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composer-librettist studio
We are pleased to announce our new initiative: the Composer-Librettist Studio!
The CL Studio returned to DC in July 2024 hosted at the Music Department of the University of the District of Columbia.
In June 2023 we conducted in our first full Composer-Librettist Studio since our inaugural studio in 1994, which seeded our company.
We had very successful sessions this year with a talented group of 5 Composers, 5 Librettists and 5 Singers. The rotating teams collaborated on new assignments every other day. In 16 days they created and presented 25 new works.
Going forward we plan to conduct the Composer-Librettist Studio annually in June in DC. Stay tuned!
The Composer-Librettist Studio is designed as an intensive workshop for professional artists that demands a commitment of all participants for two and a half weeks.
The Studio focuses on the process of collaboration through a series of brief exploratory assignments for the writers and composers. The exercises are then sight-read by the performers in brief working sessions. The participants rotate partners, and the process is repeated four more times. Within the two and half week period, all composers work with all writers and all performers. Toward the end of the studio, an informal reading of all the compositions is held.
All participants are carefully selected to represent diversity of experience, ages, cultural backgrounds, and styles of music and textual expression. All participants receive a stipend.
Read more HERE.
Cara schaefer
A native of Washington D.C., she continues to serve the community as a much-valued independent and contracted teaching artist, while carrying out a personal mission of increasing community access to and broadening the impact of the arts in DC and Montgomery County, Maryland, and beyond.
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