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CINTAS Foundation Announces 2018-19 Fellows in  Architecture & Design, Music Composition and Visual Arts Miami, October 2018 – CINTAS Foundation Board of Directors made the announcement at the annual Awards Ceremony during a special reception held October 10th at the Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami. The 2018-19 Fellowships were presented to: CINTAS Foundation Fellowship in Architecture & Design Javier Galindo CINTAS Foundation Brandon Fradd Fellowship in Music Composition Sabrina Peña Young CINTAS-Knight Foundation Fellowship in Visual Arts Tomás Esson In addition, a Lifetime Achievement Award was given to Juan A. Martínez, Ph.D., Professor Emeritus of the Department of Art & Art History at Florida International University for his contributions to Cuban art and culture. It marks the first time that CINTAS has honored and recognized an academic in the field. The reception, with sponsorships from Bacardi as well as El Carajo restaurant, was a...

2019 International Women’s Brass Conference Composition Competition  Submissions will be accepted starting  September 1, 2018 Deadline for submissions is  December 1, 2018 Winner announced by  March 15, 2019 Prize: $1,500 BACKGROUND The International Women’s Brass Conference commissions works from women composers for its biannual conference . For the 2019 conference, the committee has decided to make the solo category into a competition. Submitted works should be for solo tuba (unaccompanied or with piano and/or electronics) and be programmable for an undergraduate college-level recital. INSTRUMENTATION Solo tuba  - with or without piano and/or electronics COMPETITION RULES The competition is free and open to women composers of all ages and all nationalities. The piece should be written for solo tuba, and be either unaccompanied or have piano accompaniment and/or electronics only. The piece should have a  minimum  playing time of...

International Alliance for Women in Music Board Member Nominations IAWM has openings for the 2019-2021 board!   We're looking for enthusiastic members who are passionate about building awareness of women’s participation and contributions to musical life. We have a new  website , some new awards and are excited about our future! We’re holding our annual election to engage additional members to help us grow IAWM and advocate for women in music! TIMETABLE: We are accepting nominations through  August 15,2018 . Feel free to either self-nominate or nominate someone else you believe would be a great addition to our board. Nominees must be IAWM members. By  August 30, 2018 , nominees should send us a ONE-page resume and a statement of 200 words or less telling us why you’d like to participate on IAWM’s board.  On  September 1, 2018 , we’ll send out an on-line voting poll for all members to participate. Polling will close Septembe...

How does a composer write music? Samuel Andreyev answers a viewer's question on how composers go about writing music.

After a few months of filmmaking and writing, I am happy to announce the release of four exciting and inspiring albums just in time for Mother's Day. The newest soundtrack released by Sabrina Peña Young from Grace McCalister's the Present and the Passed is an emotional piano journey through a mother's hope and sadness. The newest soundtrack released by Sabrina Peña Young from Grace McCalister's the Present and the Passed is an emotional piano journey through a mother's hope and sadness. Download today: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/sabrina-pena-young/389263592#see-all/recent-albums A Mother's Heart is an inspiring classical collection of beautiful music inspired by the joys and struggles of motherhood. It is a perfect gift for any mother or grandmother in your life. Give the gift of inspiring classical music this Mother's Day. Yoga Dream Meditations takes a departure from classical music, instead enveloping the listener with slow-moving a...

Concert features program of music by women composers  Someday, perhaps, there won’t be a need to advocate and provide a platform for the work of women composers. Until that time, Women in Music Columbus, as it has done for almost 140 years, is on the case. The local organization also advocates for women performers, offering multiple opportunities each season for its performing members to participate in recitals and concerts. These concerts often include the music of women composers. Additionally, every other year WMC puts out a call for submissions from women composers, with all selected works to be performed in one program. The Women Composers program will be held on Sunday, April 15, in Capital University’s Huntington Recital Hall. “It’s part of our mission statement to promote women making music and women composers,” WMC President Cynthia Mahaney said, “and certainly providing performing opportunities is a big reason why many of our members join.” ... In all, works...

Have you ever worried that you’re “tone deaf” or can’t sing? Or do you have a friend or family member who just can’t seem to sing in tune or in key? In today’s podcast episode we’re joined by a true expert who’s had some phenomenal results helping those who “can’t sing” to start singing in tune. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/learn... George was someone we reached out to when doing research a few years back for our Tone Deaf Test and SingTrue projects at Musical U. Throughout his teacher career, George repeatedly found himself faced with students who just couldn’t seem to hold a tune and were reluctant to get involved in choir. He started “experimenting” with how to help them, and now with his “Music at Monkton” blog he regularly shares insights, techniques and triumphs as he goes about his work teaching music and leading choirs at a secondary school in the United Kingdom. In this episode George shares: - The most important lessons he learned from entering music contests as...

