Seminar on Contemporary Music

The 34th Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music takes place April 27 – April 29, 2012.

For more than thirty years, The Rivers School Conservatory has been one of the world’s leading advocates for contemporary music for young musicians. Each year in late March or early April, the RSC presents a three-day festival of student recitals, guest performers, lectures, master classes and presentations all focused on contemporary music.

Since 1983, the Seminar has included a major commissioned work by a nationally or internationally recognized composer written expressly for a conservatory student or ensemble. The conservatory also funds up to ten teacher-initiated small commissions each year.

RSC is pleased to collaborate with the BOSTON COMPOSERS’ COALITION for the 34th Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music for the Young. The collaborative organization, founded in 2010 by Justin Casinghino, is dedicated to the creation, performance, education, and dissemination of new American music.

The following pieces, composed by members of the coalition will be premiered by students ages 7-18:

Brett Keüper Abigaña

On Simple Songs for violin, viola, cello, piano

Prelude for solo piano

Justin Casinghino

…and as these wings expand… for orchestra

Sweet Suite for flute and oboe

Heather Gilligan

New Beginnings : Theme and Variations for solo piano

A Warm Breeze in April for piano four hands

Andrew Smith

Soothing Meditation for solo guitar

Legerdemain for solo guitar

Jeremy Van Buskirk

Set of 3 for Double Bass Duet

Fleeting Moments for solo viola

PoChun Wang

Brubeck’s Daily Schedule for piano duo

Becoming a Snowman for solo clarinet

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The following major works have been commissioned by The Rivers School Conservatory for its Annual Seminar on Contemporary Music:

1983 Sonority Forms for Piano Otto Luening

1984 After Glass Sorrel Hays

1985 Trio Fantasia Ivan Tcherepnin

1986 Piano Sonata, Op. 25 Dianne Goolkasian Rahbee

1987 Rivers Robert Strizich

1988 Ivesiana T.J. Anderson

1989 Seven Poems of Juan Ramon Jiminez John McDonald

1990 Rivers Daniel Pinkham

1991 Son et Lumiere James Yannatos

1992 Arrows to the Sun Peter Child

1993 Variations for String Quartet John Harbison

Inventions for Piano

Inventions for a Young Percussionist

O Magnum Mysterium

1994 Concerto for Cello and Chamber Orchestra Marti Epstein

1995 Prelude for Piano Donald Sur

1996 East, West of the Sunday Arlene Zallman

1997 Rhinestones, Pinecones and Telephones Andy Vores

1998 Riversonata Marjorie Merryman

1999 Fantastical Colloquy for Trumpet and Bass Gunther Schuller

2000 Rivers of Wood Gordon Stout

2001 Fantasy for Two Pianos and String Orchestra Jonathan McPhee

2002 In Memory . . . Sir John Tavener

2003 Music for Three for violin, marimba, and piano Lukas Foss

2004 Concerto #3 for Piano and String Orchestra Samuel Adler

2005 Four Rivers David Rakowski

2006 Daydream and Nightmare, Op. 94 Lowell Liebermann

2007 Serenade for Guitar Trio, Op. 84 Larry Thomas Bell

2008 Slate River Scott Wheeler

2009 Mountain Echo by Eric Sawyer
2010 Jigsaw Patterns by Michael Gandolfi

“Funded in part by a grant from the MetLife Creative Connections program of Meet the Composer, Inc., and the New England Foundation for the Arts, with additional support from the six New England state arts agencies and the National Endowment for the Arts.”

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