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Follow on Google News | First Year for DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Presenting Series Music CompetitionContest Connects Ensemble-in-Residence Premiere of Glenn Kotche Composition to Search for New Music Incorporating Found Sound. Entry Deadline is November 17, 2014.
By: DeBartolo Performing Art Center The #wildsound Contest accepts entries September 22 through November 17, 2014. Amateur and emerging songwriters should enter an original song using found sound at performingarts.nd.edu/ Executive Director Anna M. Thompson applauded the competition. "One of the growing strengths of the Presenting Series is innovative collaborations between leading professional touring artists, Notre Dame students and our community. With our ensemble-in- The #wildsound Contest is open to U.S. residents who must be 18 years old or older at the time they enter the competition. Finalists advance to compete for first and second place prizes in the final round. The nine members of the Executive Judging Panel include Kotche (http://glennkotche.com/ The DeBartolo Performing Arts Center is the University of Notre Dame’s multi-venue performing arts facility. Celebrating its 10th anniversary year season, the Presenting Series consistently presents professional touring artists among the most acclaimed in music, contemporary dance and theater. As a lead and co-commissioner of novel works in the performing arts since 2008, under the leadership of Anna M. Thompson, the center’s Presenting Series leaves the University of Notre Dame a legacy of 28 new works toured in national and international presentations. During the 2014–2015 season an additional 10 commissions, one for each year, have their world premieres at Notre Dame. In addition, the DeBartolo Performing Arts Center recently endowed its on-going arts education programs. Workshops and residencies for K-12 youth, Notre Dame students and area educators are provided by the Presenting Series renowned artists, as well as through the Kennedy Center Partners in Education Program in partnership with the South Bend Community School Corporation. The center also houses the Browning Cinema and supports the College of Arts & Letters (https://www.nd.edu/ For additional information and rules for the #wildsound Contest or to submit an entry, go to performingarts.nd.edu/ Contact: Leigh Hayden DeBartolo Performing Arts Center Director of External Relations 574.631.2726 hayden.22@nd.edu Tweet about #wildsound Contest at https://twitter.com/ Wild Sound was commissioned by the University of Notre Dame’s DeBartolo Performing Arts Center and the Chamber Music America Classical Commissioning Program, with generous funding provided by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the Chamber Music America Endowment Fund. Additional support provided by The Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra's Liquid Music Series. Third Coast Percussion with composer and special guest Glenn Kotche is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Art Works. This presentation is supported by the Arts Midwest Touring Fund, a program of Arts Midwest, which is generously supported by the National Endowment for the Arts with additional contributions from Indiana Arts Commission and General Mills Foundation. The Presenting Series is supported by the Morris Inn, WSBT-TV and Express Press Incorporated. End
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