A creative boost with an intensive five-day composition course. Alasdair Nicolson will offer friendly and supportive advice to composers at all stage of their developments. Focus on string writing<\/p>\n
Treat yourself this New Year to a gigantic creative boost with CoMA\u2019 intensive mid-winter five-day composition course. With a track record for taking composers onto an entirely new level, the course provides the technical capacity and confidence to realise more ambitious musical ideas and projects.<\/p>\n
This year\u2019s composition tutor, Alasdair Nicolson, will offer friendly and supportive advice to composers at all stage of their developments, advice that is nevertheless challenging and deeply instructive. With a focus on string writing, composers are required to write for amateur strings as well as for a professional string trio \u2013 Tristan Gurney (violin) Ruth Gibson (viola) and Robin Michael (cello). One session each day is dedicated to writing as a composers\u2019 ensemble.<\/p>\n
CoMA course participants have variously described the course as providing an \u2018amazing time\u2019, offering \u2018great feedback\u2019 and \u2018unique opportunities for collaboration\u2019, and as an \u2018inspiring\u2019 way to kick off the New Year. Past composition tutors have included Tansy Davies, Gerald Barry, Sally Beamish, Philip Cashian, Alasdair Nicolson and Andrew Toovey.<\/p>\n
Course content<\/p>\n
* Pre-course guidance on writing for strings with option to write for amateur mixed ability string orchestra or chamber size string quintet<\/p>\n
* Group tuition classes and one-to-one composition tutorials with a leading UK composer<\/p>\n
* Attendance at all workshops performing composers\u2019 submitted works with feedback by professional performers<\/p>\n
* Sessions with a professional trio to inspire and develop new musical ideas<\/p>\n
* Working as a \u2018composers ensemble\u2019 to create a collective work for performance<\/p>\n
* Right to record all composition sessions<\/p>\n
* Concerts in the Jacqueline du Pr\u00e9 Music Building presented by string tutors<\/p>\n
2-6 January 2019 at St Hilda’s College and Jacqueline du Pre Music Building, Oxford.<\/p>\n
Location: England<\/p>\n
For further information, please contact info@coma.org<\/a> or visit http:\/\/www.coma.org\/midwinter<\/a><\/p>\n The deadline is Friday 14 December 2018 at 17:00.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A creative boost with an intensive five-day composition course. Alasdair Nicolson will offer friendly and supportive advice to composers at all stage of their developments. Focus on string writing Treat yourself this New Year to a gigantic creative boost with CoMA\u2019 intensive mid-winter five-day composition course. With a track record for taking composers onto an […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2765","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-musicians","7":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2765"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2766,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2765\/revisions\/2766"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2765"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2765"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/projects.handsupfortrad.scot\/distil\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2765"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}