CLC/LCC - 30 mars / March 30 - 2009

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The CLC sends out periodic newsflashes to keep our membership informed of CLC activities and composer opportunities. We currently send out materials in the language in which it is received; our intention in the future, once we have sufficient resources, is to send out messages in both official languages. La LCC envoie périodiquement à ses membres des flashs d'information pour les informer des activités de la Ligue et de nouvelles susceptibles d'intéresser les compositeurs. Actuellement, nous envoyons les renseignements dans la langue d'origine. Cependant, à l'avenir, nous avons l'intention d'envoyer les messages dans les deux langues officielles, lorsque nous disposerons des ressources suffisantes.
1) Socan Foundation grants for composers, 2009: Concert Music Promotion Grants - 2009 / Aide à la promotion de la musique de concert – 2009; Composer Outreach Residencies - 2009 / Séjours de rayonnement de compositeurs – 2009 2) Book Release: Sonic Mosaics - Conversations with Composers, by Paul Steenhuisen 3) Competition Announcement: Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition
Socan Foundation grants for composers The Socan Foundation has 2 grants that may be of interest to composers. - 1) Concert Music Promotion Grants Deadlines: March 31 and August 15, 2009 http://www.socanfoundation.ca/pdfs/2009ConcertMusicPromoProgE.pdf Aide à la promotion de la musique de concert Dates limites : 31 mars et 15 août 2009 http://www.socanfoundation.ca/pdfs/2009ConcertMusicPromoProgF.pdf - 2) Composer Outreach Residencies Deadlines: March 31 and September 30, 2009 http://www.socanfoundation.ca/pdfs/2009ComposerOutreachResE.pdf Séjours de rayonnement de compositeurs Dates limites : 31 mars et 30 septembre 2009 http://www.socanfoundation.ca/pdfs/2009ComposerOutreachResF.pdf Book Release: Sonic Mosaics - Conversations with Composers, by Paul Steenhuisen It is a common misconception that it is difficult or impossible to discuss music, and that a piece of music simply speaks to the listener—or not. In these conversations with composers, Paul Steenhuisen offers readers insight into the creative process and suggests ways of listening to and interpreting new music. Steenhuisen talks one-on-one with thirty-two of his contemporaries (twenty-six of whom are Canadian) with a colleague’s candour, sympathy, and expertise. These rare intimations afford fellow composers, musicologists, students, and inquisitive listeners a comparative look into the lives of the people who write some of the most innovative, challenging, and sublime music today. Paul Steenhuisen is a composer of art music for acoustic and electroa-coustic media. He also writes articles on contemporary music. In addition to earning his doctoral degree in composition from UBC under the direction of Keith Hamel, he studied with Louis Andriessen at the Royal Conservatoire in The Hague, privately with Michael Finnissy in London, England, and with Tristan Murail at IRCAM (Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris). Between 1998 and 2000, Paul Steenhuisen was composer-in-residence with the Toronto Symphony Orchestra, and he taught Composition at the University of Alberta until 2007. He currently works by commission and with HypoSurface in Boston, MA. Composers Martin Arnold, Howard Bashaw, John Beckwith, Pierre Boulez, Christopher Butterfield, Marc Couroux, Barbara Croall, George Crumb, Omar Daniel, Francis Dhomont, Michael Finnissy, Keith Hamel, James Harley, Chris Paul Harman, Peter Hatch, Mauricio Kagel, Udo Kasemets, Gary Kulesha, Helmut Lachenmann, Alexina Louie, Robert Normandeau, John Oswald, Juliet Palmer, Jean Piché, Yannick Plamondon, John Rea, James Rolfe, R. Murray Schafer, Linda Catlin Smith, John Weinzweig, Hildegard Westerkamp, Christian Wolff Cathie Crooks Sales/Marketing Manager The University of Alberta Press Ring House 2, University of Alberta Edmonton,AB, Canada,T6G 2E1 E: ccrooks@ualberta.ca W: www.uap.ualberta.ca P: 780 492 5820 F: 780 492 0719 Orders: UNIpresses at GTW Toll Free: 1 877 864 8477 E: orders@gtwcanada.com Sonic Mosaics - Conversations with Composers, by Paul Steenhuisen 344 pages • 32 B&W photographs, select discography, index 6’’ x 9’’ • $34.95 (T) paper ISBN-13: 978-0-88864-474-9 Music/Criticism. Competition Announcement: Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition Forwarded to list on behalf of Julia Schätz julia_schaetz@gmx.at Hello, I'm working for a team of professors from the University of Music and Performing Arts in Vienna who are organising the international "Mauricio Kagel Composition Competition". In order to reach as many potential participators as possible, I would kindly like to ask you if you could post an announcement of the competition on your webpage or in your newsletter. This is the link to our webpage: http://mauricio-kagel-composition-competition.com/ Submission deadline is on October 1, 2009. If you need further information for the announcement, please contact me. Kind regards, Julia Schaetz
The Canadian League of Composers acknowledges the financial support of the Ontario Arts Council, the SOCAN Foundation, the Government of Canada through the Department of Canadian Heritage (Canada Music Fund), and the Canada Council for the Arts which last year invested $26.3 million in music throughout Canada.