composers

Composers’ Festival Amsterdam

Composers’ Festival of Amsterdam is happening in T-minus two weeks at Conservatorium van Amsterdam. There’s 100 musicians, 14 composers, 25 pieces, 4 venues! Come check out lots of beautiful people who’ve made lots of beautiful things.

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Irish Composition Summer School

Irish Composition Summer School 2012It’s been 2 weeks since I finished a week of composing and recording as part of the Irish Composition Summer School. In the mean time I’ve had some time to take stock of the course and wanted to give a summary of my experience. The goal of the course is to compose a piece of music during the duration and have it played and recorded by a professional musicians in the final two days. This gives you 8 days to write a piece of music that will be played by professionals, a pretty scary task. Before starting the course I’d done some composition for college assignments and a bit of song writing but nothing too major, this was to be my my first major leap into the world of composition.

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