GENERAL INFORMATION

The course aims to offer young composers the opportunity to work on an original composition while coming into direct contact with the sonic, poetic, and aesthetic world of historical instruments.

In this context, collaboration between students and professors of the Chigiana–Mozarteum Baroque Program will allow for daily, in-depth work, together with the opportunity to explore some of the most interesting aspects of historical instruments.

Collaboration between students and professors forms the foundation of the work and is a defining feature of the course.
Analysis classes will complete the course program.

Attendance as an auditor is permitted.

Together with the application for admission, candidates must submit the score of two recent original compositions:

• one for solo instrument, and
• one for a chamber ensemble of 3 to 6 instruments.

The submission of an MP3 audio file of the compositions is welcome.

All materials (scores and any audio files) must be uploaded in a single link, which must be copied into the designated space on the online application form.

These materials must reach the Secretariat of the Accademia Chigiana, via the online application form, together with the registration and examination fee, by 31 May.
The Academy will inform all candidates of the outcome of the selection carried out by the examination commission.

COURSE DETAILS

The course will benefit from the collaboration of an ensemble of historical instruments in residence, present for the entire duration of the course. Students may base their work on this instrumental ensemble.

Well in advance of the course period, admitted students will begin working on the first sketches of their compositions. In this process, they will be guided by the composition professor, with whom they will be put in contact, as well as by the instrumental professors, who will provide all useful indications and suggestions regarding their respective instruments.

The aim is for admitted students to arrive at the opening of the seminar with a composition already at an advanced stage of completion. In this way, during the course it will be possible to make further progress, deepen and develop additional aspects through direct collaboration with the instrumentalists in residence of the workshop, who come from the Mozarteum of Salzburg, thus completing the creative process.

If possible, the composition will be performed by the instrumentalists in residence at the final concert of the course, scheduled for Tuesday, 1 September (Palazzo Chigi Saracini).

with Composition workshop for antique instruments

curated by Simone Fontanelli, composer and conductor. Professor of Neue Musik at the Mozarteum

and by Vittorio Ghielmi, director of the Department für Alte Musik at the Mozarteum

COURSE BEGINS
26 August / 9:30 am

AGE LIMIT
none

ADMISSION

Required materials to be included in the application

APPLICATION DEADLINE
15 JUNE

TUITION & FEES

– APPLICATION FEE must be sent to the Accademia Chigiana WHEN YOU SUBMIT THE APPLICATION!

– Course tuition / ATTENDANCE FEE should be paid only after receiving an acceptance letter from the Accademia to the course

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