4 February 2016 Young ensembles scheme

18 February 2016 Deis

18 February 2016 Music commissions award

18 February 2016 Traditional arts commissions award

Details here.

Closing Date for Applications extended to Friday 30th January 2016

The 2016 edition of 12 Points will take place from 20th - 23rd of July in the vibrant Basque city of San Sebastian (Donostia) in Northern Spain, in association with Donostia Kultura.

The Irish-made, 4-day festival is uniquely nomadic - alternating between Dublin and other exciting young European cities on alternate years. Recent ‘away’ editions include the 2014 festival in Umeå, Sweden and 2012 in Porto, Portugal.

Information on how to apply here.

Music Generation and the Contemporary Music Centre are working together to develop a mutual understanding of best practice in relation to composers engaging with children and young people in a performance music education context.

Composers, Music Generation musicians and those interested in working with composers in the context of performance music education across Ireland are invited to attend a ‘Best Practice Session’ on Tuesday, 2 February from 10am – 12.30pm.

The aim of the session is to learn more about the residency-type composition projects that Music Education Partnerships around the country are developing and to gain understanding about the work opportunities these projects present for composers.

A discussion will also take place with a view to drafting guidelines to clarify best practice in relation to Performance Music Education projects, as distinct from the more familiar commissioning process for adult and professional musicians.

Event Details:

Tuesday 2 February 2016, 10am - 12.30pm

Contemporary Music Centre Library
19 Fishamble Street
Temple Bar
Dublin 8

Booking is required as places are limited.

To reserve your place please contact:

Leanne Fitzgerald, Contemporary Music Centre:
t: +353 1 673 1922
e: lfitzgerald@cmc.ie

Register now for the European Forum on Music Education

The conference, taking place on 10 - 11 February 2016 in the Dutch city of Leiden, sets out to broaden the scope of the term music education and to explore what various stakeholders from areas such as the live music sector, new media or the recorded music industry contribute to it. If you have not done so, register by clicking here.

The European Forum on Music Education brings together music professionals from a variety of areas to discuss and exchange on their perspectives and to start new co-operations. The speakers, panellists and presenters invited to contribute to the event reflect the broad notion of the term music education. These include representatives of concert venues, the media, broadcasters, audience engagement professionals as well as leading researchers in the field. The forum will be accompanied by a diverse musical programme showcasing a mix between local talent and some of the most promising young Dutch artists.

The European Forum on Music Education is organised in close co-operation with three major European education networks: the European Association of Conservatoires, the European Music School Union and the European Association for Music in Schools who have worked closely together with the EMC on the programme.

Arts Council Projects Award Information Clinic

Thursday, 4th February, Smock Alley Main Space, Dublin, 11.00am*

The deadline for the next round of Arts Council Project Awards is Thursday, 03 March at 5.30pm.

Awards are available in the following arts areas:

• Arts Participation
• Circus
• Dance
• Film
• Music
• Street Arts & Spectacle
• Theatre

In advance of this, there will be an Information Clinic taking place in Dublin.

The clinic will include information on:
• Award guidelines
• The purpose and priorities of the award
• The application process
• Budgeting
• Supporting materials
• The assessment and decision making process
• General advice and common mistakes
• Q&A

The clinic will last approximately 1hr 30mins.

*Admission is free, but note that space is limited. Please email Jessica Carri, jessica.carri@artscouncil.ie, to indicate if you are interested in attending.

3rd International Young Musicians Chamber Ensemble Competition

SPRING SONATA 2016

COMPETITION CONDITIONS

1. The competition is going to take place at the Concert Hall of the National M. K. Čiurlionis School of Art (Vilnius) on March 18-20, 2016.
2. The following instrument chamber ensembles: duos, trios, quartets, quintets and sextets can take part in the competition (with the exception of grand piano duos and folk instruments).
3. Pupils and students both from Lithuanian and foreign art schools, gymnasiums and conservatoires are invited to participate in the competition.
4. The average age of ensemble members cannot exceed 19 years of age (i.e. on March 18, 2016).
5. A competition participant can compete in only one ensemble.
6. The competition is going to be held in two groups, i.e. 1) duos; 2) ensembles of bigger composition.
7. Deadline for Applications February 4, 2016, further details from – ciurlionis.sonata@gmail.com

