What is Re: Formers LAB?
This is a four-day laboratory, where participants will meet with prominent contemporary musicians from different countries, learn about the possibilities of the saxophone in modern music and get the experience of combining Indian rhythms with the timbres of Western instruments.
The program is divided into two categories. Each of them includes online and offline lectures, score discussions and one-to-one consultations. All curators will give lectures, participate in the discussion of the presented scores and conduct individual consultations with the participants.
CATEGORY I: will help expand the knowledge of young composers about the possibilities of the classical saxophone and apply them in practice in writing solo or chamber compositions with the participation of this instrument.
Composers are invited to work offline and online with curators, outstanding musicians of our time: the legend of the avant-garde, the “star” of the toy piano and the first performer of Cage and Krum’s plays, Margaret Leng Tan (Singapore-USA), Stockhausen’s student, laureate of contemporary music competitions, Nino Zhvania (Georgia ), classical saxophonists, laureates of international competitions Vitaly Vatuley (Russia) and Gordon Tudor (Croatia), as well as the composer who wrote the largest number of works for saxophone in the XX century – Jacob TV (Jacob ter Veldhuis) (Netherlands), leading figure of Indian classical music B With Manjunath (India).
New scores during Re: Formers LAB will be performed by musicians of the festival of actual classics Re: Formers: saxophonist Vitaly Vatulya, violinist Boris Brovtsyn, viola player Sergei Poltavsky, cellist Yevgeny Tonkha, pianist Maria Nemtsova and others.
CATEGORY II: offers a unique opportunity to work with the luminary of classical Indian music B S Manjunath, the experience of deepening and combining Indian classical rhythms and the sound of Western instruments: saxophone, violin and piano. BS Manjunath will give an online lecture on Indian rhythmic fundamentals, and composers will be able to immediately hear the sound of their music.
Premieres of the best works of both categories will take place at the opening of the Re: Formers festival in October 2021 at the Moscow P.I. Tchaikovsky.
WHO CAN PARTICIPATE?
Young authors (from 18 to 35 years old) who have passed the qualifying round can become participants. The competition accepts scores for saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) solo, as well as ensembles (from duo to quintet) for saxophone (any variety) and violin, viola, cello and piano.
WHAT WAITS FOR NEW WORKS IN THE FUTURE?
After the end of Re: Formers LAB, the authors finalize their compositions taking into account the comments of the curators and musicians of Re: Formers LAB. Following the results of Re: Formers LAB, premieres of the best works will be performed and recorded at concerts of the festival of actual classics Re: Formers in October 2021.
Re: Formers LAB winners in both categories will receive a cash prize of RUB 30,000.
HOW TO PARTICIPATE?
To participate in the qualifying round of CATEGORY I, you must send:
• an application containing the following information:
– Full Name;
– Date of Birth;
– City of residence;
– contact number;
– email;
– place of study / work;
• a short creative biography;
• one or several scores in .pdf format written for the ensemble: solo saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor, baritone) or saxophone + violin / alto / cello / piano (any ensemble composition can be). Scores can be written both for the full quintet and for any combination of instruments, the participation of a saxophone is mandatory.
All this must be sent in one letter to reformers.lab@unioncomposers.ru with a note in the subject line: CATEGORY I
To participate in the qualifying round of CATEGORY II, you must send:
• an application containing the following information:
– Full Name;
– Date of Birth;
– City of residence;
– contact number;
– email;
– place of study / work;
• a short creative biography;
• send three scores in .pdf format, written on a given rhythmic basis for saxophone (soprano, alto, tenor), violin and piano
1, 2, 3
All this must be sent in one letter to reformers.lab@unioncomposers.ru with a note in the subject line: CATEGORY II.
If you would like to participate in two categories at once, please send two separate letters.
WHERE TO SEND YOUR APPLICATION?
Applications should be sent to the email address reformers.lab@unioncomposers.ru
Please indicate in the subject line for which category you are submitting scores. We accept applications until May 31.
WHAT ARE THE CONDITIONS OF STAY IN MOSCOW?
Accommodation for nonresident Re: Formers LAB participants who have passed the selection is paid by the organizers (the way to Moscow is at the expense of the sending organization).
Deadline 31 May 2021
Website unioncomposers.ru
