RAPIDO! SOUTHEASTERN REGION
Southeastern Competition presented by:
The 2010 Rapido! Composition
Contest
June 7 – 21, 2010
Southeastern Winner:
Piotr Szewczyk
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Southeastern Finalists:
Alan Elkins
Strange Journey
I. Secluded Path
II. Uncharted Territory
III. Respite |
Alan Elkins holds degrees in viola performance at Florida State University (B.M. 2007) and music composition from Bowling Green State University (M.M. 2009). His composition teachers include Elainie Lillios, Burton Beerman, Mark Wingate, and Jim David.
His works have been performed throughout the eastern United States, including performances by flautist Clark Barnes, the BGSU Steel Drum Ensemble, the BGSU Early Music Ensemble, and the Atlanta Chamber Players. As a violist, he has performed with orchestras and professional ensembles throughout the north Florida region, and, as an active proponent of new music, has premiered several solo and chamber works. When not performing in a classical setting, he enjoys improvising with the worship team at Ooltewah United Methodist Church. Alan Elkins currently serves on faculty at the School of Music at Lee University in Cleveland, TN. His music is published through Purple Frog Press.
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Jamie Keesecker
One-Minute Recipes
COLLECT ALL SIX!
I. Baking Pancakes (Skipping Rocks)
II. Pocket-sized Passacaglia
III. Minimal Effort
IV. Help Me With This Thing for a Minute
V. Probably Cirrus
VI. Rapido!
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Jamie Keesecker currently resides in Durham, North Carolina, where he is a James B. Duke Fellow pursuing a Ph.D. at Duke University. He holds a Master's of Music Degree in composition from the University of Oregon (2009) and a B.Mus in composition from the University of Arizona (2006). Mr. Keesecker's music includes works for a variety of instrumental and vocal combinations ranging from small chamber settings to large symphonic ensembles. His works have been performed throughout the United States and abroad, by such talents as NYC's Percussia, So Percussion, trumpeter Jonathon Clarke of the Hong Kong Philharmonic, the Eugene Contemporary Chamber Ensemble, the Duke New Music Ensemble, and the Amalgam Brass Ensemble of NC. Recently, the California based horn quartet QUADRE: The Voice of Four Horns recorded a composition of his to be featured on their new, soon to be released album. Mr. Keesecker is the recipient of the 2010 Young Composer Fellowship from the Monadnock Music Festival in New Hampshire, where he recently spent a week in residence, overseeing the premiere of two new works. In addition to composing, he is active as a hornist, performing in new music settings whenever possible. You can visit his website at www.jamiekeeseckercomposer.com.
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Piotr Szewczyk
Images from a Journey
1. Through a Prism
2. Moonlight Passacaglia
3. Night's Embrace
4. Gypsy Ballroom |
Piotr Szewczyk is an award-winning violinist and composer. He has been a
violinist in the Jacksonville Symphony Orchestra in Florida since 2007, and is the
Winner of the 2008 Jacksonville Symphony Fresh Ink - Florida Composers’
Competition. Before joining JSO Mr. Szewczyk completed a three year fellowship
at the New World Symphony in Miami Beach under Michael Tilson Thomas
where he served as a rotating concertmaster and was a winner of the 2006 New
World Symphony Concerto Competition.
Mr. Szewczyk is an active performer and proponent of new music and is the
creator and performer of the critically-acclaimed Violin Futura Project, a series of
recitals comprised of new, short, exciting and innovative solo violin pieces written
and dedicated to him by over 40 renowned composers from USA, Germany,
England, Japan, Australia and Mexico.
As a composer, Mr. Szewczyk has received numerous awards including those
from American Composers Forum, Society of Composers, British Trombone
Society, VoxNovus 60x60 Project, Fauxharmonic Adagio Contest, UPBEAT Hvar
- Croatia and ACCENT Competition at Music X Festival.
Mr. Szewczyk’s music has been performed by the Jacksonville Symphony
Orchestra, New World Symphony, Ensemble GREEN (Los Angeles), ALIAS
Ensemble (Nashville), Sybarite Chamber Players (NYC), Trio Archetto (Poland),
Degas Quartet, ACCORD Quartet, International Double Reed Conference,
OWU/NOW Festival, Santa Fe New Music, Colorado Music Festival and many
others, and was featured on NPR Performance Today and CBS Early Show.
Mr. Szewczyk holds a double Masters degree in violin and composition from
University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music where he studied violin
with Kurt Sassmanshaus, Piotr Milewski and Dorothy Delay and composition with
Joel Hoffman, Michael Fiday, Henry Gwiazda, Ricardo Zohn-Muldoon and Darrell
Handel.
More information at: www.VeryNewMusic.com |
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:
Atlanta Chamber Players
attn: Nancy Haber
433 Sterling St NE
Atlanta, GA 30307
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
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