The Ireland Funds are hosting 12 free grant workshops across Ireland on: “Making a Competitive Grant Application”

These workshops will provide an opportunity for organisations to learn about two grant programmes: the Small Grant Round and the Flagship Investment Grant Round and will take place as follows:

• February 8th - Belfast
• February 9th - Castleisland, Co. Kerry
• February 10th - Drimoleague, Co. Cork
• February 11th - Cork City
• February 12th - Waterford
• February 15th - Longford
• February 16th - Sligo
• February 17th - Derry/Londonderry
• February 19th - Dublin
• February 23rd - Dublin
• February 24th - Galway
• February 25th - Limerick
   

More details at https://www.theirelandfunds.org/events

In partnership with the Association of Irish Choirs and the Arts Council, Music Generation Offaly/Westmeath is creating three new children and young people’s choirs to perform at Singfest: a Birthday Gala Concert to take place on Saturday 11 June 2016 in Athlone Institute of Technology.

Over six months, children and young people will train with Greg Beardsell and leading vocal and choral professionals in a relaxed, yet challenging atmosphere. During day-long rehearsals vocal warm-ups and musicianship training will be combined with great ensemble singing. Rehearsals will take place in Athlone Institute of Technology and participants are asked to check in advance that attendance is possible at all rehearsals as well as at the final performance. This information and details of potential date clashes will be used in the selection process

Rehearsals will take place on: Saturday 27 Feb / 12 Mar / 23 Apr / 21 May / 4 Jun

The final performance will take place on Saturday 11 June 2016.

Enthusiastic, hard-working young people of all singing standards and experience are welcome. Early application is advised as places are expected to fill up fast. Upon confirmation of place a membership fee of €30 is payable.

The application form is available to download here: http://www.aoic.ie/fileadmin/uploads/documents/SingFest_Application.pdf

Or for more information email: MGOWSingfest2016@gmail.com

Announcing the 2016 Waltons Music for Schools Competition!

Now in its fifth year, the Waltons Music for Schools Competition is a national competition and celebration of music in Irish schools. The Competition annually awards a total of €10,000 worth of vouchers for musical instruments and equipment from Waltons Music, to be divided among six winning primary and post-primary schools, including two first prizes of €3,000 vouchers, and music groups from twelve Finalist schools will have the opportunity to perform before their peers and distinguished adjudicators in a Finalists Concert at a prestigious national concert venue. This year's Finalists Concert will take place in University Concert Hall, Limerick.

All primary and post-primary schools recognised by the Department of Education in the Republic of Ireland are eligible to enter the Waltons Music for Schools Competition. To date, schools from all 26 counties have participated.

To enter your school in the 2016 Competition, please send, by Wednesday, 2 March 2016, an entry form, photo and video of a single piece or song, performed by an instrumental, vocal or mixed group from your school (maximum 45 performers), that in some way addresses the Competition theme of ‘Why Music?’ – that is, the importance of music in our lives. It can be in any musical style or combination of styles – classical, popular, traditional, jazz, etc. – and can be performed by any combination of singers or instrumentalists you choose. Anything goes!

This is an opportunity for schools to work with any combination of students to develop a creative and original musical project that has learning potential at every stage of the process.

More Information & Entry Forms
www.newschool.ie/musicforschools

Call for Scores: West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016 Composition Competition for Young Irish Composers

Deadline: 7th March 2016

Works chosen will be performed at the 21st West Cork Chamber Music Festival  1st – 4th July 2016

West Cork Music invites Irish composers under 35 years of age on 1st January 2016 to submit works for string quartet (violin, violin, viola, cello) of between 5-8 minutes duration for performance at the 21st West Cork Chamber Music Festival 2016.

Four works will be selected. The composer of each selected work will receive a prize of €500 and two nights B&B at the Festival. They will be asked to attend the Young Composers Forum at the Festival on Saturday 2nd July, which will be directed by an international Composer, where the winning pieces will be played through by a quartet on the Festival’s masterclass programme. The premieres will take place during the Festival in the Town Concert series on 4, 5, 6 and 8 July.

