COMPOSERS SANDBOX SUMMER INTENSIVE
JUNE 2 – 14 | 2022
The Hobart and William Smith Colleges ‘Composer’s Sandbox Summer Intensive’ is an opportunity for composers in the early stages of their career to study with a renowned faculty of composers. Students selected for the program will have the opportunity to work with musicians from the award-winning Society for New Music. The two-week-long Intensive will culminate in a performance and recording of their work by SNM’s acclaimed Society Players.
Submission Deadline: Feb. 14, 2022 (midnight EST) https://www2.hws.edu/composers-sandbox/
Tuition: $1,500 – includes room and board.
PROGRAM
• Daily meetings with composition faculty to discuss works in progress.
• Faculty led group composition seminars to facilitate discussion of student works and provide evaluative and critical feedback.
• Improvisation Workshops.
• 48-hour composition challenge.
• Composition seminars to look at seminal works and works by historically disenfranchised/marginalized composers—particularly focusing on compositions germane to the works of student composers.
• Orchestration seminars.
• A seminar on entrepreneurship: building marketing skills as a composer.
FACULTY MARK OLIVIERI; JENNIFER BELLOR; MARC MELLITS; DOUWE EISENGA
Mark Olivieri, Chair, Associate Professor of Music, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
JENNIFER BELLOR Assistant Professor-In-Residence, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
MARC MELLITS. Associate Professor, University of Illinois, Chicago
DOUWE EISENGA, Freelance Composer, Netherlands