VOTE100 and Royal Holloway announce a Call-for-Composers, co-curated by Nathan James Dearden
Nathan James Dearden, Royal Holloway University of London and VOTE 100 UK are delighted to announce a College Call-for-composers. We invite composers who are currently enrolled at Royal Holloway, at any stage of education, to submit a 2 - 4 minute ‘musical memo’ for solo instrument.
Eight selected composers will be given workshop performances at a College festival entitled Suffrage 2018 hosted by Royal Holloway University of London from 15 January – 19 March 2018. The eight new works will be workshopped, rehearsed and performed by members of the Royal Holloway New Music Collective. The rehearsals will be overseen by project curator and College composer, Nathan James Dearden, in which he will provide successful applicants with guidance and support regarding their new work. Successful composers will also receive one workshop opportunity on their new work for solo instrument led by acclaimed performer and new music advocate, Dr Carla Rees.
Successful applicants will be invited to Founder’s Square (Royal Holloway University of London, Egham, Surrey, TW20 0EX) on Friday 9th March 2018. The presentation of the new works will be slightly different to how your music might have been premiered in the past. The aim of this event is to present the new works one-by-one in an installation-style event, audience members will be encouraged to move around the space whilst these works are being performed outside (weather permitting). Each work will be written in response to one of the following speeches reflecting on Human Rights, Equal Rights or LGBTQ+ Rights: Eleanor Roosevelt (‘The Struggle for Human Rights; 1948), Rory ‘Panti’ O’Neill (‘All the little things’; 2014), Elie Wiesel (‘The Perils of Indifference’; 1999) Elizabeth Nyamayaro (‘An invitation to men who want a better world for women’; 2015), Martin Luther King (Honorary Doctorate Speech at Newcastle University; 1967), plus 3 additional opportunities for composer’s own suggested text.
The evening will finish with a world premiere of Nathan James Dearden's you ARE determined for flute, actor and electronics in the Davison Building Exhibition space. This new work uses the text from Emily Wilding Davison's June 1912 journal entry referencing her imprisonment in Holloway Prison, north London.
For more information on this event, please CLICK HERE.