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Junior Composers Festival Salons
Saturday, July 24, 2010 from 9-11 am and 1-3 pmUltan Recital Hall in Ferguson Hall University of Minnesota Campus, Minneapolis The capstone event of the Junior Composers experience! As both composers and performers, students offer a full day of world premieres in a program full of variety and surprises, new insights and glimpses of the future. This event is free and open to the public. Seats are available on a first-come, first-seated basis.
Daily schedule for the Studio and Institute is now available for downloadThe daily schedule is an indispensable overview of the activities taking place each day during the 2010 Studio and Institute. Copies of this schedule will also be distributed in the registration folders of each student attending the Studio and Institute. > Daily schedule for the Studio (xls) (ods) > Daily schedule for the Institute (xls) (ods)
Junior Composers' four programs on the Minneapolis campus of the University of Minnesota. The Studio – July 12-24, 2010 A two-week residential summer music camp for students age 14-20 who want to develop their music composition talents. Core features: seminars and master classes with guest composer Richard Marriott, visual literacy workshops with film-maker Barbara Weiner, score analysis, two field trips to the Minnesota Orchestra along with all of the features of the Institute. Click here for a complete description of the Studio. 
The Institute – July 18-24, 2010 A week-long residential summer music camp for students age 14-20 who want to explore music composition. Core features: composition tutorials, 2-hours of music theory/ear-training every day, readings of new works with a professional ensemble, compose and perform a new work, daily sessions with guest artists, field trip to the Minnesota Orchestra. Click here for a complete description of the Institute.
The Clinic – July 16-17, 2010 A two-day clinic for music teachers who want to develop their skills in teaching composition. Core features: compose and perform new works by your peers, composition pedagogy workshop, composition teaching laboratory with student composers from the Studio, field trip to the Minnesota Orchestra. Click here for a complete description of the Clinic.
The Workshop – September 2010 thru June 2011; 10 monthly 3-hour sessions on Saturday afternoons, 2-5pm A workshop for music students age 14-19 who want to explore the art of composing for orchestra. Core features: composition tutorials, orchestration clinics with orchestra musicians and conductors, music theory and aural training, readings of new works by the Minnesota Sinfonia, compose and perform new works by your peers, and online music theory and composition resources. Click here for a complete description of the Workshop.
| Junior Composers | Studio | Institute | Clinic | | Students age 14-20 | • | • |
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| • | | Online composers forums March-May | • | • |
| | Music theory and ear-training instruction | • | • | • | | Composition lessons | • | • | • | | Composition teaching laboratory | • |
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| | Guest composer Richard Marriott | • |
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| | Field trip to a micro-cinema | • |
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| | Professional ensemble reads your work | • | • |
| | Field trip to the Minnesota Orchestra | • • | • | • | | Salons with music professionals | • | • | • | | Perform new works | • | • | • | | Late-night film screenings | • | • | • | Junior Composers is a project of the North Central Region of the National Federation of Music Clubs. |