2011 Guest artists

Composers Workshop 2012: New String Quartets
Composers in the Workshop create short etudes for the standard instruments of the string quartet (violin 1, violin 2, viola, cello)

Junior Composers Summer 2012
The hallmark of a valuable music education is the experience of working with accomplished artists. Along with the faculty of composers and songwriters, you will have frequent and extended work time with these guest artists during the Studio, Composers Institute and the new Songwriters Institute.

Moriah Custer Composers & Songwriters Institute

• Institute Salon: Composing for Harp
• Counsellor: Salon, Songwriters & Composers Institutes

Sam Ecoff Composers & Songwriters Institute Composer website

• Institute Salon: How to build a home recording studio for $500 or less
• Engineer-Producer: Demo recordings

Bill Eddins Guest Conductor Conductor website

• Workshop: Early 20th-Century orchestra innovations
• Online Composers Forum: Orchestra composing
• Readings: Conduct the Minnesota Sinfonia in the New Symphonies readings
• Studio and Institute Salons: New Symphonies feedback 

Jay Fishman Conductor-composer Conductor blog

• Institute Salon: Orchestrating for success

Maria Jette Soprano Artist website

• Institute Salon: New Songs reading

Libby Larsen Guest Composer Composer website

• Studio Salon: Creative process
• Studio Seminar: New Symphonies feedback
• Studio Workshop: Creative project
• Studio Showcase: Creative project feedback

Minnesota Sinfonia Guest Ensemble Ensemble website

• Readings: New Symphonies

Andy Thompson Guest Songwriter-Producer Songwriter website

• Institute Salon: Creative process
• Songwriters workshops: Lyric writing
• Songwriters workshops: Pre-production 

Field Trips
Songwriters will perform at local coffeehouses.

• Composers in the Studio will attend a rehearsal and performance by the Minneapolis Pops Orchestra. 
• Composers in the Studio and the Composers Institute will attend performances by the Minnesota Sinfonia.