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SONAMENS PUERTO RICO

 SONAMENS PUERTO RICO
Summary:Course for Young Composers
Deadline: 15 March 2019
Date Posted: 24 January 2019
Details: A MEETING FOR YOUNG COMPOSERS
Sonamens Puerto Rico summons young composers worldwide to participate in its musical composition course.
Students can partake in master classes and lectures conducted by our guest composers, rehearse their compositions with our soloists and groups, listen to their works performed in one of our eight concerts and watch debates with scholars and composers about morphologies, competences and exchanges among popular, commercial and concert music.

AN ENCOUNTER FOR NEW MUSIC
Sonamens Puerto Rico is conceived as an annual event about the creation, performance and study of new music from the most diverse perspectives of current times, and facing its challenges in the fields of business, technology and education.
We present Puerto Rico as its venue, for its own interest as well as as for its vast human and cultural resources, infrastructure and as a crossroads for the ways of historically collaborating cultures: Latin America, North America and Europe.
This summit –gathering composers, performers, scholars and cultural professionals and administrators from all over the world– will be comprised of concerts, educational programs, academic debates and conferences.

MASTER CLASSES
The main educational attraction will be comprised of master classes of up to two (2) hours. Most of these will be composition master classes, in which presentation, study and discussion of works composed by students enrolled in the summit’s educational program. This first summit will also hold a guitar master class conducted by Maestro Leo Brouwer.

LECTURES AND DEBATE PANELS
Guest composers and the Puerto Rico Conservatory of Music’s academic community will engage individual artistic points of view of the summit’s main theme and debate about the present and future of musical composition that is related with the exchange among diverse musical styles.

SUPERVISED REHEARSALS
Enrolled students will have the opportunity of rehearsing their works with performers composer-performers and guest composers in supervised rehearsals of their music.

CONCERTS
There will be a total of eight (8) concerts performed by soloists and groups from Puerto Rico and abroad featuring music by enrolled students, Puerto Rican composers and resident composers, and the summit’s guest composers.

For more information:
Web Site:www.sonamens.com/indexeng.html