Scores must be submitted to West Cork Music by 7th March 2016. Scores must be submitted electronically.

Address for submission:
Clodagh Whelan
West Cork Music,
Coomkeen,
Durrus,
Bantry,
Cork

Email: clodaghwcm@eircom.net. For full terms and conditions here.

Trondheim Chamber Music Festival presents
9th TRONDHEIM INTERNATIONAL CHAMBER MUSIC ACADEMY
for String Quartets  -  26 September – 2 October 2016

The academy is open to String Quartets from all over the world. The Academy offers a unique opportunity to young musicians with a combination of:
- Master classes in the ensembles’ chosen repertoire
- Chamber music together with the instructors (including piano quartets/quintets and similar).

Academy Instructors:
Hatto Beyerle, Academy leader
Pavel Haas Quartet, Trio Con Brio Copenhagen,
Gabriela Montero, Henning Kraggerud

The competition is held during Trondheim Chamber Music Festival.

Application deadline: 20 April 2016

More information and application on:

www.ticc.no

The Peter Rosser Foundation and Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble have launched the 1st Peter Rosser Composition Award supported by the Arts Council of Northern Ireland.

London born, composer, writer, educator and arts advocate Peter Rosser moved to Belfast in 1990 where he studied composition at the University of Ulster.

The award intends to encourage a new generation of Irish and Northern Irish composers by challenging them to create exciting new work for the Hard Rain Soloist Ensemble.

The award is open to composers born or domicile in N. Ireland and Republic of Ireland. The competition is open to composers regardless of age. However, the award is aimed at emerging composers. The organisers, therefore, welcome submissions from composers at the start of their careers and composers without a substantial track record of performances or commissions.

The deadline for the submission of entries is 4pm Friday 29th April 2016.

Full terms and conditions of the award are available here.

RTÉ Concert Orchestra has a vacancy for Principal First Violin and Tutti First Violin 

Closing date for receipt of applications for both positions is Monday, 8th February 2016. More details here.

Leader, City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
Based in Symphony Hall, the CBSO gives over 130 concerts each year in Birmingham, the UK and around the world, playing music that ranges from classics to contemporary, large-scale opera to light music. With a far-reaching community programme and a family of world-class choruses and youth ensembles, it’s involved in every aspect of music-making in the region.
For full details please visit https://cbso.co.uk/leader
Closing date for applications: Monday 1st February 2016 at midday

Bass Trombone, Hallé Orchestra, Manchester
Audition requirements will be sent out with invitations to audition. Auditions will be held during the week commencing Monday 7th March 2016.
For further details please visit http://www.halle.co.uk/bass-trombone.aspx
Closing date for applications: Monday 1st February 2016 at midday

Chorister – Soprano, Welsh National Opera, Cardiff
The successful candidate will have the ability to perform consistently to a very high standard with confident and accomplished stagecraft and a professional work ethic.
For further details please click here.
Closing date for applications: Friday 12th February 2016 at midday

Leader, Royal Scottish National Orchestra, Glasgow
Minimum commitment 50%, permanent
Applications are invited for the position of Leader (minimum commitment 50%) with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra. This is a permanent position, and the salary and number of working days are negotiable. Benefits of working with the RSNO include: pension scheme, health benefit scheme, guaranteed free days and instrument insurance.
For further details please click here.
Closing date for applications: Friday 19th February 2016 at 5pm

Section Principal Trombone, Scottish Opera, Glasgow
Remuneration: £670 per week plus benefits
We invite applications for the position of Section Principal Trombone. Players have a contractual guarantee of a minimum of 28 weeks of work per year, and provided with 5 months’ prior notice of their contracted weeks of work.
For further details please click here.
Closing date for applications: Friday 26th February 2016

Section Principal Oboe, BBC NOW, Cardiff
Starting salary: £37,269 per annum
Full-time, permanent
For full details please click here.
Closing date for applications: Monday 29th February 2016