Vox Novus in collaboration with Virtual Concert Halls is looking for composers who are interested in supporting a performance and LIVE online video recording of their string quartets. Selected composers will have their string quartet presented on a special Composer’s Voice online concert hosted by Virtual Concert Halls and broadcasted LIVE online to at least 3 streaming platforms: Youtube, Facebook, and Vimeo. All performances will be archived on their related platforms.
The submitted scores will be reviewed by 3 string quartets: the Argus Quartet, the Lehner Quartet, and RUSQUARTET. Each work selected will be performed by one of the three string quartets.
RUSQUARTET will have their online performance on Friday November 5th, 2021 – 12:00 PM Noon (UTC-4)
Lehner Quartet will have their online performance on Saturday November 13th, 2021 – 2:00 PM (UTC-5)
Argus Quartet will have their online performance on Saturday February date TBD – 2:00 PM (UTC-5)
Composers will be featured online during the concert to present themselves and describe their work to the audience. A host will introduce the musicians and the composers.
In order to present this online publication of their works, composers will be asked to sign and agree to a consent form for online publication and promotion. Agreements will be non-exclusive for all parties.
The deadline to submit scores is October 1st, 2021.
Composers need to submit their string quartets online to New Music Engine at the following link: www.newmusicengine.org
There is a $30 submission fee to be paid to Vox Novus at the following link: www.VoxNovus.com/composersvoice/featuring/contemporaryquartets/
This is a production project. Selected composers will have to contribute a $1100 production fee to cover musician fees and broadcasting costs. Composers will receive 2 online rehearsals (30 minutes each) and performance of your string quartet broadcasted live online to YouTube, Facebook, and Vimeo by Virtual Concert Halls. You will have a video and audio copy your work with non-exclusive rights to do with what you wish. All artists and producers are expected to be credited in publications.
Guidelines:
Works need to be a maximum of 15 minutes in length.
Scores need to be submitted as a PDF file including all parts.
An Audio Realization sound file of the work as MP3 is required.
Works need to be submitted by October 1st, 2021.
150 word biography.
150 word program notes.
Selected composers are required to participate for the online performance with an interview and presentation of their piece.
Selected composers will also be asked to sign a consent form for public online performance.
Composers selected for digital publication will be required to sign a publication agreement.
Composers selected will be asked to contribute $1,100 towards production costs.
Work written for string quartet (Violin 1, Violin 2. Viola, and Cello)
Work needs to be less than 15 minutes in length.
There is a submission fee of $30
Deadline for work is October 1st, 2021
Work must be submitted to newmusicengine.org Composers will be asked to register to New Music Engine and provide the following:
biography
Program Notes
Score as a PDF file
All 4 instrument parts as PDF file
Audio Realization of the work uploaded as MP3 file
$30 submission fee (Merchant Transaction ID from your PayPal receipt to Vox Novus)
Contemporary Quartets Project is a joint venture from Vox Novus and Virtual Concert Halls. Questions can be addressed to Robert Voisey to the following email: support@VoxNovus.com
Argus Quartet
The Argus Quartet is dedicated to encouraging the joys of human connection, community, and discovery by bringing a wide-ranging repertoire to life through bold and meaningful programming and a vibrant commitment to collaboration and education, winning recognition as a “vivacious foursome … [that] plays canonical standards with authority and verve and approaches modern music with care and assurance” (The New Yorker). Praised for playing with “supreme melodic control and total authority” and “decided dramatic impact” (Calgary Herald), the Quartet has quickly emerged as one of today’s most dynamic and versatile ensembles, winning First Prize at both the 2017 M-Prize Chamber Arts Competition and the 2017 Concert Artists Guild Victor Elmaleh Competition.
Argus Quartet performs Dorothy Rudd Moore’s “Modes for String Quartet.”
youtu.be
Lehner String Quartet
The Lehner String Quartet is composed of four talented musicians who are members of the Kennedy Center Opera House Orchestra (Washington National Opera): Violinists Natasha Bogachek and Zino Bogachek, violist Philippe Chao, and cellist Igor Zubkovsky. Each are accomplished performers in their own right, they have a history of performing together to bring music to audiences around the world. Virtual Concert Halls and Vox Novus are proud to feature these string players to present new music by living composers.
Lehner String Quartet performing works from last Contemporary Quartets Project
www.youtube.com
RUSQUARTET
RUSQUARTET was founded in 2001 at the Academic College of Music of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory under the tutelage of Galina Soboleva, great cellist of the Prokofiev String Quartet. Members of the RUSQUARTET are DMA graduates from the Moscow State Tchaikovsky Conservatory where they have been students of the Professor Dmitry Shebalin (Borodin String Quartet).
The musicians are actively promoting contemporary composers and rarely performed compositions. The quartet’s programs include Andrei Eshpai’s «Concordia discordance», two string quartets by Mikhail Marutaev, a string quintet for two violins, two violas, and a cello by Alexander Lokshin, as well as compositions by Georges Onslow, Lex van Delden (the Netherlands), Kelly-Marie Murphy (Canada), Steve Martland (Great Britain), and Jonathan Dove (Great Britain), Olli Mustonen (Finland).
Link to media of RUSQUARTET performances:
http://www.rusquartet.com/en/media/
Deadline 1 October 2021
Website voxnovus.com