Today we’re talking with Bill Hilton, author of How to Really Play the Piano and the host of a hugely popular YouTube channel where over 120,000 people tune in to watch his video tutorials. http://musicalitypodcast.com/42 As always when we have a guest who specialises in teaching a particular instrument, this episode is packed with tips and insights not just for that instrument, but for your musicality in general. In particular, Bill has great wisdom when it comes to the mindset that adult learners need. In this conversation we talk about: - The missing pieces that hold pianists back from feeling creative and expressive on piano, and how to really learn to play - How becoming an amateur singer made him a better piano teacher What defines “cocktail piano” and why this style is so popular and useful to learn - The surprising advantages that can actually make it easier for adults and retirees to learn an instrument than children Bill’s attitude and his teaching really cut ri...

“Fake news” may be a term that’s only recently made its way into the zeitgeist, but the vocal world has been full of half-truths and straight-up myths for quite a while. https://www.musical-u.com/learn/5-myt... Founder of the nonprofit music school Molly’s Music, music blogger, and vocal teacher Molly Webb debunks five myths that have been propagated in the vocal world and shares why they’re false, giving you practice advice that is backed by vocal research and will help you achieve your singing goals. Because vocal instruction was going on long before researchers had the ability to look at what was going on anatomically, not everything passed down from teacher to teacher over the years has been accurate. As a result, vocalists have been particularly susceptible to misconceptions and fear mongering about vocal health.

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First International master-courses for young composers in St. Petersburg Russian Musical Union International MolOt Group Russian institute of Art History Youth Department of Russian Composers Union ​ are delighted to present ​ The First International master-courses for young composers in St. Petersburg The master-courses will take place in St. Petersburg on the base of Russian institute of Art History from November 19 to November 26, 2017. The invited professors for the master-courses are composers Alexander Knaifel (St. Petersburg, Russia) and Helena Tulve (Tallinn, Estonia). ​ The master-courses have two sections: Music for chamber ensemble Music for chamber choir ​ The performing ensembles of the master-courses are St. Petersburg MolOt-ensemble and Festino Chamber Choir. ​ Ensemble lineup: Flute (also piccolo, alto) Clarinet (also piccolo, bass) Piano (also MIDI-keyboard) Violin Cello (also bass guitar) ​ The choir lineup is 16 voices (SATB, four singers for each part) ​ 10...

Women Composer YouTube Database Project Looking for Female Composers and Songwriters The Women Composer YouTube Database is a project designed to make the works of prominent women in music known to a broader base by creating long playlists of works by select female composers and songwritings in classical music, electronica, and film. This is a project begun by award-winning composer Sabrina Pena Young.   The hope is that as more and more of these Youtube Playlists of women composers are made available, the playlists will be shared and other musicians will take the time to create more female composer playlists. This project was begun in August 2017. The goal is to eventually have 100 + separate playlists highlighting the works of 100+ female composers.   If you are interested in having a playlist made of your work or a prominent female composer as part of this project, please contact Sabrina Pena Young directly through her facebook page: https://www.facebook.co...

Music and drama critic Terry Teachout recently wrote his first libretto; the opera became a hit. What would he advise others attempting this daunting form?

Composer Philip Glass on his latest collaboration with Christopher Hampton and Music Theatre Wales, an opera adaptation of Franz Kafka's black comedy, The Trial.  Find out more at  http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/the... The Trial is Philip Glass's second 'pocket' opera based on the writings of Franz Kafka, and his first work created specifically for Music Theatre Wales, in celebration of the company's 25th birthday. Glass has a long relationship with the company, describing them as 'wonderful to work with… they seem to like these "odd" pieces of mine, and they do them very well. I think of my pocket operas as neutron bombs – small, but packing a terrific punch'. Glass has won worldwide acclaim for his operas, which include Satyagraha and Einstein on the Beach. Music Theatre Wales gave a sell-out tour in 2010 of Glass's previous Kafka opera, In the Penal Colony, a work of blistering intensity and dark claustrophobia. Playwright and ...

Writing His First Opera

As part of Inside Opera: Live, composer Errollyn Wallen and baritone Dawid Kimberg were challenged to create an aria from scratch in 4 hours with suggestions of text from Twitter. Watch how the process unravelled and listen to the final performance. 

Operas are often tragedies, so they should be written with the rules of Greek tragedy in mind. Write an opera by working with a composer with tips from a playwright in this free video on writing lessons and tips.

n this video, our no. 1 hit selling songwriting instructor Alex Von Soos gives us a little taster of what you can expect while learning how to write a song on our Hit Songwriting course, jam packed full of songwriting tips from a top songwriter with record sales in the millions.

The I, IV, V chord progression, tonic, dominant, subdominant relationship, chord substitutions and writing pop songs.