Fabian Svensson of Sweden is the winner of the 2008 Carlsbad Music Festival Composers Competition! Mr. Svensson was selected amongst nearly 100 highly-qualified international applicants to write a new piece for the 2008 Festival. The postmark deadline for the 2009 Competition will be November 1, 2008. More details will be posted soon.

Read more about Fabian Svensson at:

www.fabiansvensson.com

Christine Southworth was the winner of the 2nd Annual Composers Competition She was selected amongst over fifty highly qualified international applicants. Her composition for string quartet was premiered by the Calder Quartet on Sunday, September 30, 2007 to a very enthusiastic response. It has since been performed several times by the Calders across the country.

Read more about Christine Southworth at:
www.kotekan.com

Last year?s competition was a tremendous success with the winner, Ryan Carter, commissioned to write his well-received "grip" . After its premiere at the 2006 Carlsbad Music Festival, "grip" went on to win the 2007 Lee Ettelson Composer?s Award.

www.ryancarter.org

2008 Carlsbad Music Festival
Composers Competition

Postmark deadline: February 16, 2008
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The Carlsbad Music Festival, in partnership with its Founding Ensemble-in-Residence, the Calder Quartet, and ArtPower! at UC San Diego, announces its third annual composition competition with a prize of $3,000. The festival and quartet seek to commission a new 15-30 minute string quartet from a highly original, creative, and compelling composer under the age of 35. The winning composition will be premiered at the 5th annual Carlsbad Music Festival on the weekend of September 26-28, 2008 and performed in the spring of 2009 at the ArtPower! series at UC San Diego.
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The $3,000 prize includes the commission fee and a travel stipend for the Carlsbad Music Festival concert, free room during residency (home-stay), and a professional recording of the premiere. ArtPower! will additionally provide transportation and accommodation for the selected composer to attend the ArtPower! presentation of the composition.
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Please submit a score and recording (MIDI mock-ups are highly discouraged) of two recent pieces, at least one using violin, viola or cello in a chamber music setting. Please also include the following materials and information: your name, birthday, address, phone number, e-mail address, web site (if available), artistic biography or resume, list of works, a $20 check made payable to ?Carlsbad Music Festival,? a SASE if you would like your materials returned (unreturned materials will be recycled), and an optional project proposal or cover letter. ?All competition materials must be postmarked by February 16, 2008. The winner will be notified by March 15, 2008 The winner?s completed score and parts must be delivered to the music festival by August 1, 2007 and the winner must attend the concerts on September 26-28, 2008.
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The Carlsbad Music Festival is an annual alternative classical music festival featuring the next generation of cutting-edge, world-class musicians premiering new works and performing fresh and compelling music in concert and in the community. The festival has been praised as ?marvelously enlightening? by the Los Angeles Times, and draws large and enthusiastic audiences to its concerts in the coastal California city of Carlsbad and its satellite concerts in Los Angeles.
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The Calder Quartet continues to expand the boundaries of chamber music by performing both traditional quartet repertoire as well as partnering with modern masters and performing works by emerging young composers. The Calder, who has been called a "self-confident, polished powerhouse of a group" (LA Times, 2007) began its 2007-08 season as the first quartet-in-residence and newest faculty members at the Colburn Conservatory of Music in Los Angeles.
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ArtPower! at UC San Diego engages diverse audiences through vibrant, challenging, multi-disciplinary performances by emerging and renowned international artists. Through extensive partnerships, ArtPower! provides exciting opportunities for research, participation, and creation of new work, igniting powerful dialogue between artists, students, scholars and the community.
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The winner of the competition will be decided jointly by the festival?s founder/director, Matt McBane, and the Calder Quartet.
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Carlsbad Music Festival Composer?s Competition is made possible in part by the generous support of ArtPower! at UC San Diego.
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www.carlsbadmusicfestival.org

www.calderquartet.com

www.artpower.ucsd.edu

Mail materials to:

Carlsbad Music Festival
PO Box 4067
Carlsbad, CA 92018

Questions to:

Festival Overview

9/19/2008 - 8pm Zipper Hall, Los Angeles

Calder Quartet, Red Fish Blue Fish and Build

9/22/08 - 7:30pm New Village Arts Theatre, Carlsbad
Build, Fabian Svensson and Tristan Perich

9/25/2008 - 8pm, The Loft @ UCSD
Calder Quartet and Build

9/26/2008 - 8pm, Schulman Auditorium
Calder Quartet

9/27/2008 - 2pm Museum of Making Music
Partch performance/demonstration

9/27/2008 - 8pm, Schulman Auditorium
Red Fish Blue Fish

9/28/2008 - 2pm, Schulman Auditorium
Partch

9/22-26/2008

Educational outreach in Carlsbad schools