Apply now for the CoMA MidWinter Composers Course: open to composers working in any style and from any background.
This course has an impressive track record in taking early-stage composers onto an entirely new level, providing the technical capacity and confidence to realise more ambitious musical projects.
Award-winning composer Hannah Kendall joins us in residence as the primary tutor, offering friendly and supportive advice to composers at all stages of their development, whilst challenging them to push their skills and knowledge. With a focus on string writing, composers are required to write for amateur strings as well as for a professional string trio. In addition there is the option for participants to create and perform works together as a composers’ ensemble.
We actively encourage applicants from diverse and underrepresented backgrounds, specifically those from the Global Majority, d/Deaf and disabled people, those from lower socio-economic backgrounds and LGBTQ+ identifying people.
Two 50% funded spaces are reserved and available for those who are:
• from the Global Majority* and/or identify as disabled
AND
• face financial barriers meaning you wouldn’t be able to pay full price
*Global Majority includes people who are from African and Caribbean diasporas, people who are South Asian, East Asian, South East Asian, North African, Middle Eastern and ethnically mixed heritages.
To secure your position, apply by 22nd November 2024.
Course content
The course offers composers:
• Pre-course guidance on writing for mixed ability amateur strings, with the option to write for an orchestra of around 30 players or for smaller sized ensembles. Both options requiring an independent double bass part
• Group tuition classes and one-to-one composition tutorials with Hannah Kendall
• Attendance at all workshops, performing composers’ submitted works with feedback offered by professional string players and by the amateur players
• Sessions with a professional string trio to inspire and develop new musical ideas
• Opportunity to come together as a ‘composers ensemble’ to create a collective work for performance on the final day
• Right to record all composition sessions
• Concert in the Jacqueline du Pré Music Building presented by the string tutors
