Call for Scores

We are so very pleased to announce the two winners of our 2012 call for scores, Kyong Mee Choi and Brian Baxter.

Kyong Mee Choi, composer, organist, painter, and visual artist, received
several prestigious awards and grants including John Simon Guggenheim
Memorial Foundation Fellowship, Robert Helps Prize, Aaron Copland Award,
Illinois Arts Council Fellowship, First prize of ASCAP/SEAMUS Award,
Second prize at VI Concurso Internacional de Música Eletroacústica de São
Paulo, Honorary Mentions from Musique et d’Art Sonore Electroacoustiques
de Bourges, Musica Nova, Society of Electroacoustic Music of Czech
Republic, Luigi Russolo International Competition, and Destellos Competition.
She was a Finalist of the Contest for the International Contemporary
Music Contest “Citta’ di Udine and Concurso Internacional de Composicai
eletroacoustica in Brazil among others. Her compositions have been performed
at the international venues including the Australasian Computer Music
Conference, Musica Contemporanea in Ecuador, International Computer
Music Conference, Electroacoustic Musical Festival in Santiago de
Chile, MUSICA NOVA, Society for Electro-Acoustic Music in the United States,
College Music Society among others. Her music was published at SCI, EMS,
ERM, SEAMUS, Détonants Voyages (Studio Forum, France) and CIMESP (São
Paulo, Brazil).

Choi received a D.M.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign,
a M.M. from Georgia State University and a B.S. in chemistry and science
education from Ewha Womans University. She studied Korean literature
in a master’s program at Seoul National University in South Korea. She
teaches music composition and electro-acoustic music at Roosevelt
University in Chicago. Samples of her works are available at
http://www.kyongmeechoi.com.

Brian Baxter (b.1985) is a Chicago-based composer, drummer, and new music producer. He creates compelling musical narratives by finding inspiration in places, events, ideas, and texts. Colorful timbres and pulsing rhythmic textures are stylistically central to his musical expression featuring primarily orchestral and chamber music as well as a smattering of songs.

Recent performances of Brian’s music have taken place across the US. In a collaboration with Shara Worden, Brian co-wrote orchestral arrangements of My Brightest Diamond’s music for a concert with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra at Millennium Park’s Pritzker Pavillion in Chicago in August of 2011. At South by Southwest in Austin, Texas the Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles performed music by Brian as a part of their set on Gabriel Prokofiev’s NonClassical Showcase at the Velveeta Room in March of 2011. On its inaugural concert in August of 2010, the Chicago Composers Orchestra premiered Brian’s Symphony in Movement. Selected as a winner of the Champaign-Urbana Symphony Orchestra’s 50th Anniversary Fanfare Commission Competition, Brian’s Cahokia was premiered during the 2009-2010 CUSO 50th Anniversary season. Old Meeting-House Bell from song cycle, the great work Time, was performed on the 2008-2009 Phoenix Concerts Series in New York City by soprano, Erika Rauer and pianist, Jocelyn Dueck. Brian has been a recipient of the ASCAPLUS Award in 2011, 2010, and 2009.

Co-founder of the Chicago Composers Orchestra, a group dedicated to the performance and advocacy of orchestral music by living composers, Brian currently serves as its Chair of the Board of Directors. He is an active drummer and organizer with the new music collective, the Sissy-Eared Mollycoddles. He also works in operations with the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestras where he founded and teaches a Composition Seminar for CYSO student composers.

Brian received his M.M. in composition from Roosevelt University’s Chicago College of Performing Arts and his B.M. in composition from Illinois Wesleyan University. His principal teachers have included: Stacy Garrop, David Vayo, Daron Hagen, Mario Pelusi, and Garrett Byrnes.

Brian originally hails from the Midwestern town of Geneva situated on the banks of the Fox River just fifty-five miles west of downtown Chicago. When Brian is not composing, performing, or organizing music he spends his time listening, reading, travelling, watching baseball, and enjoying good company.

Brian is a member of ASCAP and publishes his music through ATIHADSO MUSIC.

While we have now chosen our two winners, please do stay tuned: We will be announcing a number of honorable mention works, and also will be contacting specific composers about possible performance of your work next season. We hope to notify everyone of these further results as soon as possible.

Forecast Music: 2012 National Call for Scores

PRIZE: The winners of the Forecast Music 2012 National Call for Scores will be performed in the Spring of 2012 on Forecast Music’s Carolina and Beyond concert program at The Community Arts Café (http://communityartscafe.com/) of Winston-Salem. From 2-4 winners will be chosen. A travel stipend of $500 will be awarded to the winning composers in order to attend the concert.

ELIGIBILITY: Composers of art music from all genres currently living in the US or its territories are invited to submit works to Forecast Music’s 2012 National Call for Scores. We have no aesthetic bias and welcome any and all submissions. No weight will be given to whether or not a work has been previously performed.

INSTRUMENTATION: Solo and small ensemble works of any instrumental combination, vocal works, and works involving electronics are all welcome. Works submitted may be for acoustic and/or amplified instruments and voices. For a list of Forecast Music’s regular musicians please check http://forecastmusic.com/bios/ Pieces including voice or standard instruments not listed are also welcome, though performance logistics will figure into all final decisions. Works with durations of 12 minutes or less are preferable, although in some instances longer compositions may be considered.

DEADLINES: All works must be postmarked or submitted online by January 15, 2012 to be eligible for this year’s call.

PLEASE INCLUDE THE FOLLOWING:

1. Score (PDF or hard copy) and recording. (MP3, WAV, M4a or CD;MIDIrealizations are acceptable). Please indicate pertinent track names and numbers on CDs. Label scores and/or recordings with the following information:

* composer’s name

* title of work

* instrumentation

* duration

* track number if relevant

2. Contact information (address, telephone number, and email address).

3. Composer’s biographical information.

4. A check (Paypal is also accepted, please include a note with your submission if you have paid via Paypal) for $10 for the first entry, and $5 for each additional entry made payable to Forecast Music. For Paypal payment please click on the icon at http://forecastmusic.com/donations/

RETURN OF MATERIALS: Forecast Music often receives works that for various reasons do not win this particular call, but which we might like to program in the future. As such we would prefer to archive all submissions for future consideration. If a work must be returned, please include a SASE with your submission.

SEND TO:

Forecast Music

c/o Eric Schwartz- Artistic Director

431 Park Ridge Ln.Apt. D

Winston-Salem,NC27104

forecastcallforscores@gmail.com (use this address for e-submission as well as any questions)