COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS
GENERAL INFORMATIONS
Professors: Sidney Corbett, Alessio Elia
Composition master class on writing for string instruments with a specific focus on writing for string quartet.
The course will take place online.
The lessons, individual and group, will be administered through the BigBlueButton platform, which has high system stability and high audio quality.
There is no need to download any programs or apps.
Participants will receive a link with which they can access all meetings.
A selection of the best pieces by the active students will be included in the concert season of the Roman quartet (string quartet).
Dates
Course period: 16-19 September: group and individual lessons. ONLINE COURSE.
COURSES
Sidney Corbett / Alessio Elia
- Compositional strategies in writing for string instruments and string quartet.
With analytical examples taken from works by Ligeti, Lachenmann, Corbett, Romitelli, Scelsi, Elia, Haas and Stahnke.
Sidney Corbett
- Learning Composition: A composer’s guide to the practice of learning our craft
“I have for many years now been a professor of composition and thus have presumably “taught” composition and this is of course at least formally true. It is my belief however, that composition can’t really be taught but what I can do is share how I learned and am still learning composition. What I would like to speak about in this course is first what I believe to be the preliminary step of training the mind and secondly to briefly go over the various technical areas we need to explore and master in order to make progress as composers.”
Alessio Elia
- Hidden architectures in formal construction. An exploration of the concepts of implicit order / explicit order in the light of the holographic physics of the Universe.
A compositional approach to microtonality and the use of different tuning systems related to the physical dimension of sound and auditory perception (extension of the lectures held at the Cité de la Musique, the Hungarian Academy of Arts and the Liszt Academy in Budapest).
ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS
Active students have the right to attend the seminars, the group lessons and are invited to discuss their work with professors during individual meetings. They have the right to participate in the process of selection of the pieces which will be included in the concert season of the Roman Quartet (string quartet).
PASSIVE PARTICIPANTS
Passive participants have the right to attend classes (seminars and group lessons) and the discussions of active students about their work, but they will not have private sessions to discuss their own work with the professors.
Passive participants will not be able to enter their works for consideration to be included in the concert season of the Roman Quartet (string quartet).
LANGUAGES
The course will be held in English.
Individual lessons can be held in the following languages: Italian, English, German, Spanish, Hungarian (depending on professor).
PERFORMANCE OF THE PIECES
A selection of the best pieces by the active students will be included in the concert season of the Roman quartet.
Composers wishing to apply as active participants are invited to write a piece for the ensemble in residence (string quartet).
The piece can be written for any combination of the instruments present in the ensemble, from the solo instrument up to the whole group and must not exceed 10 minutes in duration.
The scores and parts, preferably written with music notation software (Finale, Sibelius, etc.) – manuscripts will also be accepted as long as they are clearly legible – must be sent as a pdf file by 5 Semptember 2021, to the following e-mail address:
info@shelivesmusic.it
APPLICATION FOR REGISTRATION
There are two types of participation:
- Active participants (classes, individual lessons, group lessons, participation in the selection of the pieces which will be performed by the Roman Quartet)
- Passive participants (classes, group lessons)
REGISTRATION FEES
Active students: 360 €
Passive students (Auditors): 300 €
APPLICATION FOR ACTIVE PARTICIPANT
Deadline: 5 September 2021
To apply for registration, please send the following documents by e-mail (info@shelivesmusic.it), header of the e-mail COMPOSITION MASTER CLASS: