Composer’s Voice Featuring Andrew White
Vox Novus in collaboration with Virtual Concert Halls is calling for works for baritone Andrew White and accompaniment. This unique event will happen live online broadcasted by Virtual Concert Halls to several video streaming platforms.
The main purpose and goal of this online event is to foster and broaden the art song genre. This event creates an opportunity for composers to “voice” or express their musical ideas as well as explore and experiment with accompaniment through the digital video medium. Composers are encouraged to be experimental or just compose outside their comfort zone to create works for this project.
Our secondary purpose of this project is to introduce Andrew White to new composers and those composers to Andrew White. It is also a chance to introduce living composers to audiences giving them a chance to talk about their work and how they go about creating it. Besides the performance of the works, Andrew White will lead a discussion with the selected composers speaking about their compositions and careers.
The online performance will take place on Saturday April 23rd, 2022 2:00 PM EDT (UTC-4)
Collaboration and accompaniment is an online project of the Composer’s Voice concert series empowering living composers and the musicians who champion new music.
Composer’s Voice is a Vox Novus project.
Guidelines:
Works need to be 10 minutes or less in length
Scores need to be submitted as a PDF
An electronic accompaniment is required. (Any accompaniment is applicable including instrumental realizations, recordings, or electronic and/or synthesized soundscapes.)
Works need to be submitted by Monday February 7, 2022
Work must be submitted to newmusicengine.org Composers will be asked to register to New Music Engine and provide the following:
150 word biography
50 word program notes
Score as a PDF file
Electronic Accompaniment as and audio file
Audio Realization of the work uploaded as and audio file
Merchant Transaction ID from your PayPal receipt to Vox Novus
www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/featuring/collaboration&accompaniment/
Selected composers are required to participate online with an interview and dialogue with the host and artist
Selected composers will be asked to sign a consent form for online performance
Works need to be written for baritone voice and electronic accompaniment
There is a submission fee of $10
$10 submission fee (Merchant Transaction ID from your PayPal receipt to Vox Novus)
www.voxnovus.com/composersvoice/featuring/collaboration&accompaniment/
Baritone Andrew White
Dr. Andrew White currently serves on the voice faculty of the University of Nebraska at Kearney. He holds a Bachelors and a Masters Degree, as well as an Artist Diploma and Doctorate from The Cleveland Institute of Music/Case Western Reserve University. Previous faculty positions include Indiana University of Pennsylvania, The University of Akron, Hiram College, Lake Erie College, Baldwin-Wallace College Conservatory of Music, and Ashland University. In 1995 he made his New York debut in Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall in a program devoted to the songs of Frederick Koch with the composer at the piano. Ken Smith of New York Concert Review hailed Andrew White as “…a formidable interpreter… Every song composer should be so lucky with collaborators.”
Andrew White has been a regular at Vox Novus with Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame.
You can find performances of his work here:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3aAv-0oHSU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ymok3WCdsA&t=1s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5nLfOM19N1w
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AkP3IjwERlM&t=4s
Deadline 7 February 2022
Website voxnovus.com
