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Don't Let This Deadline Slip By: February 26, 2010
Posted by Emily Bowles, 3 weeks ago - 0 comments
Tags: musicians' residency, composers

MUSICIANS!  Friday, February 26 is the last day to submit your application for the Con Edison Musicians' Residency: Composition Program.

 

Six (6) residencies will be awarded, each providing a suitable workspace for three months plus a stipend.  In addition, each hosting facility will present a free public program featuring their resident composers' work (that's a built-in audience!).

 

Queens-based composers take note: four of the six residencies are open only to Queens residents and will be hosted by cultural facilities in Queens.

  

One of last year's winners, Matt Schickele, describes how his Con Edison Musicians' Residency helped his career:

 

"My residency at Flushing Town Hall in 2009 gave me the time and space, both physically and mentally, to complete the chamber opera that had until then been written in whatever niches of time I could find. Now the opera, which would have taken me ages to finish without the residency, is already being performed."

 

Full Residency Guidelines

Residency Application

 

Don't delay!  Apply today!

 

A Haiku Reminder
Posted by Emily Bowles, on February 4, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: composers, haiku, musicians' residencies

 

New York Composer

Wait not for the last minute

Do apply today!

-- Anonymous NYCPAS Staff Member

 

2010 Con Edison Musicians' Residencies: Composition Program

Overview

Residency Guidelines

Application Form

Con Edison Musicians' Residencies - DEADLINE IS FEB 26!
Posted by David Johnston, on February 2, 2010 - 0 comments
Tags: musicians' residency, composers, arts service orgs, free space, rehearsal space

For those musicians and composers in your life, taking up space in your apartment with their noise-making...  steer them to our Con Edision Musicians' Residency:  Composition Program, which is currently taking applications. We're putting six composers in residence in three facilites; Turtle Bay Music School, Florence E. Smith Community Center in Corona, Queens and Flushing Town Hall in historic Flushing.  (Site of the Flushing Remonstrance.  You've never heard of it?  Click here and find out.) 

 

Many thanks to the Clyde Fitch Report and American Opera Projects for the shout outs.

 

In other news...if you haven't already seen it, check out the New York Innovative Theater Foundation's latest study, a ground-breaking demographic survey of Off Off Broadway artists.

 

Con Edison Musicians Residency Concert Sun at Flushing Town Hall
Posted by David Johnston, on November 6, 2009 - 0 comments
Tags: musicians, composers, musicians' residency

Nivedita ShivRaj, our Con Edison Musicians' Residency composer, will give a free concert at Flushing Town Hall on Sunday, November 8 at 2 PM.  Check the Queens Ledger, the Queens Examiner, or New York Women Composers for detailed listings.  Nivedita plays a unique blend of carnatic (South Indian classical music) and contemporary music.  Sunday's concert feature several guests, including jazz guitarist Jason Goldstein. 

And be sure to check out Flushing Town Hall's new exhibition in the gallery, Talismans of Protection from Choson Korea, a fascinating collection of ancient locks, latches, and charms, on loan from Seoul, Korea.

Composers' Spotlight: David Schober in Residence at Flushing Town Hall
Posted by David Johnston, on August 10, 2009 - 0 comments
Tags: musicians' residency, composers, residencies

Queens-based composer, music theorist, and pianist David Schober is one of three winners of the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program**.  As his residency at Flushing Town Hall comes to a close, he took some time to tell us a little more about himself and what he’s currently working on.


What instrument(s) do you play? When did you begin composing?
I started learning piano at the age of six. (There are other instruments in my checkered past, but let’s not talk about them!) I began composing within the first year of my piano studies.


What kind of work have you been able to accomplish during your residency thus far?
Flushing Town Hall has been a great complement to the other places I compose, particularly the small studio space in my apartment. I still do some of the conceptual planning at home, but the gallery space at Town Hall has been great for fleshing out details and allowing them to breathe. There’s a beautiful Steinway piano there, and the space is used for a variety of performances, so it’s much easier to get a sense of what my music will sound like in a concert setting.



Please tell us about the extended work for wind ensemble that you have been working on.
I’m writing a wind ensemble piece in response to a flood that hit my hometown of Rushford, Minnesota, two years ago. I was shocked at the extent of the damage but have been even more impressed by the remarkable recovery the community has made since then. I’m writing the piece in fulfillment of a commission from Tim Weiss, director of the wind ensemble at my alma mater, Oberlin College. I’m also working on a guitar/flute piece for Arc Duo, based here in New York.


How has the Con Edison Residency helped you?
The residency, by providing a beautiful work space, has helped me to focus on my projects. Small apartments in New York City are not necessarily the most conducive environments to creative work. I also expect to have a good time organizing a public program at Flushing Town Hall for the wider community.


What has been your greatest success to date?
I’ve been fortunate to have many fine musical opportunities, but I’d say the most rewarding have been my collaborations with eighth blackbird and the Miró String Quartet. I attended Oberlin with members of both groups, so we’ve been friends for a long time.


What’s challenging about being a musician working in NYC (and/or in Queens)? What is a positive aspect of it?
There are so many great musicians and musical opportunities in New York that it’s easy to get overwhelmed. At times, it seems difficult to stand out from the crowd when there’s so much going on in one place. Of course, there are also the neighbors who are less than enthusiastic to hear my music-making at odd hours. I think the important thing is to keep putting one foot in front of the other and to have fun with it.


Is there any advice that you would give to a musician and/or composer at the start of their career?
Young composers should do whatever they can to hone their performance skills while they’re in school. It’s also important that they befriend performers and collaborate with them, as these musicians will often become colleagues for life. Recently, I’ve also been urging my students to study abroad if they can. During my undergraduate years, I spent some time living and studying in Korea. It was one of the best things I’ve ever done.


What’s next on your professional horizon following the end of your residency?
I resume my teaching duties for the fall term at Queens College, and then in January I’m off to southern France for a four-month artist residency through the Camargo Foundation.


How can we learn more about you and your work?
My website needs updating (alas!), but it’s a good place to start: www.davidschober.com. Stay tuned, also, for events I’ll be involved with at Flushing Town Hall.


**Each of the three winners of the Con Edison Musicians’ Residency: Composition Program received use of composition and rehearsal space in Flushing Town Hall for a three-month period, as well as a stipend. The winners were selected through a competitive review process by panelists from the New York City music community.

The Con Edison Musicians’ Residency had its genesis in NYC Performing Arts Spaces’ 2008 study “Where Can We Work?”, an examination of how access to workspace in New York City impacts musicians’ ability to compose, rehearse and perform. The study was made possible by a seminal grant from the New York State Music Fund.

Funding for this pilot program comes from Con Edison, the Christian A. Johnson Endeavor Foundation, The Amphion Foundation, and the Reed Foundation. NYCPASpaces developed and administered the program, and expects to expand this residency program, serving both performing artists and cultural facilities, to other locations and boroughs. To receive the first announcement of future residencies at Flushing Town Hall, sign up for our email newsletter.

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