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Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame call for scores

Don't miss out on the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame celebration

Vox Novus is proud to announce 3 sets for Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with works from close to 50 composers. With a deadline for a call just expired there is still time to get in on the fun with 7 more calls before the end of the year! That is over 100 spots for composers to get their works premiered, presented, and recorded. So many chances to meet musicians looking to play new music!

Check out all the calls coming up!
http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/calls/

The following 3 musicians for these 3 sets of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame are all returning champions of the project.

 Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Mary Hubbell

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Mary Hubbell

This set of 15 works will present the composers: Erik Branch, Beth Anderson, Bracha Bdil, Maria Collings, Ljubica Damčević, Nicole DeMaio, Carlotta Ferrari, Tomas Friberg, David Heinick, Stanley M Hoffman, Chien-Yu Huang, Kirsten Johnson, Martino Rappelli, Joyce Solomon Moorman, Hector Vera, and Marilena Zlatanou

Mary Hubbell, described in the New York Times as “a soprano with a sweetly focused tone,” holds degrees from Boston College; the University of California, Santa Barbara; the Royal Conservatory in The Hague; and a DMA from The Graduate Center of the City University of New York. An accomplished recitalist, Dr. Hubbell has performed art song and chamber music in a variety of venues, including the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC and the Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. She maintains a strong commitment to new music, and she has appeared with the Manhattan Chamber Orchestra, Composer’s Voice Series, The Remarkable Theatre Brigade, and counter)induction. She has also participated in the Women Composers Festival in Hartford, CT and the Queens New Music Festival in NY. In the Netherlands, she appeared at the contemporary music venues of the Young Composer’s Festival in Apeldoorn and the Gaudeamus Festival in Amsterdam. Dr. Hubbell is a faculty member of UMass-Amherst.

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame is 15 one-minute works written by different composers specifically for a musician or ensemble. Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame gives a variety of new music by living composers to audiences hungry to hear what is being created in today's music scene. And more information can be found at the following: http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/mary_Hubbell/

Composer's Voice features Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Jenny Ribeiro

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Jenny Ribeiro

This will be Jenny's third Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame. She just premiered this set of 15 at The Turner-Dodge House in Lansing, Michigan and we are making plans to live stream the set in NYC in 2025.

This set of 15 works will present the composers: Erik Branch, Sarah Clevely, R. Michael Daugherty, Clifton Davis, Carlotta Ferrari, Boyd Gibson, Stanley Grill, Stanley M. Hoffman, Maria E Ljungdahl, Serban Nichifor, Juan Luis de Pablo Enríquez Rohen, Greg A Steinke, Melissa Tosh, Anna Vriend, and Frank E. Warren

American soprano Jenny Ribeiro uses her “bright instrument and engaging personality” (Voce di meche) to delight audiences throughout the world. Trained as a classical pianist and clarinetist as well as a singer, she spent several seasons in musical theater before switching her focus to opera.

And more information can be found at the following: http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Jenny_Ribeiro/2024/

Composer's Voice features Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Jenny Ribeiro

Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame with Stas Venglevski

This will be Stas Venglevski's second set of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame for the Bayan Accordion.

This set of 15 works will present the composers: Bracha Bdil, Karen Beaumont , Ross James Carey, Ljibica Damcevic, Stanley M. Hoffman, Nebojsa S. Macura, Dominic McGonigal, Ryan Charles Ramer, Ege Sayar, Josh Schmidt, Volker Ignaz Schmidt, Jaz Thomasian, Willyn Whiting, Matthew Williamson, and Andrew M. Wilson

His artistry, dazzling technical command, and sensitivity have brought Stanislav, "Stas," Venglevski, a native of the Republic of Moldova, part of the former Soviet Union, increasing acclaim as a virtuoso of the Bayan.

Read more about Stas Venglevski and his second set Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame here: http://www.voxnovus.com/15_Minutes_of_Fame/featuring/Stas_Venglevski/2024/

You can watch his first set here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIq7_We_mhg

Call for Scores

Deadline: October 14th, 2024

Vox Novus is calling for one-minute pieces composed for tenor saxophone for the Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame project. The set of Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame featuring Drew Hosler with tenor saxophone to be premiered online in 2025.

Music that strives to explore and extend the expressive and technically capabilities of this instrument is extremely encouraged.

Hailed as “the ideal collaborator for new music” by Brutal New Music Review, and as a “new music virtuoso” by Leslie Tate - saxophonist and new music curator Drew Hosler (he/him/his) is an advocate for contemporary music. .

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Fifteen-Minutes-of-Fame

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60 one-minutes works by 60 different composers


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