Composition
June 25 - August 8, 2010
The composition program offers special opportunities for a select group of young composers. Enrollment is limited.
Brevard's composition faculty provides instruction through weekly private lessons and a daily seminar.
Students produce new works while in residence, and these works are performed in a series of public concerts. Students collaborate closely with Brevard's new music ensemble, itch, comprised of instrumentalists in the College Division who have demonstrated ability and interest in the performance of new music.
An annual "New Songs" program has proved popular. All student composers set the same text, and singers from Brevard's opera company perform the new songs on a public concert.
During the last week of the season, the college division orchestra devotes a session to reading new student works.
Composition students spend most of their time in the composition lab, a pair of adjoining rooms housing MIDI keyboards, printers, and audio equipment. Students bring their own computers, so may use whatever notation software they elect.
In 2009 Brevard's composers in residence were Robert Aldridge and Kevin Puts. In previous seasons the Brevard Music Center Orchestra has performed world premieres of works by both composers. Composers in residence for 2010 will be announced soon.
Each year composition students perform in the BMC Chorus in a concert with the Brevard Music Center Orchestra. Past seasons have included performances of Beethoven's Ninth Symphony and Orff's Carmina Burana.
