NEC Summer Session 2010
Summer Institute
for Contemporary
Performance Practice
(SICPP)
Saturday, June 12–
Saturday, June 19
Stephen Drury, Artistic Director
Chaya Czernowin,
Composer-in-residence
Faculty: Scott Deal, Stephen Drury, Yukiko Takagi, Corey Hamm, John Mallia,
Callithumpian Consort in residence
Guest Artists: Steffen Schleiermacher, Mathias Reumert
SICPP draws both young people discovering the thrill of the avant garde and experienced veterans who have mastered the music of our time. The experience is intense–seven full days of masterclasses, lessons, rehearsals and concerts. It's an opportunity to open your ears and your mind to immerse yourself in hearing where music has been going for the last 100 years, and to understand where it might be going next.
SICPP is invaluable for anyone interested in new music and ready to tackle the challenges of 20th/21st century repertoire under a faculty uniquely experienced in learning, performing and teaching these pieces. In many cases, members of our faculty have worked directly with the composers and can share first hand information.
The Institute:
In the SICPP New Works Program composers and players meet and collaborate directly, develop understanding of each others' needs and forge relationships that serve both career and musical development.
Workshops for Pianists: Stephen Drury, Steffen Schleiermacher and members of the SICPP faculty will give masterclasses on modern repertoire. Selected pianists may be invited to participate in chamber ensembles. Those not involved in the chamber music program will be offered private lessons with the SICPP piano faculty.
Workshops for Percussionists: Directed by percussionist and new music specialist Scott Deal, the year's program will again include guest percussionist Mathias Reumert, winner of the 2007 Gadeamus competition.
NEW! SICPP Electronic Music Workshop: Practicing electronic artists, including composers, improvisers and sound artists will meet daily to explore the diverse possibilities electronic music in the 21st century with composer John Mallia and percussionist Scott Deal. Composers and performers with interest in but little experience with electronics are also welcome to apply.
Ensemble Program: Instrumentalists and vocalists will prepare masterpieces of the contemporary chamber literature under the direction of SICPP artistic director Stephen Drury, SICPP faculty and the Callithumpian Consort and perform at the Saturday marathon concert. Vocalists will have the opportunity to work with special guest faculty Tanya Blaich. Composer-in-Residence: Chaya Czernowin will be the SICPP 2010 BnG Foundation Composer-In-Residence. Her music will be featured in the evening concerts. Our thanks to the BnG Foundation and the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation for their support of this program.
Five evening concerts: Featuring Steffen Schleiermacher, Stephen Drury, Scott Deal, Corey Hamm, Mathias Reumert, the Callithumpian Consort and other guests playing new music. Saturday marathon will feature performances by Institute Students.
Call for Scores/New Works Program: SICPP is seeking scores for both mixed ensembles and piano solo, to be performed during the Institute. Those selected will be presented by advanced students in the seminar, discussed by composer-in-residence Chaya Czernowin, and performed at the Saturday marathon concert. Composers whose pieces are selected are expected to attend the Institute for the composer's fee of $650. Submit scores with minimal biographical information to:
SICPP Scores, c/o Stephen Drury, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Avenue
Boston, MA 02115
Review of scores begins April 15.
Auditors
Registered auditors are welcome to all classes and rehearsals and may arrange private lessons with the SICPP faculty at NEC's current studio rate.
Applications
Please submit a list of prospective repertoire and resumes or curriculum vitae, letters of recommendation, recordings to:
SICPP, c/o Summer Session, New England Conservatory
290 Huntington Ave
Boston, MA 02115
Applicants will be notified of their acceptance. Those not accepted as active participants are encouraged to enroll as auditors. Deadline April 15, 2010.
Registration
Upon acceptance. Auditors may register by downloading the Continuing Education Summer Session Registration form.
Housing
Available at a nearby campus at a reduced rate if reserved early. Call the Director of Continuing Education at 617-585-1125 for more information.
Tuition:
- 2 SCE credits: $1,050
- 2 Undergraduate College Credits: $2,100
- Pianists, Non-credit: $600
- Percussionists, instrumentalists, vocalists, non-credit: $500
- Composers, non-credit: $650
- Electronic Workshop, non-credit: $500
- Auditors: $275
All the above require a $35 registration fee.
Limited financial aid available.
See sicpp.org for further information including artists' bios and suggested repertoire.
