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COMPOSERS SUNGJI HONG & DAN VISCONTI NAMED WINNERS OF
THE BRAVE NEW WORKS CALL FOR SCORES 2005-2006.
March 1, 2005
Ann Arbor, MI
Brave New Works is pleased to announce that composers Sungji Hong and Dan
Visconti have been selected as winners of its Call for Scores for the 2005-2006
season. More than 165 composers from 18 countries applied to the Call for
Scores.
The winners' compositions will be performed multiple times during the 2005-2006
season. First performances will occur at BNW's annual series at the
Detroit Institute of the Arts in Mid October.
Impetuoso for fl/picc, b.cl, pno, vln, vc
Sungji HONG (1973, Korea). Her creative output ranges from
solo works to orchestral, choral, ballet and electro-acoustic music with special
interest in timbre and predetermined pitch structures.
Her works have been commissioned by institutes and festivals such as the
Fromm Music Foundation (Harvard University), the Tongyoung International
Music Festival, MATA (Music At The Anthology), and are regularly programmed
by international festivals and concert series throughout Europe, the US, and
Asia, by leading ensembles and orchestras including the Soloists of the
Royal Opera House Covent Garden, the Nieuw Ensemble of Amsterdam, the
Arditti String Quartet, Onix Ensemble, TIMF Ensemble,
Kammerensemble Neue Musik Berlin, Ensemble Musica Viva Hanover, the
Radio and Television Symphony Orchestra of Belgrade, the Orchestra of
Slovenian National Theatre Opera and Ballet, and the BBC Singers.
Sungji Hong's music has been broadcast on Croatian, Serbian, Portuguese,
Brazilian, and Dutch radio networks, recorded on the Dutton label, and
distributed on limited editions by the Association of Serbian Composers.
In September 2005, her Missa Lumen de Lumine, commissioned by Trio
Mediaeval is going to be released by ECM Records.
She has won a number of prizes and awards including the Temple church
composition competition 2004 (1st prize), the Crwth Composition
Competition 2004 (1st Prize), the international competition for
original ballet music in the ISCM World Music Days-Slovenia 2003 (1st
prize), the Montserrat International Camera Music Composition
Competition 2003 (1st prize), the Theodore Front Prize 2003
(International Alliance for Women in Music), the Yoshiro Irino Memorial
Prize 2002 (Asian Composers League), the Vinson Award 2001, the Mason
Award 1999, the Leverhulme Composition Award 1998, the Christian
Fellowship of Art Music Composers Scholarship 2002, a British Chevening
Scholarship 2002 and others. She has also been the recipient of grants
by the PRS Foundation and British Council, the Korean Culture and Arts
Foundation and the Lord Mayor of the Wissenschaftsstadt Darmstadt.
She studied composition with Kyungsun Suh at the Hanyang University in
Seoul, where she graduated with honors in composition. Afterwards, she
completed her MM with Robert Saxton and Paul Patterson at the Royal
Academy of Music in London and her PhD in composition with Nicola
LeFanu at the University of York. She has participated in various
workshops and masterclasses such as Voix Nouvelles (Royaumont) and
Darmstadt where she studied with Brian Ferneyhough, Jonathan Harvey,
Theo Loevendie, Tristan Murail and Toshio Hosokawa. [
http://www.sungjihong.com ]
"Black Bend" for String Quartet
Dan Visconti's(b. 1982, La Grange, Illinois) compositions have won awards
and scholarships including a BMI Student Composer Award, two consecutive
first-place awards in the ASCAP/Victor Herbert Young Composers
Competition, the Donald Erb Award for Music Composition, and the NFMC
Devora Nadworney Award for Vocal Writing. His recent commissions include
works for the Moore/Better Duo, Clark Barnes, the Cleveland Orchestra
Youth Orchestra, and the Cleveland Museum of Art's AKI Festival.
Mr. Visconti is currently pursuing his M.M. at the Cleveland Institute of
Music, where he studies with Dr. Margaret Brouwer. Mr. Visconti grew up in
Chicago, where he played violin in several groups, including the West
Suburban Symphony and the Chicago Consort; in 1999 he toured China for two
weeks as a member of the Protˇgˇ Philharmonic. Currently, Mr. Visconti
teaches composition, theory, and popular songwriting as a faculty member
of CIM's Preparatory Division. In his spare time he plays blues guitar for
CIM's distance learning program.
Brave New Works will also program the following compositions during the
2005-2006 season;
-Keeril Makan's Target for sop, b.cl, vln, vc, perc
-Eric Chasalow's Suspicious Motives for fl, cl, vln, vc, and electronice
sounds
-Kristine Kuster's Ando for fl, cl, pno, vln, vc, perc
Information about next year's call for score
Receipt Deadline: November 1, 2005
Brave New Works announces its annual Composers Competition. Composers are
encouraged to submit original works of any duration for the following
instrumentation: flute/piccolo, clarinet/bass clarinet, piano, harp, string
quartet and soprano. Works involving electronic media will also be
considered. While priority will be given to works that adhere to Brave New
Works' full instrumentation, pieces for smaller combinations, and even solo
works, will be considered. Selected works will be performed during the
2006-2007 season with the possibility of multiple performances. The winner
will be announced in February 2006. BNW reserves the right to perform any
entries submitted.
There is an entry fee of $15 for one score and $10 for each additional score.
Please make check or money order payable to Brave New Works. Include
anonymous
score(s); anonymous recording(s) if available (MIDI realizations are
acceptable); information sheet with the work's title, composer's name,
address, telephone number, and email in sealed envelope; entry fee; SASE for
return of materials (international submissions cannot be returned). To submit
or for more information, please contact:
ATTN: Chris Younghoon Kim
101 Lincoln Hall
Ithaca, NY 14853
Tel: (607) 255-8614
Email: chris@bravenewworks.org
Web: http://www.bravenewworks.org
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