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Tuesday, March 09, 2010


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The Digital Submission Information has been posted.  Please click the FCM link in the Menu Bar to view the details.

The Call for Scores for the 8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music has been posted.

The dates for the 8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music have been announced.

New recording uploaded, Brian's Visions of a Landscape for woodwind quintet.  Check it out to the right or on the info page in Brian's site.

Brian's page given an overhaul. (Click "Brian Bice" menu above)

New Releases and Upcoming Events have been moved to the calendar page.




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8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music - Dates

Concert #1: Saturday, July 17, 2010, 8:00 p.m.
Concert #2: Saturday, August 7, 2010, 8:00 p.m.

Both concerts will take place at the San Francisco Community Music Center
Digital Submission Information is now available.  Click on the FCM link above to see the instructions.
Call for Scores
8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music

New Music Forum is proud to announce the call for scores for the 8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music.  This year the two-concert event will take place on Saturday, July 17 & August 7, 2010 at the Community Music Center in San Francisco.  

Composers must provide performers for the selected works. The FCM staff can provide names and contact information for local performers; however, it will be the composer’s responsibility to make the necessary arrangements for performance and compensation. The San Francisco Bay Area minimum union rates are approximately $80 per performer per service.

Attendance at the festival is required. If you are unable to be present at one or the other of the two programming dates, please do not submit an entry. You do not need to be present for both dates.
 
Upon selection, composers will be asked to provide a brief biography, performance notes of the piece, and parts, if necessary. Selected participants will be required to submit a registration fee of $20.  This registration fee is used to defray the cost of the venue, recordings, and programs. Do not send the fee now.

Composers are invited to submit up to two (2) works for consideration.  Please note that the Community Music Center can provide up to two pianos, but no organ.  We will not be accepting electronic works this year.  Acceptable instrumentations include vocal, piano and instrumental solos or groups.   We are happy to accept submissions for larger chamber ensembles, but please keep in mind the potential cost of performers for such works.

This year we are requesting online submissions.  The preferred file formats are PDF for the score and MP3 for the recording.  Please include your contact information (name, address, phone number and email) in a separate document.  We request that you use a service such as yousendit.com (which is free) to send links for your submissions to the email addresses below.  Please do not email the score and recording directly to us.  For more information regarding online submissions please visit www.newmusicforum.com after February 5, 2010 for complete details.

Submission Deadline: April 1, 2010, 11:59 p.m.

Selected composers will be notified by May 1, 2010, via email.


For more information:
Brian Bice, co-artistic director    email: brian@newmusicforum.com
    
John Bilotta, co-artistic director    email: jgbilotta@comcast.net
Happy Thanksgiving!

From everyone here at New Music Forum and the Festival of Contemporary Music, we would like to wish everyone the happiest of Thanksgivings and the warmest of holiday seasons!

I have uploaded for your enjoyment the recording of my woodwind quintet Visions of a Landscape from the premiere July 18, 2009.  This performance was done by the Avenue Winds.

All the best,

Brian Bice

Visions of a Landscape
7th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music - August 8 & 22, 2009 @ 8:00 p.m.

The 7th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music was a success!  Both concerts were great.  The photo exhibit by Micheal Vickers on August 22nd was amazing.  The executive staff of the Festival would like to thank all of the composers, artists, performers and audience members for participating in the Festival.  Stay tuned for more info, photo and (possibly) even some streaming audio of the event.  We hope to see you there next year!


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This year's Festival features music from 19 composers.  Here is the lineup for the Festival.

Program:   Saturday, August 8, 2009
    Leonard Mark Lewis - Piano Etudes for piano
    Bruce Bennett - Mourning & Rain for stereo digital audio media
    Gregory Mertl - A Seeker’s Song for guitar
    Paul Oehlers - Phreximus for stereo digital audio media
    Chih-chen Wei - Between Stream and Hills for piano
    Sarah Horick - Equipoise for flute and vibraphone
    Nikolas Jeleniauskas - Hadron for stereo digital audio media
    John Bilotta - Madison Sketchbook for piano
    Christopher Jette - Inter for stereo digital audio media
    Jamie Leigh Sampson - Frozen Landscape for bassoon
 
Program:   Saturday, August 22, 2009
    Anthony Green - G. Profundus for violin/castanets & piano/theremin
    Stephen Yip - Sunflower for trombone
    Brian Bice - Glimpses of the Moon for violin
    Alex Miller - Actions and Resonances for piano
    Paul Lombardi - Segue for alto saxophone
    Heather Morris - Masquerade for flute and piano
    Kerrith Livengood - Six Stephen Crane Songs for tenor, clarinet, piano, violin and cello
    Christopher Gainey - Flowing Through for guitar quartet
    James Romig - Piano Sonata for piano

We hope to see you there!

Brian
"New" Mozart pieces identified.

Two "new" compositions identified by the Mozarteum as childhood pieces by Mozart. 

Read the full AP story here:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090802/ap_en_mu/eu_austria_new_mozart
Free Downloads will continue

Beginning March 1, 2009 the free downloads will continue on New Music Forum.  Every 2 months we will offer a new selection of music for download. 

UPDATE: 2/20/09 - The scores for Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow and Lines in the Sand are now available for download.

These downloads are under copyright and are for personal and private use only.  We are offering these downloads in an effort to help further awareness of contemporary classical music.

Any questions should be directed through the feedback form located on the left side of this page.

Thank you,

Brian Bice


Links to downloads:
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