Workshop registration is limited to achieve balanced instrumentation and similar levels of experience. All participants are required to submit a CD or tape as part of their application. Below are some suggestions for making a recording.
Making an effective recording doesn’t have to be complicated or expensive. You can obtain a good result with a modest microphone and your computer, minidisk recorder, or a cassette recorder. Be sure to make a few test recordings with the microphone(s) placed in different places to maximize the quality of your sound before making a recording to submit. We also have an informative Powerpoint presentation available to help you make your demo recording.
Indicate which of the following categories describe you:
Instrumentalists
- Emerging Professional
You have graduated from a university or conservatory within the last three years, and are actively pursuing a career in music. You’re looking for an opportunity to play chamber music with other strong players and to receive focused coaching from our outstanding artist faculty.
- College (graduate or undergraduate)
You are currently enrolled in a university or conservatory, and are seeking additional experience playing chamber music at an advanced level. Of the four categories, Emerging Professionals and College Students will receive the most intensive coaching.
- Adult Amateur
Music is an important part of your life, but you’re not a professional musician. You played or studied music in college and possibly beyond, and remain active as a player. Your colleagues often tell us that spending a week doing nothing but playing music feeds their spirits in a way nothing else can.
- High School Student
You’re a motivated player with strong skills on your instrument. You may or may not have career ambitions as a musician, but are actively studying privately on your instrument. Adult Amateurs and High School Students may receive part of their coaching from members of our guest graduate ensemble, who will be students from a leading school spending the week as apprentices to the faculty learning, teaching, and performing.
Composers
- This track is designed for intermediate and advanced composers who would like to receive personal instruction from Pulitzer-winning composer Paul Moravec. It is aimed at composers in college or graduate school as well as serious composers not in school. Applications will also be considered from talented high school composers. You need to have a solid grasp of notation, and should have at least a modest portfolio of completed pieces from which to submit an application. You should bring at least one finished work to the workshop as well as a work-in-progress.
All Instrumentalists
Your audition recording should include two contrasting works of your choice, totaling not more than 20 minutes. Please choose from concertos or sonatas in contrasting styles and tempos. String players are asked to include one unaccompanied work such as a solo Bach Suite, Sonata, or Partita as one of their selections. If one of these is not in your repertoire, please use a second sonata or concerto movement. In addition to the two solo selections, you may include a movement of chamber music if the recording is of high quality.
Mark the recording and its case clearly with your name and instrument, and the composer and title or tempo marking for each track. If you submit a CD, please index each selection as a separate track. (Example: Track 1) W.A. Mozart, Concerto for Violin in D, K. 211, Movement I, Allegro)
Composers
Send two scores, preferably of more recent work. Include recordings if you have them, even if they are computer realizations. We will save your scores, but we strongly encourage you not to send originals.
Mail all materials by June 1, 2007, to Centrum, PO Box 1158, Port Townsend, WA 98368.
