BCMG Apprentice Composer in Residence Call

BCMG Apprentice Composer in Residence Call

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a leading British new music ensemble, run a year-long annual apprenticeship scheme for composers early in their career. The deadline for applications for the 2012 apprentice composer in residence position is 4 November.

The Birmingham Contemporary Music Group, a leading British new music ensemble, run a year-long annual apprenticeship scheme for composers early in their career.

The scheme allows the composer to spend a year in close collaboration with the group, observing at rehearsals and in meetings, and developing their music in workshops. The apprentice composer works closely with well established mentors, and ultimately writes both a short and a large scale composition for performance by the ensemble towards the end of the apprenticeship.

The current holder of the apprenticeship is Irish composer Seán Clancy, who has worked with David Lang throughout the year, and whose bespoke large scale work, based on an installation piece by artist Gabriel Orozco, will premiere in February in a programme that also includes music by Gerald Barry and Gérard Grisey.

The deadline for applications for the 2012 apprentice composer in residence position, which this year is being delivered as a joint venture with the artistic development programme of Sound and Music, ‘Embedded’, is 4 November. BCMG ask that applicants be able to visit the group for at least thirty days throughout the year of the apprenticeship. Applicants must also be resident in the UK, must not be in full time undergraduate education, and must be at an early stage in their career.

Costs for travel and accommodation will be reimbursed, and a bursary will be available to support the composer during the project.

Embedded is funded by the Esmée Fairbairn Foundation.

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Pictured: Seán Clancy

Published on 1 November 2011

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