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Monday, February 08, 2010


8th Annual FCM

The 8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music will take place on Saturday, July 17, 2009 and Saturday, August 7, 2009.  Both concerts will take place at the Community Music Center in San Francisco.  Concerts will begin at 8:00 p.m.

The Call for Scores and the Digital Submission Information will be available soon.
Festival Forms


Festival Photos

If you have any pictures from the 6th Annual FCM or any other FCM Concerts, please send them along to brian(at)newmusicforum.com.

I will be sure to post them on the appropriate Festival page!

Thanks,

Brian
Important Information

San Francisco Community Music Center
544 Capp Street
San Francisco, CA 94110

Website: http://www.sfcmc.org

Getting around the San Francisco Bay Area:
BART: Bay Area Rapid Transit - http://www.bart.gov

San Francisco Muni - http://www.sfmuni.com
 
Brian Bice and John Bilotta, co-directors

8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music
Digital Submission Information

This year New Music Forum will be accepting digital submissions for the 8th Annual Festival of Contemporary Music.  We have moved to this method of submissions because the FCM staff is made up of composers and we understand that it costs a lot of time and money to make copies of scores, burn CDs for the recording and mail the submission packet.  We hope that this method will streamline the review and selection process allowing the FCM staff more time to create a better festival.

The preferred file formats for submission are:
•    Score – PDF
•    Recording – MP3
•    Contact information – PDF
•    ZIP and RAR archives of all of the submission materials are acceptable.

To submit the files we request that you use a service such as You Send It (www.yousendit.com).  You Send It is a free and easy service for sending large files over the internet.  Please do not email the files directly to us.  Failure to follow this direction will lead to the disqualification of you submission.

For those unfamiliar with You Send It, there is an easy six-step process for sending the files.
1.    Go to www.yousendit.com
2.    Enter Brian’s and John’s email address in the To: section (you must send to both addresses listed below)
3.    Enter your email address in the From: section
4.    Enter “FCM 8 Submission” in the Subject section
5.    Select files for sending
6.    Click the “Send It” button

Once we have received the links from You Sent It and successfully downloaded the files, Brian will send you an email confirming receipt of the submission packet.  If you do not receive an email within 3 days of submission, please contact Brian.


The deadline for submission is Thursday, April 1, 2010, 11:59 p.m. PST. 
Submissions received after that time will not be considered.


Other File Services
There are other free online services to which you can upload large files.  Megaupload and Rapidshare are just two such services.  If you wish to use of these services rather than You Send It, please email Brian Bice and John Bilotta with the direct links to the files.

If the pieces you wish to submit are on your personal website, you may send us direct links to the files for download.  Please do not direct us to your website saying that I wish to submit “X” piece for us to find and download.  Since we receive many submissions for the Festival we are requesting direct links to the files for downloading.  If there are no direct links in the submission we will consider it incomplete.

Further questions can be emailed to Brian Bice and John Bilotta at the following addresses:

Brian Bice - brian (at) newmusicforum.com
John Bilotta - jgbilotta (at) comcast.net

Please replace (at) with @.



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
 
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