RAPIDO! NEW ENGLAND REGION
New England Competition presented by:
The 2010 Rapido! Composition
Contest
June 7 – 21, 2010
New England Winner:
Patrick Greene
New England Finalists: |
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Patrick Greene
AbstractEXTRACTION
I. Elemental, structural
II. Expressive
III. Motoric
IV. Immutable, eternal
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Patrick Greene (b. 1985) is a composer, singer, and conductor, and a rising artist in the world of contemporary art music. Mr. Greene's music can best be characterized by a persistent lyricism that transcends aesthetics and schools of thought, uniting his disparate styles with a common voice.
A composer of more than thirty works, Mr. Greene has been commissioned by artists as diverse as the New Haven Symphony Orchestra, The Elmsmen, Ensemble Amarcord, the Trinity College Chapel Singers, the Trinity College Concert Choir, the Pleasant Bay Children's Chorus, and Yohei Sato.
Mr. Greene recently earned his MM degree in Composition from The Boston Conservatory in May 2010, where his teachers included Andy Vores and Dalit Warshaw. He graduated with a BA in Music from Trinity College (Hartford, CT) in 2007, as a student of Douglas Bruce Johnson and Gerald Moshell. Mr. Greene is a founding member of The Fifth Floor Collective, a Boston-based composers' ensemble.
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Sam Headrick
The Flamingo Dances
I. Exuberantly, with Great Energy
II. Softly, Delicately, and Magically
III. Elegantly, with Beauty
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Sam Headrick’s creative output has covered a wide range of compositional languages and techniques, but has always been concerned with the overall dramatic shape; the technical integration of materials locally and globally; and ultimately, with the expressive impact and meaning of the complete composition.
Mr. Headrick has received performances and commissions from such artists as Lukas Foss, Theodore Antoniou, Craig Wich, Sanford Sylvan, and Edwin Barker, and from such organizations as the St. Louis Symphony Chamber Players, the Huntington Theater Company, and the Opera Laboratory Theater Company, among many others.
Mr. Headrick received his B.M. and M.M. from the University of North Texas where he studied composition with James Sellars and Martin Mailman before earning his Ph.D. at the Eastman School of Music, studying with Samuel Adler, Warren Benson, and Joseph Schwantner. On the composition faculty of Boston University since 1981, Mr. Headrick has also served as Co-Director and Conductor of the Boston University New Music Ensemble and Director of Electronic Music.
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Eric Sawyer
Excursions
I. Giocoso
II. Lontano
III. Rapido |
Eric Sawyer's music receives frequent performances on both coasts, including at New York’s Weill and Merkin concert halls and at Tanglewood, as well as in England, France, and Germany. His opera Our American Cousin recently received its stage premiere from Boston Modern Orchestra Project and was released on the BMOP/sound label. A chamber music collection, String Works, and a cantata performed by New England Voices, The Humble Heart, are available on CD from Albany Records.
Mr. Sawyer has received the Joseph Bearns Prize, awards from the Tanglewood Music Center and the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and a recent prize from the Ravinia Festival for his piano trio Lincoln’s Two Americas. Recent performances include works on programs by the San Jose Chamber Orchestra, Brentano String Quartet, and the Seraphim Singers.
Mr. Sawyer received his undergraduate musical training at Harvard College and completed his graduate studies at Columbia University and the University of California, Davis. His teachers have included Leon Kirchner, Ross Bauer, Tison Street, Andrew Imbrie, Thomas Benjamin, and George Edwards. Mr. Sawyer joined the compostion faculty of Amherst College in 2002. |
Contest Requirements
Following are the Rapido! Contest composition and submission requirements
with a link to the required entry forms. Please read the rules and requirements carefully and note that the entry forms must be printed out, completed and enclosed
with your contest submission.
COMPOSITION REQUIREMENTS:
- Available to those composers pre-registered by June 1, 2010
- A new, original work of 4-6 minutes is to be composed between June 7 – 21, 2010
- Required instrumentation: Flute/Picc/AltoFl, Clarinet/Bass Clarinet, Cello, Piano -- Flute may double piccolo/alto flute. Clarinet may double bass clarinet. You may also write
just for flute and clarinet, with no doubling. No instruments other than flutes, clarinets, cello
and piano are permitted.
- Required form:
Suite of Miniatures -- 3 or more miniature movements of contrasting tempi
and styles. Individual movements can be for 3 or more instruments of the quartet, but each
instrument should have prominent writing during the composition.
SUBMISSION REQUIREMENTS:
Package MUST be postmarked by June 21, 2010 and mailed to:
Boston Musica Viva
353 Beacon St.
Somerville, MA 02143
No faxed or emailed entries. Do not require signature upon delivery. Scores must be
submitted anonymously; the composer's name should appear ONLY on the
entry form and NOT on any page of the score, parts or CD.
Package MUST include:
- New, original composition score and parts
- Electronically generated CD of work. Dynamics can be omitted and instruments
should be equal in volume.
- Composer Entry Form (print out, complete and send)
- Two Required Legal Forms, signed by participant: Participant Release Form and Performance and Recording Agreement (print out, complete and send)
- Self-addressed Stamped Envelope for return of materials, if requested (optional)
Any entries which do not follow all the required instrumentation, form, and postmark rules
will be ineligible. Entries that do not contain all the required support materials (entry form
and signed legal forms) will be ineligible. Composers who do not reside or study full-time
in one of the appropriate states of their Rapido! region are ineligible.
Please note: Composers chosen as Regional Finalists are required to attend their Regional
Competition Concert scheduled as follows: Atlanta (SE region) on October 17, 2010;
Boston (NE region) on October 1, 2010; in Chicago (MW region) on October 3, 2010.
COMPOSITION INSPIRATION:
As a possible (optional) inspiration for your composition, we offer you three
Alexander Calder sculptures, which are located in our three Rapido! ensemble
cities of Atlanta, Boston and Chicago. You may choose one, two or three (or none)
of these Calder works as inspiration for your composition. It is not necessary to use one
of these works as inspiration. Note that contest entries will be judged on musical merit
and not on interpretation of the Calder works.
ALEXANDER CALDER IN ATLANTA
Three Up, Three Down (1973)
High Museum of Art, Atlanta
QUESTIONS?? Please email: bmv@bmv.org |
