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JCI is growing its programs: Junior Composers Studio, Junior Composers Institute, and Junior Composers Teacher Clinics
Next July, JCI will launch a new two-week residential program called Junior Composer Studio (JCS) for young composers age 14-20 interested in intense score study, composition, and advanced workshops with filmmakers, artists, composers, and screen-writers. Composers will need to apply for this opportunity by sending sample works, a letter of recommendation from music teachers, and a short phone interview. JCS will begin Monday, July 12 (the week before JCI) and run parallel to the Junior Composer Institute through Sunday, July 24, 2010. Junior Composer Institute will continue as it has for the last eight years as one of the outstanding national camps for young musicians age 14-20 interested in exploring and honing their music composition talents. The daily schedule of music theory instruction, workshops, field trips, guest speakers, reading sessions, and Saturday Salon will remain the same. Junior Composer Teacher Clinics will launch its second year with some innovations. Plans are still being formulated based on the successful day-long workshop that took place in July 2009. Composition clinicians Seth Custer and Randall Davidson will be presenting mini composition workshops to teachers throughout the Upper Midwest during the next six months. More details will appear on this page. Save the dates! Junior Composer Studio - July 12-24, 2010 Junior Composer Institute - July 18-24, 2010 Junior Composer Teacher Clinics - July 2010 (dates to be announced) Featured Opportunity announced for 2010: Film-scoring Every year, JCS+JCI feature an opportunity to compose a work for a guest ensemble. The featured opportunity for JCI 2010 will be film-scoring with readings by the professional guest ensemble, salons with outstanding film composers and filmmakers. In the coming months, two dozen silent films will be posted to this site which will be scored by JCI composers. The films will vary from animations to vintage classics to avant garde films created in the last couple of years. JCI composers will still compose a new work during JCI week but they will also be able to score a film and have it read by the guest ensemble. More details about this opportunity will be posted on this site in the coming months.
JCI Composers join here!You are invited to register as a Member and get access to our Members section. You can find the registration form here. The Member section is a secure social networking area for JCI composers to share their music, pictures, ideas, and participate in online chats about composing issues. You can become a member by filling out the online application form in the "Apply/Prepare" section. If you are interested in attending JCS+JCI in July 2010, please take a look around and get acquainted with our program. JCS and JCI are intense summer music camps for composers age 14-20 interested in exploring their creativity through music composition and will take place July 12-24, 2010 in Minneapolis. New in 2009: JCI Composition ClinicThis year, Junior Composer Institute launches a new program for private music teachers interested in music composition pedagogy for their students. The JCI Composition Clinic is a one-day workshop on July 11, 2009 that will provide music teachers practical and specific techniques that will be helpful when working with beginning and advanced composition students. Learn more about the JCI Composition Clinic and register for the inaugural year of our new annual program.
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JCI 2009 Summary JCI 2009 is now finished and it was a new high-water mark for many reasons. There were three remarkable salons: Pulitzer Prize-winning composer Dominick Argento visited on Monday, July 6 to talk about his experiences and approaches to setting texts, a software developer for Finale presented a very informative Wednesday Salon on Finale 2010, and composer Stephen Paulus talked about the life of a professional composer on the Friday Salon, July 10. Thirty-two composers participated in JCI this year and all of them participated in the Saturday Salon as composers and performers. Composers attending JCI 2009 also composed works for one of the great choruses in the world: VocalEssence with conductor Philip Brunelle. Throughout this site you will see evidence of the conversations and preparations JCI composers participated in to prepare for this outstanding opportunity. Questions like: "How do I compose for voices?" and "How do I pick the 'right' text for a musical setting -- and how do I make the words make sense when they are sung?" "How do you get started?" and "What are the common pitfalls when writing for voices?" We have been fortunate to have seasoned composers and professional singers join the discussion along with conductor Philip Brunelle. And the conversation has been richer because of the quality of questions from our JCI composers. Visit the three archived conversations in the link, below. Major events at JCI 2009 Monday (7/6/09) @ 4:00 PM - Dominick Argento "Selecting and Setting Texts"
Monday (7/6/09) @ 7:00 PM - VocalEssence reading session Thursday (7/9/09) @ 7:00 PM - VocalEssence reading session Friday (7/10/09) @ 11:30 AM - MN Orchestra concert Friday (7/10/09) @ 4:00 PM - Stephen Paulus "Life as a Professional Composer"
Saturday (7/11/09) @ 9:00 AM - Final Salon
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