Overview
Composition students will join a vibrant community of composers and work with a faculty of established composers. Participants will work in a state-of-the-art technology lab, hear their new pieces performed in a series of composition recitals and chamber music/large-ensemble readings and receive professional recordings of their compositions performed during the summer. Student composers will also interact with guest composers-in-residence. Check the Interlochen website for information on the 2012 composersin- residence. (In 2011, guests included Tan Dun, Libby Larsen and John Mackey.)
Composition students will compose for and have their music read and recorded by musicians in the following chamber groups:
- Advanced string quartet
- Honor woodwind and brass quintets, sax quartet or percussion ensembles
- Selected pianists
Select students will also compose for and have their music read and recorded by the following ensembles:
- World Youth Symphony Orchestra
- Interlochen Philharmonic
- World Youth Honors Choir
- World Youth Wind Symphony
Program Details
Private composition lessons twice per week with an experienced composer.
Seminar in compositional techniques and issues will be held in classrooms equipped with electronic pianos for completing individual topic-based projects.
Music theory class (note: students with sufficient demonstrable skill may be excused from this requirement)
Orchestration class will cover scoring music for orchestra and band instruments.
A survey of concert music since 1900 will cover important works and composers.
Work in the technology lab will focus on Finale and Sibelius notation software and related skills. The state-of-the-art lab features Mac computers with MOTU Digital Performer software running Native Instruments synthesis software. Students should also bring a laptop.
One additional elective is optional.