Faculty Bios:
Chaya Czernowin was born and raised in Israel. She studied in Israel, Germany the US and lived also in Japan and Vienna. Her music has been performed throughout the world, and she has held professorships at UCSD, at the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna, and was appointed professor of composition at Harvard in 2009. Czernowin’s output includes chamber and orchestral music, with and without electronics, though she may be most well-known for her works for the stage, including Pnima...ins Innere (2000, named best premier of the year by Operenwelt), and Adama (2004/5) with Mozart's Zaide. Her awards include the Kranichstein Music Prize at the darmstadt summer courses, (1992), the Encouragement Prize by the Ernst von Siemens Music Foundation (2003) as well as the Fromm Foundation Award (2008) and a nomination of the Berlin Wissenschaftskolleg (2008). Characteristic to her work are attempts to find alternative temporalities, changing perspectives and scale, fragmentation, examination and stretching of identity; all are coupled with a strong physical imprint and high emotional intensity.
Stephen Drury is well-known as a champion of twentieth-century music whose performances of works by Ives, Cage, Ligeti and Rzewski have received the highest critical acclaim. He has appeared as conductor, pianist, and teacher throughout Europe, Asia, and the Americas, and premiered works for piano and orchestra by John Zorn and John Cage with the Köln Philharmonie and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. Drury has recorded for Mode, New Albion, Catalyst, MusicMasters, Tzadik, Avant, and Neuma.
Steffen Schleiermacher, born in Halle in 1960, studied piano (Gerhard Erber), composition (Siegfried Thiele, Friedrich Schenker), and conducting (Günter Blumhagen) at the Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Academy of Music in Leipzig during 1980-85. He was an assistant in composition, ear training, and new music in Leipzig until 1988 and a master pupil under Friedrich Goldmann (composition) at the Academy of Arts in Berlin during 1986/87 and at the Cologne Academy of Music under Aloys Kontarsky (piano) during 1989/90. Schleiermacher has been a freelance composer and pianist since 1988. As a pianist he focuses exclusively on music of the twentieth century. He has concertized as a soloist with the Gewandhaus Orchestra of Leipzig, Munich Philharmonic Orchestra, German Symphony Orchestra of Berlin, Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, and other orchestras under Vladimir Ashkenazy, Friedrich Goldmann, Ingo Metzmacher, Jörg-Peter Weigle, Wladimir Siwa, Vladimir Fedosejev, and Fabio Luisi. Concert tours have taken him throughout numerous European, South American, and Far Eastern countries.
During 1984-88 he directed the Gruppe Junge Musik at the Leipzig Academy, and in 1989 he founded the Ensemble Avantgarde. He has presented the Musica Nova series at the Leipzig Gewandhaus since 1989 and has led the January Festival at the Museum of the Plastic Arts in Leipzig since 1991.
Schleiermacher's numerous prizes and fellowship awards include the Gaudeamus Competition (1985), Kranichstein Music Prize (1986), Hanns Eisler Prize of the East German Radio for his Concerto for Viola and Chamber Ensemble (1989), Christoph and Stephan Kaske Foundation Prize, Munich (1991), Mendelssohn Fellowship of the East German Ministry of Culture (1988), German Music Council Fellowship (1989/90), Fellowship of the Kulturfond Foundation (1992-94, 1997), Fellowship of the German Academy at the Villa Massimo in Rome (1992), Japan Foundation Fellowship (1997) for study for several months in Japan, and Fellowship of the Cité des Arts in Paris.
Summer Institute for Contemporary Performance Practice.
“It was by far one of the best weeks of my musical season. A perfect blend of challenge, new ideas, and adventure.”
“I met so many interesting performers and composers with really enlightening perspectives and thoughts, and I can't wait to come back to SICPP next time.”
“In the two years that I've been a performer at SICPP, I have consistently had the most enriching chamber music performance experiences of my life. SICPP does an excellent job of exposing artists, young and old, to the essential repertoire of our time--extending the influence of new music to the communities of Boston and beyond.”
“If I had seen even one of the evening
concerts, I would have thought that it was the best concert that I had
ever been to.”
“It really was the best musical experience of my life! Being able to meet so many people that share an equal if not more exuberant love for contemporary music was invaluable to my growth as a musician and a person.”
“The marathon concert showed to me the high standard of the student’s interpretation and puts your program at a level
with other distinguished new music summer courses like the Darmstadter Ferienkurse.”
“SICPP is basically new music heaven.”
2010-05-19
VIRGIL THOMSON