Name of composer (anonymous entry NOT necessary)
  • Maximum instrumentation:
    2 flutes (piccolo double)
    2 oboe (English Horn double)
    2 clarinet (e-flat, bass double)
    2 bassoon
    2 horn
    2 trumpet
    3 trombone (including bass)
    1 tuba
    Timpani
    2 percussion
    piano
    Strings
  • Works with electronics/computer will be considered
  • work with Harp will not be considered
  • Works including soloists will not be considered
  • Maximum duration of twelve (12) minutes
  • Difficulty level suitable for advanced university orchestra

Information sheet with:

  • Composer’s name, address, telephone number, e-mail address
  • One paragraph bio, one paragraph program note
  • Title of submitted composition(s), list of instrumentation, duration of composition, date of completion, and performance history (if applicable)

If available, a recording of the submitted work(s) may be included.  Recordings are helpful, but are not necessary.  

For EACH ENTRY, an application fee of $10 US in the form of a check payable to East Carolina University, with NewMusic@ECU noted in the memo.  [Cash (US $) is also acceptable.]

Self-addressed stamped envelope if you wish your materials to be returned.

Members of The East Carolina University Orchestra, Jorge Richter, Director, will prepare and perform the single winning work at the 2013 NewMusic@ECU Festival, on the East Carolina University campus in Greenville, NC.

Parts for the winning work must be received by January 15, 2013. 

The composer of the winning work must be available to attend the festival.  Every attempt will be made by the festival staff to provide accommodations for visitors, and to subsidize costs of travel.  The composer of the winning work may also be asked to conduct a seminar, introducing their work to students and other festival attendants.

The composer of the selected score will be notified by December 20, 2012.
Parts for the winning work must be received by January 15, 2013.

Address all submissions to:

Edward Jacobs, Director
NewMusic@ECU Festival
302 Fletcher Music Center
East Carolina University
Greenville, NC  27858

E-mail: jacobse@ecu.edu