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A central pillar of the Grafenegg Festival is the Composer in Residence program, which every year puts a renowned personality in contemporary music in the spotlight. During their stay in Grafenegg, the respected composers will premiere their own works, but will also be available to give advice and assistance to colleagues as part of the Ink Still Wet workshop.
Ziel des Composer Conductor-Workshops Ink Still Wet is to create a platform for composers and to promote creative and constructive exchange between audiences, musicians and performing musicians.
Under the direction of the respective composer in residence Grafenegg Festivals is the intention of Ink Still Wet-Workshops to provide inspiration for the creation of new works for orchestras. The workshop also offers the opportunity to rehearse and perform your own work with a professional orchestra. This should also provide a new perspective on one’s own work. The works of all participants will be presented in a final concert as part of the Grafenegg Festivals presented to the public.
The past few years have shown how important and complex the experiences of this workshop are for composers. What previously only existed in their heads or on paper must now prove itself in exchange with the performing musicians and then on the big concert stage. Do the tonal ideas pass the practical test or do they need to be sharpened? How can one or another musical idea perhaps be better recorded? Or more fundamentally: How do you as a composer confront a long-established professional orchestra, how do you explain or defend your musical ideas if necessary?
Ink Still Wet provides insights into all phases of an exciting work and rehearsal process. Both the final concert and the individual workshops are free and open to visitors, students and interested parties.
Ink Still Wet will take place for the 14th time in 2024.
COMPOSER IN RESIDENCE 2024: Enno Poppe
Call for composers & compositions
Be one of a selected team of composers and conductors at the Ink Still Wet laboratory! Analyse and discuss your work of art with Composer in Residence 2024 Enno Poppe – conduct your own music live in concert with the Tonkunstler Orchestra at the Grafenegg Festival!
WORKSHOP LEADER AND PARTICIPANTS
The workshop is led by Enno Poppe, Composer in Residence des Grafenegg Festivals 2024. The workshop will be conducted by one of the resident orchestras of the Grafenegg Festival, the Tonkunstler Orchestra Lower Austriaaccompanied.
WHAT DOES INK STILL BET OFFER
In a two-part workshop, the participating composers have the opportunity to develop and complete their work in an initial working phase with the workshop leader and the orchestra’s section leaders. In a second work phase during the Grafenegg Festivals The focus is on the preparation of the premiere: the participants have the unique opportunity to perform their own compositions as a conductor with the Tonkunstler Orchestra Lower Austria to rehearse and present them to the public in concert.
Enno Poppe will work with the participating composers on the fine-tuning of their works and support them in the development and preparation of conducting. The experience of performing a composition from the conductor’s desk is intended to provide a new perspective on one’s own work. The focus is on overcoming possible barriers between composers and performing musicians as well as promoting creative exchange.
The selected works are rehearsed together and the rehearsal work is comprehensively documented so that the participants can also continue to work on implementing their works and realizing their musical ideas using video analysis and accompaniment.
The compositions of the participating composers will be presented in one Final concert on August 25, 2024 presented in the auditorium at 3 p.m.
WHO IS THE WORKSHOP FOR?
- Composers and composition students, among others
- Conducting experience is an advantage, but not required
- No age limit
- Course language: English
Successful applicants are highly talented composers at the beginning of their professional career who have a strong interest in gaining a new perspective on their own work through practical implementation and an impression of the tension between their own sound perception at their desk and the actual sound experience in the room want to get a concert hall.
WORKSHOP PROCEDURE
The schedule includes daily rehearsals, Music Lab lectures and workshops, discussion groups, rehearsal and concert visits and more.
Work phase 1
12th-14th March 2024, Grafenegg
Score analysis and work on the submitted compositions, workshops with section leaders of the Tonkunstler Orchestra as well as professional sheet music creation.
Work phase 2
16 – 25 August 2024, Grafenegg
Orchestra rehearsals, conducting coaching, video analysis of orchestra rehearsals and Music Lab workshops on career development for composers. Final concert on August 25th at 3 p.m.
(subject to change)
APPLICATION
Complete applications contain the following documents:
- registration form
- Artistic CV in German or English (max. length: 2 DIN A4 pages) including name and contact of the current composition teacher (if available)
- Scores of 3 reference works with different line-ups including recordings (if available)
- Application video (max. 3 minutes) or letter of motivation (max. 3,000 characters including spaces) in German or English including answers to the questions:
– What do you expect from the workshop?
– What do you hope to gain from participation?
– Why is participating in the Ink Still Wet Composer Conductor workshop important to you? - Composition: a new, unpublished, not yet premiered work for orchestra with a maximum duration of 7 minutes
The application includes the prepared score of at least 2 minutes of the composition and a description of the concept of the composition (max. 3,000 characters) as well as possibly a sketch for further composition.
Please refer to the “Guidelines for Instrumentation and Layout” for information on the orchestral line-up, instrumentation and sheet music layout.
Submissions will only be accepted electronically (in PDF format) on the MUVAC platform.
Application deadline: November 14, 2023
Conditions of Participation / Accommodation / Travel
Participation in the Ink Still Wet Composer Conductor workshop is fully funded by Grafenegg:
- Accommodation in a single room in the Grafenegg Cottages
- Transfers to and from Vienna
- International travel expenses (full reimbursement up to a certain amount, depending on the origin of the trip)
- Catering for the entire duration of the workshop
- Tickets for all Grafenegg Festival concerts during your stay
Selection process
The workshop leader will decide on participation following the application deadline. Only complete applications will be accepted. Successful applicants will be Friday December 15, 2023 contacted with further information.
If you are admitted to the Ink Still Wet Composer Conductor workshop, you must continue working on the composition until the first working phase of the workshop in March 2024.
The composition must then be completed by the beginning of May and the conducting score must be submitted by May 2, 2024.
The votes as PDF must be received by June 5, 2024.
Number of participants: max. 5 people
CONTACT
Ink Still Wet is part of Grafenegg Festival
Contact: Matias Alzola
isw[at]grafenegg.com
Application under MUVAC
The course information Ink Still Wet 2024
3485 Grafenegg 10, Austria. Europe
1695743069
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